Just read his post in an irc client, it'll automatically fix the underline! Actually, you just admitted that you are reading slashdot not by piping the articles through your irc client, but probably using some graphical interface, which is not very braggable. Losing nerd credits there, mate!
Your comment is really insightful, but it also reminds me how some doctors treat their patients as an engineer would treat a car. It must be really an unbelievable sad thing to happen. Then again, doctors can't cry over every patient, it would probably kill their spirit.
Ontopic: I quickly read the article, it seems that they especially focus on what happens if cells at certain positions in the tumor are being attacked by treatment. Depending on the type, the more actively replicating cells may be localized at the outside or something (didn't really get that). As they can go over many different schemes in a short time, their research might help optimizing treatment (if lower doses of drugs can be used that will always be better). So it might look straightforward, but this is actually a nice bit of research, done with simple means, that makes it rather elegant I think.
I have a better analogy: google delisted a dutch newspaper website for weeks due to the way they had their css implemented. Google did not inform the newspaper about this.
Google's method of listing and delisting is fundamentally flawed, as it is based on individual actions from google. This already in the case of BMW and now this newspaper leads to many false unlistings, while many search word harvesting websites are still littering the google search index. Instead of these idiotic single-instance actions they should improve their search algorithm. Furthermore, any 'rules' that google has to exclude search index harvesters from their list will be avoided eventually. Well, google will find out if they're going the right track or not, as competing indexes might just find a way that is more satisfying to the web searcher and therefore for the companies that will pay for the advertisements. As the quality of the current competition is still pretty behind, this will take a long time, though.
Friendly fire??? Normally you shoot at a tank from a safe distance, which will in any case be further away than the current maximum distance to read an RFID tag. So if you don't get a signal back, you'll shoot.... oops! Doesn't sound like a smart idea. Furthermore, what if the enemy copies your tag?
Face it dude, the iPod did introduce the idea 'mp3 player' all over the world. Ask your local kid on the street. Before the iPod, an mp3 player was a gadget, nerd-related stuff. Your sister wouldn't want to be seen dead with the portable brick that was the Nomad mp3 player, when the iPod was introduced (not a very small thing if you look at the first version now), she could happily walk around with an mp3 player while even making a fashion statement.
Thus, the article did take over the world, the title is correct. The title of this article I'm not really sure, as the amazon list posted somewhere above shows that it's #2 only after a Sandisk model, a Creative, AND all the iPods. Which is not really #2, is it?
Why is this a troll? It's true! The black zune is now at 56, by the way. The text in the summary that the sales numbers are skewed due to the fact that there are more colors are nonsense, as the same Sandisk player with different standard memory is also mentioned several times in the list, ditto for all the ipod varieties.
Big surprise the brown color is not the best seller!!! Such an advancement compared to those boring iPod colors, everyone was waiting for it! (or...?)
I'm not on the supply side, but as far as I've read the other comments, allofmp3 had only legally to pay a certain percentage to the russian version of the riaa. It's a bit like the money collected on empty cassettes, there are organizations "representing the artists" collection the money, but what part of it actually goes to the artists (and how much effort the artists will have to do to get it from the organization representing them) is a big mystery.
Thirty years ago, the US ranked third in the world in the number of science and engineering degrees awarded in the 18-to-24 age group. Now the country ranks 17th, according to the National Science Board.
In the end this is all due to the focus on laws, creating a place were patents are more important than innovation, and science education is a liability that can lead to the school being sued by worried parents. Oh well, the 16 countries ranking above won't mind.
Indeed, but it's not the Russians they care about there anyway. It's about people from Western countries realizing that the prizes from allofmp3 are actually much more reasonable than what they are paying at their own stores, allmost all of which does not end up with the artist, by the way.
Indeed, this is a disgrace! So they forced Russia to shut off basically a single website, and otherwise just don't let them enter WTO. What if they had refused, would the US have invaded them? Also notice that this was actually mainly the wish of the US, the rest of the WTO just following like sheep there I suppose.
I wonder how long this ass-licking of the US will go on. Decreasing value of the dollar, increase of the value of foreign currencies, and by now everyone except the UK is pissed of with how the US brings immense problems to the world, without having the slightest idea how to solve them. Such a democracy we have in Iraq now that the troops will be moved out there, or not? Maybe you can vote for a government, but they'll be blown to pieces by the end of the month.
In any case, I was hoping that of all government leaders at least Putin would have enough backbone to withstand these ridiculous demands of the RIAA^C^C^C^C US government. But maybe on the other hand they just don't give a damn out there in Russia, their citizens will find a way to get their cheap stuff anyway, and the foreign trade of allofmp3 probably wouldn't have gotten into the Russian state anyway, where there's a will, there's always a way to avoid tax. Then so be it, if the governments of the world are all too weak to protect their citizens from the claws of the RIAA (remember the police raiding of pirate bay in Sweden?), then maybe these governments and unfortunately their citizens deserve to be treated like shit.
It was pretty sleek for its time, 32 MB memory for mp3 files that you could upload via a LPT printer cable:) It fitted me 16 led zeppelin songs on low compression and saved my mornings and a very boring holiday. Battery life was about a day when using the mp3 function. Nice thing: it still works! The headphones broke, though, so I cannot use the mp3 function anymore, unless I get the specific replacement cable which will cost the same as the phone probably:)
Actually, that is what the ban makes upsetting. It would be good to ban phones in class because the constant beeping will distort the order, I can completely understand that. But it should not be banned for the reason that stupid behaviour of the teacher could get public. Just for comparison, in Germany there is a website "rate-my-professor", and several college professors have asked via court that their entry is removed there. This is of course rather questionable, if they are underperforming, they should think about it and improve, instead of get a ban on their underperforming becoming public. However, they are so used to their unquestionable authority that they cannot see this. I for one, welcome our new put-everything-on-youtube overlords!
You can easily find the financial report concerning sony's expected revenue after ps3 and battery recall:
The battery recall costs them about 440 milion dollar. They expect a loss of about 260 milion dollar due to the startup costs for the ps3. Also they sold less PSPs, 9 milion instead of the 12 milion they expected.
They still expect a 440 milion dollar operating profit over the year, though, even though last year it was almost 2 billion dollar. I guess if they take this hit now, they'll still have a chance to recover pretty well in the following years, if the ps3 is a good seller of course.
Well, there are also better treatmens nowadays, the laser-based treatments for example. So there is a lot of progress! But the value of these new methods can be really appreciated only when tested in realistic settings, in animals or humans (sometimes even that last step can be decisive, see for example the recent tragic human trial of antibodies. Therefore I propose to market new methods as new methods, and new breakthroughs for those cases that really have proven to be a breakthrough.
Thank you for finishing my point:) I have to admit I didn't actually read the article to check for peer reviewed research, etc. But that's just because I'm just as pissed of with these 'scientific breakthroughs' as the average slashdot reader is with 'the next iPod killer'. And those iPod killers will actually be produced and sold, whereas these new anti-cancer methods might be deemed impractical before ever tried out in-vivo.
You have just published the millionst breaktrough against cancer/HIV/terrorism-related-danger! Click on the link below and win lots of prizes!
Sorry, people, I'm all in favor of scientific advances, and I know that this is the way to get funding, but who still takes these titles seriously? Cancer would've been cured 40 years ago if we would've believed the newspaper messages that promised us these breakthroughs. Point is, it doesn't work this way, everyone knows it, so stop pretending! Also, just think about all the people that have cancer or people close to them that have cancer. Why give them false hope every time?
Ok, I've read on, and it looks like the official stance of the ucla is that they are ok with these actions. They go all on about safety measures for students by checking the passes after 11 pm, but do not mention a word about having their students physically abused even if these students were not displaying any physical violence. This doesn't look good, and I'm pretty happy that I'm not an UCLA graduate at this moment, I would be so much ashamed! To be fair, the european universities that I visited that not have any police department of their own, let alone armed security at their premises! This was because they didn't need it! Never at one point I, nor anyone of my fellow students, felt unsafe with this situation, even when we were present there late at night or during weekends. What are you people, sick?
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Just read his post in an irc client, it'll automatically fix the underline! Actually, you just admitted that you are reading slashdot not by piping the articles through your irc client, but probably using some graphical interface, which is not very braggable. Losing nerd credits there, mate!
Your comment is really insightful, but it also reminds me how some doctors treat their patients as an engineer would treat a car. It must be really an unbelievable sad thing to happen. Then again, doctors can't cry over every patient, it would probably kill their spirit.
Ontopic: I quickly read the article, it seems that they especially focus on what happens if cells at certain positions in the tumor are being attacked by treatment. Depending on the type, the more actively replicating cells may be localized at the outside or something (didn't really get that). As they can go over many different schemes in a short time, their research might help optimizing treatment (if lower doses of drugs can be used that will always be better). So it might look straightforward, but this is actually a nice bit of research, done with simple means, that makes it rather elegant I think.
Google's method of listing and delisting is fundamentally flawed, as it is based on individual actions from google. This already in the case of BMW and now this newspaper leads to many false unlistings, while many search word harvesting websites are still littering the google search index. Instead of these idiotic single-instance actions they should improve their search algorithm. Furthermore, any 'rules' that google has to exclude search index harvesters from their list will be avoided eventually. Well, google will find out if they're going the right track or not, as competing indexes might just find a way that is more satisfying to the web searcher and therefore for the companies that will pay for the advertisements. As the quality of the current competition is still pretty behind, this will take a long time, though.
Friendly fire??? Normally you shoot at a tank from a safe distance, which will in any case be further away than the current maximum distance to read an RFID tag. So if you don't get a signal back, you'll shoot.... oops! Doesn't sound like a smart idea. Furthermore, what if the enemy copies your tag?
Thus, the article did take over the world, the title is correct. The title of this article I'm not really sure, as the amazon list posted somewhere above shows that it's #2 only after a Sandisk model, a Creative, AND all the iPods. Which is not really #2, is it?
Big surprise the brown color is not the best seller!!! Such an advancement compared to those boring iPod colors, everyone was waiting for it! (or...?)
I'm not on the supply side, but as far as I've read the other comments, allofmp3 had only legally to pay a certain percentage to the russian version of the riaa. It's a bit like the money collected on empty cassettes, there are organizations "representing the artists" collection the money, but what part of it actually goes to the artists (and how much effort the artists will have to do to get it from the organization representing them) is a big mystery.
Similar techniques are used in Holland to decrease criminality, and by the US to increase the amount of democratic countries in the world.
Yes it's that simple! Just remember, as long as you don't have foreign friends, you'll be ok! Nothing to worry about here, you can all sleep safely.
In the end this is all due to the focus on laws, creating a place were patents are more important than innovation, and science education is a liability that can lead to the school being sued by worried parents. Oh well, the 16 countries ranking above won't mind.
Indeed, but it's not the Russians they care about there anyway. It's about people from Western countries realizing that the prizes from allofmp3 are actually much more reasonable than what they are paying at their own stores, allmost all of which does not end up with the artist, by the way.
Ah yes, sorry, I meant lap-dog Blair :) Didn't want to insult you!
I wonder how long this ass-licking of the US will go on. Decreasing value of the dollar, increase of the value of foreign currencies, and by now everyone except the UK is pissed of with how the US brings immense problems to the world, without having the slightest idea how to solve them. Such a democracy we have in Iraq now that the troops will be moved out there, or not? Maybe you can vote for a government, but they'll be blown to pieces by the end of the month.
In any case, I was hoping that of all government leaders at least Putin would have enough backbone to withstand these ridiculous demands of the RIAA^C^C^C^C US government. But maybe on the other hand they just don't give a damn out there in Russia, their citizens will find a way to get their cheap stuff anyway, and the foreign trade of allofmp3 probably wouldn't have gotten into the Russian state anyway, where there's a will, there's always a way to avoid tax. Then so be it, if the governments of the world are all too weak to protect their citizens from the claws of the RIAA (remember the police raiding of pirate bay in Sweden?), then maybe these governments and unfortunately their citizens deserve to be treated like shit.
Eventually, that is...
It said 'stiffness' huhuhuh
It was pretty sleek for its time, 32 MB memory for mp3 files that you could upload via a LPT printer cable :) It fitted me 16 led zeppelin songs on low compression and saved my mornings and a very boring holiday. Battery life was about a day when using the mp3 function. Nice thing: it still works! The headphones broke, though, so I cannot use the mp3 function anymore, unless I get the specific replacement cable which will cost the same as the phone probably :)
Actually, that is what the ban makes upsetting. It would be good to ban phones in class because the constant beeping will distort the order, I can completely understand that. But it should not be banned for the reason that stupid behaviour of the teacher could get public. Just for comparison, in Germany there is a website "rate-my-professor", and several college professors have asked via court that their entry is removed there. This is of course rather questionable, if they are underperforming, they should think about it and improve, instead of get a ban on their underperforming becoming public. However, they are so used to their unquestionable authority that they cannot see this. I for one, welcome our new put-everything-on-youtube overlords!
The battery recall costs them about 440 milion dollar. They expect a loss of about 260 milion dollar due to the startup costs for the ps3. Also they sold less PSPs, 9 milion instead of the 12 milion they expected.
They still expect a 440 milion dollar operating profit over the year, though, even though last year it was almost 2 billion dollar. I guess if they take this hit now, they'll still have a chance to recover pretty well in the following years, if the ps3 is a good seller of course.
Well, there are also better treatmens nowadays, the laser-based treatments for example. So there is a lot of progress! But the value of these new methods can be really appreciated only when tested in realistic settings, in animals or humans (sometimes even that last step can be decisive, see for example the recent tragic human trial of antibodies. Therefore I propose to market new methods as new methods, and new breakthroughs for those cases that really have proven to be a breakthrough.
(this is what distinguishes them from tweakers, of course)
Thank you for finishing my point :) I have to admit I didn't actually read the article to check for peer reviewed research, etc. But that's just because I'm just as pissed of with these 'scientific breakthroughs' as the average slashdot reader is with 'the next iPod killer'. And those iPod killers will actually be produced and sold, whereas these new anti-cancer methods might be deemed impractical before ever tried out in-vivo.
Sorry, people, I'm all in favor of scientific advances, and I know that this is the way to get funding, but who still takes these titles seriously? Cancer would've been cured 40 years ago if we would've believed the newspaper messages that promised us these breakthroughs. Point is, it doesn't work this way, everyone knows it, so stop pretending! Also, just think about all the people that have cancer or people close to them that have cancer. Why give them false hope every time?
The plasma should be easy, although I didn't try yet. You need a microwave oven, a flame and a cup, as far as I know.
I was already thinking, ESR, is that you?.
Ok, I've read on, and it looks like the official stance of the ucla is that they are ok with these actions. They go all on about safety measures for students by checking the passes after 11 pm, but do not mention a word about having their students physically abused even if these students were not displaying any physical violence. This doesn't look good, and I'm pretty happy that I'm not an UCLA graduate at this moment, I would be so much ashamed! To be fair, the european universities that I visited that not have any police department of their own, let alone armed security at their premises! This was because they didn't need it! Never at one point I, nor anyone of my fellow students, felt unsafe with this situation, even when we were present there late at night or during weekends. What are you people, sick?