Nobody should be overly happy, not when there are so many sad things happening in the world. Instead of being happy, why not help those who aren't. Instead of feeling compassion why not make the sacrifice to act on it? If you are happy, you are probably at least a little selfish. Of course what I have said will anger many people, but it's truth. There are many things you can do to help others in your neighborhood, in your state, country, or planet that you aren't doing.
Why not make laws to suppress the employment of people who have a different eye color and gender than you too then (hopefully you have the majority eye color & gender so you can push it through). Think about it would increase your salary probably by like 50%. Or do you reject a 50% pay increase for yourself? How noble!
My view is that the more programmers or engineers are there.. the more software will get written and more products that will be designed. That improves the field and the economy.. not hurts it. I don't believe in zero some nonsense.
So I looked at the paper and LOL'd thinking wtf... who's gonna believe this stuff is real. Then I looked at a real math paper.. it wasn't much different.:/
Why didn't they protest the taliban for trying to kill a 14 year old girl?
Why didn't they protest when a Christian girl was set up and charged with blasphemy? And that imam who set her up is now free on bail, why aren't they angry about that?
Sorry their silly protest has no credibility, they didn't protest when it really mattered.
I'm not Woz.. but F it, I'll give my opinion. I think the answer is yes. There's loads of stuff you can do in your garage.. robotics with cool stuff like machine vision/drones is one. Second, is bio.. there are TONS of unexplored things in the biotech space. With coming revolution in DNA sequencing technology the possibilities are endless. Let's not forget that multiple Nobel prizes in medicine were awarded to people doing research on fruit flies, algea, bacteria, or even plants (because they revealed amazing things applicable in human biology too). In a basic hackerspace equipped with a few things like a microscope, beakers, dirt cheap reagents, homemade electrophoreris kit etc, you can grow stuff and do research on things like algae and harmless fungi and bacteria - and believe me there are loads of things you can find out about them which are applicable in humans. Also in a garage, you can also do quantum physics stuff using microwave parts and cheap lasers. You can also play around with graphene. So yea.. robotics, bio stuff, physics.. And that's just the hardware realm. I'm not saying there is a guarantee you will invent the next big thing.. but not all things have to be done for the purpose of becoming a billionaire, I think there is some value in curiosity.. in just getting satisfaction from doing stuff and learning something new. Most of the giants of science upon whose work and ideas the modern world stands never made much money. In fact some died in debt or broke. Still the fact is, there is loads of cool disruptive innovations that can come out of a garage today. Probably more so than in the 70s. All that's needed are the cool people with the guts, ideas, and focus.
We need someone like Woz, with that spirit to crack some of the stuff in the biotech space. Someone who can figure out a strategy to make regenerative medicine work. Someone who can figure out how to fix immunological conditions (we currently can't cure even one autoimmune disease).
There's bio hackerspaces cropping up all over.. so who knows maybe we'll get it.
As far as I know, the opposition in Australia is very strongly against the NBN -- and it was one of the key points in their platform. Is he going to ditch his citizenship if they come to power in 2013?
Your comment is pretty nonsensical.. others have stated why so I won't repeat that. But I want to ask you why you even thought #4 was a valid point. Why does it matter who was paying him? The fact as to whether his work was stolen has nothing to do with whether he is being paid to state what he did. I could understand a question like "are you lying?" or "Are you being paid to lie?"... however nobody is disputing the authenticity of his claims, since they are well documented. So knowing whether Samsung paid him millions to testify has no bearing on anything.
Apple skipped ahead of the line by taking other people's work and is now blocking others from advancing by claiming to have patents on it? Do you not see anything wrong with that? Others spent their R&D budgets coming up with the core ideas..of course their phones were not as great.. phone CPUs sucked and also most ideas were focused on things like bandwidth and stuff.. Apple merely had to invest in the final integration of ideas and the design..in doing so so they leaped ahead about 5 to 10 years ahead of the others.. it doesn't mean they should have an eternal monopoly on making tablets.
Hey republicans claim global warming is part of a natural cycle. So why can't this TB outbreak be part of a natural cycle too? I mean we just had the hottest year on record ever, while this TB thing is just a 20 year max? Just asking.
I wonder how radio communication never evolved in animals (and/or plants). It seems like it's something that should be possible given the fact that we all use electrical signals in the nervous system. Heck some creatures like the electric eel can produce lots of it. I imagine it may start of with sea creatures that can detect others by detecting electrical activity and then refining that to rf tuning followed by the ability to adjust ones own electrical activity at well. I suspect that given a few hundred million years we should see something evolve that can use radio-communication. Assuming there aren't already creatures with that yet undiscovered ability. Who knows maybe this rainbow trout can do it, has anyone checked?
Yes it is possible to come up with scenarios where this test results in infection. But how common is that scenario going to be? Overall this test may save lives.
Although the chance of a false negative may be 1 in 12, the actual probability of getting AIDS is less.. because you have to account for the probability of encountering an HIV positive person. Also, many false negatives are for cases where the person may have been recently infected so the immune system has not created enough antibodies. If you have been dating your partner for a while and can be sure he/she hasn't had an HIV exposure within a recent time frame.. the chance of false negative reduces. What this test allows you to do is have an added layer of security. It's like this, when you get in a car.. you can reduce your chance of getting seriously hurt in an accident by being a good driver, driving a safe vehicle, and wearing a seatbelt. Does it offer a guarantee of safety? No. I'm pretty sure people have died with their seatbelt on, in fact i recall hearing that some side impact collisions resulted in fatalities BECAUSE the person was wearing a seatbelt. However, seatbelts have saved many lives, so it's a good idea to use one. It reduces the probability of serious injury. That's what this test is about.. it's helping people who can't help but engage in a particular behavior pattern reduce the risk from that behavior -- yes for maximum benefit it must be coupled with other things like not choosing a high risk partner etc. But simply telling people to just plain abstain has not worked for everyone. So in combination with all the other things such as abstinence education, this test is a good thing.
Note, I am not in blanket favor of testing someone for HIV or anything else without their consent.
Fair enough, but the "when" matters. The world is 10 years behind in the field of particle physics (and all its potential spin offs) thanks to the Texas super collider cancellation.
Uh nobody was bribed, I am sure the packaging will explain the failure rate. This will save more lives than those it may result in infections with. It is a safeguard for people who might otherwise engage in risky sex. It's like using a condom. Condoms are not 100% either. The 1 in 12 failure rate is because new/recent infections wont show up. So if you are really paranoid about htat you can wait for a 6 months period. Also, the 1 in 12 failure is not that high in the context of the probability of encountering an HIV positive partner.. which is fairly low unless you are in a high risk group.
AIDS is the only currently incurable life threatening disease you can get that I know of. You may get herpes, which is incurable.. but its not usually life threatening. You may get hepatitis C, which is life threatening but the cure rate is fairly high (and improving) with modern treatment regimens.
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Did you read his last sentence?
Nobody should be overly happy, not when there are so many sad things happening in the world. Instead of being happy, why not help those who aren't. Instead of feeling compassion why not make the sacrifice to act on it? If you are happy, you are probably at least a little selfish. Of course what I have said will anger many people, but it's truth. There are many things you can do to help others in your neighborhood, in your state, country, or planet that you aren't doing.
Why not make laws to suppress the employment of people who have a different eye color and gender than you too then (hopefully you have the majority eye color & gender so you can push it through). Think about it would increase your salary probably by like 50%. Or do you reject a 50% pay increase for yourself? How noble!
My view is that the more programmers or engineers are there .. the more software will get written and more products that will be designed. That improves the field and the economy .. not hurts it. I don't believe in zero some nonsense.
I'm not willing to pay for a Ferrari, so it's OK for me to steal one?
So I looked at the paper and LOL'd thinking wtf ... who's gonna believe this stuff is real. Then I looked at a real math paper .. it wasn't much different. :/
Why didn't they protest the taliban for trying to kill a 14 year old girl?
Why didn't they protest when a Christian girl was set up and charged with blasphemy? And that imam who set her up is now free on bail, why aren't they angry about that?
Sorry their silly protest has no credibility, they didn't protest when it really mattered.
Remember phone books? It used to be possible to match people with not only their phone number but their home address too.
I'm not Woz .. but F it, I'll give my opinion. I think the answer is yes. There's loads of stuff you can do in your garage .. robotics with cool stuff like machine vision/drones is one. Second, is bio .. there are TONS of unexplored things in the biotech space. With coming revolution in DNA sequencing technology the possibilities are endless. Let's not forget that multiple Nobel prizes in medicine were awarded to people doing research on fruit flies, algea, bacteria, or even plants (because they revealed amazing things applicable in human biology too). In a basic hackerspace equipped with a few things like a microscope, beakers, dirt cheap reagents, homemade electrophoreris kit etc, you can grow stuff and do research on things like algae and harmless fungi and bacteria - and believe me there are loads of things you can find out about them which are applicable in humans. Also in a garage, you can also do quantum physics stuff using microwave parts and cheap lasers. You can also play around with graphene. So yea .. robotics, bio stuff, physics .. And that's just the hardware realm. I'm not saying there is a guarantee you will invent the next big thing .. but not all things have to be done for the purpose of becoming a billionaire, I think there is some value in curiosity .. in just getting satisfaction from doing stuff and learning something new. Most of the giants of science upon whose work and ideas the modern world stands never made much money. In fact some died in debt or broke. Still the fact is, there is loads of cool disruptive innovations that can come out of a garage today. Probably more so than in the 70s. All that's needed are the cool people with the guts, ideas, and focus.
We need someone like Woz, with that spirit to crack some of the stuff in the biotech space. Someone who can figure out a strategy to make regenerative medicine work. Someone who can figure out how to fix immunological conditions (we currently can't cure even one autoimmune disease).
There's bio hackerspaces cropping up all over .. so who knows maybe we'll get it.
Why don't you endorse President Obama? (Granted he's not perfect, but the alternative --being ruled by the "modern" republican party is insane.)
Do it.
As far as I know, the opposition in Australia is very strongly against the NBN -- and it was one of the key points in their platform. Is he going to ditch his citizenship if they come to power in 2013?
In 2005 I predicted on slashdot that large touchscreen phones would be a success (as did others) .. nearly 2 years before the release of the iPhone. http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457
Samsung oughta have me testify.
Your comment is pretty nonsensical .. others have stated why so I won't repeat that. But I want to ask you why you even thought #4 was a valid point. Why does it matter who was paying him? The fact as to whether his work was stolen has nothing to do with whether he is being paid to state what he did. I could understand a question like "are you lying?" or "Are you being paid to lie?" ... however nobody is disputing the authenticity of his claims, since they are well documented. So knowing whether Samsung paid him millions to testify has no bearing on anything.
Apple skipped ahead of the line by taking other people's work and is now blocking others from advancing by claiming to have patents on it? Do you not see anything wrong with that? Others spent their R&D budgets coming up with the core ideas ..of course their phones were not as great .. phone CPUs sucked and also most ideas were focused on things like bandwidth and stuff.. Apple merely had to invest in the final integration of ideas and the design ..in doing so so they leaped ahead about 5 to 10 years ahead of the others .. it doesn't mean they should have an eternal monopoly on making tablets.
Note, back in 2005 I predicted on slashdot that large touchscreen phones would be a success (as did others) .. nearly 2 years before the launch of the iPhone. http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457
Hey republicans claim global warming is part of a natural cycle. So why can't this TB outbreak be part of a natural cycle too? I mean we just had the hottest year on record ever, while this TB thing is just a 20 year max? Just asking.
Nice, I should have done more research! Thanks.
I wonder how radio communication never evolved in animals (and/or plants). It seems like it's something that should be possible given the fact that we all use electrical signals in the nervous system. Heck some creatures like the electric eel can produce lots of it. I imagine it may start of with sea creatures that can detect others by detecting electrical activity and then refining that to rf tuning followed by the ability to adjust ones own electrical activity at well. I suspect that given a few hundred million years we should see something evolve that can use radio-communication. Assuming there aren't already creatures with that yet undiscovered ability. Who knows maybe this rainbow trout can do it, has anyone checked?
Yes it is possible to come up with scenarios where this test results in infection. But how common is that scenario going to be? Overall this test may save lives.
You can use them for a nano-bot soccer team.
What if you keep shooting lasers at 'em will they keep growing? I'll find out, get me a laser and some of these buckyball things.
When you have a laser, everything looks like a buckyball.
Although the chance of a false negative may be 1 in 12, the actual probability of getting AIDS is less .. because you have to account for the probability of encountering an HIV positive person. Also, many false negatives are for cases where the person may have been recently infected so the immune system has not created enough antibodies. If you have been dating your partner for a while and can be sure he/she hasn't had an HIV exposure within a recent time frame .. the chance of false negative reduces. What this test allows you to do is have an added layer of security. It's like this, when you get in a car .. you can reduce your chance of getting seriously hurt in an accident by being a good driver, driving a safe vehicle, and wearing a seatbelt. Does it offer a guarantee of safety? No. I'm pretty sure people have died with their seatbelt on, in fact i recall hearing that some side impact collisions resulted in fatalities BECAUSE the person was wearing a seatbelt. However, seatbelts have saved many lives, so it's a good idea to use one. It reduces the probability of serious injury. That's what this test is about .. it's helping people who can't help but engage in a particular behavior pattern reduce the risk from that behavior -- yes for maximum benefit it must be coupled with other things like not choosing a high risk partner etc. But simply telling people to just plain abstain has not worked for everyone. So in combination with all the other things such as abstinence education, this test is a good thing.
Note, I am not in blanket favor of testing someone for HIV or anything else without their consent.
Fair enough, but the "when" matters. The world is 10 years behind in the field of particle physics (and all its potential spin offs) thanks to the Texas super collider cancellation.
Uh nobody was bribed, I am sure the packaging will explain the failure rate. This will save more lives than those it may result in infections with. It is a safeguard for people who might otherwise engage in risky sex. It's like using a condom. Condoms are not 100% either. The 1 in 12 failure rate is because new/recent infections wont show up. So if you are really paranoid about htat you can wait for a 6 months period. Also, the 1 in 12 failure is not that high in the context of the probability of encountering an HIV positive partner .. which is fairly low unless you are in a high risk group.
AIDS is the only currently incurable life threatening disease you can get that I know of. You may get herpes, which is incurable .. but its not usually life threatening. You may get hepatitis C, which is life threatening but the cure rate is fairly high (and improving) with modern treatment regimens.
Or, we can patent their technology since the US patent system is first to file, not first to invent.
It's NAGGERS, you idiot.