It is fed into a Gas Chromatograph which gives the surgeon feedback about the sort of tissue he is cutting through. Seven years ago I watched an obstetrician operate on my wife with a cutting tool like this. She prefers that I not describe the experience in graphic detail in her presence.
Yeah. Having seen what chemotherapy did to my father in law a couple of months ago I will be asking for surgery if I need cancer treatment in the future, no matter how invasive it is.
Maybe they can build it into an arthroscope to get into those hard to reach locations.
Also I wonder if they could use it for localised radiotherapy. The GC tells you where to embed the tiny radioactive sources.
Trains are also much less vulnerable than planes. If there's a major malfunction on a plane, it crashes; a train just stops.
If you blow up a high speed train you could kill everybody on board. Trains carry more people than aircraft. Time your bang correctly and you could take out a train going the other way.
The nicest example I have heard of patents working the right way is the Rolling Loop IMAX Projector. The IMAX developers actually went to Ron Jones's home in Western Australia, looked at his prototype projector and pretty much bought his patent on the spot.
Don't they always chant population density as to reason why many people are stuck with dial-up?
Its weird that Australia, with 10% the population density as the USA has similar problems. Judging from the complaints from USA people on/. the situation in.au might actually be slightly better.
The traffic signal system I used to work on used 300 baud modems. I learnt to read the activity LEDs enough to see what type of information exchange was going on.
Looking at major roads in northern Finland it looks like you are never more than 25km from one of them, which is okay for 3G coverage. Shadows behind terrain might be an issue here and there, but gaps could be filled at a loss with satellite services.
If they can't deliver 100Mb with cellular protocols to (maybe) a few hundred homes the satellite solution is still there.
A quick point about security. If terrorists start to targets trains then security theater for rail passengers may be as bad as it is for air passengers.
No I don't. But that place looks horrible, just going from their web page. I spent 10 years at Vic Roads doing traffic signals though. It was a great engineering job, but it went all outsourced and management speak after a while.
I turned my back on a good team leader position a year ago because I had been put under a manager who had something seriously wrong with him. Hard to say what. He could just be a good actor. But I don't want to work for somebody who can live with pissing people off the way he was, so I found a different position in the company.
This persons defining attribute was that he gave orders from the first hour he was there but clearly know nothing about the area he was managing. Most people learn their limitations in this business. Some apparently don't.
I don't know how I would recognise a schizophrenic spectrum type disorder. I associate that type of thing with people who overemphasise relationships. A lot of us engineers swing the other away I think. Engage brain before putting mouth into gear, and so on.
Chin up, your situation can't be all that bad. I noticed you referred to "boss" in the singular. It only gets rough when multiple bosses say conflicting things that all must be correct. Then you have to start redefining words.
Don't get me started on matrix management across different countries with nationalistic paranoia thrown into the mix....
Where I work a sure fire way to get promoted is to do exactly what your boss says, no matter how stupid or badly thought out. The boss is alwaye right.
The result is that middle management is crammed with hyper reactive former engineers who jump from task to task on a seconds notice and literally cringe when the phone rings.
The final result is that out product line is a mess of modules built with incompatible tool chains, and our actual code is a mess of short term hacks.
I am trying to load openstreetmap tiles onto an SD card so I can use the gps on my openmoko without relying on GPRS. Data is very expensive for me, and not available in most places I actually use a GPS.
I find the SHR-U distribution very stable and usable. The real problem with the A6 openmoko hardware is that hardware quality is spotty. Of the two phones I kept out of a pack of five, one had terrible audio and GPS. The other phone has great hardware. I suspect something systematic in the manufacturing process.
Maybe, but how many colleges and high schools have the money to buy hundreds of Ti-83's a $100 or so each? I live in a upper middle class neighborhood and they don't even provide tissues!
TI could provide calculators to schools for free to be used in examinations. It would be cheap and effective marketing because of the number of students who would go out and buy exactly the same device.
When you take most tests, the test takers take this in to account and force you to reset your calculators, deleting all of your programs that you could have stored your notes in. There is no way to check for a different OS
The college could always provide calculators for the examinations. Then students could buy and use whatever they like.
But how can I avoid using the illegal number if it is not published? And if the illegal number is published in legislation then that would certainly be very convenient. Saves having to host it elsewhere.
The product was not sold as a computer or development platform. It was sold as an end user product with documented functionality as described in the user's manual. Sure enough, when the hacks disable their machines TI will get the support call. Most slashdotters will probably flame me for this.
I would be very surprised if a calculator hobbyist tried to get support for a modded device. And it is pretty easy for TI to say the warranty is void so STFU in that situation.
How many ubuntu users make support calls to Microsoft?
"Swallows and Amazons" is "just a book". (It's actually a damn good kid's book.)
OT but I had to jump in, I loved that book when I was 10 years old in 1975. Now my son is seven, I started reading it to him, with the idea he would take over the reading as we worked through it. So I got to see Swallows and Amazons through the eyes of a modern adult. They...
sail a timber boat with no inherent buoyancy without personal flotation devices
sleep on straw mattresses
use oil lamps and open cooking fires
use improvised tents made from flammable materials which collapse in strong wind (onto the matresses and lamps...
Its a wonder to me that my ancestors survived if that was the kind of thing they got up to.
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What is the the smoke used for?
It is fed into a Gas Chromatograph which gives the surgeon feedback about the sort of tissue he is cutting through. Seven years ago I watched an obstetrician operate on my wife with a cutting tool like this. She prefers that I not describe the experience in graphic detail in her presence.
Pocket GC == Tricorder
Yeah. Having seen what chemotherapy did to my father in law a couple of months ago I will be asking for surgery if I need cancer treatment in the future, no matter how invasive it is.
Maybe they can build it into an arthroscope to get into those hard to reach locations.
Also I wonder if they could use it for localised radiotherapy. The GC tells you where to embed the tiny radioactive sources.
Trains are also much less vulnerable than planes. If there's a major malfunction on a plane, it crashes; a train just stops.
If you blow up a high speed train you could kill everybody on board. Trains carry more people than aircraft. Time your bang correctly and you could take out a train going the other way.
The nicest example I have heard of patents working the right way is the Rolling Loop IMAX Projector. The IMAX developers actually went to Ron Jones's home in Western Australia, looked at his prototype projector and pretty much bought his patent on the spot.
Don't spend it all at once...
So can the Finns, oddly enough.
Don't they always chant population density as to reason why many people are stuck with dial-up?
Its weird that Australia, with 10% the population density as the USA has similar problems. Judging from the complaints from USA people on /. the situation in .au might actually be slightly better.
The traffic signal system I used to work on used 300 baud modems. I learnt to read the activity LEDs enough to see what type of information exchange was going on.
Looking at major roads in northern Finland it looks like you are never more than 25km from one of them, which is okay for 3G coverage. Shadows behind terrain might be an issue here and there, but gaps could be filled at a loss with satellite services.
If they can't deliver 100Mb with cellular protocols to (maybe) a few hundred homes the satellite solution is still there.
the last one Augured-In
Looked like more of a mush to me.
A quick point about security. If terrorists start to targets trains then security theater for rail passengers may be as bad as it is for air passengers.
No I don't. But that place looks horrible, just going from their web page. I spent 10 years at Vic Roads doing traffic signals though. It was a great engineering job, but it went all outsourced and management speak after a while.
I turned my back on a good team leader position a year ago because I had been put under a manager who had something seriously wrong with him. Hard to say what. He could just be a good actor. But I don't want to work for somebody who can live with pissing people off the way he was, so I found a different position in the company.
This persons defining attribute was that he gave orders from the first hour he was there but clearly know nothing about the area he was managing. Most people learn their limitations in this business. Some apparently don't.
I don't know how I would recognise a schizophrenic spectrum type disorder. I associate that type of thing with people who overemphasise relationships. A lot of us engineers swing the other away I think. Engage brain before putting mouth into gear, and so on.
Resign.
Chin up, your situation can't be all that bad. I noticed you referred to "boss" in the singular. It only gets rough when multiple bosses say conflicting things that all must be correct. Then you have to start redefining words.
Don't get me started on matrix management across different countries with nationalistic paranoia thrown into the mix....
Where I work a sure fire way to get promoted is to do exactly what your boss says, no matter how stupid or badly thought out. The boss is alwaye right.
The result is that middle management is crammed with hyper reactive former engineers who jump from task to task on a seconds notice and literally cringe when the phone rings.
The final result is that out product line is a mess of modules built with incompatible tool chains, and our actual code is a mess of short term hacks.
Fuck.
I am trying to load openstreetmap tiles onto an SD card so I can use the gps on my openmoko without relying on GPRS. Data is very expensive for me, and not available in most places I actually use a GPS.
I find the SHR-U distribution very stable and usable. The real problem with the A6 openmoko hardware is that hardware quality is spotty. Of the two phones I kept out of a pack of five, one had terrible audio and GPS. The other phone has great hardware. I suspect something systematic in the manufacturing process.
Excellent. Now we can go into the future and kick Higgs Boson's ass for going back in time and sabotaging the LHC.
Probably just get you arrested as a terrorist.
Maybe, but how many colleges and high schools have the money to buy hundreds of Ti-83's a $100 or so each? I live in a upper middle class neighborhood and they don't even provide tissues!
TI could provide calculators to schools for free to be used in examinations. It would be cheap and effective marketing because of the number of students who would go out and buy exactly the same device.
When you take most tests, the test takers take this in to account and force you to reset your calculators, deleting all of your programs that you could have stored your notes in. There is no way to check for a different OS
The college could always provide calculators for the examinations. Then students could buy and use whatever they like.
"I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if you think it will help" HHGTTG
His name is not something I can know
- Wintermute.
But how can I avoid using the illegal number if it is not published? And if the illegal number is published in legislation then that would certainly be very convenient. Saves having to host it elsewhere.
The product was not sold as a computer or development platform. It was sold as an end user product with documented functionality as described in the user's manual. Sure enough, when the hacks disable their machines TI will get the support call. Most slashdotters will probably flame me for this.
I would be very surprised if a calculator hobbyist tried to get support for a modded device. And it is pretty easy for TI to say the warranty is void so STFU in that situation.
How many ubuntu users make support calls to Microsoft?
"Swallows and Amazons" is "just a book". (It's actually a damn good kid's book.)
OT but I had to jump in, I loved that book when I was 10 years old in 1975. Now my son is seven, I started reading it to him, with the idea he would take over the reading as we worked through it. So I got to see Swallows and Amazons through the eyes of a modern adult. They...
Its a wonder to me that my ancestors survived if that was the kind of thing they got up to.