As someone who has worked with a hospital transplant team, Steve Jobs did absolutely nothing wrong. There is nothing that stops people from doing something similar to what Jobs did - finding the best center with the shortest waiting line; in fact, people do it all the time. Sure, there are plenty of people who cannot afford to do what he did but there are many who can - I saw (and still see it) all the time.
He could pay for the procedure with cash but people who use insurance get transplants all the time. Further, because of Jobs' socioeconomic status - as a transplant team you'd want to give him an organ because he would be able to maintain it. That can be a huge factor in who gets organs and who doesn't. If someone does not have any family to help take care of them or money to hire nursing help and if that person has questionable self-health care and practices (like they are still drinking alcohol and need a liver transplant), then they probably will not get an organ. Jobs will most likely really take care of his transplant, especially because he can pay for additional help.
Those are what bug me the most - the "articles" that are written by companies. Traditional media, as you pointed out, is so full of fake news that it's pretty sad.
Yes. Administering Levodopa (a dopamine precurser) actually "treats Parkinson's" because it replaces the dopamine that is lost in the brain. However, people build a tolerance to the drug. We don't have anything at the moment that cures Parkinson's disease, although there is promise with stem cell treatments. We don't even know what causes the loss of the substantia nigra cells (where dopamine is largely produced) in the first place.
It's called the substantia nigra pars compacta (or just substantia nigra for short), which is in the tegmentum (a portion of the brainstem).
People do not develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease until 75-80% of the dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra are dead and gone (or at least no longer producing dopamine).
Nope. Using the Wii will not prevent Parkinson's disease. It's possible it could delay the symptoms slightly or at least help PD patients adapt to them but the only thing that will cure PD is something that replaces the lost dopaminergic cells in the brainstem.
I think we debate the morality even more though as it becomes more removed for our soldiers. With these same technologies we are able to make more accurate surgical strikes with as few non-combat casualties as possible. Even as we become more distant from war itself, we are more careful to not kill the innocent.
That's true for some people but I got my Mac for its power, its ease of use, its UNIX base, and the fact that I can use it with my neuroimaging research. Most of the people here at college who have Macs got them not for their looks or status symbol, they got them because they wanted a computer that worked.
I think more often than not, college students now get Macs because they are in fact sick of Windows. Further, for people in fields similar to mine, Macs have become the platform to do the work. Most or all of the programs that I use do not exist on Windows computers.
I just have a couple clarifications. Most of that research was with young children (8 and under). Further, the strongest deleterious effect occurs when children receive extrinsic rewards for things they already enjoy (e.g., if a child likes painting, once they receive an extrinsic reward like money when they paint, they will like painting less than they did before). I don't know if this research applies to older kids; I'm not aware of any research with older children.
[Note: I am a psychology major (almost done with a PhD) so I have at least a little authority on this matter].
Or, he'll make a ton in ad revenue (assuming we don't all block ads - I don't at least), see that the site receives a lot of traffic, and charge a lot more.:)
For this post I'll assume you are the researcher. It's very usable as an academic source (although I would not rely heavily on it). If you are using it for research, you would download the PDF of the page it creates. If someone is really interested in replicating your research, they could contact you and ask for your source data from Wolfram, which would be the PDF it created. That's a reasonable request to make and many researchers would honor it.
Being detained by police technically is being arrested. You do not have to go to jail or be handcuffed or whatever to be arrested. But that's all semantics.
It depends on how nice the house is.;) With Windows, we're talking about a single-wide in a ghetto; it may be functional, it may be new and have a few pretty or nice features, but it's only just functional and there are a lot of neighbors who constantly try to break in and steal your stuff.
Linux is like a townhouse - nice but a bit thrown together with a few other homes. It's in a decent gated-community though [not that I'm necessarily a fan of gated communities in real life].
OS X is like the nice mansion on a street on the good side of the tracks. It has its problems and people still want to break in to steal your stuff but at least the home is functional, large, secure, and pretty.
So yeah, even rent-free, a single-wide might just lead to a little complaining about moving out.:)
While it is incredibly dishonest, your solution is extreme. Shut down Merck? Shut down Elsevier? Both companies do a lot of good (Yes, Merck does do a lot of good). These fake journals do not appear in MEDLINE, which means that researchers do not actually use them. Sure, Merck might use them to market to doctors but as someone who works in the health care field (not as a medical doctor), not finding a journal in MEDLINE is death for the journal. Why anyone would trust a journal they don't find in MEDLINE is beyond me.
I've had much better experience with ATI than NVIDIA cards. I like both but ATI cards generally seem more power efficient, at least at the level I spend (which isn't a lot). Maybe I just had some poor NVIDIA manufacturers though.
I agree with the summary. Even with existing cards, you can get very acceptable performance from cards that are $100 or less (especially if you find a nice deal on a card). I don't know if I'd limit it to just $100 though but for $150 and under you can definitely buy enough card to run most games at high detail and quite high resolutions.
I actually read the article for once. I hate to be negative but it was a bit confusing (almost like a meander along a winding road) and had at least one typo (Morman instead of Mormon). Anyway, that's my negativity for the day.:)
"When I saw the head of a tiny Iraqi child, cracked open like a bloody egg by 'coalition' bombs I didn't wish that some[one] hadn't posted that to the internet, I wished that some[one] with bombs hadn't killed the child. I saw the ugly reality of war in a way that I couldn't have unless I'd been there."
You can understand the ugly realities of war without viewing pictures like that. Besides why do you get upset at those who dropped the bombs? Was it their fault? Was it their fault that their targets hide in schools or neighborhoods just so when a bomb or missile or gunfire accidentally kills children those images can be spread online in order to serve as propaganda against the coalition? Why don't you also get upset at those who oppressed their people, killing and maiming them, which actions led to the coalition being there fighting in the first place? You may disagree with the war - and all wars for that matter - but you're being awfully one-sided in your comment. Besides, using your logic you could also argue for the necessity of everyone (or at least some people) experiencing war so that we learn to understand the brutality and ugliness of it. That's not true, we don't need war. We don't need to view the atrocities of war to learn to hate war.
"It's important to know the truth, and an ugly truth is ALWAYS more beautiful than a pleasing lie."
Again, I disagree. I think that the truth should be told but sometimes people do not need to hear the truth. Do you think it's right for people to go around as say, "You know Sarah, you really are ugly" or "You're fat Bob. And stupid and lazy to boot"? Or should a husband tell his wife, "You know what? That dress actually does make you look fat"? People don't want to know all the ugly truth. No, it is not always better or more beautiful than a pleasing lie. Sometimes knowing nothing but the pleasing lie is what allows people to continue living.
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To be fair, it was filmed and made in New Zealand. Who doesn't like New Zealand? :)
If all men really are created equal, why were there still slaves in the United States for another almost 100 years after that was written?
Why should Jobs be punished and have a liver denied him just because he is rich?
As someone who has worked with a hospital transplant team, Steve Jobs did absolutely nothing wrong. There is nothing that stops people from doing something similar to what Jobs did - finding the best center with the shortest waiting line; in fact, people do it all the time. Sure, there are plenty of people who cannot afford to do what he did but there are many who can - I saw (and still see it) all the time.
He could pay for the procedure with cash but people who use insurance get transplants all the time. Further, because of Jobs' socioeconomic status - as a transplant team you'd want to give him an organ because he would be able to maintain it. That can be a huge factor in who gets organs and who doesn't. If someone does not have any family to help take care of them or money to hire nursing help and if that person has questionable self-health care and practices (like they are still drinking alcohol and need a liver transplant), then they probably will not get an organ. Jobs will most likely really take care of his transplant, especially because he can pay for additional help.
In no way did he con the transplant system.
Those are what bug me the most - the "articles" that are written by companies. Traditional media, as you pointed out, is so full of fake news that it's pretty sad.
Now that's both funny and insightful!
Isn't it, "Anything you can do, Wii can do it better?"
Yes. Administering Levodopa (a dopamine precurser) actually "treats Parkinson's" because it replaces the dopamine that is lost in the brain. However, people build a tolerance to the drug. We don't have anything at the moment that cures Parkinson's disease, although there is promise with stem cell treatments. We don't even know what causes the loss of the substantia nigra cells (where dopamine is largely produced) in the first place.
It's called the substantia nigra pars compacta (or just substantia nigra for short), which is in the tegmentum (a portion of the brainstem).
People do not develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease until 75-80% of the dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra are dead and gone (or at least no longer producing dopamine).
Nope. Using the Wii will not prevent Parkinson's disease. It's possible it could delay the symptoms slightly or at least help PD patients adapt to them but the only thing that will cure PD is something that replaces the lost dopaminergic cells in the brainstem.
I think we debate the morality even more though as it becomes more removed for our soldiers. With these same technologies we are able to make more accurate surgical strikes with as few non-combat casualties as possible. Even as we become more distant from war itself, we are more careful to not kill the innocent.
You mean those people who act like the U.S. government which apparently has nothing better to do other than spend money. :)
That's true for some people but I got my Mac for its power, its ease of use, its UNIX base, and the fact that I can use it with my neuroimaging research. Most of the people here at college who have Macs got them not for their looks or status symbol, they got them because they wanted a computer that worked.
I think more often than not, college students now get Macs because they are in fact sick of Windows. Further, for people in fields similar to mine, Macs have become the platform to do the work. Most or all of the programs that I use do not exist on Windows computers.
I just have a couple clarifications. Most of that research was with young children (8 and under). Further, the strongest deleterious effect occurs when children receive extrinsic rewards for things they already enjoy (e.g., if a child likes painting, once they receive an extrinsic reward like money when they paint, they will like painting less than they did before). I don't know if this research applies to older kids; I'm not aware of any research with older children.
[Note: I am a psychology major (almost done with a PhD) so I have at least a little authority on this matter].
Or, he'll make a ton in ad revenue (assuming we don't all block ads - I don't at least), see that the site receives a lot of traffic, and charge a lot more. :)
Exactly. Slashdot is a social site. Networking isn't a major focus but it is a social site. It's concept is not that much different than Facebook.
We used to chant that every Friday morning in calculus in high school. Man we were geeks!
For this post I'll assume you are the researcher. It's very usable as an academic source (although I would not rely heavily on it). If you are using it for research, you would download the PDF of the page it creates. If someone is really interested in replicating your research, they could contact you and ask for your source data from Wolfram, which would be the PDF it created. That's a reasonable request to make and many researchers would honor it.
Just because your graphics card is fast does not mean Vista isn't slow (yes, the double negative was on purpose).
Being detained by police technically is being arrested. You do not have to go to jail or be handcuffed or whatever to be arrested. But that's all semantics.
It depends on how nice the house is. ;) With Windows, we're talking about a single-wide in a ghetto; it may be functional, it may be new and have a few pretty or nice features, but it's only just functional and there are a lot of neighbors who constantly try to break in and steal your stuff.
:)
Linux is like a townhouse - nice but a bit thrown together with a few other homes. It's in a decent gated-community though [not that I'm necessarily a fan of gated communities in real life].
OS X is like the nice mansion on a street on the good side of the tracks. It has its problems and people still want to break in to steal your stuff but at least the home is functional, large, secure, and pretty.
So yeah, even rent-free, a single-wide might just lead to a little complaining about moving out.
While it is incredibly dishonest, your solution is extreme. Shut down Merck? Shut down Elsevier? Both companies do a lot of good (Yes, Merck does do a lot of good). These fake journals do not appear in MEDLINE, which means that researchers do not actually use them. Sure, Merck might use them to market to doctors but as someone who works in the health care field (not as a medical doctor), not finding a journal in MEDLINE is death for the journal. Why anyone would trust a journal they don't find in MEDLINE is beyond me.
I've had much better experience with ATI than NVIDIA cards. I like both but ATI cards generally seem more power efficient, at least at the level I spend (which isn't a lot). Maybe I just had some poor NVIDIA manufacturers though. I agree with the summary. Even with existing cards, you can get very acceptable performance from cards that are $100 or less (especially if you find a nice deal on a card). I don't know if I'd limit it to just $100 though but for $150 and under you can definitely buy enough card to run most games at high detail and quite high resolutions.
I actually read the article for once. I hate to be negative but it was a bit confusing (almost like a meander along a winding road) and had at least one typo (Morman instead of Mormon). Anyway, that's my negativity for the day. :)
Wow, $500. At that price that cable better produce the nectar of the gods and cure cancer while it happily transmits bits.
"When I saw the head of a tiny Iraqi child, cracked open like a bloody egg by 'coalition' bombs I didn't wish that some[one] hadn't posted that to the internet, I wished that some[one] with bombs hadn't killed the child. I saw the ugly reality of war in a way that I couldn't have unless I'd been there."
You can understand the ugly realities of war without viewing pictures like that. Besides why do you get upset at those who dropped the bombs? Was it their fault? Was it their fault that their targets hide in schools or neighborhoods just so when a bomb or missile or gunfire accidentally kills children those images can be spread online in order to serve as propaganda against the coalition? Why don't you also get upset at those who oppressed their people, killing and maiming them, which actions led to the coalition being there fighting in the first place? You may disagree with the war - and all wars for that matter - but you're being awfully one-sided in your comment. Besides, using your logic you could also argue for the necessity of everyone (or at least some people) experiencing war so that we learn to understand the brutality and ugliness of it. That's not true, we don't need war. We don't need to view the atrocities of war to learn to hate war.
"It's important to know the truth, and an ugly truth is ALWAYS more beautiful than a pleasing lie."
Again, I disagree. I think that the truth should be told but sometimes people do not need to hear the truth. Do you think it's right for people to go around as say, "You know Sarah, you really are ugly" or "You're fat Bob. And stupid and lazy to boot"? Or should a husband tell his wife, "You know what? That dress actually does make you look fat"? People don't want to know all the ugly truth. No, it is not always better or more beautiful than a pleasing lie. Sometimes knowing nothing but the pleasing lie is what allows people to continue living.