This is the company that has four different screens on it's DEV-50 digital binoculars straight from the lawyer's desk (Watch what you are doing, Don't run into things, You might get dizzy, You're gonna die) that you have to click through EVERY time you use the damn things. I can't wait to see what idiot warnings these things will come with.
And, if it's like any other Sony product aside from their cameras, they will never update the firmware, fix anything that breaks or even acknowledge that they made it once the newer version comes out.
I've never seen a more hostile consumer electronics company.
You can get nitrogen concentratorsthat are even cheaper. They're power hungry but otherwise fairly inexpensive. And if you are just trying to do fire suppression, you don't need a pure nitrogen atmosphere by any means.
Dozens of places in Colorado have the same kind of rock. Gold Hill or Jamestown, both just west of Boulder have hot spots from gold / tungsten / uranium mines that will kick a Geiger counter on moderate sensitivity. Still not very dangerous unless you fall head first on the rock, but fun to show the tourists.
The pharma industry doesn't like to make medicines that solve more than one problem at a time. It's difficult to monetize that efficiently.
Your trolling, but you're wrong. If all you need to do is another Phase III study for a different indication, you're golden. There are a number of drugs on the market that have different trade names for different uses but are the same molecule. It's not quite the Holy Grail for big Pharma, but it is at least a big lottery win.
This is going to happen sooner or later. RFID / Bluetooth extra.
OTOH, this cream might be of real benefit from people suffering from vitiligo.
If this actually passes Phase I trials and works, this guy is rich. But macrophages and anything to do with immune system is devilishly complex. I wouldn't be surprised if it did something like make you grow feathers on the treated skin. Will be interesting to follow.
Not on the scale that these people are envisioning. What is being replaced now are joints - with great care to avoid damaging muscles, tendons and nerves. There are limited bone grafts done, you typically make a metal scaffold and stuff bits of hip bone in there and there are some more advanced scaffolding technologies being worked on. None of these require detailed anatomical models of the patient.
There are replacements for skull parts being made by 3D printing but that can be done using a generic head model with some custom changes to fit the patient's dimensions. And the 3D printing just replaces CNC milling (for better or worse). And again, these replacement bones aren't actually bone, just plastic or metal designed to support and protect the rest of skull or whatever.
Yeah, it's dumb. Whole body MRIs take a long time and are expensive, even if you factor out the tendency to overcharge everything by a factor of ten in American Medicine. If you use CT as a medium, you are needlessly exposing people to radiation. Data storage isn't cheap. The infrastructure to get the data to the field (or even a different hospital) isn't cheap. It won't do anything useful. As has been noted several times already, bones aren't the big issue - it's the stuff that the bones are attached to.
It's just a fantasy created by some idiot journalist and some other techno fetishists.
The entire premise is ridiculous. The *bone* part isn't important. You can make a perfectly cromulent 'bone' with titanium pieces parts. The BIG issue is attaching the muscles and getting them to work, reattaching the nerves and blood vessels that presumably went missing when the IED popped off. Just filling up an arm or leg with a static printed / milled / molded whatever is going to be OK only if you are laying out a corpse for viewing.
You are much better off spending the time and money to figure out how to regenerate everything. Of course, that's orders or magnitude harder than 3D printing something that low end factories in India have been churning out for centuries (anatomically correct skeletons, no not THAT anatomically correct).
This may just be my own unqualified opinion on the subject but it seems like nothing turns people in to a pack of complete idiots faster than anonymity.
Alcohol and firearms work better for that, but you do have to be in meatspace.
On a more serious view - your initial argument (that corporations like the NYT who rely on 'big advertisers' have comment sections that reflect some underlying need of those advertisers)- is way too simplistic and over arching. There is likely a grain of truth in it, but as a general rule falls flat.
It isn't trolling and your English is better than most (although a low bar and you didn't help your cause by stating you teach English in Texas - having spent a dozen years of my life there I am not sure that 'English' is even a concept familiar to vast majority of Texans).
No particular hate, but no love either. They out of service and no one is planning on reviving the class, AFAIK.
Too big, too slow, not useful enough. Although putting a couple of nuclear reactors in one of the old hulls and lighting up the energy weapons might be a way to go.
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This is the company that has four different screens on it's DEV-50 digital binoculars straight from the lawyer's desk (Watch what you are doing, Don't run into things, You might get dizzy, You're gonna die) that you have to click through EVERY time you use the damn things. I can't wait to see what idiot warnings these things will come with.
And, if it's like any other Sony product aside from their cameras, they will never update the firmware, fix anything that breaks or even acknowledge that they made it once the newer version comes out.
I've never seen a more hostile consumer electronics company.
You can get nitrogen concentratorsthat are even cheaper. They're power hungry but otherwise fairly inexpensive. And if you are just trying to do fire suppression, you don't need a pure nitrogen atmosphere by any means.
Is that because you can or you cannot read the fine articles?
Tens of thousands of "Doctors of Philosophy" and just as many historians would disagree with you.
Dunno, I thought that Neal Stephenson's 'movies, microcode, pizza delivery' was a better trifecta.
But I like pizza.
(Of course, I'd jump at the chance to own my personal Predator drone as would pretty much anyone here....)
You must have been given lots of vaccines as a little kid.
Oh, that's Already been done. No need to bother Obama about it.
+5 Not Even Wrong
Hell, when I was in junior high school, we bought ether from the local pharmacy for our fruit fly labs.
I just can't imagine doing that now.
The things I missed....
Dozens of places in Colorado have the same kind of rock. Gold Hill or Jamestown, both just west of Boulder have hot spots from gold / tungsten / uranium mines that will kick a Geiger counter on moderate sensitivity. Still not very dangerous unless you fall head first on the rock, but fun to show the tourists.
You are under arrest. Please keep your hands off the keyboard. Do not move quickly.
We will be at your door presently.
Sincerely,
Your Government
The pharma industry doesn't like to make medicines that solve more than one problem at a time. It's difficult to monetize that efficiently.
Your trolling, but you're wrong. If all you need to do is another Phase III study for a different indication, you're golden. There are a number of drugs on the market that have different trade names for different uses but are the same molecule. It's not quite the Holy Grail for big Pharma, but it is at least a big lottery win.
"Every sperm is sacred .... "
You can burn little pots of diesel fuel under the power lines to melt the snow. Like they do in Florida to keep oranges warm.
Try that with nuclear!
Especially a highly popular board frequented by all the smart people in the country.
Reddit? Why do we care?
This is going to happen sooner or later. RFID / Bluetooth extra.
OTOH, this cream might be of real benefit from people suffering from vitiligo.
If this actually passes Phase I trials and works, this guy is rich. But macrophages and anything to do with immune system is devilishly complex. I wouldn't be surprised if it did something like make you grow feathers on the treated skin. Will be interesting to follow.
Not on the scale that these people are envisioning. What is being replaced now are joints - with great care to avoid damaging muscles, tendons and nerves. There are limited bone grafts done, you typically make a metal scaffold and stuff bits of hip bone in there and there are some more advanced scaffolding technologies being worked on. None of these require detailed anatomical models of the patient.
There are replacements for skull parts being made by 3D printing but that can be done using a generic head model with some custom changes to fit the patient's dimensions. And the 3D printing just replaces CNC milling (for better or worse). And again, these replacement bones aren't actually bone, just plastic or metal designed to support and protect the rest of skull or whatever.
Yeah, it's dumb. Whole body MRIs take a long time and are expensive, even if you factor out the tendency to overcharge everything by a factor of ten in American Medicine. If you use CT as a medium, you are needlessly exposing people to radiation. Data storage isn't cheap. The infrastructure to get the data to the field (or even a different hospital) isn't cheap. It won't do anything useful. As has been noted several times already, bones aren't the big issue - it's the stuff that the bones are attached to.
It's just a fantasy created by some idiot journalist and some other techno fetishists.
The entire premise is ridiculous. The *bone* part isn't important. You can make a perfectly cromulent 'bone' with titanium pieces parts. The BIG issue is attaching the muscles and getting them to work, reattaching the nerves and blood vessels that presumably went missing when the IED popped off. Just filling up an arm or leg with a static printed / milled / molded whatever is going to be OK only if you are laying out a corpse for viewing.
You are much better off spending the time and money to figure out how to regenerate everything. Of course, that's orders or magnitude harder than 3D printing something that low end factories in India have been churning out for centuries (anatomically correct skeletons, no not THAT anatomically correct).
This is getting silly.
I think perhaps his memory might be going though. The book has already been written.
This may just be my own unqualified opinion on the subject but it seems like nothing turns people in to a pack of complete idiots faster than anonymity.
Alcohol and firearms work better for that, but you do have to be in meatspace.
On a more serious view - your initial argument (that corporations like the NYT who rely on 'big advertisers' have comment sections that reflect some underlying need of those advertisers)- is way too simplistic and over arching. There is likely a grain of truth in it, but as a general rule falls flat.
It isn't trolling and your English is better than most (although a low bar and you didn't help your cause by stating you teach English in Texas - having spent a dozen years of my life there I am not sure that 'English' is even a concept familiar to vast majority of Texans).
This is abuse. Arguments are down the hall.....
No particular hate, but no love either. They out of service and no one is planning on reviving the class, AFAIK.
Too big, too slow, not useful enough. Although putting a couple of nuclear reactors in one of the old hulls and lighting up the energy weapons might be a way to go.
But. But. They did it again.
Captain Kirk beams over to the Constellation with Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott and a damage control team to investigate.
I guess it's a set-setting thing. I did a lot more pot back then.
What were you smoking?