Er, no? There is indeed a fine XP market, and yes I am well aware that it is being exploited, but to say there's no vista market is just plain ignorance. We are talking about families etc. buying computers here. Most people, when given the option of the latest operating system and the previous generation, at the near same pirated prices (for the pirates will reduce the vista costs to near XP if that's what it takes to shift the things, since it costs them near the same amount, and definitely try to hype up the more expensive OS), will go for vista, and that will become more and more the case in the coming year(s). You can turn most of vista's criticised bloat off, anyway. If you actually turn off aero/glass and look at the actual resources used you'll be surprised.
"fine XP market ready and waiting" - are you honestly implying that the XP piracy market has INCREASED, since vista's release, because more poeple want to down-grade now than wanted to pay for XP before? That's what 'waiting' implies to me, as if you're saying it's an un-tapped resource. That's just stupid. Many of these high-quality pirates will be selling to small local system builders etc., people who would have been buying XP for the years before vista's release, and these builders will now will be selling vista mainly, or at least offer a choice. Why? Because people want the latest and greatest. Most computer users don't even understand the principle of an operating system.
No, this is absolutely NOT the case, and shows a complete misunderstanding of the story.
If we exclude the 3rd world for the moment, 99% of HIV transmission in the West is between people who don't know they are infected. How the hell is this meant to prevent that? Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) is a huge pill burden, and is usually only given to people currently when their CD4 cell counts drop below a certain threshold anyway, but even if that does change, they still need to be diagnosed. Most people get diagnosed because they're showing symptoms, and by then it's too late - if they're sexually active they may well have already passed it on. At this stage they will be told not to have sex, and 99% of normal people will listen, but the damage is done. Even if they become uninfective, so what? Nothing's changed.
If we include the 3rd world in on it then we also have the problems of drug costs, which you glossed over, but that's really not the problem here.
The only big development I can see MAYBE is for pregnant mothers, and a reduction in HIV transmission through needle-stick injuries, and the fact that it inherently shows development in HAART, which is great.
HAART isn't easy by the way. Whilst non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based therapies are easy enough, and have few side effects, resistance develops in most patients, who then have to progress onto things like protease-inhbitors, which have problems like greatly increasing cholesterol (and hence probably vascular disease), huge pill burdens, metabolic problems, and such.
Actually I've just completed a review on highly active anti-retroviral therapy, and as the west goes, it's not THAT expensive - nowhere NEAR as expensive as the press would make out. There are 2 main therapies at the moment - protease inhibitor-based (PI) therapy, and non-nucleotide reverserve transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) therapy. Both of these, per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained, cost about £16,000. This is actually not THAT much as things go. The national institute for clinical excellence in the UK recommends that treatments under £30,000 per QALY are perfectly justifyable. This makes HIV treatment actually less expensive than regimes such as haemodialysis, which very few would deny.
Of course, the ethics of spending so much on a disease which can so easily be prevented, in most cases, is arguable. But who are we to judge?
Of course, this sum is very high to the 3rd world, but honestly it isn't that extortionate at all, as Western medicine goes (I'm not saying it's justifyable, I just think it's interesting)
How is this insightful? Just asking a question which damns WGA doesn't mean you're worth modding up.
This is 90% of professional piracy, therefore: 1) There are other vendors (see the other 10%), who really probably can expand to fill the spaces - ESPECIALLY since if these guys were apprehended so long ago there is a fine vista market ready for targetting. If you've already managed to circumvent the protection then you're only going to be limited by distribution and manufacture, which is hardly that big a hurdle 2) 90% of HIGH QUALITY piracy, NOT 90% of torrent downloaders and casual pirates. WGA, supposedly, protects against this, which is also a huge problem
Just getting pissy with copy protection is hardly worthy of mod points.
Yeh, it's true. The real problem often with heart damage isn't so much the inability to pump that comes with scar tissue so much as the electrical defects. Yes, one can get a side of the heart becoming insufficient, which can result in congestive heart failure (which will cause a buildup of fluid (oedema) in the pulmonary (lung) or systemic circulation), but what very often happens after heart attacks are fibrilations, arrhythmias etc. The problem is the heart is perfectly structured so that the electrical impulses pump downwards from the top of aorta, pushing the blood into the ventricles below, and then up from the bottom of the ventricles. This co-ordination means all the heart muscle must conduct at the same speed - but when you're myocardium is damaged, it doesn't. It can conduct much more slowly, meaning that sometimes a patch of damage myocardium can be triggered from both ends so to speak, from the base of say a ventricle, and from a patch more towards the top, as inpulses rush past it and trigger contractions. If this impulse going the other way actually managed to make it back downwards, in the opposite direction, it can sometimes trigger another contraction from the base, restarting this rapid destructive cycle known as re-entry arrhythmias.
Hearts are great, and they respond very well to periods of chronic relative hypoxia (fairly low oxygen) by remodelling and adding new vessels, but if you totally cut off the blood supply (heart attack) and you get scar tissue (and you will), you're in real trouble.
You're pathetic. 99% of viruses and vulnerabilities only are a problem because of uneducated people using computers. Should we therefore settle for unstable OSes and browsers? Of course not. Do you want to HAVE to go to the task manager when you're browsing the net? Of course not, so stop spouting bullshit.
And your philosophy on people deserving shit is frankly disgusting. My mother has spent her life trying to help people in the caring profession, and is now just getting to grips with IT. I can see her being tricked into clicking one of those stupid adverts saying she's infected with a virus, or something, does she deserve to have massive ads pop up that she doesn't know how to close, full of pornography etc.? She'd be too embarrassed to ask me how to close it probably, and it would probably scare her from using the computer.
You're a disgusting slashdot user and no doubt quite a stupid person.
Last year on my second year medical course I wrote about TRPM8 being the cold receptor. It's on my course again this year as well on TRP channels in vertebrates AND mentioned in my course on nociception.
Not only is it not new, but it's not desperately interesting. Other receptors like TRPA1 are involved in properly cold sensation, it's thought, TRPV1 in moderate-warm sensations (thats what capsaicin stimulates to make food hot) and TRPV2 is thought to be for properly hot.
Any proper neuroscientist has known about TRPM8 for literally years, this changes very little!
Hi, I don't suppose anyone has some images or cached pages of the ugliest myspace pages? I mean I'd actually be impressed if the worst myspace I'd ever seen was intentional, after some of the ones I've seen. Trouble is, the links to the spaces on his site are either all dead, or they link to new spaces, as the old ones seem to have been removed/expired.
People who like to drive cars really bloody quickly and dangerously, surprisingly, also like to play computer games where they can drive cars really bloody quickly and dangerously. Other people on the otherhand, who are less interested in killing themselves in flashy cars, prefer other types of games.
Sounds a bit like reverse causation? Really should be a cohort study.
The above post was +1 informative, because it actually told the truth. And then guess what, it's moderated 'overrated'. WTF? Fuck off, iInsecurefanboys.
When I was at school we saw a film on crytography saying a British mathematician had come up with the idea before it had been published to the public by a fairy long time. It was for government use though, and so very classified. Can anyone back this up? I definitely remember watching the film, and feeling very sorry for the poor bloke who got basically nothing for his idea.
Er....no. Firstly the light incident on a scene is very dynamic - clouds, sky, pollution etc all affect incident light. Because of that we get drastically different amounts of photons hitting the retinas second to second, but we don't notice that, why? That's because we have several forms of adaption (bleaching, where more photons mean more pigment is broken down, so less photons are able to be absorbed - a sort of buffering effect, and also field adaptation, a complex biochemical system I wont go into).
Same thing happens with our computer monitor, the voltage is not constant, the screens often rastering depending on the type, and all we're doing is knocking photons (in a CRT) at phosphorous, and hoping a bunch of photons come out the other side.
Rods need many photons, especially in day-time conditions when all the pigment is 'bleached', to trigger, so the control over a few photons means bugger all. And even if it did, by your reasoning all we need to do to make the scene look realistic would be to increase the noise in the voltage.
Seriously, what we need is binocular vision and a large sensitivity. The dynamic emission of photons is not a problem.
Yes the human eye's ROD cells can detect single photons, but they are slow, colour insensitive, and of relatively low density at the fovea (the part of the eye which we usually use to fixate on objects with).
And still, it's completely irrelevant. Yes our eye may be able to sense very small amounts of light, but that's nothing to do with resolution; the eye must be able to pin point the location that the photon landed, and that is limited by the 6 million or so cones we have, and a lot of parallel/serial processing.
DDoS the great firewall of china. Good plan. Possibly one of the most obvious, pointless and karma-targetting posts I've ever seen. TOTALLY untraceable/organisable/practical and wont get you lynched. Oh wait...........
Not at all. If they only have enough resources to make a certain number of units, and they've forcasted a certain profit coming from them, and are relying on that profit, then if a large proportion of those units a lost, then it can cause a lot of problems. Yes, they've lost the money it took to create the units, but they've also lost the profits, which they may not be able to make up for some time.
Actually if the product is 3 orders of magnitude higher (nanowires -> microcups) then nanocups should be made out of picowires, not femtowires. Femtowires would make a picocup.
That cable television is over the net anyway. My cable box has a mac address, it connects down the same line as my cable internet goes down. We have 1 big bandwidth pipe going into our house, and when we want to strip a line off with, whether it's cable internet or cable TV, we just cut it off that line.
We currently have 3 dedicated cable TV streams, and 1 cable internet line, but it's the same thing essentially, it's just 1 of them is connected to a modem and router, while the second is connected to a modem and a dedicated media centre, known as a cable box.
The only real difference is the plans outline above involve more hops between provider and receiver, making it harder to price
You don't wait years when you're ill. That's retarded, so don't spout bullshit. Oh and by the way pasting in a daily mail headline of one poor person who had to isn't evidence, that's using an exceptation as an example. Americans get fucked over by their insurance just as often, if not more.
The waiting lists are usually for things like knee replacements, which are my no means life threatening.
I'm currently attending Trinity College, Cambridge. While they're quite fine with you sharing stuff over LAN via shared folders etc., but they've totally cut down on file sharing applications. Their excuse is actually because they want to save bandwidth, rather than the copyright reasons though, and interestingly they let you run an ftp daemon. But as soon as you start direct connect, even if you connect to an intranet hub, BANG, you get an email from them. Even if you run it on different ports. They seem to be sniffing all the packets and cutting out the stuff they don't like.
Not only that but now they're out-lawed BitTorrent too; regardless of whether you're downloading movies or slackware. You just can't use the protocol without a good slap.
Yeh, this is only one college, but it's the largest Oxford and Cambridge college and it's highly influential. It sucks.
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Interestingly, this is the same attorney who back in 2006 won a case for Debbie Foster vs. the RIAA. A good choice.
Er, no? There is indeed a fine XP market, and yes I am well aware that it is being exploited, but to say there's no vista market is just plain ignorance. We are talking about families etc. buying computers here. Most people, when given the option of the latest operating system and the previous generation, at the near same pirated prices (for the pirates will reduce the vista costs to near XP if that's what it takes to shift the things, since it costs them near the same amount, and definitely try to hype up the more expensive OS), will go for vista, and that will become more and more the case in the coming year(s). You can turn most of vista's criticised bloat off, anyway. If you actually turn off aero/glass and look at the actual resources used you'll be surprised.
"fine XP market ready and waiting" - are you honestly implying that the XP piracy market has INCREASED, since vista's release, because more poeple want to down-grade now than wanted to pay for XP before? That's what 'waiting' implies to me, as if you're saying it's an un-tapped resource. That's just stupid. Many of these high-quality pirates will be selling to small local system builders etc., people who would have been buying XP for the years before vista's release, and these builders will now will be selling vista mainly, or at least offer a choice. Why? Because people want the latest and greatest. Most computer users don't even understand the principle of an operating system.
No, this is absolutely NOT the case, and shows a complete misunderstanding of the story.
If we exclude the 3rd world for the moment, 99% of HIV transmission in the West is between people who don't know they are infected. How the hell is this meant to prevent that? Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) is a huge pill burden, and is usually only given to people currently when their CD4 cell counts drop below a certain threshold anyway, but even if that does change, they still need to be diagnosed. Most people get diagnosed because they're showing symptoms, and by then it's too late - if they're sexually active they may well have already passed it on. At this stage they will be told not to have sex, and 99% of normal people will listen, but the damage is done. Even if they become uninfective, so what? Nothing's changed.
If we include the 3rd world in on it then we also have the problems of drug costs, which you glossed over, but that's really not the problem here.
The only big development I can see MAYBE is for pregnant mothers, and a reduction in HIV transmission through needle-stick injuries, and the fact that it inherently shows development in HAART, which is great.
HAART isn't easy by the way. Whilst non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based therapies are easy enough, and have few side effects, resistance develops in most patients, who then have to progress onto things like protease-inhbitors, which have problems like greatly increasing cholesterol (and hence probably vascular disease), huge pill burdens, metabolic problems, and such.
Actually I've just completed a review on highly active anti-retroviral therapy, and as the west goes, it's not THAT expensive - nowhere NEAR as expensive as the press would make out. There are 2 main therapies at the moment - protease inhibitor-based (PI) therapy, and non-nucleotide reverserve transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) therapy. Both of these, per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained, cost about £16,000. This is actually not THAT much as things go. The national institute for clinical excellence in the UK recommends that treatments under £30,000 per QALY are perfectly justifyable. This makes HIV treatment actually less expensive than regimes such as haemodialysis, which very few would deny.
Of course, the ethics of spending so much on a disease which can so easily be prevented, in most cases, is arguable. But who are we to judge?
Of course, this sum is very high to the 3rd world, but honestly it isn't that extortionate at all, as Western medicine goes (I'm not saying it's justifyable, I just think it's interesting)
How is this insightful? Just asking a question which damns WGA doesn't mean you're worth modding up.
This is 90% of professional piracy, therefore:
1) There are other vendors (see the other 10%), who really probably can expand to fill the spaces - ESPECIALLY since if these guys were apprehended so long ago there is a fine vista market ready for targetting. If you've already managed to circumvent the protection then you're only going to be limited by distribution and manufacture, which is hardly that big a hurdle
2) 90% of HIGH QUALITY piracy, NOT 90% of torrent downloaders and casual pirates. WGA, supposedly, protects against this, which is also a huge problem
Just getting pissy with copy protection is hardly worthy of mod points.
Yeh, it's true. The real problem often with heart damage isn't so much the inability to pump that comes with scar tissue so much as the electrical defects. Yes, one can get a side of the heart becoming insufficient, which can result in congestive heart failure (which will cause a buildup of fluid (oedema) in the pulmonary (lung) or systemic circulation), but what very often happens after heart attacks are fibrilations, arrhythmias etc. The problem is the heart is perfectly structured so that the electrical impulses pump downwards from the top of aorta, pushing the blood into the ventricles below, and then up from the bottom of the ventricles. This co-ordination means all the heart muscle must conduct at the same speed - but when you're myocardium is damaged, it doesn't. It can conduct much more slowly, meaning that sometimes a patch of damage myocardium can be triggered from both ends so to speak, from the base of say a ventricle, and from a patch more towards the top, as inpulses rush past it and trigger contractions. If this impulse going the other way actually managed to make it back downwards, in the opposite direction, it can sometimes trigger another contraction from the base, restarting this rapid destructive cycle known as re-entry arrhythmias.
Hearts are great, and they respond very well to periods of chronic relative hypoxia (fairly low oxygen) by remodelling and adding new vessels, but if you totally cut off the blood supply (heart attack) and you get scar tissue (and you will), you're in real trouble.
You're pathetic. 99% of viruses and vulnerabilities only are a problem because of uneducated people using computers. Should we therefore settle for unstable OSes and browsers? Of course not. Do you want to HAVE to go to the task manager when you're browsing the net? Of course not, so stop spouting bullshit.
And your philosophy on people deserving shit is frankly disgusting. My mother has spent her life trying to help people in the caring profession, and is now just getting to grips with IT. I can see her being tricked into clicking one of those stupid adverts saying she's infected with a virus, or something, does she deserve to have massive ads pop up that she doesn't know how to close, full of pornography etc.? She'd be too embarrassed to ask me how to close it probably, and it would probably scare her from using the computer.
You're a disgusting slashdot user and no doubt quite a stupid person.
Last year on my second year medical course I wrote about TRPM8 being the cold receptor. It's on my course again this year as well on TRP channels in vertebrates AND mentioned in my course on nociception.
Not only is it not new, but it's not desperately interesting. Other receptors like TRPA1 are involved in properly cold sensation, it's thought, TRPV1 in moderate-warm sensations (thats what capsaicin stimulates to make food hot) and TRPV2 is thought to be for properly hot.
Any proper neuroscientist has known about TRPM8 for literally years, this changes very little!
Hi, I don't suppose anyone has some images or cached pages of the ugliest myspace pages? I mean I'd actually be impressed if the worst myspace I'd ever seen was intentional, after some of the ones I've seen. Trouble is, the links to the spaces on his site are either all dead, or they link to new spaces, as the old ones seem to have been removed/expired.
People who like to drive cars really bloody quickly and dangerously, surprisingly, also like to play computer games where they can drive cars really bloody quickly and dangerously. Other people on the otherhand, who are less interested in killing themselves in flashy cars, prefer other types of games. Sounds a bit like reverse causation? Really should be a cohort study.
The above post was +1 informative, because it actually told the truth. And then guess what, it's moderated 'overrated'. WTF? Fuck off, iInsecurefanboys.
When I was at school we saw a film on crytography saying a British mathematician had come up with the idea before it had been published to the public by a fairy long time. It was for government use though, and so very classified.
Can anyone back this up? I definitely remember watching the film, and feeling very sorry for the poor bloke who got basically nothing for his idea.
Sorry, electrons at phosphorous, that should be!
Er....no. Firstly the light incident on a scene is very dynamic - clouds, sky, pollution etc all affect incident light. Because of that we get drastically different amounts of photons hitting the retinas second to second, but we don't notice that, why? That's because we have several forms of adaption (bleaching, where more photons mean more pigment is broken down, so less photons are able to be absorbed - a sort of buffering effect, and also field adaptation, a complex biochemical system I wont go into).
Same thing happens with our computer monitor, the voltage is not constant, the screens often rastering depending on the type, and all we're doing is knocking photons (in a CRT) at phosphorous, and hoping a bunch of photons come out the other side.
Rods need many photons, especially in day-time conditions when all the pigment is 'bleached', to trigger, so the control over a few photons means bugger all. And even if it did, by your reasoning all we need to do to make the scene look realistic would be to increase the noise in the voltage.
Seriously, what we need is binocular vision and a large sensitivity. The dynamic emission of photons is not a problem.
Yes the human eye's ROD cells can detect single photons, but they are slow, colour insensitive, and of relatively low density at the fovea (the part of the eye which we usually use to fixate on objects with).
And still, it's completely irrelevant. Yes our eye may be able to sense very small amounts of light, but that's nothing to do with resolution; the eye must be able to pin point the location that the photon landed, and that is limited by the 6 million or so cones we have, and a lot of parallel/serial processing.
DDoS the great firewall of china. Good plan. Possibly one of the most obvious, pointless and karma-targetting posts I've ever seen. TOTALLY untraceable/organisable/practical and wont get you lynched. Oh wait...........
Not at all. If they only have enough resources to make a certain number of units, and they've forcasted a certain profit coming from them, and are relying on that profit, then if a large proportion of those units a lost, then it can cause a lot of problems. Yes, they've lost the money it took to create the units, but they've also lost the profits, which they may not be able to make up for some time.
Owned.
That's a picture of an original DS in black. What's been stolen is a batch of black DS lites , the new style.
Actually if the product is 3 orders of magnitude higher (nanowires -> microcups) then nanocups should be made out of picowires, not femtowires. Femtowires would make a picocup.
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That cable television is over the net anyway. My cable box has a mac address, it connects down the same line as my cable internet goes down. We have 1 big bandwidth pipe going into our house, and when we want to strip a line off with, whether it's cable internet or cable TV, we just cut it off that line. We currently have 3 dedicated cable TV streams, and 1 cable internet line, but it's the same thing essentially, it's just 1 of them is connected to a modem and router, while the second is connected to a modem and a dedicated media centre, known as a cable box. The only real difference is the plans outline above involve more hops between provider and receiver, making it harder to price
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You don't wait years when you're ill. That's retarded, so don't spout bullshit. Oh and by the way pasting in a daily mail headline of one poor person who had to isn't evidence, that's using an exceptation as an example. Americans get fucked over by their insurance just as often, if not more. The waiting lists are usually for things like knee replacements, which are my no means life threatening.
I'm currently attending Trinity College, Cambridge. While they're quite fine with you sharing stuff over LAN via shared folders etc., but they've totally cut down on file sharing applications. Their excuse is actually because they want to save bandwidth, rather than the copyright reasons though, and interestingly they let you run an ftp daemon. But as soon as you start direct connect, even if you connect to an intranet hub, BANG, you get an email from them. Even if you run it on different ports. They seem to be sniffing all the packets and cutting out the stuff they don't like. Not only that but now they're out-lawed BitTorrent too; regardless of whether you're downloading movies or slackware. You just can't use the protocol without a good slap. Yeh, this is only one college, but it's the largest Oxford and Cambridge college and it's highly influential. It sucks.