INNOVATION A Toxin against Pain For years, scientists have promised a new wave of drugs derived from sea life. A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals
... where you can actually determine meaningful values for 0/0 in specific cases via calculus?
I.e., it may well be that 0/0=a where a has a definite value? After all, any derivative is dy/dx=0/0.
That means to me that 0/0 is *really* undefined - may be this or that, depending on the circumstances; more information is needed, and assigning a specific symbol to it doesn't make much sense in the general case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'H%C3%B4pital's_rule
Wait, isn't everyone in Australia already a criminal? That was the whole point, wasn't it?
Well, they are all descended from criminals. Now I don't know which way evolution works in this case. Maybe they have evolved into super-criminals by now, that's why they need such draconian laws.
Practically all of the "Unstoppable Evidence" they present is evidence that there was *one* climate cycle (which nobody denies - the "medieval warm period" and the "little ice age".) Evidence that there's periodicity of about 1,500 years is *very* scant in the data they show.
Whatever happened to the camera that can displace the sensor by minute increments using piezoelectrict transducers, getting subpixel resolution that way?
I must have dropped my Nokia 3200 about a dozen times. Hardly a scratch on the plastic case, which is only the outer shell and elastic. I can't imagine what dropping out of a shirt pocket on a hard floor would do to all those slim phones with a metal case and large LCD. Unless they're so light now that it doesn't matter. Of course I'd love a MP3-playing 20 GB Linux based phone, but good voice quality and a couple days of standby come first. I could've gotten a Blackberry almost for free, but no, thanks. Whenever I talk to a colleague who has a Blackberry I have to ask back every couple of seconds. They seem to be great at picking up environmental noise and encoding voice so that it sounds garbled - like other phones 10 years ago.
With 80 friggin cores, you'd darn well better get the architecture right.
Well, they never got the Pentium 4 architecture quite right, and still sold boatloads of them. As long as marketing can sell more==better, we'll see a lot more data-starved cores.
IMHO, a moderate number of cores with specialized slave CPUs a la Cell would make a lot more sense for typical applications like games. 80 cores is pretty much MPP territory, so you need really specialized algorithms to keep them going, and 90% of those CPUs will be idle with your typical day-to-day computing or gaming.
The ones that we had a huge rash of a few years back failed silently (at least in terms of being able to hear them over the fan noise) and just bubbled a little.
There was a big industry-wide problem with electrolytics. It was traced back to bad (contaminated IIRC) electrolyte from one chemical plant that was sold to capacitor manufacturers over months.
We saw quite a bit of failure rate from dying capacitors - not just in power supplies:(
Backing up data files and restoring them might be easy, but how do you do a system restore after a disk crash? Not too hard for Linux, but what about Windows?
An image backup with Knoppix is the only good solution I know but it wastes space because all unused blocks are saved too.
Data de-dupe seems all the rage recently. Does anyone know a FOSS tool that tracks block hashes and lets me do an incremental image backup?
I often run across the assertion that many viable embryos, suitable for harvesting stem cells, would actually have been "medical waste" otherwise. Can somebody confirm or deny this? and back it up with references?
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Scientific American had it too: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colI D=1&articleID=000D45AD-46FB-1237-81CB83414B7FFE9F
April 2005 issue
INNOVATION
A Toxin against Pain
For years, scientists have promised a new wave of drugs derived from sea life. A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals
He didn't directly kill her... He was trying to explain why reiserfs was better than ext4 and her head exploded.
Oh, baaad.
And I thought the way to make heads explode is to play yodeling Country music.
Maybe they have different degress of dropped-ness?
Maybe their calls don't drop as low as other providers'?
... where you can actually determine meaningful values for 0/0 in specific cases via calculus?e
I.e., it may well be that 0/0=a where a has a definite value? After all, any derivative is dy/dx=0/0.
That means to me that 0/0 is *really* undefined - may be this or that, depending on the circumstances; more information is needed, and assigning a specific symbol to it doesn't make much sense in the general case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'H%C3%B4pital's_rul
and a porn website (check my sig! ;) ).
But isn't all the research for the site awfully stressful?
Wait, isn't everyone in Australia already a criminal? That was the whole point, wasn't it?
Well, they are all descended from criminals. Now I don't know which way evolution works in this case. Maybe they have evolved into super-criminals by now, that's why they need such draconian laws.
Consumers have always been fed up with ads - they just never had a way to avoid them before.
Umm, Privoxy (http://privoxy.org/) + no TV has really worked fo me for years.
Now if I only had a way to shoot down those planes with the huge banners that fly up and down the beach on a nice day...
Basically, we were lied to.
That's what you get for listening to politicians and the media. Listen to the scientists instead.
Practically all of the "Unstoppable Evidence" they present is evidence that there was *one* climate cycle (which nobody denies - the "medieval warm period" and the "little ice age".) Evidence that there's periodicity of about 1,500 years is *very* scant in the data they show.
How soon until they have the Presidential robot ready for testing?
You mean, replacing this one?
Whatever happened to the camera that can displace the sensor by minute increments using piezoelectrict transducers, getting subpixel resolution that way?
Would Seagate really attempt to market a drive that was going to protect pedophiles and terrorists?
You betcha the FBI has a backdoor key.
My 3-year-old Nokia 6220 has a built-in flashlight. Yes, I don't understand why not every phone has one. That white LED can't be all that expensive.
I must have dropped my Nokia 3200 about a dozen times. Hardly a scratch on the plastic case, which is only the outer shell and elastic. I can't imagine what dropping out of a shirt pocket on a hard floor would do to all those slim phones with a metal case and large LCD. Unless they're so light now that it doesn't matter.
Of course I'd love a MP3-playing 20 GB Linux based phone, but good voice quality and a couple days of standby come first. I could've gotten a Blackberry almost for free, but no, thanks. Whenever I talk to a colleague who has a Blackberry I have to ask back every couple of seconds. They seem to be great at picking up environmental noise and encoding voice so that it sounds garbled - like other phones 10 years ago.
Can't be any worse than the 405 in LA.
Huh? When did that change? It's always said "Thou shalt not kill" in my bible.
Because someone is trying to twist it so as to exclude the death penalty or other ways of killing people that are deemed "acceptable."
With 80 friggin cores, you'd darn well better get the architecture right.
Well, they never got the Pentium 4 architecture quite right, and still sold boatloads of them. As long as marketing can sell more==better, we'll see a lot more data-starved cores.
IMHO, a moderate number of cores with specialized slave CPUs a la Cell would make a lot more sense for typical applications like games. 80 cores is pretty much MPP territory, so you need really specialized algorithms to keep them going, and 90% of those CPUs will be idle with your typical day-to-day computing or gaming.
You only need them to open mutiple xterm/CMD windows, so who cares?
F you Bayer. F you and the patented over priced MF'ing self-terminating rice you rode in on.
No. "I've had it with these MFing gene mods on this MFing rice!"
Sounds like a crossbreed between Freedom Fries and Franks. Must be unhealthy.
Its a good thing the US is spreading democracy around the world, because they seem to be so good at it.
Democracy and peace, one country at a time.
The ones that we had a huge rash of a few years back failed silently (at least in terms of being able to hear them over the fan noise) and just bubbled a little.
:(
There was a big industry-wide problem with electrolytics. It was traced back to bad (contaminated IIRC) electrolyte from one chemical plant that was sold to capacitor manufacturers over months.
We saw quite a bit of failure rate from dying capacitors - not just in power supplies
Backing up data files and restoring them might be easy, but how do you do a system restore after a disk crash? Not too hard for Linux, but what about Windows?
An image backup with Knoppix is the only good solution I know but it wastes space because all unused blocks are saved too.
Data de-dupe seems all the rage recently. Does anyone know a FOSS tool that tracks block hashes and lets me do an incremental image backup?
I often run across the assertion that many viable embryos, suitable for harvesting stem cells, would actually have been "medical waste" otherwise. Can somebody confirm or deny this? and back it up with references?
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"Each year, thousands of laboratory-facilitated embryos no longer needed in the treatment of fertility are routinely discarded." (http://hatch.senate.gov/newsite/index.cfm?FuseAc
From (drumroll, please...) Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah.
Because it sounds more modern, like elections are "catching up with the times".
Can't we just run a poll on MySpace? That would be so, like, cool.