No, you could not have done it on Mir. Mir was small, horribly kludged together and really not extensible. It was going to deorbit in a bunch of pieces by itself or more gracefully (as was done). It was beyond EOL. Well beyond. It was a testament to Russian engineering that it stayed up as long as it did.
I'm thinking that they are doing this as a ploy to try to get fun toys while getting subsidized by the MPAA equivalent. This isn't going to help anyone, as they could just go to another theatre if this is known to happen at their normal one. A smaller theatre likely is not going to do this, or care about doing this. Smaller lines, but less likely to have an ICEE machine that works.
Yeah, this. A good set of night vision glasses is $5000 or so. Even cheap ones are well over a grand. I can just see the minimum wage usher walking out of the theatre, never to be seen again (so to speak).
In intact blood (well treated, processed correctly) the genomic DNA will be in cells which can be spun out quickly to create plasma. In fact, most lab tests are done on cell free fractions because the proteins and assorted other molecules bugger up the process.
You should also be able to determine in flanking sequences (if any). If you have a lot of extraneous DNA, it probably doesn't come from a free floating viral particle.
And finally, since the vast majority of viruses have some sort of protein capsid and are of a fairly constrained size, you can always fractionate the blood to include only those sized structures.
So, it is a potential issue but one that can be overcome in a fairly straightforward fashion.
Or perhaps, hammer your hapless elected representative to allow for 'free trade' in pharmaceuticals. Remember that concept? The world is your oyster. It's time that gobalization benefited the majority of the population for a change.
Right. Which schedule? The one they made last week?
... and the schedule wouldn't really matter anyway since no other country is fielding fifth generation fighters in significant numbers and we already have one that is fully operational (F-22).
Good. So we're spending trillions of dollars on technology we don't need. An excellent, fiscally responsible approach to defense spending.
For a troll, you're not so smart. Use arguments that are harder to pick apart.
Anyone who acts as if an email isn't a electronic postcard is fooling themselves. No unencrypted email is even remotely private, whether I use Hilary's server or Gmail's.
You don't handcuff and perp walk kids for a 'misunderstanding'. Everything up to that point was fine (except for the little bit of forgetting to move people out of harm's way should this have been an actual weapon).
The subsequent arrest and persecution of the kid is flat out paranoid insanity.
I hope they leave the lithium batteries out of them. Those puppies are dangerous. With the intelligence displayed by the Irving school and police officials I would worry that they would try to eat them.
We've seen this a couple of times before. BASIC, the thing with the turtles, even HTML.
First off nobody cares. This is especially true for large values of nobody. If it requires much more mental effort than breathing, most people do not want to interact with anything or anybody. There are already APIs for much of everything. But, surprise, they're complicated. It takes study and smarts to use them.
And that is the big problem. The coding is left to professionals because it's too complex to leave to anyone else. All of those attempts to simplify programming have not made it much past simple look up forms. Remember Microsoft Access? VBA? Yes, it can be useful but it's not all that easy to do much with, especially if it regards real data because you have to understand a whole bunch of things about data before you can let the world have access to it.
No, no, no. The Unix philosophy is old. Think guys with ponytails way longer than they should have them.
This is different because it will be SHINY. And patent pending, trademarked and protected by copyright until you can't do a damned thing without paying extra for the privilege.
Get with the program. You're probably a socialist.
Because it's hard and expensive. Anonymous paper / scanner systems have been around... since at least 2006 or so, and shown to work.
Really, the entire premise of this article is foolish. Just because the tech hasn't been replaced in 7 years doesn't mean it's going to fall apart. In backwards Alaska (according to this, and many other maps), we have mark / sense systems. Like I was using in elementary school for standardized tests. Tech is simple, robust, paid for. Likely not perfect, but certainly workable.
It doesn't have to be hard unless you 1) want instant results and 2) want perfection. Lighten up Francis.
The vast majority of homeopathic 'treatments' are for either self limited conditions (colds) or complex, mulitifactorial problems like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue and similar life altering symptoms (I'm not going to call them illnesses in sense we can find a causal agent(s)). "Regular" medicine is notably poor at treating these folks. We give them drugs whose basic function is to replace one set of annoying symptoms with another. We occasionally send them to psychotherapy which occasionally helps. Mostly we string them along because we don't have a cure or even decent symptom amelioration.
Homeopathy has the cure. So so a number of religions (take your pick). That's important for a whole raft of people.
Just because it makes no rational sense and isn't real has very little to do with the issue.
* - For example, Trump is clearly a xenophobic lunatic, but it's hard to argue he is insincere.
Which actually relates to the underlying theme here. Humans are illogical bags of psychotropic chemicals and bacteria. Belief trumps (so to speak) reality every single time.
True enough but billions of people get real, sustained relief from life's travails by believing in magical religions that promise one hell of a lot more than surviving your cold.
I mean, eternal life beats the pants off off no hemorrhoids any day.
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No, you could not have done it on Mir. Mir was small, horribly kludged together and really not extensible. It was going to deorbit in a bunch of pieces by itself or more gracefully (as was done). It was beyond EOL. Well beyond. It was a testament to Russian engineering that it stayed up as long as it did.
I'm thinking that they are doing this as a ploy to try to get fun toys while getting subsidized by the MPAA equivalent. This isn't going to help anyone, as they could just go to another theatre if this is known to happen at their normal one. A smaller theatre likely is not going to do this, or care about doing this. Smaller lines, but less likely to have an ICEE machine that works.
Yeah, this. A good set of night vision glasses is $5000 or so. Even cheap ones are well over a grand. I can just see the minimum wage usher walking out of the theatre, never to be seen again (so to speak).
Since we have very few antivirals, it isn't much of a problem.
"Go home and wash your hands. Don't kiss anybody you like." And that's pretty much it.
In intact blood (well treated, processed correctly) the genomic DNA will be in cells which can be spun out quickly to create plasma. In fact, most lab tests are done on cell free fractions because the proteins and assorted other molecules bugger up the process.
You should also be able to determine in flanking sequences (if any). If you have a lot of extraneous DNA, it probably doesn't come from a free floating viral particle.
And finally, since the vast majority of viruses have some sort of protein capsid and are of a fairly constrained size, you can always fractionate the blood to include only those sized structures.
So, it is a potential issue but one that can be overcome in a fairly straightforward fashion.
"You have a virus, specifically a bargoburomyopolyfluenza 2 virus."
"That's great doc, what do we do to treat it?"
"Take two aspirin, call me in the morning."
On August 27, Skynet became self aware .....
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
You're a medical coder aren't you?
Or go to Mexico. Or any other civilized country.
Or perhaps, hammer your hapless elected representative to allow for 'free trade' in pharmaceuticals. Remember that concept? The world is your oyster. It's time that gobalization benefited the majority of the population for a change.
Oh the real reason is much simpler. Somebody else wants to go there. Can't be upstaged by another third world country.
The plane is coming in under cost.
Oh, Really?
The plane is also supposed to be having these various problems you mention because it is still in testing.
Oops. You're not supposed to be doing that anymore.
The plane is also on schedule
Right. Which schedule? The one they made last week?
Good. So we're spending trillions of dollars on technology we don't need. An excellent, fiscally responsible approach to defense spending.
For a troll, you're not so smart. Use arguments that are harder to pick apart.
Anyone who acts as if an email isn't a electronic postcard is fooling themselves. No unencrypted email is even remotely private, whether I use Hilary's server or Gmail's.
You don't handcuff and perp walk kids for a 'misunderstanding'. Everything up to that point was fine (except for the little bit of forgetting to move people out of harm's way should this have been an actual weapon).
The subsequent arrest and persecution of the kid is flat out paranoid insanity.
Or the Dangerous Denver Diminutive Robot incident.
I hope they leave the lithium batteries out of them. Those puppies are dangerous. With the intelligence displayed by the Irving school and police officials I would worry that they would try to eat them.
We've seen this a couple of times before. BASIC, the thing with the turtles, even HTML.
First off nobody cares. This is especially true for large values of nobody. If it requires much more mental effort than breathing, most people do not want to interact with anything or anybody. There are already APIs for much of everything. But, surprise, they're complicated. It takes study and smarts to use them.
And that is the big problem. The coding is left to professionals because it's too complex to leave to anyone else. All of those attempts to simplify programming have not made it much past simple look up forms. Remember Microsoft Access? VBA? Yes, it can be useful but it's not all that easy to do much with, especially if it regards real data because you have to understand a whole bunch of things about data before you can let the world have access to it.
No, no, no. The Unix philosophy is old. Think guys with ponytails way longer than they should have them.
This is different because it will be SHINY. And patent pending, trademarked and protected by copyright until you can't do a damned thing without paying extra for the privilege.
Get with the program. You're probably a socialist.
Ah yes, the safe and secure USB stick.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
It must have been very hilly and cold where you lived.
Yes, this. It's a solved problem. The fact that it hasn't been solved indicates to me that certain people don't want it solved.
Or should I just go back and meditate on Hanlon's Razor again?
Frankenstein.
Because it's hard and expensive. Anonymous paper / scanner systems have been around ... since at least 2006 or so, and shown to work.
Really, the entire premise of this article is foolish. Just because the tech hasn't been replaced in 7 years doesn't mean it's going to fall apart. In backwards Alaska (according to this, and many other maps), we have mark / sense systems. Like I was using in elementary school for standardized tests. Tech is simple, robust, paid for. Likely not perfect, but certainly workable.
It doesn't have to be hard unless you 1) want instant results and 2) want perfection. Lighten up Francis.
The vast majority of homeopathic 'treatments' are for either self limited conditions (colds) or complex, mulitifactorial problems like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue and similar life altering symptoms (I'm not going to call them illnesses in sense we can find a causal agent(s)). "Regular" medicine is notably poor at treating these folks. We give them drugs whose basic function is to replace one set of annoying symptoms with another. We occasionally send them to psychotherapy which occasionally helps. Mostly we string them along because we don't have a cure or even decent symptom amelioration.
Homeopathy has the cure. So so a number of religions (take your pick). That's important for a whole raft of people.
Just because it makes no rational sense and isn't real has very little to do with the issue.
* - For example, Trump is clearly a xenophobic lunatic, but it's hard to argue he is insincere.
Which actually relates to the underlying theme here. Humans are illogical bags of psychotropic chemicals and bacteria. Belief trumps (so to speak) reality every single time.
It's got acolytes .... er, electrolytes!
True enough but billions of people get real, sustained relief from life's travails by believing in magical religions that promise one hell of a lot more than surviving your cold.
I mean, eternal life beats the pants off off no hemorrhoids any day.