From the article, "by implanting the gold nanoparticles into the leaves of the Bacopa caroliniana plants, the scientists were able to induce the chlorophyll in the leaves to produce a red emission. Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll."
So, if we illuminate the trees from below with high (meaning shortwave?) ultraviolet light we can make the trees glow AND give everyone cataracts?
And no one is even discussing how to generate UV more efficiently than current streetlamps generate visible light.
Ya, I had the same problem! Both hands bad. Exactly as you call it, "classic carpal tunnel". The MD's (all 3 of them). recommended surgery. While hemming and hawing about it a friend of mine convinced me to go see his naprapath (ya, I know, one step less legit than chiropractors, but I was desperate to make the pain stop!) He gave me (yup, did not even charge me for the visit or anything) a pair of wrist braces and told me to wear them when I slept and when I was typing.
Dude, I gotta tell ya, 10 years later, no surgery, no pain, it's a fucking miracle! There are times that I still need to wear them at night. It turns out that I (in my sleep) fold my hands back towards my wrists, under my head. This cuts off the nerves and inflames them making them cause pain anytime, at even the slightest provocation, typing, driving, biking, motorcycling, anything.
It may not work for you but a pair of bowling braces (with the insert to keep you from bending your hands towards your wrists) are MUCH cheaper than the alternatives AND they don't leave scars!
Oh, and whenever I manage to throw out my back, I go see my naprapath.
First fact, This story is from fakes news, the propaganda wing of the republican party.
Second fact, We already know that the !right neo-con republicans will happily resort to any lie or misinformation that they think will give them some political advantage.
In light of all that and the timing of this "amazing revelation" I don't think I need to say any more.
Fortunately their poor choice of business model is not my problem. As much as they (and others) may wish, there is no such thing as felony interference to a business model.
My hardware, I paid for it. If they were to have leased it to me for 1/10th the price, I might care about keeping their model going. But as I paid full price AND already have title to the hardware, fuck em'.
PSN is already a moot point. Sony mooted themselves when they decided to remove the other OS feature. I did not apply that nor I will never apply another update from them to my PS3. As you can imagine, that also means I won't be buying any more new games for it either. Good Job Sony!
Bottom line, MY HARDWARE, I paid for it. Deal. When the day comes that I can use all the hardware without it, I will HAPPILY remove all traces of the sony OS from my machine. With the way things are going it won't be too much longer.
They already do that. The good news is that the noise level is so high they can't find a goddamn thing AND they aren't smart enough to figure out that less is more.
It DOES insure you have a better idea of what you are doing and exactly how it was done.
With a GUI you are assuming that the person that wrote the GUI has done everything in exactly the right way but you can't prove it. Nor can you prove that it's entirely correct for your application, the gui HIDES the important details in favor of simplicity.
Further, you cannot automate a gui to do the same thing to 62 different routers on 11 subnets without having to do those exact same seventeen clicks on each one. Nor can I read through the (non-existent) script at a later date to remind me what the heck it was I did. Yes it should be all documented but I can't tell you how many times I have spent an hour determining that someone skipped a single click or check box in a windows setup that makes one machine act differently from the others.
As far as DRM being the last chance for PC gaming, I call BS. I find it entirely ludicrous that on one hand you insist that without DRM they don't make enough money to make it worth staying in the PC market AND YET the games released on platforms with uncracked (for the most part anyway) DRM cost MORE than the games on the PC.
Anytime a publisher gives up the PC platform, it just makes room for better more able companies to get games out on the shelves. It will seriously be no real loss to the PC gaming community if ubisoft takes their ball and goes console.
As to it working fine for you, that may well be, I'm glad for you. However it is evidenced that it does not for many many people who also paid good money for a product they cannot use.
As to your TV analogy, I pay for my on line TV the exact same way I pay for over the air TV, I watch the COMMERCIALS. That system has worked on broadcast TV just fine. Here's a fun fact, Commercial time on hulu costs MORE per min on a given show than the broadcast commercials on the same show AND the advertisers have a much better accounting of how many people have seen their ads.
Technology changes things, time changes things, as a matter of fact change is pretty much the ONLY constant.
FTS, "The moral of this story seems to be that it is a bad idea to buy a game just before a major holiday."
Um, no the moral of this story is that DRM is beyond USELESS and only punishes the honest customers. I am sure that as usual the "pirates" are playing the game just fine.
Another moral to take away is don't give your money to people that want to treat you like a thief EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN THEM MONEY.
Th C=64 was the first computer I owned that I diden't build from scratch AND it had a disk operating system such as it was... Those were good times.
I still have the hesware 46 forth cartridge for the 64. (I came across it recently in a box full of old junk, manual too.)
I used to love forth but write only languages are such a pain even for the original developer. I cant imagine trying to maintain someone elses forth code. Machine code was so much easier.
Ahem, There is a real difference between knowing it well enough to fix it and using it as your main OS. I have a Mac Mini under my desk and have used it to learn OSX, connecting it to existing networks & supporting it and it's apps for people, but it's far from being something I USE on a daily basis.
If I send smtp out 100 emails in even a week, I don't think having my router direct me to a page asking me if _I_ did that and if I want to increase the number of emails/week before it warns me again is going to be that hard.
If the EMAILS were encrypted they would be useless wouldn't they.
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From the article,
"by implanting the gold nanoparticles into the leaves of the Bacopa caroliniana plants, the scientists were able to induce the chlorophyll in the leaves to produce a red emission. Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll."
So, if we illuminate the trees from below with high (meaning shortwave?) ultraviolet light we can make the trees glow AND give everyone cataracts?
And no one is even discussing how to generate UV more efficiently than current streetlamps generate visible light.
Ya, I had the same problem!
Both hands bad. Exactly as you call it, "classic carpal tunnel". The MD's (all 3 of them). recommended surgery.
While hemming and hawing about it a friend of mine convinced me to go see his naprapath (ya, I know, one step less legit than chiropractors, but I was desperate to make the pain stop!)
He gave me (yup, did not even charge me for the visit or anything) a pair of wrist braces and told me to wear them when I slept and when I was typing.
Dude, I gotta tell ya, 10 years later, no surgery, no pain, it's a fucking miracle!
There are times that I still need to wear them at night.
It turns out that I (in my sleep) fold my hands back towards my wrists, under my head. This cuts off the nerves and inflames them making them cause pain anytime, at even the slightest provocation, typing, driving, biking, motorcycling, anything.
It may not work for you but a pair of bowling braces (with the insert to keep you from bending your hands towards your wrists) are MUCH cheaper than the alternatives AND they don't leave scars!
Oh, and whenever I manage to throw out my back, I go see my naprapath.
$20 x 6 is $120. x2 (so I have an offline backup) $240.
Not enough to wait for but enough savings to make me decide it's time.
First fact, This story is from fakes news, the propaganda wing of the republican party.
Second fact, We already know that the !right neo-con republicans will happily resort to any lie or misinformation that they think will give them some political advantage.
In light of all that and the timing of this "amazing revelation" I don't think I need to say any more.
Fortunately their poor choice of business model is not my problem.
As much as they (and others) may wish, there is no such thing as felony interference to a business model.
My hardware, I paid for it.
If they were to have leased it to me for 1/10th the price, I might care about keeping their model going. But as I paid full price AND already have title to the hardware, fuck em'.
PSN is already a moot point.
Sony mooted themselves when they decided to remove the other OS feature. I did not apply that nor I will never apply another update from them to my PS3. As you can imagine, that also means I won't be buying any more new games for it either.
Good Job Sony!
Bottom line, MY HARDWARE, I paid for it. Deal.
When the day comes that I can use all the hardware without it, I will HAPPILY remove all traces of the sony OS from my machine. With the way things are going it won't be too much longer.
They already do that.
The good news is that the noise level is so high they can't find a goddamn thing AND they aren't smart enough to figure out that less is more.
Can you say wifi access point in the sky?
/rats
If I had two mod points, I'd give you one.
It DOES insure you have a better idea of what you are doing and exactly how it was done.
With a GUI you are assuming that the person that wrote the GUI has done everything in exactly the right way but you can't prove it. Nor can you prove that it's entirely correct for your application, the gui HIDES the important details in favor of simplicity.
Further, you cannot automate a gui to do the same thing to 62 different routers on 11 subnets without having to do those exact same seventeen clicks on each one. Nor can I read through the (non-existent) script at a later date to remind me what the heck it was I did. Yes it should be all documented but I can't tell you how many times I have spent an hour determining that someone skipped a single click or check box in a windows setup that makes one machine act differently from the others.
I'll take a shot,
With automation via scripting you have to know BOTH he scripting language AND firewall management.
With a GUI you don't _need_ to know either.
blarkon,
As far as DRM being the last chance for PC gaming, I call BS.
I find it entirely ludicrous that on one hand you insist that without DRM they don't make enough money to make it worth staying in the PC market AND YET the games released on platforms with uncracked (for the most part anyway) DRM cost MORE than the games on the PC.
Anytime a publisher gives up the PC platform, it just makes room for better more able companies to get games out on the shelves.
It will seriously be no real loss to the PC gaming community if ubisoft takes their ball and goes console.
As to it working fine for you, that may well be, I'm glad for you.
However it is evidenced that it does not for many many people who also paid good money for a product they cannot use.
As to your TV analogy,
I pay for my on line TV the exact same way I pay for over the air TV, I watch the COMMERCIALS.
That system has worked on broadcast TV just fine.
Here's a fun fact, Commercial time on hulu costs MORE per min on a given show than the broadcast commercials on the same show AND the advertisers have a much better accounting of how many people have seen their ads.
Technology changes things, time changes things, as a matter of fact change is pretty much the ONLY constant.
FTS,
"The moral of this story seems to be that it is a bad idea to buy a game just before a major holiday."
Um, no the moral of this story is that DRM is beyond USELESS and only punishes the honest customers. I am sure that as usual the "pirates" are playing the game just fine.
Another moral to take away is don't give your money to people that want to treat you like a thief EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN THEM MONEY.
Mistakill,
Where do you live that you can return opened software?
Th C=64 was the first computer I owned that I diden't build from scratch AND it had a disk operating system such as it was... Those were good times.
I still have the hesware 46 forth cartridge for the 64.
(I came across it recently in a box full of old junk, manual too.)
I used to love forth but write only languages are such a pain even for the original developer.
I cant imagine trying to maintain someone elses forth code.
Machine code was so much easier.
Anyway, I salute you Tom Zimmer, wherever you are.
Wow that was easy, http://tomzimmer.blogspot.com/
Ahem,
There is a real difference between knowing it well enough to fix it and using it as your main OS.
I have a Mac Mini under my desk and have used it to learn OSX, connecting it to existing networks & supporting it and it's apps for people, but it's far from being something I USE on a daily basis.
Interesting that you posted that as ac...
If I send smtp out 100 emails in even a week, I don't think having my router direct me to a page asking me if _I_ did that and if I want to increase the number of emails/week before it warns me again is going to be that hard.
If the EMAILS were encrypted they would be useless wouldn't they.
Couldn't a deep packet inspection reveal the botnet behaviors regardless of how good the rootkit was?
Sounds like a home router feature to me...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs has a nice explanation of the problem.
I can't believe no one bit on that one paxcoder...
Super Cancer.
Isn't tritium ridiculously valuable?
As in worth more per measure than gold or platinum?
done,
Oh crap.