"The effects of this compound in the fight against AIDS are simultaneously being studied in the UGR and in Hospital Carlos III in Madrid by a team headed by Prof. Vallejo Nájera."
Well, that's where they're doing the human trials, though I can't imagine how they could be doing this so fast... maybe the clinical trial system is different is Spain.
None of the news blurbs about this research mention any sort of publication associated with these findings (for example: "published in this week's issue of Science", etc.). Also, a quick search in pubmed for garcia-granados shows limited publications in specialist journals, nothing nearly as flashy as this olive-oil HIV thing. My guess is they haven't published yet, or even had their paper reviewed yet. Most respectable journals embargo press releases until the issue of the journal comes out in which the findings are reported. This could certainly be interesting, but for now I would take it with a grain of salt, especially the part about "the use of olive-pomace oil can produce an 80 per cent slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body." WHAT body?? There's no way this treatment is in human clinical trials. This statement is pure baloney. Judging from their publication record, the Garcia-Granados lab is purely an organic chemistry/biochemistry lab. I seriously doubt they have any data with mammalian models.
Non-rechargeable alkalines are wasteful and damaging to the environment. You were of course speaking of rechargeable Ni or Li batteries right? You dispose of your used batteries properly right? Your point that proprietary batteries are inconvenient is valid, but there's something to be said for not creating more waste than necessary.
AppleTV has been repeatedly "hacked" for enhanced functionality, without so much as a whimper or firmware update from Apple. They know what's happening. They like it. They even try to build on it occasionally. Don't lump this set-top box in with the rest-there's absolutely no evidence that they're opposed to user-created functionality.
Wow, that totally missed the point. You think "cost" only means money. I agree that money should not be the only factor (even a factor at all) when it comes to keeping our environment clean. But you spectacularly missed the whole point. How much ENERGY does it cost to run recycling operations? It all costs ELECTRICITY and if that electricity is being generated by burning fossil fuels, then you have to seriously evaluate the net benefit of recycling. Clearly, it's been shown that recycling paper back to paper, plastic back to plastic, and metal back to metal is net beneficial in that less waste is generated overall (though you're incredibly naive if you think no waste was generated in the the energy it took to run that recycling plant). If you think recycling is some kind of magic bullet that only costs money and not energy, then you need to go back and learn about the laws of thermodynamics. So, to sum up, la-de-da for the Swiss, and go back to remedial physics.
How much energy does it take to run that "microwave" to convert some plastic back to usable hydrocarbons? It's presumably powered by electricity...and where did that electricity come from? Most electricity around the world comes from the consumption of fossil fuels. If this process could be linked exclusively to alternate energy sources, like solar or wind, etc., then it might be a net positive thing.
Somehow I have little confidence that this school "deserves" its loan forgiven. How can they be so irresponsible as to not keep track of this hardware or any paperwork associated with it? And why does this "oh we can't find the paperwork" crap only come up now rather than all those other times they requested loan deferrment? In the end I guess it would be wise for IBM to let this one slide, in the hopes that it would be good for publicity. But it's not like they make that many low end PCs anymore, so what kind of advertising value are they going to get out of this? I'm not sure any school could afford IBM infrastructure. Maybe the district?
Mostly I just want more information about this story. Is it reported anywhere else? What kind of computers are we talking about? What was the original value claimed?
Yes, because we all know that scientists are above the petty musings of mankind, like political ideologies and personal agendas. They would NEVER stoop to slant their research with preconceived notions, or tailor their reports to maximize future research grants. How DARE us plebeians question their superiority and accuse them of being mere mortals!
You know, some times I just have to say the hell with the mods. FUCK YOU. I don't go out and fucking belittle something you've dedicated your life to just because you don't agree with me. I am a Ph.D. working in biology...nothing related to global warming or climate change or whatever you "plebeian" wants to call it. Here's a thought, I won't clump you in with a group of stupid retards who can't add 2 + 2 if you won't characterize all scientists as "petty" or "ideological" or "superior" with their "preconceived notions" designed to "maximize future research grants". It's incredibly infuriating and insulting to hear you say that. As a postdoc I get paid barely enough to support a reasonably modest lifestyle in a relatively expensive area, all because I truly believe I can discover something that will enhance the collective knowledge of the human race (and maybe even contribute to human health concerns). How DARE YOU make such a broad statement about scientists. Try taking a stab at sports starts or celebrities... apparently you "plebeians" value them much more. Ever take a fucking aspirin you high-and-mighty ass? Know someone who's had cancer? Of all the professions, I can't believe you'd suggest people get into science to get rich or spend years of arduous training to push a personal ideology. Apparently its much easier just to subscribe to Slashdot and post flamebait. Nice work.
Maybe I'm just culturally behind the times or whatever, but I don't feel like the majority of Guitar Hero tracks are all at awesome. It probably has something to do with the licensing of content, but I'd say I had rarely or never heard of half the tracks in the GH series.
...but fans should really start crying "bullshit" to all the crap being flung by professional sports organizations. Basketball, football, baseball. Stop supporting these assholes! They can only get away with their assault on fans as long as the fans let them.
Considering inflation at ~4% per year, you're getting that much of a price cut just by waiting to buy it. This of course assumes a lot, like you being a job that gives you a raise once in a while.
I like my mac-centric computing environment at home and at the office, but I'm not going to blindly accept the wisdom of this (from the developers point of view)... simply because the mac market share is so low still. However, two points could prove this move to be wise. 1) If the cost of porting games to the newer intel-based mac hardware is relatively low, then even limited sales could still be profitable. 2) Apple is constantly gaining market share with its hardware, and lately (last 10 years) they have been fairly prescient as to the future of hardware.
I was confused by this for a while when I would set the clear QAM tuner to scan the hundreds of channels for signal and occassionally it would find digital cable channels that i just couldn't identify -- random videos, movies, then the signal would be gone. I figured it was from the on-demand stuff, but I couldn't ever really guess as to how far from my apartment the vid was going to, which i was apparently intercepting...
This is unbelievably ridiculous from a country that is mostly anti-western values. Couldn't they at least promote chinese culture and folklore in someway than just stealing IP in this way? China used to be so creative, inventive, and amazingly modern before the communist era. Now they just acquire.
...the same dumbfucks who brought us Chernobyl. Seriously, there's no evidence they learned a single thing from that incident, and in fact, the government has never admitted, acknowledged, or recompensed for any part of it. Of course they should come under the highest possible scrutiny for any new nuclear plant designs. This is not a time for political correctness -- they could seriously damage the global environment with a catastrophe at sea and they need to heavily scrutinized at this time.
I agree that the study is deeply flawed. Really, the bottom line for pricing is, "Is this product worth this much $$ in this market?". MS seems to think their product is worth $200. To be fair, it is a big deal, a whole OS, and might be worth that much in certain markets. If it's not worth that much, they should alter the pricing. Trying to price something based on how much development and resources (and legal costs) went in to it is pointless. I would say most people are not interested, for example, in GM's labor union woes when trying to figure out if that American car is really worth all that much money in comparison to that Japanese car. Maybe it cost more to make, but that's not the consumer's problem.
How about a bill that requires labeling of all 'unnatural' food stocks? Like pretty much everything domesticated by humans in the last 15,000 years. This is ridiculous. I once saw a TV program where the host went around asking people if they would ever eat anything with DNA in it and most people seemed to get disgusted. We seriously need better K-12 education.
I saw it last week -- some great 8-bit action going on over at the engineering building. Ironically, it's the 8-bit stuff that's even remotely feasible to do with post-its, but its so old I wonder how many of those students actually played that game when it first came out...
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Well, that's where they're doing the human trials, though I can't imagine how they could be doing this so fast... maybe the clinical trial system is different is Spain.
None of the news blurbs about this research mention any sort of publication associated with these findings (for example: "published in this week's issue of Science", etc.). Also, a quick search in pubmed for garcia-granados shows limited publications in specialist journals, nothing nearly as flashy as this olive-oil HIV thing. My guess is they haven't published yet, or even had their paper reviewed yet. Most respectable journals embargo press releases until the issue of the journal comes out in which the findings are reported. This could certainly be interesting, but for now I would take it with a grain of salt, especially the part about "the use of olive-pomace oil can produce an 80 per cent slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body." WHAT body?? There's no way this treatment is in human clinical trials. This statement is pure baloney. Judging from their publication record, the Garcia-Granados lab is purely an organic chemistry/biochemistry lab. I seriously doubt they have any data with mammalian models.
Non-rechargeable alkalines are wasteful and damaging to the environment. You were of course speaking of rechargeable Ni or Li batteries right? You dispose of your used batteries properly right? Your point that proprietary batteries are inconvenient is valid, but there's something to be said for not creating more waste than necessary.
that and the fact that nothing practical is really bullet proof (pardon the pun). a strong enough EMP will get through this window coating.
talk about abuse of the tagging system. you guys are like 10 year olds.
AppleTV has been repeatedly "hacked" for enhanced functionality, without so much as a whimper or firmware update from Apple. They know what's happening. They like it. They even try to build on it occasionally. Don't lump this set-top box in with the rest-there's absolutely no evidence that they're opposed to user-created functionality.
Wow, that totally missed the point. You think "cost" only means money. I agree that money should not be the only factor (even a factor at all) when it comes to keeping our environment clean. But you spectacularly missed the whole point. How much ENERGY does it cost to run recycling operations? It all costs ELECTRICITY and if that electricity is being generated by burning fossil fuels, then you have to seriously evaluate the net benefit of recycling. Clearly, it's been shown that recycling paper back to paper, plastic back to plastic, and metal back to metal is net beneficial in that less waste is generated overall (though you're incredibly naive if you think no waste was generated in the the energy it took to run that recycling plant). If you think recycling is some kind of magic bullet that only costs money and not energy, then you need to go back and learn about the laws of thermodynamics. So, to sum up, la-de-da for the Swiss, and go back to remedial physics.
How much energy does it take to run that "microwave" to convert some plastic back to usable hydrocarbons? It's presumably powered by electricity...and where did that electricity come from? Most electricity around the world comes from the consumption of fossil fuels. If this process could be linked exclusively to alternate energy sources, like solar or wind, etc., then it might be a net positive thing.
Mostly I just want more information about this story. Is it reported anywhere else? What kind of computers are we talking about? What was the original value claimed?
You know, some times I just have to say the hell with the mods. FUCK YOU. I don't go out and fucking belittle something you've dedicated your life to just because you don't agree with me. I am a Ph.D. working in biology...nothing related to global warming or climate change or whatever you "plebeian" wants to call it. Here's a thought, I won't clump you in with a group of stupid retards who can't add 2 + 2 if you won't characterize all scientists as "petty" or "ideological" or "superior" with their "preconceived notions" designed to "maximize future research grants". It's incredibly infuriating and insulting to hear you say that. As a postdoc I get paid barely enough to support a reasonably modest lifestyle in a relatively expensive area, all because I truly believe I can discover something that will enhance the collective knowledge of the human race (and maybe even contribute to human health concerns). How DARE YOU make such a broad statement about scientists. Try taking a stab at sports starts or celebrities... apparently you "plebeians" value them much more. Ever take a fucking aspirin you high-and-mighty ass? Know someone who's had cancer? Of all the professions, I can't believe you'd suggest people get into science to get rich or spend years of arduous training to push a personal ideology. Apparently its much easier just to subscribe to Slashdot and post flamebait. Nice work.
Read: "And it really doesn't f*ck you in the *ss. Heh heh. Heh heh."
People have been assholes for a long time!
Give me a f*cking break.
Wow. You've really opened my eyes.
Maybe I'm just culturally behind the times or whatever, but I don't feel like the majority of Guitar Hero tracks are all at awesome. It probably has something to do with the licensing of content, but I'd say I had rarely or never heard of half the tracks in the GH series.
...but fans should really start crying "bullshit" to all the crap being flung by professional sports organizations. Basketball, football, baseball. Stop supporting these assholes! They can only get away with their assault on fans as long as the fans let them.
Considering inflation at ~4% per year, you're getting that much of a price cut just by waiting to buy it. This of course assumes a lot, like you being a job that gives you a raise once in a while.
I like my mac-centric computing environment at home and at the office, but I'm not going to blindly accept the wisdom of this (from the developers point of view)... simply because the mac market share is so low still. However, two points could prove this move to be wise. 1) If the cost of porting games to the newer intel-based mac hardware is relatively low, then even limited sales could still be profitable. 2) Apple is constantly gaining market share with its hardware, and lately (last 10 years) they have been fairly prescient as to the future of hardware.
I was confused by this for a while when I would set the clear QAM tuner to scan the hundreds of channels for signal and occassionally it would find digital cable channels that i just couldn't identify -- random videos, movies, then the signal would be gone. I figured it was from the on-demand stuff, but I couldn't ever really guess as to how far from my apartment the vid was going to, which i was apparently intercepting...
In every case the climate change debate has been muddied by political concerns, it was through Republican interests. Is anyone surprised?
This is unbelievably ridiculous from a country that is mostly anti-western values. Couldn't they at least promote chinese culture and folklore in someway than just stealing IP in this way? China used to be so creative, inventive, and amazingly modern before the communist era. Now they just acquire.
...the same dumbfucks who brought us Chernobyl. Seriously, there's no evidence they learned a single thing from that incident, and in fact, the government has never admitted, acknowledged, or recompensed for any part of it. Of course they should come under the highest possible scrutiny for any new nuclear plant designs. This is not a time for political correctness -- they could seriously damage the global environment with a catastrophe at sea and they need to heavily scrutinized at this time.
I agree that the study is deeply flawed. Really, the bottom line for pricing is, "Is this product worth this much $$ in this market?". MS seems to think their product is worth $200. To be fair, it is a big deal, a whole OS, and might be worth that much in certain markets. If it's not worth that much, they should alter the pricing. Trying to price something based on how much development and resources (and legal costs) went in to it is pointless. I would say most people are not interested, for example, in GM's labor union woes when trying to figure out if that American car is really worth all that much money in comparison to that Japanese car. Maybe it cost more to make, but that's not the consumer's problem.
How about a bill that requires labeling of all 'unnatural' food stocks? Like pretty much everything domesticated by humans in the last 15,000 years. This is ridiculous. I once saw a TV program where the host went around asking people if they would ever eat anything with DNA in it and most people seemed to get disgusted. We seriously need better K-12 education.
I saw it last week -- some great 8-bit action going on over at the engineering building. Ironically, it's the 8-bit stuff that's even remotely feasible to do with post-its, but its so old I wonder how many of those students actually played that game when it first came out...