Ever wondered why so much medical information is still in paper form or in small, local proprietary databases? After all, we have had the technology to automate it and improve efficiency for about two decades now. I know a big supplier of medical software and they have learned to concentrate only on certain administrative aspects or things like lab tests - never on true integration of actual medical data. These project tends to mysteriously fail. Well, there's nothing mysterious about big software projects failing, right? But why is it that it's always the same kind of projects that fail?
It turns out that the medical staff doesn't really want them. Sometimes they even actively sabotage them. They are already exposed to far too many liability lawsuits. Having all that data online will make it a much easier target for court orders or even automated mining.
Here are Suominen's patents on Google Patents. The relevant WU patent seems to be 6,631,256: Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method.
It's a design for an image-rejecting mixer with low intermediate frequency. It's not specific to bluetooth but the type of RF tricks used in this patent are important for building a receiver on a silicon chip while minimizing the number of external analog components.
> But it prioritizes users with high upload/download speeds. It's better the way it's now - everybody gets their files. Maybe later but it's equal. At least people seed for longer.
On the other hand, if a BitTyrant client finishes downloading more quickly it may actually be a more effective seed for the entire file - unless the user intentionally stops uploading as soon as download is complete.
In short, it's virtually impossible to tell what effect this will have on the network without massive empirical evidence. Simulations must make too many assumptions which may or may not be correct.
Wikipedia should have ads, but only if all users can edit them, too!
Ok, now seriously. Imagine letting users have control not over content but over which ads appear, how frequently and whether an ad is relevant to a specific article or not. And if there is a concentrated attack by users against a specific company - so be it. This company's ads will not be shown and they won't pay for it either. They get to spend their advertising dollars elsewhere.
Of course, I'm not talking about big banners or or flash ads - just small text-based ads, not unlike google adwords.
I run gmail and other google services requiring login from a separate browser. Set the theme so this browser is visually distinct from your main browser. On Linux use a wrapper script to start with a different user. On Windows you can use K-Meleon (unfortunately, PortableFirefox cannot run in parallel with regular firefox).
Aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil), etc are anti-inflammatory drugs. They block the body's response to provocations which is often what causes most of the pain. They all have the unfortunate side effect of irritating the stomach lining and increasing the chances of getting an ulcer. Nobody really knows how many (mostly elderly) people die from internal bleeding caused by these drugs every year.
Opiates affect the way the brain perceives pain. They work great and are relatively safe - but addictive. Some people find them pleasurable but most people don't really enjoy the experience. Both groups can become addicted if they use them often enough. The first group is simply more likely to do so for non-medical reasons.
Nobody is really sure how acetaminophen (Tylenol) actually works. It appears to be a variant on anti-inflammatory drugs with fewer side effects but it may also have some direct effect on the brain. It's safe and effective for minor pains but its usefulness is limited for severe pain because larger doses are toxic to the liver. This one also kills many people every year who don't take the warnings seriously. Many of the victims are children.
A new drug that affects the pain receptors directly could be a welcome addition to this arsenal.
The regularity of the Japanese tea ritual has been used to create a monitor for the elderly: a water boiler for making tea which sends a distress call if its user does not use at the expected time.
If what Robert Bussard says is right, that's the investment required for a conclusive proof of concept of his electrostatic confinement fusion reactor. After that there won't be any shortage of commercial investment.
Imagine a reactor converting boron-11 and hydrogen directly to electricity with no radioactive waste. Too good to be true, you say? What if there's a 10% chance be is right? 1%? Even in this case the investment would have an average social ROI far exceeding most of what the Gates foundation is doing.
Bad managers come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them have good technical knowledge, some don't. But a special place of contempt is reserved for the truly *clueless* manager. Those are usually of the non-technical sort.
A company called Altair is making a lithium battery which does not use graphite. The graphite component of Li-Ion batteries is the catalyst for thermal runaway, leading to fire and explosion of the battery.
Their energy density is currently equivalent to NiCd or NiMH, still a bit lower than standard lithium batteries. They are mostly targeted at the hybrid and electric vehicle industry. I think they could be interesting for laptops, too. These batteries can be safely charged or discharged at much higher rates. How would you like a laptop that can be fully charged in a couple of minutes?
Bussard mentions arcing as one of their problems and shows data for breakdown voltages of hydrogen, co2, etc.
I think the electric utilities have settled on using sulfur hexafluoride as the best solution for this issue in high voltage transformers. In spite of the frightening name this gas is actually non-toxic (and if you breathe it you get the opposite of the helium effect because of its high density:-)
Does anyone here have the slightest doubt that there will be teachers wrongly accused of "cooking the books"? Very weird-looking statistical anomalies will happen, given a large enough sample size.
This phone is targeted as developing countries. Here are the features I'd like to see on a similar model for western countries:
1. Same black and white reflective screen technology - but with a real dot matrix display for phonebook, call log, etc. 2. Thumbwheel (mechanical or a touch-sensitive pad like iPod) for speed dialing. 3. Packet mode data + bluetooth to connect a PDA, portable computer, etc to wireless internet.
Otherwise, it should be quite basic: minimal menus and no camera, colors, ringtones, wallpapers or any of the other junk they put in phones these days. Add long battery life, good reception, good voice quality and the same sleek-but-not-fancy design and you have a winner.
Not to mention that every jeweler I try to ask keeps insisting that I mean "moissonite" which is silicon carbide, not diamond. They're all DeBeers' bitches, I tell you!
Moissanite is slightly less hard than diamond but has a significantly higher index of refraction and therefore has a much more brilliant "fire". It actually makes a poor diamond simulant compared to e.g. cubic zirconia - it's easy to tell that Moissanite isn't a diamond because it's better!
Perform the experiment with two soil samples, one of them is first irradiated with a dose similar to that used for sterilization of food or medical equipment here on Earth.
The idea of making it invisible by making the center of gravity a "hole" is not new either. I believe many people came up with this idea independently. I though about it some 20 years ago.
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> ... Setup catch all accounts ...
Also known as spam-me-senseless-with-dictionary-attacks accounts. Gmail spam filtering is good, but not perfect.
Ever wondered why so much medical information is still in paper form or in small, local proprietary databases? After all, we have had the technology to automate it and improve efficiency for about two decades now. I know a big supplier of medical software and they have learned to concentrate only on certain administrative aspects or things like lab tests - never on true integration of actual medical data. These project tends to mysteriously fail. Well, there's nothing mysterious about big software projects failing, right? But why is it that it's always the same kind of projects that fail?
It turns out that the medical staff doesn't really want them. Sometimes they even actively sabotage them. They are already exposed to far too many liability lawsuits. Having all that data online will make it a much easier target for court orders or even automated mining.
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Correction, posted 2 days later
This behavior is still selfish.
It's just collectively selfish instead of individually selfish (at least statistically).
Here are Suominen's patents on Google Patents. The relevant WU patent seems to be 6,631,256: Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method.
It's a design for an image-rejecting mixer with low intermediate frequency. It's not specific to bluetooth but the type of RF tricks used in this patent are important for building a receiver on a silicon chip while minimizing the number of external analog components.
> But it prioritizes users with high upload/download speeds. It's better the way it's now - everybody gets their files. Maybe later but it's equal. At least people seed for longer.
On the other hand, if a BitTyrant client finishes downloading more quickly it may actually be a more effective seed for the entire file - unless the user intentionally stops uploading as soon as download is complete.
In short, it's virtually impossible to tell what effect this will have on the network without massive empirical evidence. Simulations must make too many assumptions which may or may not be correct.
Wikipedia should have ads, but only if all users can edit them, too!
Ok, now seriously. Imagine letting users have control not over content but over which ads appear, how frequently and whether an ad is relevant to a specific article or not. And if there is a concentrated attack by users against a specific company - so be it. This company's ads will not be shown and they won't pay for it either. They get to spend their advertising dollars elsewhere.
Of course, I'm not talking about big banners or or flash ads - just small text-based ads, not unlike google adwords.
I run gmail and other google services requiring login from a separate browser. Set the theme so this browser is visually distinct from your main browser. On Linux use a wrapper script to start with a different user. On Windows you can use K-Meleon (unfortunately, PortableFirefox cannot run in parallel with regular firefox).
Not perfect, but it works for me.
Aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil), etc are anti-inflammatory drugs. They block the body's response to provocations which is often what causes most of the pain. They all have the unfortunate side effect of irritating the stomach lining and increasing the chances of getting an ulcer. Nobody really knows how many (mostly elderly) people die from internal bleeding caused by these drugs every year.
Opiates affect the way the brain perceives pain. They work great and are relatively safe - but addictive. Some people find them pleasurable but most people don't really enjoy the experience. Both groups can become addicted if they use them often enough. The first group is simply more likely to do so for non-medical reasons.
Nobody is really sure how acetaminophen (Tylenol) actually works. It appears to be a variant on anti-inflammatory drugs with fewer side effects but it may also have some direct effect on the brain. It's safe and effective for minor pains but its usefulness is limited for severe pain because larger doses are toxic to the liver. This one also kills many people every year who don't take the warnings seriously. Many of the victims are children.
A new drug that affects the pain receptors directly could be a welcome addition to this arsenal.
The regularity of the Japanese tea ritual has been used to create a monitor for the elderly: a water boiler for making tea which sends a distress call if its user does not use at the expected time.
...may make life harder for some companies, but they will benefit others
Isn't that true for just about any government regulation?
That's $200M one time sum, not even $200M a year.
If what Robert Bussard says is right, that's the investment required for a conclusive proof of concept of his electrostatic confinement fusion reactor. After that there won't be any shortage of commercial investment.
Imagine a reactor converting boron-11 and hydrogen directly to electricity with no radioactive waste. Too good to be true, you say? What if there's a 10% chance be is right? 1%? Even in this case the investment would have an average social ROI far exceeding most of what the Gates foundation is doing.
Bad managers come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them have good technical knowledge, some don't. But a special place of contempt is reserved for the truly *clueless* manager. Those are usually of the non-technical sort.
A company called Altair is making a lithium battery which does not use graphite. The graphite component of Li-Ion batteries is the catalyst for thermal runaway, leading to fire and explosion of the battery.
Their energy density is currently equivalent to NiCd or NiMH, still a bit lower than standard lithium batteries. They are mostly targeted at the hybrid and electric vehicle industry. I think they could be interesting for laptops, too. These batteries can be safely charged or discharged at much higher rates. How would you like a laptop that can be fully charged in a couple of minutes?
Bussard mentions arcing as one of their problems and shows data for breakdown voltages of hydrogen, co2, etc.
:-)
I think the electric utilities have settled on using sulfur hexafluoride as the best solution for this issue in high voltage transformers. In spite of the frightening name this gas is actually non-toxic (and if you breathe it you get the opposite of the helium effect because of its high density
Does anyone here have the slightest doubt that there will be teachers wrongly accused of "cooking the books"? Very weird-looking statistical anomalies will happen, given a large enough sample size.
I don't envy these teachers.
This phone is targeted as developing countries. Here are the features I'd like to see on a similar model for western countries:
1. Same black and white reflective screen technology - but with a real dot matrix display for phonebook, call log, etc.
2. Thumbwheel (mechanical or a touch-sensitive pad like iPod) for speed dialing.
3. Packet mode data + bluetooth to connect a PDA, portable computer, etc to wireless internet.
Otherwise, it should be quite basic: minimal menus and no camera, colors, ringtones, wallpapers or any of the other junk they put in phones these days. Add long battery life, good reception, good voice quality and the same sleek-but-not-fancy design and you have a winner.
Not to mention that every jeweler I try to ask keeps insisting that I mean "moissonite" which is silicon carbide, not diamond. They're all DeBeers' bitches, I tell you!
Moissanite is slightly less hard than diamond but has a significantly higher index of refraction and therefore has a much more brilliant "fire". It actually makes a poor diamond simulant compared to e.g. cubic zirconia - it's easy to tell that Moissanite isn't a diamond because it's better!
> Then you have to keep them phased together.
Another good reason to switch to DC as proposed by Google, for example.
Left as an excercise for the reader :-)
Perform the experiment with two soil samples, one of them is first irradiated with a dose similar to that used for sterilization of food or medical equipment here on Earth.
"python sucks": Results 1 - 10 of about 20. (0.02 seconds)
"perl sucks": Results 1 - 10 of about 32,900. (0.01 seconds)
The 1954 McCutchen machine is an all-rotating helicopter.
The idea of making it invisible by making the center of gravity a "hole" is not new either. I believe many people came up with this idea independently. I though about it some 20 years ago.
Medical Intelligence VPS
I'm not sure it can be programmed to your requirements, but at least it has all the required components in one package: GPS, GSM, ECG
[...] romex connectors, resistors, microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors -- the stuff of illegal radio stations
No, it's just the transmitter which is illegal (but the feds will take all of it, of course).