Speak for yourself! Mine turns on unbidden at night and beams images into my brain. That's the only explanation for the queer thoughts that have been running through my brain of late - shameful things like voting for social progressives.
The problem is targeting only the tumour with the pill contents. If we had the ability to deliver oral drugs -only- to a tumour, then we could just use targeted chemo treatments and everything would be fine. Unfortunately, it's not that simple, so we need alternatives.
Part of the problem with turmours is that cutting anything out can spread the tumour by leaving mobile particles and injecting drugs directly allows them to spread to other (life-essential) organs.
Because these magnetic particles are less mobile than drugs, there is a good chance they'll tend to stay put and only damage the tumour and local tissue, rather than harming the organism as a whole.
Isn't that when the kids are using it, exercising and needing to be kept cool the most? Isn't that why it has air conditioning in the first place?
I imagine the inner monologue: "Hmmm, this piece of equipment is most expensive when it's being used for the purpose it was intended for, rather than just idling. Obviously, we must stop using it for this purpose."
I agree - the summary is completely incongruous with the article. My understanding was that Tesla was always going to make a sedan after the roadster. According to the article, they are doing exactly that. Doing exactly what you planned to be doing sounds like success to me.
The fact that they are discontinuing the roadster seems peripheral, although one may ask why they would discontinue them if they were profitable. Perhaps they don't have enough capital to tool more than one production line at a time? Perhaps the sedan is expected to be more lucrative and they don't want to pay the opportunity cost of continuing to make roadsters.
When I was younger (and nerdier) I once proposed a similar but more sensible version using in-universe technology that was well understood by Starwars fans: force fields. Obviously, starships have shields that keep asteroids, debris, weapons and projectiles from damaging them. Similarly, speeders and various devices apply forces at a distance to hover and float. Why can't this technology be used to harness a plasma field as a cutting device?
It stood to reason that the interaction of these repelling, focussing fields would result in the spark and fizzle of lightsabres clashing, as tiny amounts of plasma escaped. Likewise, the interactions would prevent the blades from passing through each other and also account for occasional 'sabre lock' where two blades are periodically joined and must be separated.
I use it for both my work and personal accounts. I have no love for google, and a stand-alone client is just fine for me. With one exception, all of my email accounts have their own web-interfaces if I need them, anyway. Gmail is overrated - people found it so much better than the free email providers that were available when it was released, and now they are hooked on the g-teat. However, it has long since ceased being unique or especially meritorious.
These are also good points. Unfortunately, humans have a very weird sense of risk. We should be -terrified- of cars, but each day most of us willingly get into one and go somewhere.
I should point out the link is a cybersquat of the real manufacturer's website (note the curious extra 's' in "vibram") - almost certainly, that link is for a crappy chinese rip-off outfit. Vibram has had a great deal of problems with counterfit products of late, and this sort of crapvertisement is just another symptom. I don't care to see their brand cast into ill-repute by peddlers of fake goods. Use google if you want to find the real website.
Well, those aren't my convictions. These are the postulated convictions of writers in China - and arguably, Hollywood plots are rather what we're talking about. Now, I very much doubt that the Chinese powers-that-be would take offense at a writer whose works boil down to "Everything is as good as it could possibly be! If it weren't for the glorious communist party, we would be living in a capitalist hellhole!". The fact that they -are- taking offense to people's writings, suggests to me that they don't like the alternatives proposed and the implicit questions about how things could have been different (ie. preferable) to how they are now.
True - but it's interesting to note that aircraft in general have gotten faster. High performance military jets are now starting to skirt the mid-to-high Mach 2 region, once the sole domain of specialty aircraft. While we haven't seen civilian transportation speed up, the technology is there where it is needed and economical to do so. The true lament is that contrary to expectations, getting from A to B that much quicker isn't something people are actually willing to pay for. But don't worry - those advances will pay dividends the next time we come around to building a spaceplane or suborbital plane.
It seems to me that their real fear is people latching on to the idea that things could ever have worked out differently. If people explore alternative histories and conjecture what would have happened if the ruling regime didn't come to power, how things might have been changed... perhaps for the better.
Better to nip those flights of fancy in the bud and keep everyone's horizons nicely blinkered and focused on the factory assembly line.
Yes, and I unpacked the whole thing myself without using the setup file that required I click "Agree" to an EULA. Yes, I read my EULAs, and sometimes I decline their terms. The exe you modify yourself is guaranteed to be malware free.
That's pretty much the size of it. I was kicking around looking for something to play on my evenings on break and saw a game in the local store that had ok reviews. I should have realised "requires internet connection" was modern parlance for "We're putting shit on your machine that dials home lol!" If I'd actually gotten around to installing it at the time, I'd have demanded my money back when I had the chance. Unfortunately, I only found out when I was back home. Oh well - serves me right.
I might argue, though, that just like violence or sexual content, we should demand that publishers clearly label their products as "Contains DRM or Internet Activation" so as to avoid such easy mistakes.
I certainly agree. I accidentally bought a game with DRM and online activation that I couldn't return (brick and morter retailer while on holiday). I'm allergic to installing that crap on my system, so I figured out how to bypass it with a modified exe. Why go to all that effort? Because I should control my system, and nobody else. I won't go so far as to pirate it, but I can understand why some people would.
I have the suspicion that troll articles like these really exist only to promote the token artist mentioned within. So yes, now you're asking questions like that, and maybe you'll even go visit youtube to listen to her sing to find out what all the complaining is about - which is exactly what they want you to do.
Hi, engineering PhD here. I'm working as a researcher, doing my post-doc in aero-robotics. There is a very good reason we do stuff in Matlab - ease of use. Yes, I can write C, Assembly, and an alphabet soup of other languages - I have written very very hardened embedded code for flight control of expensive flying robots. But I still do all my simulation in Matlab.
Why? Because I can bang it out in an M-file and have something debugged and running (slowly, but functionally) much much faster than if I did it in any other language. The only IDE I need is an installation of Matlab, which the department pays for.
It's easy to piss and moan about researchers using Matlab and similar tools to do things, but if you've got to get a paper out in a month and can't spare the time to do it 'optimally', then 'good enoughly' is the right solution.
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Speak for yourself! Mine turns on unbidden at night and beams images into my brain. That's the only explanation for the queer thoughts that have been running through my brain of late - shameful things like voting for social progressives.
The problem is targeting only the tumour with the pill contents. If we had the ability to deliver oral drugs -only- to a tumour, then we could just use targeted chemo treatments and everything would be fine. Unfortunately, it's not that simple, so we need alternatives.
Part of the problem with turmours is that cutting anything out can spread the tumour by leaving mobile particles and injecting drugs directly allows them to spread to other (life-essential) organs.
Because these magnetic particles are less mobile than drugs, there is a good chance they'll tend to stay put and only damage the tumour and local tissue, rather than harming the organism as a whole.
Oh, my bad - I misread "9 pm to 3 am" as "9 am to 3 pm"
Please ignore and mod appropriately.
Isn't that when the kids are using it, exercising and needing to be kept cool the most? Isn't that why it has air conditioning in the first place?
I imagine the inner monologue: "Hmmm, this piece of equipment is most expensive when it's being used for the purpose it was intended for, rather than just idling. Obviously, we must stop using it for this purpose."
I agree - the summary is completely incongruous with the article. My understanding was that Tesla was always going to make a sedan after the roadster. According to the article, they are doing exactly that. Doing exactly what you planned to be doing sounds like success to me.
The fact that they are discontinuing the roadster seems peripheral, although one may ask why they would discontinue them if they were profitable. Perhaps they don't have enough capital to tool more than one production line at a time? Perhaps the sedan is expected to be more lucrative and they don't want to pay the opportunity cost of continuing to make roadsters.
And in fact, while I'm at it, I'll raise the ante with Expanded Universe reference to saber lock in Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast.
Oh good. Someone got the reference. I'll be keeping my card, thank you very much.
When I was younger (and nerdier) I once proposed a similar but more sensible version using in-universe technology that was well understood by Starwars fans: force fields. Obviously, starships have shields that keep asteroids, debris, weapons and projectiles from damaging them. Similarly, speeders and various devices apply forces at a distance to hover and float. Why can't this technology be used to harness a plasma field as a cutting device?
It stood to reason that the interaction of these repelling, focussing fields would result in the spark and fizzle of lightsabres clashing, as tiny amounts of plasma escaped. Likewise, the interactions would prevent the blades from passing through each other and also account for occasional 'sabre lock' where two blades are periodically joined and must be separated.
As I said, I was younger and nerdier back then.
I use it for both my work and personal accounts. I have no love for google, and a stand-alone client is just fine for me. With one exception, all of my email accounts have their own web-interfaces if I need them, anyway. Gmail is overrated - people found it so much better than the free email providers that were available when it was released, and now they are hooked on the g-teat. However, it has long since ceased being unique or especially meritorious.
You, sir, speak volumes of truth and wisdom well attested to by your equally impressive UID.
These are also good points. Unfortunately, humans have a very weird sense of risk. We should be -terrified- of cars, but each day most of us willingly get into one and go somewhere.
Are you sure you haven't?
"14000 people were killed by a tsunami, but so far the damaged reactor hasn't killed anyone"....
You sir/madam, have made my day. That's the most sensible thing I've read in the entirety of this discussion.
I should point out the link is a cybersquat of the real manufacturer's website (note the curious extra 's' in "vibram") - almost certainly, that link is for a crappy chinese rip-off outfit. Vibram has had a great deal of problems with counterfit products of late, and this sort of crapvertisement is just another symptom. I don't care to see their brand cast into ill-repute by peddlers of fake goods. Use google if you want to find the real website.
Soyuz nyerushimyiy ryespublik svobodnyikh
Splotila navyeki Vyelikaya Rus.
Da zdravstvuyet sozdannyiy volyey narodov
Yedinyiy, moguchiy Sovyetskiy Soyuz!
Well, those aren't my convictions. These are the postulated convictions of writers in China - and arguably, Hollywood plots are rather what we're talking about. Now, I very much doubt that the Chinese powers-that-be would take offense at a writer whose works boil down to "Everything is as good as it could possibly be! If it weren't for the glorious communist party, we would be living in a capitalist hellhole!". The fact that they -are- taking offense to people's writings, suggests to me that they don't like the alternatives proposed and the implicit questions about how things could have been different (ie. preferable) to how they are now.
True - but it's interesting to note that aircraft in general have gotten faster. High performance military jets are now starting to skirt the mid-to-high Mach 2 region, once the sole domain of specialty aircraft. While we haven't seen civilian transportation speed up, the technology is there where it is needed and economical to do so. The true lament is that contrary to expectations, getting from A to B that much quicker isn't something people are actually willing to pay for. But don't worry - those advances will pay dividends the next time we come around to building a spaceplane or suborbital plane.
It seems to me that their real fear is people latching on to the idea that things could ever have worked out differently. If people explore alternative histories and conjecture what would have happened if the ruling regime didn't come to power, how things might have been changed... perhaps for the better.
Better to nip those flights of fancy in the bud and keep everyone's horizons nicely blinkered and focused on the factory assembly line.
Yes, and I unpacked the whole thing myself without using the setup file that required I click "Agree" to an EULA. Yes, I read my EULAs, and sometimes I decline their terms. The exe you modify yourself is guaranteed to be malware free.
That's pretty much the size of it. I was kicking around looking for something to play on my evenings on break and saw a game in the local store that had ok reviews. I should have realised "requires internet connection" was modern parlance for "We're putting shit on your machine that dials home lol!" If I'd actually gotten around to installing it at the time, I'd have demanded my money back when I had the chance. Unfortunately, I only found out when I was back home. Oh well - serves me right.
I might argue, though, that just like violence or sexual content, we should demand that publishers clearly label their products as "Contains DRM or Internet Activation" so as to avoid such easy mistakes.
I certainly agree. I accidentally bought a game with DRM and online activation that I couldn't return (brick and morter retailer while on holiday). I'm allergic to installing that crap on my system, so I figured out how to bypass it with a modified exe. Why go to all that effort? Because I should control my system, and nobody else. I won't go so far as to pirate it, but I can understand why some people would.
I have the suspicion that troll articles like these really exist only to promote the token artist mentioned within. So yes, now you're asking questions like that, and maybe you'll even go visit youtube to listen to her sing to find out what all the complaining is about - which is exactly what they want you to do.
Hi, engineering PhD here. I'm working as a researcher, doing my post-doc in aero-robotics. There is a very good reason we do stuff in Matlab - ease of use. Yes, I can write C, Assembly, and an alphabet soup of other languages - I have written very very hardened embedded code for flight control of expensive flying robots. But I still do all my simulation in Matlab.
Why? Because I can bang it out in an M-file and have something debugged and running (slowly, but functionally) much much faster than if I did it in any other language. The only IDE I need is an installation of Matlab, which the department pays for.
It's easy to piss and moan about researchers using Matlab and similar tools to do things, but if you've got to get a paper out in a month and can't spare the time to do it 'optimally', then 'good enoughly' is the right solution.
I wish someone would mod you down, only so I could mod you back up again. Bravo.
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