Funds are not intended for basic research leading to process development, although if an applicant deems such R&D to be necessary to achieve performance targets, the inclusion of such work may be included in the overall project plan and schedule, up to 20% of the total proposed budget under...
so, no, not basic research. The high-risk here refers of course to the risk of commercial success:
OMP's emphasis on advanced biofuels is intended to encourage industry to invest in traditionally high-risk biofuels.
From a science (but not commercial) point of view basic research grants tend to be very risk adverse.
... process the quarter million diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks on Sunday,...
Acutally, as of 29th November Wikileaks have published a grand total of 246 cables, which by my reckoning is not quite the same as a quarter of a million.
A very crude guess of about 10mp, assuming that the extra light gathering is solely based on larger pixels and that they are assuming they can get lenses that cover this side with the same maximum aperture as for a 35 sensor. Sensor is 50 times larger and pixels 100 time larger.
... During 2009, the SVR- directed CYNTHIA MURPHY, the
defendant , to " strengthen...ties w. classmates
on daily basis in cl. professors who can help in
job search and who will have (or already have)
access to secret info , " and to "[r]eport to
C[enter] on their detailed personal data and
character traits w. preliminary conclusions about
their potential (vulnerability) to be recruited by
Service."In response, and on many occasions, the
New Jersey Conspirators conveyed names of
University affiliates to Center - which
then conducted checks in "C'sdatabase" to determine if
a particular potential "target" was or was not
"clean. "Thus, for example, when an SVR database
check revealed that a particular contact of
CYNTHIA MURPHY's had been suspected by a then-
Sovietbloc intelligence service of belonging to a
"foreign spy net[work],"MURPHY was told" to avoid
deepening contact with them for sec[urity]
reasons."...
I am guessing that the untold story behind the here is that the FBI tried to insert itself in some manner into the ring (for example, posing as contacts), but someone in the ring became suspicious. In which case the FBI may have screwed up - a much much better outcome would be to have the ring continue under surveillance. So why did the FBI attempt this? Apart from the possibility of providing misleading information to the SVR, another useful possibility is to find out the SVR thought about certain individuals (i.e. are they 'clean').
Through sentinel site tracking, among other methods The government isn't stopping you getting tested, it's just providing a guideline. From a clinical point of view unless you a really sick or at risk of complications, there is really not much to be gained by knowing whether you have H1N1 or some other influenza strain, or even if it is influenza rather than say parainfluenza, rhinovirus, adenovirus, coronavirus, human respiratory syncytial virus etc etc.
Ah - my mistake, I will revise my opinion - I had thought merely that you had got some bad numbers - but I now see that you were really stupid enough to compare the number of deaths at the start of an epidemic with the number of deaths at the end of a different epidemic. Looks like I mistook you for being misinformed, rather than for being a moron. Thanks for fixing that for me.
Increase propaganda through FUD is pretty bad as well. In relation to the USA.
Regular Flu: Since January, more than 13,000 have died of complications from seasonal flu (April 2009)
Swine Flu: Since January, 10 reported deaths (May 2009)
In 1976, when 40 million people received the H1N1 vaccination over a period of a few months, the incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome was about one out of 150,000.
There has been a lot of discussion recently among public health officials about the 1976 outbreak and Guillain-Barre. It is estimated that modern flu vaccines produce Guillain-Barre at about 1 per 1,000,000 vaccinations http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/gbs.htm
The H1N1 vaccines under development are essentially the same as the regular flu vaccine and can be reliably expected to produce Guillian-Barre at the same rate.
Fair enough. I tend to be split on the issue. The lazy average person in me feels pissed off that I have to learn something, while the geek in me enjoys it.
The average consumer shouldn't be operating a computer.
There is a problem with the logic of not allowing individuals to do things they are naturally inept at; if you follow it to it's conclusion you get that the average slashdotter should not be allowed to breed....
Come to think of it, maybe there is nothing wrong with the logic after all.
Copyright or no I would still buy books there. Sure, I may be able to download them just as easily, but what if I want to read them on the subway/bus? During lunch? Hell, even in bed?
I would agree that works written word as currently seen in books will take longer to suffer than other digital works, but what will happen when really usable ebook readers become available and cheap? At that stage the act of paying for books when they are legally free is an act of charity. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with charity, but I am not sure that this is a model that could sustain many authors for long.
That is certainly true, and I am being more than a bit unfair picking on KDE while it is at an early stage. However I see this kind of thing a lot with open source projects at much later stages. From the point of view of a potential user with limited time and competing interests, the competing interests will win out unless the installation is trivially easy. Sometimes I find it difficult even to find where to go to download some particular open source software. I am willing to put in some work into getting something if I know in advance there is really going to be a substantial benefit to the package, but not to just sample something. All of this is not a problem for those involved in open source software projects, but it is a big barrier when it comes to making the use of open source software more widespread.
Slashdot Mirror
They are not. They are however qualified to judge the most and least realistic Sci-Fi movies of all time.
Definitely, an ideal place to do a Ph.D. at.
If you were right this would be a problem, however you are probably wrong, see for example www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.html
so, no, not basic research. The high-risk here refers of course to the risk of commercial success:
From a science (but not commercial) point of view basic research grants tend to be very risk adverse.
Biological researchers, sailors, adventurers, cavemen...
Don't think they work well in caves...
Acutally, as of 29th November Wikileaks have published a grand total of 246 cables, which by my reckoning is not quite the same as a quarter of a million.
I think by now this includes everyone on slashdot...
A very crude guess of about 10mp, assuming that the extra light gathering is solely based on larger pixels and that they are assuming they can get lenses that cover this side with the same maximum aperture as for a 35 sensor. Sensor is 50 times larger and pixels 100 time larger.
...but since there's no actual paper available...
Link to the actually available paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903729a
I am guessing that the untold story behind the here is that the FBI tried to insert itself in some manner into the ring (for example, posing as contacts), but someone in the ring became suspicious. In which case the FBI may have screwed up - a much much better outcome would be to have the ring continue under surveillance. So why did the FBI attempt this? Apart from the possibility of providing misleading information to the SVR, another useful possibility is to find out the SVR thought about certain individuals (i.e. are they 'clean').
person who doesn't find the noise annoying? (Just curious.)
Through sentinel site tracking, among other methods The government isn't stopping you getting tested, it's just providing a guideline. From a clinical point of view unless you a really sick or at risk of complications, there is really not much to be gained by knowing whether you have H1N1 or some other influenza strain, or even if it is influenza rather than say parainfluenza, rhinovirus, adenovirus, coronavirus, human respiratory syncytial virus etc etc.
[citation needed]
Fair enough, and regardless of the encryption I would have to agree that the very idea is idiotic.
Once again we see an example of a comment on slashdot being made with apparently little knowledge or regard for the article.
Ah - my mistake, I will revise my opinion - I had thought merely that you had got some bad numbers - but I now see that you were really stupid enough to compare the number of deaths at the start of an epidemic with the number of deaths at the end of a different epidemic. Looks like I mistook you for being misinformed, rather than for being a moron. Thanks for fixing that for me.
There has been a lot of discussion recently among public health officials about the 1976 outbreak and Guillain-Barre. It is estimated that modern flu vaccines produce Guillain-Barre at about 1 per 1,000,000 vaccinations http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/gbs.htm
The H1N1 vaccines under development are essentially the same as the regular flu vaccine and can be reliably expected to produce Guillian-Barre at the same rate.
Oh - and the number of confirmed h1n1 deaths in the usa currently stands at 556 http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/updates/us/#totalcases, which when I last checked was a wee bit bigger than 10.
Talk about spreading FUD.
Fair enough. I tend to be split on the issue. The lazy average person in me feels pissed off that I have to learn something, while the geek in me enjoys it.
There is a problem with the logic of not allowing individuals to do things they are naturally inept at; if you follow it to it's conclusion you get that the average slashdotter should not be allowed to breed....
Come to think of it, maybe there is nothing wrong with the logic after all.
Unless of course you have a few layers, a little history etc.
This reminds me of the old saying:
any idiot can design something to be idiot proof, but it takes a truly clever person to design something to be clever person proof...
Hello? What happened to the sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? By comparison these would have to be a bargain...
not only that, it would provide psychology students with steady stream of abnormal personalities to study ...
I would agree that works written word as currently seen in books will take longer to suffer than other digital works, but what will happen when really usable ebook readers become available and cheap? At that stage the act of paying for books when they are legally free is an act of charity. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with charity, but I am not sure that this is a model that could sustain many authors for long.
That is certainly true, and I am being more than a bit unfair picking on KDE while it is at an early stage. However I see this kind of thing a lot with open source projects at much later stages. From the point of view of a potential user with limited time and competing interests, the competing interests will win out unless the installation is trivially easy. Sometimes I find it difficult even to find where to go to download some particular open source software. I am willing to put in some work into getting something if I know in advance there is really going to be a substantial benefit to the package, but not to just sample something. All of this is not a problem for those involved in open source software projects, but it is a big barrier when it comes to making the use of open source software more widespread.