Agreed, though even texts from my major I got rid of. Not so much because they weren't useful, but because after meeting other people who had the same major from other Universities, I saw they had better texts than I did. So, I picked up those texts when they were a dime a dozen later down the road, and end up with a far better reference collection than my original books would have provided.
Agreed. Those silly computer science textbooks were a waste of money. Now those underwater basket weaving texts, I practically sleep with those things.
Not sure TBH. I just figured it was cross *NIX. I know they use netBSD + some software firewall, and the syntax looked exactly like iptables/ipchains so I figured that's what it was. The boxes just "worked" so we never really had to touch them much. So I'm not exactly sure what firewall package they used. PF could very well be it.
The state has a vested interest in you being alive. If you die, you can't pay them taxes. Each person out there is good for at least a couple grand a year, and over the course of a lifetime, that adds up. And if they keep you alive, you may spawn more little wallets for them to exploit.
Yeah, it was. BSD was THE unix for awhile after AT&T got split up. In the early 80's BSD was the basis for a lot of proprietary Unix's. Afterwards, the *BSD projects came out. It was incredibly important for awhile. Further, I know a couple of places that still use net-bsd with switch cards and iptables/ipchains to act as a second tier firewall after a hardware appliance. They work quite well. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole for anything desktop related though.
There are other issues though. Hospital visitation. Spousal privilege in court. Inheritance. Custody of children/wards. There are many more implications to marriage than just tax things. Honestly, I feel that the religous and legal aspects of marriage should be held completely separate by the government.
More than 20 years ago I did work in Photodynamic Therapy (injecting dyes into tumors. When you shine a light on the dyes, they produce oxygen radicals which kill the cells).
That's really cool! However, was it an invasive procedure? Or were you able to use something like a fiber optic light? I am a lay person for the most part; other than working on PACS/RIS/HIS software for about 5 years.
Yup, the CT/MR/PT/MG is usually one of the ways that tumors are initially noticed; it's a small dose of radiation. There's always a risk, but a small dose of radiation when you already have cancerous tumors is probably the least of your worries. What would most likely happen is a scan a day or two before the procedure.
I think the big thing is this doesn't involve radiation, so the treatments aren't causing the nasty side effects. Overall, very similar to a lot of other treatments too, but the lack of any radiation is the big selling point.
Really good point, I'm hopeful about the research. It reminds me of radioactive seeding, but without, you know, the radiation. Same net effect, less super damaging radiation hurting the rest of your body.
I agree wholeheartedly, and as someone involved with technology you know that. However, remember that the majority of the market out there doesn't even know that you can get a 1$ cable off of pricewatch that works just as well:) Until they do, I think the prices will remain artificially high.
I wouldn't consider it defective if its a known design decision. It allows for tweaking as necessary to perform better for a given application as opposed to trying to fit 1000 different applications against a single implementation. It gives creators of peripherals a bit more flexibility. I understand your point though. I just think it allows for some extra flexibility and modularity for whoever plans to release things using it.
my team did a lot of the ground research for the light peak spec. the greatest challenge was shoving enough bits through the wire -- we couldn't find a way to do it passively. That's why it's $50.
You're one of the engineers behind it? You and your team did some good work, its a cool idea. Kudos.
The design behind thunderbolt is intel, not apple. They just partnered with apple to get it out into production. The technology is actually pretty nifty; unlike other interfaces where you're dealing with a separate controller, thunderbolt basically creates an external pci-express port. So, anything a normal expansion card can do can now be made modular. It's got some very sexy potential. Imagine never having to get more than a decent proc and ram because video cards now plug into your laptop's thunderbolt port. You could have thunderbolt enabled televisions which include a graphics adapter. There's some cool potential. Let's see if it actually gets off the ground though.
I'm betting that USB3.0 will be extremely bursty, just like USB1/2 (it is the same underlying technology, after all). Firewire has always been far better at maintaining a steady flow of data which is where it really pays off in the a/v world.
I'm pretty sure firewire has always been adored in the pro a/v market, actually. Just like macs. It is something they do very well. I'd have thought that was fairly well known. Maybe that's just because I've set up at least 10-15 video/sound/graphics labs in my time. Dunno
Honestly, most cables are priced strangely. Ever buy a power cable from HP? It'll set you back 20$. For a NEMA 15 power cable. Printer cables were always notoriously expensive too. Adding in two transceivers I think actually justifies a slightly higher price in my opinion (still inflated, just not as much as a HDMI cable). Still, they're operating out where there be dragons. It'd be neat to see it take off, but I'd greatly prefer a standardized IEEE solution like firewire.
Brazil is a democracy, but not functioning very well. In Rio gang warfare is bad enough that it was considered worse than a warzone, and there is a hell of a lot of corruption. The only reason you don't hear a lot about it is because they depend on tourism. Source: best friend lived there 3 years as an inner city teacher. Also told me to stay in tourist areas if visiting, the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans.
Nothing is wrong with me. If you think that science people always have strong ethics, then why is it pharmaceutical companies essentially hold people's health at ransom? What do you think happens if someone has cancer - essentially they are told *by science people* to pay, or die. Great ethics there in the medical, radiology, and organic chemistry communities. You do realize that that didn't always happen. Just look at the smallpox vaccine. As for making us look bad, you're right. It does. So do neckbeards who haven't showered for months. It is an interesting use of existing technology to solve a problem presented to them. It is excellent engineering, and a great strategy. You need to stop looking at your adversaries as "bad guys" and looking at them as intelligent people who have different goals than you do. Learn from the tech they use and see what way it can be used to benefit the world. Military science does this, why can't we?
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It's called a joke. I mean, c'mon man, seriously? Underwater basket weaving? /facepalm
Agreed, though even texts from my major I got rid of. Not so much because they weren't useful, but because after meeting other people who had the same major from other Universities, I saw they had better texts than I did. So, I picked up those texts when they were a dime a dozen later down the road, and end up with a far better reference collection than my original books would have provided.
Agreed. Those silly computer science textbooks were a waste of money. Now those underwater basket weaving texts, I practically sleep with those things.
Not sure TBH. I just figured it was cross *NIX. I know they use netBSD + some software firewall, and the syntax looked exactly like iptables/ipchains so I figured that's what it was. The boxes just "worked" so we never really had to touch them much. So I'm not exactly sure what firewall package they used. PF could very well be it.
The state has a vested interest in you being alive. If you die, you can't pay them taxes. Each person out there is good for at least a couple grand a year, and over the course of a lifetime, that adds up. And if they keep you alive, you may spawn more little wallets for them to exploit.
Yeah, it was. BSD was THE unix for awhile after AT&T got split up. In the early 80's BSD was the basis for a lot of proprietary Unix's. Afterwards, the *BSD projects came out. It was incredibly important for awhile. Further, I know a couple of places that still use net-bsd with switch cards and iptables/ipchains to act as a second tier firewall after a hardware appliance. They work quite well. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole for anything desktop related though.
There are other issues though. Hospital visitation. Spousal privilege in court. Inheritance. Custody of children/wards. There are many more implications to marriage than just tax things. Honestly, I feel that the religous and legal aspects of marriage should be held completely separate by the government.
Agreed with other poster, whats his name? I'll check out some of his stuff.
Except you don't. There are a growing number of musicians who have completely avoided the "big labels" and done just fine.
More than 20 years ago I did work in Photodynamic Therapy (injecting dyes into tumors. When you shine a light on the dyes, they produce oxygen radicals which kill the cells).
That's really cool! However, was it an invasive procedure? Or were you able to use something like a fiber optic light? I am a lay person for the most part; other than working on PACS/RIS/HIS software for about 5 years.
Yup, the CT/MR/PT/MG is usually one of the ways that tumors are initially noticed; it's a small dose of radiation. There's always a risk, but a small dose of radiation when you already have cancerous tumors is probably the least of your worries. What would most likely happen is a scan a day or two before the procedure.
I think the big thing is this doesn't involve radiation, so the treatments aren't causing the nasty side effects. Overall, very similar to a lot of other treatments too, but the lack of any radiation is the big selling point.
Really good point, I'm hopeful about the research. It reminds me of radioactive seeding, but without, you know, the radiation. Same net effect, less super damaging radiation hurting the rest of your body.
I agree wholeheartedly, and as someone involved with technology you know that. However, remember that the majority of the market out there doesn't even know that you can get a 1$ cable off of pricewatch that works just as well :) Until they do, I think the prices will remain artificially high.
I wouldn't consider it defective if its a known design decision. It allows for tweaking as necessary to perform better for a given application as opposed to trying to fit 1000 different applications against a single implementation. It gives creators of peripherals a bit more flexibility. I understand your point though. I just think it allows for some extra flexibility and modularity for whoever plans to release things using it.
Parallel printer cables still sell for 30$ at best buy last time I checked. (Just checked, yup, they still do)
my team did a lot of the ground research for the light peak spec. the greatest challenge was shoving enough bits through the wire -- we couldn't find a way to do it passively. That's why it's $50.
You're one of the engineers behind it? You and your team did some good work, its a cool idea. Kudos.
The design behind thunderbolt is intel, not apple. They just partnered with apple to get it out into production. The technology is actually pretty nifty; unlike other interfaces where you're dealing with a separate controller, thunderbolt basically creates an external pci-express port. So, anything a normal expansion card can do can now be made modular. It's got some very sexy potential. Imagine never having to get more than a decent proc and ram because video cards now plug into your laptop's thunderbolt port. You could have thunderbolt enabled televisions which include a graphics adapter. There's some cool potential. Let's see if it actually gets off the ground though.
I'm betting that USB3.0 will be extremely bursty, just like USB1/2 (it is the same underlying technology, after all). Firewire has always been far better at maintaining a steady flow of data which is where it really pays off in the a/v world.
I'm pretty sure firewire has always been adored in the pro a/v market, actually. Just like macs. It is something they do very well. I'd have thought that was fairly well known. Maybe that's just because I've set up at least 10-15 video/sound/graphics labs in my time. Dunno
Honestly, most cables are priced strangely. Ever buy a power cable from HP? It'll set you back 20$. For a NEMA 15 power cable. Printer cables were always notoriously expensive too. Adding in two transceivers I think actually justifies a slightly higher price in my opinion (still inflated, just not as much as a HDMI cable). Still, they're operating out where there be dragons. It'd be neat to see it take off, but I'd greatly prefer a standardized IEEE solution like firewire.
English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.
Your English as a second language is better than many people who speak it as a first language. You should be very proud. :)
Brazil is a democracy, but not functioning very well. In Rio gang warfare is bad enough that it was considered worse than a warzone, and there is a hell of a lot of corruption. The only reason you don't hear a lot about it is because they depend on tourism. Source: best friend lived there 3 years as an inner city teacher. Also told me to stay in tourist areas if visiting, the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans.
Nothing is wrong with me. If you think that science people always have strong ethics, then why is it pharmaceutical companies essentially hold people's health at ransom? What do you think happens if someone has cancer - essentially they are told *by science people* to pay, or die. Great ethics there in the medical, radiology, and organic chemistry communities. You do realize that that didn't always happen. Just look at the smallpox vaccine. As for making us look bad, you're right. It does. So do neckbeards who haven't showered for months. It is an interesting use of existing technology to solve a problem presented to them. It is excellent engineering, and a great strategy. You need to stop looking at your adversaries as "bad guys" and looking at them as intelligent people who have different goals than you do. Learn from the tech they use and see what way it can be used to benefit the world. Military science does this, why can't we?
the fact that it's described as a trojan implies to me it's a stupid user issue.
I had a trojan issue once. Now I have a kid. Trojans are stupid.