Sure, just name one single private company able to invest a couple billion USD in a high risk project (a maned mission to mars will probably be several order of magnitude more). Now, even if there is a potential positive ROI, do you really think a fortune 50 corp will risk bankrupcy on one single project? No way.
Fortunately, the new Li-Ion batteries handle that quite OK, with older tech, you would have ruined your battery within a year by partially reloading it that often.
No kidding, I worked for a phone manufacturer and in the late 90's a corporation (cheap auto repair) ordered tens of thousands of GSM phones for their staff, the thing is they asked the ring "melody" to be forced to their ad jingle. Within a month, half of them had been returned. Most of them were a bag of totally smashed plastic and parts (think "will it blend?") (sometimes even partially incinerated) with "oops, it felt off my pocket" or other mundane excuse as the problem description. So don't tell me of shaking a cellphone out of frustration.
Keep calm, we (and I in particular, as a non-diabetic not working in healthcare) don't know if or when insulin patches will be produced. It was just that it was almost obviously the killer app for this kind of technology, and with the unfortunately huge potential market, I can't see why the big pharma corps won't invest in it in the next few years.
What I understood is that they planned to fund some research teams and, if some are succesful, bring in the capital and get back their share when the resulting products are being mass produced.
Leaving the moral aspects aside (after all, they don't mix with "business"), you still need to create some because you'll be competing against a free product with people who know your code better than you do. If you just plan to freeride, I wouldn't bet on your survival unless you find very stupid clients first.
I would say because they are basically the same as CGI/model/animatronics artists in cinema: they do this job because they love it so it's harder for them to turn down a good job because it won't make them rich.
Moreover, it will probably only work for very small volumes, so don't expect that technology to totally replace the good old needle. The only goal of this is to extend the range of medecines someone can inject himself whithout needing a nurse or special training. Classic patches, such as nicotine ones, work because the skin is porous to that chemical, so there are strong limitations to what can be done with them, but for a diabetic, it could be awesome: instead of injecting himself a large dose of insulin now and then, he could use a patch and have his insulin slowly and regulary injected. Too much insulin, remove the patch for a couple of hours, too little, add a second one for a couple of hours. Simple, painless and safe.
Did you noticed we were talking about big misconceptions (or wet dreams), such as working IA in our lifetime. CS has always been and will probably ever will be a self sustaining industry, the tools and products evolve, but the work doesn't: we are continously improving things or adding new ones on top of them.
The success of the PC is that it is a quite universal tool. Changing its hardware to deal with some kind of data in a particular way is OK for some niches, but not mainstream. Who would want 1 PC to go on the web, one for word processor, one for mails...
Don't worry, in the end, Gabe and Tycho will save him by making a donnation to the Crazy Attorney Fund in his name and he will react by suing them for extorsion.
Where is the problem? The genes are still passed with possibly minor variations, so the clone is still genetically a human being related to its original and therefore to his ancestors. You may also note that "normal" sexual reproduction is far from being the only natural reproduction mechanism, in particular for monocellular species.
Absolutely, but the "almost" is so huge that, while silicon is overabundant on the surface of earth and carbon isn't, life as we know it is 100% based on carbon in water substrate simply because, from a biochemistery point of view, it is far more efficient this way.
It sounds a good thing to sell your vote, but you might soon notice that the price of your vote might simply be not losing your job at the first election, not being jailed at the second, and not being killed at the third (and you would have personnaly voted for each of these steps, so it will be perfectly legal).
No kidding, a few years ago, I worked for a GSM manufacturer and for one model, we had to use similar technique (sticking a cooper foil to the battery) because the battery was creating an electromagnetic coupling between the antenna and the SIM. Of course, it didn't improved reception, but at least, it prevented the phone from miserably crashing at each call and it was way cheaper than redesigning the whole thing one month before mass production.
In my country, it is considered fair play for a loser to acknoledge the poll result as soon as the vote is over when the result estimates show a clear enough hierarchy, but such a statement has absolutely no effect on the official result counting and publication. Theorically, a candidate can say a loser speach on sunday evening and be officialy declared winner monday morning.
When you were kid, did you ever played with a ballon and water? Do you remember how hard it is to keep the ballon under water? This is the same thing here, before you could use the deep water great pressure to compress the gas, you first need a greater pressure to force your gas down, so when you had the huge cost of maintaining deep water equipments (changing a single valve can take days when it is under 100m of water) and the risk of losing some of the gas because it will solve into the water, this is truly a Very Bad Idea.
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pressure of the interstellar gas. Just remember that vacuum is a very relative concept.
Sure, just name one single private company able to invest a couple billion USD in a high risk project (a maned mission to mars will probably be several order of magnitude more). Now, even if there is a potential positive ROI, do you really think a fortune 50 corp will risk bankrupcy on one single project? No way.
Fortunately, the new Li-Ion batteries handle that quite OK, with older tech, you would have ruined your battery within a year by partially reloading it that often.
No kidding, I worked for a phone manufacturer and in the late 90's a corporation (cheap auto repair) ordered tens of thousands of GSM phones for their staff, the thing is they asked the ring "melody" to be forced to their ad jingle. Within a month, half of them had been returned. Most of them were a bag of totally smashed plastic and parts (think "will it blend?") (sometimes even partially incinerated) with "oops, it felt off my pocket" or other mundane excuse as the problem description. So don't tell me of shaking a cellphone out of frustration.
Same for me, I saw all my Ben Laden speachs on major TV evening news.
Keep calm, we (and I in particular, as a non-diabetic not working in healthcare) don't know if or when insulin patches will be produced. It was just that it was almost obviously the killer app for this kind of technology, and with the unfortunately huge potential market, I can't see why the big pharma corps won't invest in it in the next few years.
What I understood is that they planned to fund some research teams and, if some are succesful, bring in the capital and get back their share when the resulting products are being mass produced.
Leaving the moral aspects aside (after all, they don't mix with "business"), you still need to create some because you'll be competing against a free product with people who know your code better than you do. If you just plan to freeride, I wouldn't bet on your survival unless you find very stupid clients first.
I would say because they are basically the same as CGI/model/animatronics artists in cinema: they do this job because they love it so it's harder for them to turn down a good job because it won't make them rich.
Moreover, it will probably only work for very small volumes, so don't expect that technology to totally replace the good old needle. The only goal of this is to extend the range of medecines someone can inject himself whithout needing a nurse or special training.
Classic patches, such as nicotine ones, work because the skin is porous to that chemical, so there are strong limitations to what can be done with them, but for a diabetic, it could be awesome: instead of injecting himself a large dose of insulin now and then, he could use a patch and have his insulin slowly and regulary injected. Too much insulin, remove the patch for a couple of hours, too little, add a second one for a couple of hours. Simple, painless and safe.
Did you noticed we were talking about big misconceptions (or wet dreams), such as working IA in our lifetime.
CS has always been and will probably ever will be a self sustaining industry, the tools and products evolve, but the work doesn't: we are continously improving things or adding new ones on top of them.
"Computers are going to make your life easier and they are going to be easy to use"
You forgot the "Within 10 years, everything would have been programmed and CS will be an extinct profession".
The success of the PC is that it is a quite universal tool. Changing its hardware to deal with some kind of data in a particular way is OK for some niches, but not mainstream. Who would want 1 PC to go on the web, one for word processor, one for mails...
Don't worry, in the end, Gabe and Tycho will save him by making a donnation to the Crazy Attorney Fund in his name and he will react by suing them for extorsion.
Unfortunately, the british archers can remember that a french charge can be quite a disaster (Hasincourt).
Where is the problem? The genes are still passed with possibly minor variations, so the clone is still genetically a human being related to its original and therefore to his ancestors.
You may also note that "normal" sexual reproduction is far from being the only natural reproduction mechanism, in particular for monocellular species.
"silicon is almost the same... almost."
Absolutely, but the "almost" is so huge that, while silicon is overabundant on the surface of earth and carbon isn't, life as we know it is 100% based on carbon in water substrate simply because, from a biochemistery point of view, it is far more efficient this way.
It sounds a good thing to sell your vote, but you might soon notice that the price of your vote might simply be not losing your job at the first election, not being jailed at the second, and not being killed at the third (and you would have personnaly voted for each of these steps, so it will be perfectly legal).
No kidding, a few years ago, I worked for a GSM manufacturer and for one model, we had to use similar technique (sticking a cooper foil to the battery) because the battery was creating an electromagnetic coupling between the antenna and the SIM. Of course, it didn't improved reception, but at least, it prevented the phone from miserably crashing at each call and it was way cheaper than redesigning the whole thing one month before mass production.
It's totally different.
In Rowling's book, the caracter's name is GrangeR, and it's clearly not a boy.
You might consider him as a kind of teacher in defense against evil in the magical world of free (good) vs proprietary (evil) software.
With the changes of leadership in GB, Spain, Poland and Italy, I would say the last real US ally is France.
In my country, it is considered fair play for a loser to acknoledge the poll result as soon as the vote is over when the result estimates show a clear enough hierarchy, but such a statement has absolutely no effect on the official result counting and publication. Theorically, a candidate can say a loser speach on sunday evening and be officialy declared winner monday morning.
"can we manipulate some that take IN CO2 in impacting amounts as well?"
It already exists since a very long time, it's usually called a plant.
When you were kid, did you ever played with a ballon and water? Do you remember how hard it is to keep the ballon under water? This is the same thing here, before you could use the deep water great pressure to compress the gas, you first need a greater pressure to force your gas down, so when you had the huge cost of maintaining deep water equipments (changing a single valve can take days when it is under 100m of water) and the risk of losing some of the gas because it will solve into the water, this is truly a Very Bad Idea.