We have been. It is called data warehousing, data marting, operational data stores, etc (and they aren't the same things). People have been doing this for a long time. That is why there are analysts who specialize in these areas. They help the business identify the things that are used regularly, things not used often, and things that are nice to keep somewhere, and things that you can throw out after a few weeks. And the most ideal storage mechanisms (but not necessarily the specific technology).
Whenever I've seen these issues, it is when when managers assume people who are SMEs in hardware management are also SMEs in data management just because they know how to set up the hardware the data resides on. Adding more drives is easy... to a point. From the little of the bio on the author of the article, it looks like maybe he is a SME on the hardware side of things...
Seriously this kind of smells to me like maybe this is the beginning of a new marketing push. Maybe Dell wants to start marketing solutions for Data Warehousing or similar.
Perhaps you missed it. The 'they' I was talking about are the police and security guards. And in case you missed it, I also stated that I don't believe that the behaviour of the the U.S. government after 9/11 was/is appropriate or in keeping with what the founding fathers had in mind (as much as the Republicans harp on what the founding fathers wanted). What I did refute is the assumption by the parent that 'there is no need to worry about trains since they can't be flown into buildings'. No, but they can be serious targets based on what we saw happen in Spain and should be protected as such. But as I stated, this still doesn't excuse over zealousness on the police's part. Are you so enthusiastic about dissing the government that you want to argue with someone who generally is agreeing with you (that the police were in the wrong when stopping photography)?
They have them for 81mm mortars too. But I don't think they are used very often. Mortars are so effective because they are very fast into action given the, for want of a better word', the potency of the weapon. I think having to set fuses might slow it down and not be as effective. Especially since the default setting is 'superquick' which detonates immediately on impact. No crater.
Never wanted to get close enough to stomp on it once it was burning.:D But I believe you. That is why I said I wouldn't want to try burning a really big hunk of it. At least not anywhere near me.
We were taught that more people were killed in WWII and Vietnam by mortars than all other infantry weapons combined (at the time, even the 81mm mortars were part of the infantry's arsenal). Consider that there are radar systems specifically built to detect the location of medium and heavy mortar tubes. The Soviets in particular invested heavily in these systems. People don't waste time and money countering ineffective tools. Specific cases where weapons are ineffective are just that, specific. And I sincerely doubt that they wouldn't have killed someone over 3 metres away. The concussive force of the blast would be enough to kill. You can feel it in your chest a mile away. I could believe that the fragments could be eaten up by soft earth... but the bombs and shells are designed to go off with almost no crater in normal earth. And I mean maybe an inch deep. They only set the fuses to go into the ground if they want to loosen dug in fortifications like trenches. Otherwise they are set to superquick to send shrapnel sideways parallel to the ground.
It won't go off without a detonator. They also use C4 on some mortar bombs as propellant (the U.S. made ones). On the tubes I am familiar with (60mm and 81mm) the bombs (whether U.S. or made elsewhere) all have something akin to a shotgun charge (sans the shot) and a primer to set it off located at the very bottom of the bomb in the round tube structure that the bomb's fins are attached to. (This is all well known to anyone who has ever fired a mortar in any country they are found... so I'm not helping anyone's enemies.) On the U.S. made bombs, small pieces of C4 are (or at least were when I was a mortarman) clipped to the fins of the bombs (there are several)( All mortars work essentially the same way, the only real difference being what the manufacturer uses as the charges on the fins).
Depending on how far you need the bomb to go (range), you either leave all the C4 charges (or whatever your bomb comes with) attached or remove a number of them as determined by a person responsible for taking the remote fire controller's (a person like a forward observation officer (FOO... who may be an NCO too)) fire mission data (coordinates of target etc) and converting it into bearings, elevations, and charge number for the mortarmen. If you really need a little extra distance it has been known to pour a little naphtha down the tube in emergency situations... not exactly recommended procedure.
Once the fire missions for a location are complete, you are generally left with a good number of these C4 charges (about an inch square, and maybe an eighth of an inch thick, wrapped in cellophane). When I say a good number, a mortar group (four mortars) can rack up a big pile a foot high or more, depending on how long they are at a location. Periodically, or when leaving, someone will take the charges and put them in a narrow, long, low pile, with a much much smaller trail of them leading off. They will ignite the smaller end of the trail and they will burn like a fuse to the pile. Then the pile burns like a son of a bitch with a lot of heat. I have seen this many times. It doesn't explode. If we had been so inclined, we could have indeed taken some of the charges and cooked with them. However didn't do this since we had stoves and it was expedient to make sure that there wasn't a whole bunch of uncontrolled C4 laying around in someone's kit (what grunts are fond of playing with isn't something you necessarily want lying around... even in a grunts hands:) ). So we always burned all the unused pieces.
As a note, even the bombs are pretty damned stable (doesn't mean I would be comfortable seeing someone drop one... but if you're closer than say 30 or 40 metres, don't bother to run if you do see this (drop to the ground maybe)... you won't make it far enough away to matter if it does go... so might as well watch the show until its errrr over). The fuses are designed not to be completely armed until they have undergone the rapid acceleration of being fired and have actually cleared the tubes. This is why some movies who have people throwing mortar bombs off of buildings at enemies have the characters bang the bottom of the bomb on the ground before throwing them over the edge... but I'm not sure if that would really be hard enough... and THAT would make ME nervous... unlike burning small pieces of C4. If you see a movie where someone might try to use a mortar bomb, even a small one (e.g. 60mm) like a grenade at ground level... it is just a movie.... I'm not sure you could throw one far enough to stay out of its kill radius even if you got it to work. Guys running through exploding shells in movies pisses me off... the scene in Band Of Brothers when they are in the forest during the Battle of the Bulge... where trees are being shredded and people are vapourized... that is closer to the truth. Also... I'm not sure I would feel all that comfortable burning a 1kg chunk of C4 (that is the size we used to blow dud grenades, bombs, and artillery shells with).
Imagine what would happen if terrorists took control of a train and flew it into a building!
To be fair, look at Spain. A lot of people died on the trains. However it doesn't mean that I think law and security forces are not draconian and in short, fucking morons, for stopping these guys from photographing. They are helping the terrorists to win when they violate our freedoms.
I am curious about this myself. Does this mean if you host it yourself, that you have to keep you home machine on all the time? If you home machine is a laptop, does that mean your site is offline every time you are carrying it around or are away from an internet connection? Hosting a server on your machine by necessity opens your machine to more security issues (as we know). Also, if you choose to put your site/profile on a hub/remote server, who pays for the remote server. It costs money to connect to the internet. It costs a lot to connect a server with many peoples' profiles on it. And what about redundancy of the 'hub' etc? Anyway, who pays for the 'hub' and how is it paid for? One of the reasons people use facebook is that there is no charge (aside from the hidden one of exposing your data that apparently most people who use it don't care about).
I'm pretty sure Adam's rig had the same kind of foot straps. It was the weight of his gear and the complexity of that did him in. It took longer to move one side up than these. Combined with the greater weight I think is what did him in.
Actually he didn't make it. He slipped and had to hang on the safety rope near the top. However I'll him the credit for reapplying the vacuum cleaner suction things to the wall and continuing from the point where they failed.
The way you put it, it sounds like you advocate that all diagnostic tests be patented. We would see doctors have to pay royalties in order to do a physical on a patient, or just to examine a sick patient. That would drive up the costs of medicine far worse than is happening now. And really, for using techniques and methods that have been used for years. Most of these therapeutic methods are based on past practice and experience (such as measuring for functioning thyroid glands) albeit modified for new chemicals (I agree the chemicals should be patentable (as they are now), as long as they are not chemicals produced by the body, like hormones). As well, most of the research to come up with these new tests are conducted in universities, much with government grants. Given all of the above, then I would have to agree with the other poster and say this seems like a case where granting a patent on something like this would go against the best interests of society. And I really do think allowing patents on something like this would be terrible for society.
Finally... what is the difference between hormones and vitamins? If you can make a hormone, you don't need vitamins. Good night.
Yes, this is how you would have to implement these kinds of taxes. It gets rid of the quandry of trying to figure out where it is earned. Put a high enough import duty on it, and if the market is big enough to warrant it, companies will move manufacturing centres there. And if you think this isn't happening now, think again. China is doing precisely this, but in a sly manner. They keep wages low, benefits low, have lower environmental standards than the west, lower safety standards than the west, less employee rights than the rest, and they keep their currency artificially low. This means that goods manufactured in the west are too expensive for the average Chinese and so nobody will import them there. It creates the same effect as a duty.
If the west were to raise duties to counterbalance the advantages the Chines have built into their economy, given shipping costs etc it would be more economical for the companies to move manufacturing back to the west. Granted we are seeing a slow increase in the standard of living in China, but if you notice, the numbers of unemployed in the U.S. keeps growing. Today it was announced that 83000 new jobs were added in the U.S. However this is still below the number of jobs required to be produced to account for those leaving the work force due to retirements and increases in population. By the time the average Chinese worker reaches a comparable standard of living as the west, the west's workers will have their standard of living lowered significantly and be virtual serfs like the average Chinese. You cannot make the weak strong by making the strong weak. All this serves is to create a greater division between haves and have-nots, and eliminates the middle class.
Similarly, taxing offshore services like a duty can be done for software related work for example.
So I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I have to take almost as much levothyroxine every day as someone who has had their thyroid removed. Levothyroxine is synthetic thyroxine hormone commonly known as T4. The body breaks down some of the T4 into T3 (triiodothyronine). One of the diagnostic tests is to measure the levels of these two hormones. However, the primary test for thyroid function, or whether the levels of T4 and T3 in the blood are normal is to measure TSH levels. The body via the pituitary gland determines whether the levels of T4 and T3 are high enough or not. If not, the pituitary releases TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) to tell the thyroid to product more T4. If the thyroid cannot produce enough because of say Hashimoto's, the TSH level goes up. The same if the levothyroxine prescribed is not high enough. So the doctors give medicine, the body transforms the medicine, and the doctors then take blood samples which are measured for these derivative chemicals (hormones). Sounds like there is prior art for this patent. No?
Stuff like this has started me thinking that Born Again Christianity is a kind of cult. They brainwash people to not use their own brains in many places. And there are many things practiced by its followers that ignore much of what their patron actually taught.
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There is a difference between academic writing and commercial writing. Articles and books written for commercial purposes by someone other than who it is credited to is acceptable. Academic work is another matter. It is assumed the person who creates these works did the research and the writing. Especially so when the work is for school. You are in classes to learn. The teacher gives you exercises, including papers, for you to do the work so that you learn. This is why, in all cases in academicia when one takes another's work, no matter how it is taken, it is plagiarism. To think otherwise is to deceive yourself, never mind others.
Youtube exists to make money. You go to work to make money. Making money allows one to eat, allows companies to hire employees and pay them so they can eat, and yes, so the owners can buy really big yachts (which I don't begrudge them)... etc etc etc. In order to do that, Youtube needs to deliver their product. That means putting their product in a form that CONSUMERS can consume it. If the consumers can't consume it, they won't go to Youtube and then they won't make money since their ad revenue will drop. The majority of people out their don't have a problem viewing flash content on Youtube; in pretty much every browser and O/S. I would be all for an open source solution, if one could be created AND implemented as many places as mpeg is now. The same goes for MP3. You won't make any money if no-one can listen to your stuff. So if you want to make money, and aren't a moron, you give the CONSUMER what they want in a way they can CONSUME it.
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We have been. It is called data warehousing, data marting, operational data stores, etc (and they aren't the same things). People have been doing this for a long time. That is why there are analysts who specialize in these areas. They help the business identify the things that are used regularly, things not used often, and things that are nice to keep somewhere, and things that you can throw out after a few weeks. And the most ideal storage mechanisms (but not necessarily the specific technology).
Whenever I've seen these issues, it is when when managers assume people who are SMEs in hardware management are also SMEs in data management just because they know how to set up the hardware the data resides on. Adding more drives is easy... to a point. From the little of the bio on the author of the article, it looks like maybe he is a SME on the hardware side of things...
Seriously this kind of smells to me like maybe this is the beginning of a new marketing push. Maybe Dell wants to start marketing solutions for Data Warehousing or similar.
Perhaps you missed it. The 'they' I was talking about are the police and security guards. And in case you missed it, I also stated that I don't believe that the behaviour of the the U.S. government after 9/11 was/is appropriate or in keeping with what the founding fathers had in mind (as much as the Republicans harp on what the founding fathers wanted). What I did refute is the assumption by the parent that 'there is no need to worry about trains since they can't be flown into buildings'. No, but they can be serious targets based on what we saw happen in Spain and should be protected as such. But as I stated, this still doesn't excuse over zealousness on the police's part. Are you so enthusiastic about dissing the government that you want to argue with someone who generally is agreeing with you (that the police were in the wrong when stopping photography)?
As long as it's not a candirú fish.
They have them for 81mm mortars too. But I don't think they are used very often. Mortars are so effective because they are very fast into action given the, for want of a better word', the potency of the weapon. I think having to set fuses might slow it down and not be as effective. Especially since the default setting is 'superquick' which detonates immediately on impact. No crater.
Never wanted to get close enough to stomp on it once it was burning. :D But I believe you. That is why I said I wouldn't want to try burning a really big hunk of it. At least not anywhere near me.
We were taught that more people were killed in WWII and Vietnam by mortars than all other infantry weapons combined (at the time, even the 81mm mortars were part of the infantry's arsenal). Consider that there are radar systems specifically built to detect the location of medium and heavy mortar tubes. The Soviets in particular invested heavily in these systems. People don't waste time and money countering ineffective tools. Specific cases where weapons are ineffective are just that, specific. And I sincerely doubt that they wouldn't have killed someone over 3 metres away. The concussive force of the blast would be enough to kill. You can feel it in your chest a mile away. I could believe that the fragments could be eaten up by soft earth... but the bombs and shells are designed to go off with almost no crater in normal earth. And I mean maybe an inch deep. They only set the fuses to go into the ground if they want to loosen dug in fortifications like trenches. Otherwise they are set to superquick to send shrapnel sideways parallel to the ground.
Yes they did. C4 burns.
It won't go off without a detonator. They also use C4 on some mortar bombs as propellant (the U.S. made ones). On the tubes I am familiar with (60mm and 81mm) the bombs (whether U.S. or made elsewhere) all have something akin to a shotgun charge (sans the shot) and a primer to set it off located at the very bottom of the bomb in the round tube structure that the bomb's fins are attached to. (This is all well known to anyone who has ever fired a mortar in any country they are found... so I'm not helping anyone's enemies.) On the U.S. made bombs, small pieces of C4 are (or at least were when I was a mortarman) clipped to the fins of the bombs (there are several)( All mortars work essentially the same way, the only real difference being what the manufacturer uses as the charges on the fins).
Depending on how far you need the bomb to go (range), you either leave all the C4 charges (or whatever your bomb comes with) attached or remove a number of them as determined by a person responsible for taking the remote fire controller's (a person like a forward observation officer (FOO... who may be an NCO too)) fire mission data (coordinates of target etc) and converting it into bearings, elevations, and charge number for the mortarmen. If you really need a little extra distance it has been known to pour a little naphtha down the tube in emergency situations... not exactly recommended procedure.
Once the fire missions for a location are complete, you are generally left with a good number of these C4 charges (about an inch square, and maybe an eighth of an inch thick, wrapped in cellophane). When I say a good number, a mortar group (four mortars) can rack up a big pile a foot high or more, depending on how long they are at a location. Periodically, or when leaving, someone will take the charges and put them in a narrow, long, low pile, with a much much smaller trail of them leading off. They will ignite the smaller end of the trail and they will burn like a fuse to the pile. Then the pile burns like a son of a bitch with a lot of heat. I have seen this many times. It doesn't explode. If we had been so inclined, we could have indeed taken some of the charges and cooked with them. However didn't do this since we had stoves and it was expedient to make sure that there wasn't a whole bunch of uncontrolled C4 laying around in someone's kit (what grunts are fond of playing with isn't something you necessarily want lying around... even in a grunts hands :) ). So we always burned all the unused pieces.
As a note, even the bombs are pretty damned stable (doesn't mean I would be comfortable seeing someone drop one... but if you're closer than say 30 or 40 metres, don't bother to run if you do see this (drop to the ground maybe)... you won't make it far enough away to matter if it does go... so might as well watch the show until its errrr over). The fuses are designed not to be completely armed until they have undergone the rapid acceleration of being fired and have actually cleared the tubes. This is why some movies who have people throwing mortar bombs off of buildings at enemies have the characters bang the bottom of the bomb on the ground before throwing them over the edge... but I'm not sure if that would really be hard enough... and THAT would make ME nervous... unlike burning small pieces of C4. If you see a movie where someone might try to use a mortar bomb, even a small one (e.g. 60mm) like a grenade at ground level... it is just a movie.... I'm not sure you could throw one far enough to stay out of its kill radius even if you got it to work. Guys running through exploding shells in movies pisses me off... the scene in Band Of Brothers when they are in the forest during the Battle of the Bulge... where trees are being shredded and people are vapourized... that is closer to the truth. Also... I'm not sure I would feel all that comfortable burning a 1kg chunk of C4 (that is the size we used to blow dud grenades, bombs, and artillery shells with).
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To be fair, look at Spain. A lot of people died on the trains. However it doesn't mean that I think law and security forces are not draconian and in short, fucking morons, for stopping these guys from photographing. They are helping the terrorists to win when they violate our freedoms.
But in your case photographers are breaking copyright. The government has already photographed everything. (winks as good as a nod...)
Do we need a 'Tuna Test' as opposed to a 'Turing Test'?
I am curious about this myself. Does this mean if you host it yourself, that you have to keep you home machine on all the time? If you home machine is a laptop, does that mean your site is offline every time you are carrying it around or are away from an internet connection? Hosting a server on your machine by necessity opens your machine to more security issues (as we know). Also, if you choose to put your site/profile on a hub/remote server, who pays for the remote server. It costs money to connect to the internet. It costs a lot to connect a server with many peoples' profiles on it. And what about redundancy of the 'hub' etc? Anyway, who pays for the 'hub' and how is it paid for? One of the reasons people use facebook is that there is no charge (aside from the hidden one of exposing your data that apparently most people who use it don't care about).
I'm pretty sure Adam's rig had the same kind of foot straps. It was the weight of his gear and the complexity of that did him in. It took longer to move one side up than these. Combined with the greater weight I think is what did him in.
Actually he didn't make it. He slipped and had to hang on the safety rope near the top. However I'll him the credit for reapplying the vacuum cleaner suction things to the wall and continuing from the point where they failed.
The way you put it, it sounds like you advocate that all diagnostic tests be patented. We would see doctors have to pay royalties in order to do a physical on a patient, or just to examine a sick patient. That would drive up the costs of medicine far worse than is happening now. And really, for using techniques and methods that have been used for years. Most of these therapeutic methods are based on past practice and experience (such as measuring for functioning thyroid glands) albeit modified for new chemicals (I agree the chemicals should be patentable (as they are now), as long as they are not chemicals produced by the body, like hormones). As well, most of the research to come up with these new tests are conducted in universities, much with government grants. Given all of the above, then I would have to agree with the other poster and say this seems like a case where granting a patent on something like this would go against the best interests of society. And I really do think allowing patents on something like this would be terrible for society.
Finally... what is the difference between hormones and vitamins? If you can make a hormone, you don't need vitamins. Good night.
Yes, this is how you would have to implement these kinds of taxes. It gets rid of the quandry of trying to figure out where it is earned. Put a high enough import duty on it, and if the market is big enough to warrant it, companies will move manufacturing centres there. And if you think this isn't happening now, think again. China is doing precisely this, but in a sly manner. They keep wages low, benefits low, have lower environmental standards than the west, lower safety standards than the west, less employee rights than the rest, and they keep their currency artificially low. This means that goods manufactured in the west are too expensive for the average Chinese and so nobody will import them there. It creates the same effect as a duty.
If the west were to raise duties to counterbalance the advantages the Chines have built into their economy, given shipping costs etc it would be more economical for the companies to move manufacturing back to the west. Granted we are seeing a slow increase in the standard of living in China, but if you notice, the numbers of unemployed in the U.S. keeps growing. Today it was announced that 83000 new jobs were added in the U.S. However this is still below the number of jobs required to be produced to account for those leaving the work force due to retirements and increases in population. By the time the average Chinese worker reaches a comparable standard of living as the west, the west's workers will have their standard of living lowered significantly and be virtual serfs like the average Chinese. You cannot make the weak strong by making the strong weak. All this serves is to create a greater division between haves and have-nots, and eliminates the middle class.
Similarly, taxing offshore services like a duty can be done for software related work for example.
So I have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I have to take almost as much levothyroxine every day as someone who has had their thyroid removed. Levothyroxine is synthetic thyroxine hormone commonly known as T4. The body breaks down some of the T4 into T3 (triiodothyronine). One of the diagnostic tests is to measure the levels of these two hormones. However, the primary test for thyroid function, or whether the levels of T4 and T3 in the blood are normal is to measure TSH levels. The body via the pituitary gland determines whether the levels of T4 and T3 are high enough or not. If not, the pituitary releases TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) to tell the thyroid to product more T4. If the thyroid cannot produce enough because of say Hashimoto's, the TSH level goes up. The same if the levothyroxine prescribed is not high enough. So the doctors give medicine, the body transforms the medicine, and the doctors then take blood samples which are measured for these derivative chemicals (hormones). Sounds like there is prior art for this patent. No?
Stuff like this has started me thinking that Born Again Christianity is a kind of cult. They brainwash people to not use their own brains in many places. And there are many things practiced by its followers that ignore much of what their patron actually taught.
There is a difference between academic writing and commercial writing. Articles and books written for commercial purposes by someone other than who it is credited to is acceptable. Academic work is another matter. It is assumed the person who creates these works did the research and the writing. Especially so when the work is for school. You are in classes to learn. The teacher gives you exercises, including papers, for you to do the work so that you learn. This is why, in all cases in academicia when one takes another's work, no matter how it is taken, it is plagiarism. To think otherwise is to deceive yourself, never mind others.
I am trying hard not to picture it being ridden by a fat middle aged geek wearing a skin tight spandex body suit.
Oops... s/'as mpeg is now'/as flash is now/
Youtube exists to make money. You go to work to make money. Making money allows one to eat, allows companies to hire employees and pay them so they can eat, and yes, so the owners can buy really big yachts (which I don't begrudge them)... etc etc etc. In order to do that, Youtube needs to deliver their product. That means putting their product in a form that CONSUMERS can consume it. If the consumers can't consume it, they won't go to Youtube and then they won't make money since their ad revenue will drop. The majority of people out their don't have a problem viewing flash content on Youtube; in pretty much every browser and O/S. I would be all for an open source solution, if one could be created AND implemented as many places as mpeg is now. The same goes for MP3. You won't make any money if no-one can listen to your stuff. So if you want to make money, and aren't a moron, you give the CONSUMER what they want in a way they can CONSUME it.
Yeah. When I saw this I wondered what ever happened to the producing ethanol from switchgrass that was making the news a couple years ago.
I was going to make some comment on Mansanto as well... but I thought the whole thing spoke for itself.
I talked to a guy in Saint Louis once who was a genetic engineer for Monsanto. He didn't believe in evolution.
Doesn't sound like BBC only.