here is a guy who works for some very large company. why on earth shd he get free advice ? I mean, if Verizon or Dell or Ford or someone like that said, hey we want you as a consultant, but are not going to pay you for it.....
at some point this open source love one another community thing gets to be ludicrous. If the guy is going to make a committment to buy 1,000 linux desktops, i'm sure a vendor will give him some support...
and i wonder how great his employer is - is this a guy who works for a compnay that is shafting employees left and right, paying the ceo gazillins, and we are expectted to help for free ?
So what if hte internet is free ? Informaiton only counts to the extent people hear it. If WalMart can spend 100 MM dollars telling people how happy employees are, and mistreated employees can spend 0.01, whoose message gets heard
why is shelf life of a print imp ? Isnt that the point of digital - you print another on demand ?
Maybe the software can print an invisible number on the print, and when you want another copy, you look at the print with a special lens and enter the number in your software and get another copy
Anyway, as soon as the morons* figure out that 5x7 lcds with magnets can be made and sold by the gazillion, prints will be pretty passe
morons = people who don't understand that design and gui are worth paying for , ie ipod vs the rest of the mp3 world
We had a sony digital camera at work, and , of course, someone lost the software. So, I figure, go to sony.com, enter the model number, pull up a page with a download link, and voila, broadband to the rescue
Not happening
It took me and another geek 30 minutes to find the download link
So, maybe Sony is just stupid and inept. After all, look at the trinitron monitors, with that horizontal wire ~ 1/3 of the way from the bottom; look at the software they distribute with their early model DVD players (the sony software would not work with their own player - I had to download something from sateira).... Not to mention Viao - how on earth can you expect a brand to be successfull if you can tspell or pronounce it (merkur anyone ?)
the lichens lasted two weeks assuming you could actually get to 10% of c, it would take 40 years from the nearest star....seems like a bit if problem, but who knows 40 years * 52 weeks = ~ 2,000 weeks
The Geek journal has an article about a poet with a degree in computer science who claims to have invented a video card that outperforms the most advanced offerings from Nvidia, and the card can be mass produced for a dollar. The inventor claims to have millions of dollars in backing,a nd indpendent graphics artists have tested the board.
"we plan to produce 20 million cards a year soon, say CEO J Anklsy"
this is your opinion vs my opinion the only thing that counts is data the only relevant data, iMHO, is to take 200 users, with equal skill sets, and give half of them things to do on an apple, and half the same set on a wintel box.
You then need to record how long it takes them
When you have that data set, you , and I, are entitled to talkk about ease of use and technical superiority. untill then, its just hesaid shesaid - and my 2cents is that apples had a brief moment whenyou could pay more and get a few fetures; so far as i can tell, with windows2000, there are NO compelling set of features that make apples superior (and i htink the hardware still costs more)
as for all this great software what software ? all they make is an OS, they cant even make an office suite, a media player,.....
I have used my wifes laptop with max os10, and on the hardware side, it is no better then a std wintel laptop - for instance, the screen sticks tot he rubbery keys... I could go on, but give me data
I think there is a persistent misunderstanding that jobs/apple is technology. Au Contraier: Jobs is 100% marketing. He finds some feature, that some fraction of the market wants, and dresses it up. Like the mac - since windows 98, there has been no real reason to use a mac, and a lot of $$ reasons not to. So, since his technology is not any better, he resorts to fancy cabinets, or some other such stuff.
Once you understand that jobs is just another madison avenue hypster, trying to convince you that a 50K lexus really is worht 2X a toyota, all else is simple.
r u going to tell me that a mutation that results in a stop codon, resulting in a painful death 5 years post birth, is not a "bad" gene ?
u can quibble about semantics here, but sounds pretty bad to me
the rest of your arguments are more or less true but irrelevant, Yeah, they only did 239 people, yeah 1 million snps is not all of them,..... the question is, are they close enough to do some practical damage ?
(old joke: a/.geek and a human geneticist r at a party, and they c a super hot babe across the room. the geek says, lets go over and chat her up, the HG says its not worth it, because after we go half way, half remains, and so forth, and we will never get to the babe. and the/.geek say, yeah but we could get close enough to do...
Thei point about professional softwware is tht they deliberately make it hard, to appeal ot the profesional base - why would someone whoose possibly high pay which depends on knowledge use software that makes tht knowledge obsolete
that is, photoshop could easily, if they want, re do the interface to make it much easier. but if they did, pros would not use it, and pros are their base. to put it another way, if your customers earn a good living with your tool and their knowledge, why would they buy a tool which implies their knowlege is not worth anything ?
i think that is why photoshop does not offer a redeye reduction tool
2 bad u r such a jerk, because the idea that math is obsolete for a large fraction of the population is an interesting idea..since a caclculator costs about a dollar to make, and since 90% plus of hte population can solve all of their math needs with a calculator, why do we bother teaching math before the second year of college ? I think you could make a serious argument about this, if one wnated to get into a serious discussion of what "education" consists of, and how many people in the US really NEED to know algebra, or trig, or something ike that. I will bet dollars to donuts that surveyors, a profession traditionally associated with strong math, are BETTER if they don't know math because the computer makes fewre erros !!!!
These puzzles seem to fall into a limited number of classes, when you view how you get the solution. ONe class is the strict logic, like the old chestnut where you get some set of statements like "1, joe lives next to the geen house" "The blue house is next to joes best friend"...etc
Another class involves a play of words, like I came to town on monday and left two days later on friday, where friday is the name of the airplane
A third class includes physical situation outside the language, like the early post in this thread on the MS puzzle of a closed room with a lightbulb and three switches.
IN any event, it seems like these puzzle fall into a small number of classes, and onece you know that, you can develo simple heuristics to solve them. Of course, it may be that the puzzle requries math or some other specialized skill you don't know, but if the heuristic tells you that, you have solved the puzzle, because you now know where to get the answer frm
and how do you know that H2O2 solns are not dangerous ? but more seriously,some of the ROS (reactive oxygen species,a s they are called))produced in a cold plasma could be much more reactive and dangerous then hydrogen peroxide - i forget which one, but i think the one called superoxide anion or superoxide radical is MUCH, much more reactive then hydrogen perxoide.
you need to kill the bacteria before you put in the filling... gas, as you know when ther is a bad smell, gets into cracks very well.. if there are bacteria in tiny cracks, a gas is the best way to go
Yes You have put your finger on one of the great paradoxes of mammalian physiology. We employ, exactly as you noted, toxic radical species to kill bacteria, yet these same molecules, in larger amounts, are toxic.
It may be that the production of toxic molecules by the neutraphils is regulated in some manner so as to minimize the toxicity to off target cells (ie proximity to the bacterial target mediated by cell surface teceptor events), or perhaps the neutraphils, after they release the toxic molecules, release a burst of neutralizing molecules, so as to generate an autocleanup.
Also, I believe your post has an assumption - that the neutraphil burst does not produce cancer. I suppose you could make a transgenic mouse and test this directly. An analogue would be immune system cancers, where a low levelof lethal cancer is considered, in an evolutinary, population sense, an acceptable price to pay for the generation of antibody and t cell receptor diversity
basically, this device produces a bleach like gas that chemically inactivates surfaces; it inactivates the outer layer of your skin just as much as the bacteria, but since the outer layer is dead skin cells it does not matter
fta, it produces highly reactive oxygen spiecies.
If such chemicals, such as peroxy radical, superoxide, etc are in fact produced, then to the extent that they get past your outer skin and react with live cells, the chemicals will produce cancerous and mutagenic lesions. If the chemcals get to the layer of living cells which is continously gowing and dividing to produce new skin, you would have to worry about skin cancers......
Cold plasmas are of great use in modifiying surfaces, eg this pen might be perfact for grafitti removal, activating plastic so paint will stick (the activation of polyolefins like polypropylene is a big business)...lots of other uses
what has held back the cold plasma industry is the lack of cheap devices to play with; i have had to pay hundreds of dollars to have small (mouse sized) objects treated for a few minutes
I think all the critics of this are right, yet they are missing the point, which is not even that the std pin is the backup
Technology succeeds largely if it panders to one of the dominant human traits - lazyness. If the gait thing means i can save 5 secs, or maybe more on a cold day with gloves that have to be taken off, it will have a good chance in the market.
you put the pauli comment in quotes, as if that is exactly how he said it. but, I don't think that is correct - can you post a ref to substantiate your claim that this is the exact phrase used ? I have spent time on the web, and never really come up with a def source
don't let the snotty tone of the responses get to you. you have a great point, and the company or person who figures out the answere is going ot make a lot of money imho, it is the cell phone usb drive; one tends not to loose ones cell phone.
I do a lot of simple drawing, and have a lot of sophisticated software installed. I do the drawing in word or powerpoint why ? If you go to the draw toolbar in word, there are a lot of predfined shapes, like triangels, and cubes, etc. the designers of programs like gimp are to arrogant to provide this simple stuff.
wonder who will have the largest user base in the schools, and what those kids will use when they graduate
Companies, by definition, exist if they make money. As they get larger, and loose their monopoly posistion(derived eithr from patents or superior technology that is hard to copy) and become more subject to market and regulatory forces, all companies that start good become just another company; that is, it is easier to make money by buying some congressman then by coming up with new products. IT is easier to dump toxic waste into the river in the third world then act responsibly; these things just happen Its like a fundamental law of nature.
today, Google may be a nice place run by nice guys, but eventually they will become like apple with its not fixing broken ipods, if not worse.
Of course in a institution that size, there will always be a few pockets of innovation and niceness, but overall, googles days as a friend of the hacker and innovator are almost over.
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am i the only one who finds highlighted words = ads revolting ?
There is only one way to stop this horrid thing: boycott toms hardware rev and the advertisers
here is a guy who works for some very large company. why on earth shd he get free advice ? I mean, if Verizon or Dell or Ford or someone like that said, hey we want you as a consultant, but are not going to pay you for it.....
at some point this open source love one another community thing gets to be ludicrous. If the guy is going to make a committment to buy 1,000 linux desktops, i'm sure a vendor will give him some support...
and i wonder how great his employer is - is this a guy who works for a compnay that is shafting employees left and right, paying the ceo gazillins, and we are expectted to help for free ?
a 500kw generator is listed for ~ 24,000 dollars here http://www.power-classifieds.com/index.php?rmid=89 06452946--BB2505 /. whining about problems with power is just ignorant folk to lazy to spend 5 seconds googling to get some facts
so all this
So what if hte internet is free ?
Informaiton only counts to the extent people hear it. If WalMart can spend 100 MM dollars telling people how happy employees are, and mistreated employees can spend 0.01, whoose message gets heard
why is shelf life of a print imp ?
Isnt that the point of digital - you print another on demand ?
Maybe the software can print an invisible number on the print, and when you want another copy, you look at the print with a special lens and enter the number in your software and get another copy
Anyway, as soon as the morons* figure out that 5x7 lcds with magnets can be made and sold by the gazillion, prints will be pretty passe
morons = people who don't understand that design and gui are worth paying for , ie ipod vs the rest of the mp3 world
We had a sony digital camera at work, and , of course, someone lost the software.
So, I figure, go to sony.com, enter the model number, pull up a page with a download link, and voila, broadband to the rescue
Not happening
It took me and another geek 30 minutes to find the download link
So, maybe Sony is just stupid and inept. After all, look at the trinitron monitors, with that horizontal wire ~ 1/3 of the way from the bottom; look at the software they distribute with their early model DVD players (the sony software would not work with their own player - I had to download something from sateira)....
Not to mention Viao - how on earth can you expect a brand to be successfull if you can tspell or pronounce it (merkur anyone ?)
the lichens lasted two weeks
assuming you could actually get to 10% of c, it would take 40 years from the nearest star....seems like a bit if problem, but who knows
40 years * 52 weeks = ~ 2,000 weeks
The Geek journal has an article about a poet with a degree in computer science who claims to have invented a video card that outperforms the most advanced offerings from Nvidia, and the card can be mass produced for a dollar.
The inventor claims to have millions of dollars in backing,a nd indpendent graphics artists have tested the board.
"we plan to produce 20 million cards a year soon, say CEO J Anklsy"
this is your opinion vs my opinion
.....
the only thing that counts is data
the only relevant data, iMHO, is to take 200 users, with equal skill sets, and give half of them things to do on an apple, and half the same set on a wintel box.
You then need to record how long it takes them
When you have that data set, you , and I, are entitled to talkk about ease of use and technical superiority.
untill then, its just hesaid shesaid - and my 2cents is that apples had a brief moment whenyou could pay more and get a few fetures; so far as i can tell, with windows2000, there are NO compelling set of features that make apples superior (and i htink the hardware still costs more)
as for all this great software what software ? all they make is an OS, they cant even make an office suite, a media player,
I have used my wifes laptop with max os10, and on the hardware side, it is no better then a std wintel laptop - for instance, the screen sticks tot he rubbery keys... I could go on, but give me data
I think there is a persistent misunderstanding that jobs/apple is technology. Au Contraier: Jobs is 100% marketing. He finds some feature, that some fraction of the market wants, and dresses it up. Like the mac - since windows 98, there has been no real reason to use a mac, and a lot of $$ reasons not to.
So, since his technology is not any better, he resorts to fancy cabinets, or some other such stuff.
Once you understand that jobs is just another madison avenue hypster, trying to convince you that a 50K lexus really is worht 2X a toyota, all else is simple.
r u going to tell me that a mutation that results in a stop codon, resulting in a painful death 5 years post birth, is not a "bad" gene ?
.....
/.geek and a human geneticist r at a party, and they c a super hot babe across the room. the geek says, lets go over and chat her up, the HG says its not worth it, because after we go half way, half remains, and so forth, and we will never get to the babe. /.geek say, yeah but we could get close enough to do...
u can quibble about semantics here, but sounds pretty bad to me
the rest of your arguments are more or less true but irrelevant, Yeah, they only did 239 people, yeah 1 million snps is not all of them,
the question is, are they close enough to do some practical damage ?
(old joke: a
and the
Thei point about professional softwware is tht they deliberately make it hard, to appeal ot the profesional base - why would someone whoose possibly high pay which depends on knowledge use software that makes tht knowledge obsolete
that is, photoshop could easily, if they want, re do the interface to make it much easier.
but if they did, pros would not use it, and pros are their base.
to put it another way, if your customers earn a good living with your tool and their knowledge, why would they buy a tool which implies their knowlege is not worth anything ?
i think that is why photoshop does not offer a redeye reduction tool
agree 100% about dvorak; so why does /. not have some sort of name filter you can add to your profile ?
sarcastic putdowns are the last refuge of the arrogant and stupid, to paraphrase a famous phrase
2 bad u r such a jerk, because the idea that math is obsolete for a large fraction of the population is an interesting idea..since a caclculator costs about a dollar to make, and since 90% plus of hte population can solve all of their math needs with a calculator, why do we bother teaching math before the second year of college ?
I think you could make a serious argument about this, if one wnated to get into a serious discussion of what "education" consists of, and how many people in the US really NEED to know algebra, or trig, or something ike that. I will bet dollars to donuts that surveyors, a profession traditionally associated with strong math, are BETTER if they don't know math because the computer makes fewre erros !!!!
These puzzles seem to fall into a limited number of classes, when you view how you get the solution. ...etc
ONe class is the strict logic, like the old chestnut where you get some set of statements like "1, joe lives next to the geen house" "The blue house is next to joes best friend"
Another class involves a play of words, like I came to town on monday and left two days later on friday, where friday is the name of the airplane
A third class includes physical situation outside the language, like the early post in this thread on the MS puzzle of a closed room with a lightbulb and three switches.
IN any event, it seems like these puzzle fall into a small number of classes, and onece you know that, you can develo simple heuristics to solve them. Of course, it may be that the puzzle requries math or some other specialized skill you don't know, but if the heuristic tells you that, you have solved the puzzle, because you now know where to get the answer frm
and how do you know that H2O2 solns are not dangerous ?
but more seriously,some of the ROS (reactive oxygen species,a s they are called))produced in a cold plasma could be much more reactive and dangerous then hydrogen peroxide - i forget which one, but i think the one called superoxide anion or superoxide radical is MUCH, much more reactive then hydrogen perxoide.
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you need to kill the bacteria before you put in the filling... gas, as you know when ther is a bad smell, gets into cracks very well.. if there are bacteria in tiny cracks, a gas is the best way to go
Yes
You have put your finger on one of the great paradoxes of mammalian physiology. We employ, exactly as you noted, toxic radical species to kill bacteria, yet these same molecules, in larger amounts, are toxic.
It may be that the production of toxic molecules by the neutraphils is regulated in some manner so as to minimize the toxicity to off target cells (ie proximity to the bacterial target mediated by cell surface teceptor events), or perhaps the neutraphils, after they release the toxic molecules, release a burst of neutralizing molecules, so as to generate an autocleanup.
Also, I believe your post has an assumption - that the neutraphil burst does not produce cancer. I suppose you could make a transgenic mouse and test this directly. An analogue would be immune system cancers, where a low levelof lethal cancer is considered, in an evolutinary, population sense, an acceptable price to pay for the generation of antibody and t cell receptor diversity
basically, this device produces a bleach like gas that chemically inactivates surfaces; it inactivates the outer layer of your skin just as much as the bacteria, but since the outer layer is dead skin cells it does not matter
...lots of other uses
fta, it produces highly reactive oxygen spiecies.
If such chemicals, such as peroxy radical, superoxide, etc are in fact produced, then to the extent that they get past your outer skin and react with live cells, the chemicals will produce cancerous and mutagenic lesions. If the chemcals get to the layer of living cells which is continously gowing and dividing to produce new skin, you would have to worry about skin cancers......
Cold plasmas are of great use in modifiying surfaces, eg this pen might be perfact for grafitti removal, activating plastic so paint will stick (the activation of polyolefins like polypropylene is a big business)
what has held back the cold plasma industry is the lack of cheap devices to play with; i have had to pay hundreds of dollars to have small (mouse sized) objects treated for a few minutes
I think all the critics of this are right, yet they are missing the point, which is not even that the std pin is the backup
Technology succeeds largely if it panders to one of the dominant human traits - lazyness.
If the gait thing means i can save 5 secs, or maybe more on a cold day with gloves that have to be taken off, it will have a good chance in the market.
you put the pauli comment in quotes, as if that is exactly how he said it.
but, I don't think that is correct - can you post a ref to substantiate your claim that this is the exact phrase used ? I have spent time on the web, and never really come up with a def source
don't let the snotty tone of the responses get to you.
you have a great point, and the company or person who figures out the answere is going ot make a lot of money
imho, it is the cell phone usb drive; one tends not to loose ones cell phone.
I do a lot of simple drawing, and have a lot of sophisticated software installed.
I do the drawing in word or powerpoint
why ?
If you go to the draw toolbar in word, there are a lot of predfined shapes, like triangels, and cubes, etc.
the designers of programs like gimp are to arrogant to provide this simple stuff.
wonder who will have the largest user base in the schools, and what those kids will use when they graduate
Companies, by definition, exist if they make money. As they get larger, and loose their monopoly posistion(derived eithr from patents or superior technology that is hard to copy) and become more subject to market and regulatory forces, all companies that start good become just another company; that is, it is easier to make money by buying some congressman then by coming up with new products. IT is easier to dump toxic waste into the river in the third world then act responsibly; these things just happen
Its like a fundamental law of nature.
today, Google may be a nice place run by nice guys, but eventually they will become like apple with its not fixing broken ipods, if not worse.
Of course in a institution that size, there will always be a few pockets of innovation and niceness, but overall, googles days as a friend of the hacker and innovator are almost over.