A vaccine is designed to give you a mild form of the disease that you're trying to prevent.
That is incorrect - although exposing a person to the mild form is a method.
The whole idea is to provoke an immune response (and "teach" the immune system to react ) to something similar to the disease.
This could be, as you say, a weakened form of the disease - or it could be another disease (google cowpox smallpox ), or it could be a protein or some other substance that the body identifies with the disease. For example, some of the recent cancer vaccines are products of chemical synthesis (pharmaceuticals) which is not derived from cancer.
If I write software to solve a problem in my company, it belongs to my company, I can't go out and copyright it.
The only reason for a copyright would be to prevent someone else to take it and claim it as their own works, and to prevent anyone from preventing free distribution of this document.
So besides jumping up and down pointing a finger and crying plagiarism, what else is to prevent a scoundrel from doing this?
Whoa - exactly right. My kids went to an elementary school that taught new math concepts (which is fine).
Then they got into a selective middle school, where the teacher tried to have them solve problems, but what happened - the answers were off (kids were calculating with approximations) or they took so long they never got to the result in the time alloted (because 5 x 5 = ? well make a grid with 5 squares on each side...)
She had them memorize the times table. Problem solved.
Sometimes you need to have basic facts memorized, even if you have the internet at your fingertips and "you understand where the answer comes from".
Memorization is as an important skill as well as knowing the concept behind what you are doing.
A good engineer should be creative. but he/she also has to know, for example, that off-the-shelf items come in specific sizes and if you have a job where you have to keep costs down, you design so that you use standard parts.
And hey, did the guy at the hot dog cart give you correct change?
Yes, and if enough employees drive these things to work, I would imagine that perks such as plugging the car in for free will start to disappear as the "novelty" fades.
I definitely prefer Google's approach to using hamsters.
They tend to be cute, less smelly, and lot less biased - really, I rarely come up with this page http://www.webhamster.com/, except when I specifically search for it.
Read the original post again. Your reply holds no water. Since you didn't bother to read the full text of what I wrote and decided to flame me, I'll help you here a bit.
Here are pertinent excerpts of my post:
For example, text messages:
I didn't say call during class.
....
such as students and instructors don't use it or look at it during class,
Use for parents relaying vital information - priceless.
For example, text messages:
"I'll be a little late picking you up today"
or
"Don't worry about me - I wasn't in the tower when it collapsed."
or
"Anthrax scare in the subway - I'm coming to pick you up"
or
"You left your homework home again, I'll meet you after 3rd period to drop it off - last time (right) I'm doing this"
I'm not being facetious here - any New York City parent around 2001-3 knows what I mean, especially if their kid went to a commuter school or a school for which they obtained a variance.
There is the potential for abuse / and there will be inappropriate uses, so the school needs to make appropriate school policy and enforce it, such as students and instructors don't use it or look at it during class, unless it is somehow part of the lesson plan (lord knows what some teachers do)
Maybe pass them on the right, change lanes to be in front of them, slow down (not jam brakes) and see if they will eventually get into the correct lane.
It's kind of like teaching a pig to fly - it doesn't work and all it does is annoy the pig.
In addition, then you're being as bad as the guy in the lane (presumably ) going the limit - trying to enforce the law.
Plus you risk being a road rage statistic - I've seen it happen where the guy goes to teach the slow poke a lesson and all of a sudden the guy "wakes up" and retaliates. Not a good thing.
"Legal" or not, there are valid reasons for people going over the speed limit.
What if the guy is racing to get someone to a hospital.
Most of the time the speeding is for a "selfish" reason, but who is anyone to judge, especially if they are driving carefully ?
The "drive right except to pass" is in many states, and sometimes the police even enforce that as much or more than speeding. Especially in New Jersey, where the signs on the turnpike state: "slow down, get ticket":-)
(Okay, the ticket is for the toll, but I always thought the mentality there reflects the humorous interpretation of the sign!)
It's quite understandable, the situation can be quite vexing, especially if you don't have cash.
Sometimes I'm guilty of forgetting even appreciation of the kindness such as just a sincere thanks (kicks self)
But as I get older, I realize it more and more, and I try to make it up by by being kind and helpful to others, even though it doesn't directly affect the original person. I figure it somehow gets around:-)
The problem is one of liability. We don't realize it but we all pay a lot for that in so many situations, and not even in terms of purchasing insurance. Think about situations in that light and it will open your eyes to motivations.
In the dealer mechanics' case, if he gave you that temporary, stop-gap solution (* assuming he even knew it ), if for some reason it didn't hold up or something else went wrong, you could return and sue him (especially if somehow it caused injury) and he didn't want to take the risk (or wasn't "authorized" to take the risk - think about - my job or saving some guy some $$ hmmm). The tow truck guy knew about the problem and gave you a solution which turned out to work - but then he didn't have any liability (or saw that you were an okay guy).
* - sometimes the mechanics shop will work in a manner similar to when you call a computer help desk. They'll be a bunch of standard solutions to standard problems, by the time it reaches the mechanic who is knowledgeable, well the work order is in and says to change everyt corroded hing not some wire.
Last time I went to one of those chain oil change places, as they were backing the car off the lift, I pointed and asked if to help me find my way home it should be leaving a trail of oil rather than bread crumbs.
Good thing I saw that, they quickly put it back up and redid the oil change. (The gasket from the old oil filter was still attached to the car when thy screwed in the new filter, good reason to leak).
Otherwise I would not have known and this poor student at the time would have had to look for a replacement car or engine.
Afterwards I either did it myself (hey doing it yourself takes a jiffy too! Only once every 3 or 4 months - ba-dumchhh-bum! cymbal crash) or took it to an independent (who I watched).
He prefers dealerships to other mechanic shops for reasons which he has never mentioned.
For a new car, the reasoning might be - internal warrantees/recalls. I've owned a couple of new cars and for the first year or so taken to the dealer. Sometimes I get the car back with some notation on some part replaced (yes, they did replace the part) for some unannounced problem, fixed no cost. There are problems that come up that are not severe which the company is not obligated to announce to the world. Maybe even just a computer module firmware upgrade to make the electronic trans shift better. That happened even with my very old Saturn when I took it to the dealer shop for an unrelated problem. So you sometimes get something back for the large delta you pay in price over the independent mechanics. Or not.:-)
Also, since the shop charges more, perhaps they pay the mechanics more, and if so, the perhaps they are more competent.
In addition, the mechanics are specializing in one brand of car, so they might have more intimate knowledge. Kind of like if you have a lot of experience fixing Dells, you might e very familiar with certain models and their problems.
Hope you handsomely tipped the tow truck driver:-) sounds like a deserving person.
Sometimes the "lets replace every thing that could be causing the problem" is a CYA by the repair shop.
Not only does it bring in more profit, but not doing so would make for angry customers if something else in that system was going to break - the customer would complain about a "patchwork" job, have to keep going back to fix "the same thing" even when it is something else going bad. That's why it's good to find an independent mechanic - some of them you can talk to about the level of work that you would like to have performed, important when you're low on funds.:-)
But other times the diagnostic work is not so straight forward as in your situation and replacing the wiring harness is the best solution - this covers the easy to diagnose cases as well as the harder to diagnose.
Quite often more is replaced than is needed, standard procedure almost every repair shop - when your starter stops working, usually the starter motor is fine, the solenoid piggybacked on the motor that engages the starter gear to the engine has gone bad. When the alternator goes out, the usual culprit is an inexpensive internal @$%!#$@ diode. But sometimes it makes sense to replace more than what is needed - a belt slips or goes bad, might as well replace all the belts. Or, time-wise, it is same price or cheaper to change the whole thing (usually the case with starter or alternator) instead piece by piece and test the result and hope nothing else goes bad.
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A vaccine is designed to give you a mild form of the disease that you're trying to prevent.
That is incorrect - although exposing a person to the mild form is a method.
The whole idea is to provoke an immune response (and "teach" the immune system to react ) to something similar to the disease.
This could be, as you say, a weakened form of the disease - or it could be another disease (google cowpox smallpox ), or it could be a protein or some other substance that the body identifies with the disease. For example, some of the recent cancer vaccines are products of chemical synthesis (pharmaceuticals) which is not derived from cancer.
Hopefully they got some cake as well.
If I write software to solve a problem in my company, it belongs to my company, I can't go out and copyright it.
The only reason for a copyright would be to prevent someone else to take it and claim it as their own works, and to prevent anyone from preventing free distribution of this document.
So besides jumping up and down pointing a finger and crying plagiarism, what else is to prevent a scoundrel from doing this?
It is impossible for Apple to track or do anything with the device.
Try Amazon who makes and markets the Kindle.
and watch those banana peels...
Then they got into a selective middle school, where the teacher tried to have them solve problems, but what happened - the answers were off (kids were calculating with approximations) or they took so long they never got to the result in the time alloted (because 5 x 5 = ? well make a grid with 5 squares on each side...)
She had them memorize the times table. Problem solved.
Sometimes you need to have basic facts memorized, even if you have the internet at your fingertips and "you understand where the answer comes from".
Memorization is as an important skill as well as knowing the concept behind what you are doing.
A good engineer should be creative. but he/she also has to know, for example, that off-the-shelf items come in specific sizes and if you have a job where you have to keep costs down, you design so that you use standard parts.
And hey, did the guy at the hot dog cart give you correct change?
Excuse me, I just sprayed my soda all over my keyboard
'A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system...
Just wonder...did they patent this idea?
And 1 Are you saying that evil is greater than the one???
For small values of 1 .... and large values of 666?
From what I remember, FWIW, AOL was also the first BBS that was Mac-friendly. Compuserve, Prodigy etal mostly supposed DOS.
Pluto has a retarded orbit (no, that's not a scientific term)
Actually it is. Well, kind of:
Orbits Using Retarded Fields
http://authors.aps.org/eprint/files/1997/Jul/aps1997jul09_006/main.html
An economical semi-analytical orbit theory for retarded satellite motion about an oblate planet
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980fmet.sympQ....G
and I would not be too far from correct terminology in saying that Earth's orbit is degenerate in the plane of Mars' orbit, no?
Yes, and if enough employees drive these things to work, I would imagine that perks such as plugging the car in for free will start to disappear as the "novelty" fades.
More like it's getting into Jeopardy...
They tend to be cute, less smelly, and lot less biased - really, I rarely come up with this page http://www.webhamster.com/, except when I specifically search for it.
No, they don't use email, as they have replaced it with a web based collaboration tool. At the university, I used email.
Oh no - I always used the excuse that "my dog ate my router".
Now it'll be "My dog ate my web based collaboration tool" ?
Here are pertinent excerpts of my post:
For example, text messages:
I didn't say call during class.
.... such as students and instructors don't use it or look at it during class,
There you go. Have a good one.
While cell phones may provide good opportunities to teach time management, students aren't learning it
Regardless of cellphones - maybe schools should have a course in time management?
It seems to be a recurring problem....
Use for parents relaying vital information - priceless.
For example, text messages:
"I'll be a little late picking you up today"
or
"Don't worry about me - I wasn't in the tower when it collapsed."
or
"Anthrax scare in the subway - I'm coming to pick you up"
or
"You left your homework home again, I'll meet you after 3rd period to drop it off - last time (right) I'm doing this"
I'm not being facetious here - any New York City parent around 2001-3 knows what I mean, especially if their kid went to a commuter school or a school for which they obtained a variance.
There is the potential for abuse / and there will be inappropriate uses, so the school needs to make appropriate school policy and enforce it, such as students and instructors don't use it or look at it during class, unless it is somehow part of the lesson plan (lord knows what some teachers do)
I'm sure eventually the city will notice the discrepancy and figure out what's going on and investigate.
Guess where will the money come to pay to fix the meters (even if it's just changing a couple lines of code it will not be inexpensive).
Maybe pass them on the right, change lanes to be in front of them, slow down (not jam brakes) and see if they will eventually get into the correct lane.
It's kind of like teaching a pig to fly - it doesn't work and all it does is annoy the pig.
In addition, then you're being as bad as the guy in the lane (presumably ) going the limit - trying to enforce the law.
Plus you risk being a road rage statistic - I've seen it happen where the guy goes to teach the slow poke a lesson and all of a sudden the guy "wakes up" and retaliates. Not a good thing.
Just pass the jerk and go on with your life.
"Legal" or not, there are valid reasons for people going over the speed limit.
What if the guy is racing to get someone to a hospital.
Most of the time the speeding is for a "selfish" reason, but who is anyone to judge, especially if they are driving carefully ?
The "drive right except to pass" is in many states, and sometimes the police even enforce that as much or more than speeding. Especially in New Jersey, where the signs on the turnpike state: "slow down, get ticket" :-)
(Okay, the ticket is for the toll, but I always thought the mentality there reflects the humorous interpretation of the sign!)
Sometimes I'm guilty of forgetting even appreciation of the kindness such as just a sincere thanks (kicks self)
But as I get older, I realize it more and more, and I try to make it up by by being kind and helpful to others, even though it doesn't directly affect the original person. I figure it somehow gets around :-)
Just rambling here :-)
In the dealer mechanics' case, if he gave you that temporary, stop-gap solution (* assuming he even knew it ), if for some reason it didn't hold up or something else went wrong, you could return and sue him (especially if somehow it caused injury) and he didn't want to take the risk (or wasn't "authorized" to take the risk - think about - my job or saving some guy some $$ hmmm). The tow truck guy knew about the problem and gave you a solution which turned out to work - but then he didn't have any liability (or saw that you were an okay guy).
* - sometimes the mechanics shop will work in a manner similar to when you call a computer help desk. They'll be a bunch of standard solutions to standard problems, by the time it reaches the mechanic who is knowledgeable, well the work order is in and says to change everyt corroded hing not some wire.
Good thing I saw that, they quickly put it back up and redid the oil change. (The gasket from the old oil filter was still attached to the car when thy screwed in the new filter, good reason to leak).
Otherwise I would not have known and this poor student at the time would have had to look for a replacement car or engine.
Afterwards I either did it myself (hey doing it yourself takes a jiffy too! Only once every 3 or 4 months - ba-dumchhh-bum! cymbal crash) or took it to an independent (who I watched).
He prefers dealerships to other mechanic shops for reasons which he has never mentioned.
For a new car, the reasoning might be - internal warrantees/recalls. I've owned a couple of new cars and for the first year or so taken to the dealer. Sometimes I get the car back with some notation on some part replaced (yes, they did replace the part) for some unannounced problem, fixed no cost. There are problems that come up that are not severe which the company is not obligated to announce to the world. Maybe even just a computer module firmware upgrade to make the electronic trans shift better. That happened even with my very old Saturn when I took it to the dealer shop for an unrelated problem. So you sometimes get something back for the large delta you pay in price over the independent mechanics. Or not. :-)
Also, since the shop charges more, perhaps they pay the mechanics more, and if so, the perhaps they are more competent .
In addition, the mechanics are specializing in one brand of car, so they might have more intimate knowledge. Kind of like if you have a lot of experience fixing Dells, you might e very familiar with certain models and their problems.
or not - I'm just giving possible reasoning.
Sometimes the "lets replace every thing that could be causing the problem" is a CYA by the repair shop.
Not only does it bring in more profit, but not doing so would make for angry customers if something else in that system was going to break - the customer would complain about a "patchwork" job, have to keep going back to fix "the same thing" even when it is something else going bad. That's why it's good to find an independent mechanic - some of them you can talk to about the level of work that you would like to have performed, important when you're low on funds. :-)
But other times the diagnostic work is not so straight forward as in your situation and replacing the wiring harness is the best solution - this covers the easy to diagnose cases as well as the harder to diagnose.
Quite often more is replaced than is needed, standard procedure almost every repair shop - when your starter stops working, usually the starter motor is fine, the solenoid piggybacked on the motor that engages the starter gear to the engine has gone bad. When the alternator goes out, the usual culprit is an inexpensive internal @$%!#$@ diode. But sometimes it makes sense to replace more than what is needed - a belt slips or goes bad, might as well replace all the belts. Or, time-wise, it is same price or cheaper to change the whole thing (usually the case with starter or alternator) instead piece by piece and test the result and hope nothing else goes bad.