It was anecdotal at a support meeting but find an October or November copy of The Lancet medical journal and you'll find the report cited in this article.
even though improvements could not be detected by doctors' tests, a greater proportion of patients taking the drug reported reduced pain and muscle stiffness than those taking fake capsules
The meeting was held in 2004 and that information passed on to me at that time. Do a search on Google for MS marijuana and you find a lot of information on the topic. Anything to avoid shots many times a week is seen as a positive but I've grown cynical of the "next big miracle cure"(tm)
I don't think anyone has said it should be illegal. I'm just tired of it being presented as a snake oil cure for everything when it isn't. In the case of MS they found that yes it helped with pain but over time it worsened some symptoms such as balance and cognitive skills. I'm glad we're looking at herbal and holistic compounds for cures but I'm tired of a "cure" being offered when it really isn't. Cue the tin foil hats about how this is a conspiracy from the government/Big Pharms.
That weed is a magic cure for "X". A while back they where offering it for glaucoma then M.S. and now cancer. In the end it's still used mostly for getting high.
I don't care what you do, but until there is a viable way to get all the positive herbal healing from it, don't sound the "smoke weed to cure [blah]" horns.
He won't tell you what they are because he hasn't tried them on Vista yet. He's just guessing or buying into the FUD going around about Vista breaking this, not working that.
Fine. Want a specific? Salesforce offline sync. And one application failing for our sales staff because of upgrade is more than enough.
There is quite a number of small third party applications my users use on a daily basis that are not Vista compatible. If you run EVERYTHING as Microsoft and with the latest/greatest hardware/software I'd assume you'd have no problems. I've had enough problems getting Creative Media Drivers to work on Vista laptop for personal use and I don't want to attempt anything like that at the enterprise level.
It's the risk/reward aspect that I see has a hard sell right now. When our vendors can produce applications that can run Vista we may go up that road, until then I know I'm pushing for XP Pro environment.
Honestly for me, the number of applications that would just stop working or would need to be coaxed to run on Vista that would make it unstable is far more of an administrative headache than I know I'm willing to deal with at HOME let alone from Joe User who know how to turn a computer on and swears that when an icon is gone the application is missing...
Unfortunately TFA only talks about emissions from power plants.
Actually, that depends on if you're in a regulated or deregulated market for your energy. If you're in a deregulated market you can find out what the competition is using and if you're that worried about it switch to the cleaner power supplier. Otherwise, you can figure out what percentage of that plants emissions you helped create and can reduce by conservation measures in your home/home office. You may think "Drip in a bucket" mentality here, but if everyone took that kind of initiative it would reduce the overall carbon footprint of the power plants.
This is why you can't patent warp engines isn't it? Yeah, the idea may be nice... But if it's nothing but an idea you're going to squash any sort of REAL research in this area with announcements like that aren't you?
For those of us who need to think bigger EnergyStar has a report and ways to cut energy usage for a whole data center... But energy saving starts at home.
Dutch police have arrested a teenager for robbery of virtual furniture worth roughly $5900
So this service rendered a virtual good that was taken. So, yes add fraud to the list of charges but that doesn't change that fact that someone paid for furniture (no matter how fictitious) and this young person "broke in" and removed the furniture.
It's theft because a company exchanged money for goods. But it's not theft because it happened online and nothing was "really" stolen?
I think we're the wrong people to be debating the merits of this. We won't steal physical media but most have no qualms about downloading data even if it is protected by license or copy write. Is phishing and cracking the wrong in this case? Well of course, but have we jailed people for stealing WoW accounts/items yet?
A patch (IMHO) is a bug fit to existing code. Given the resources we should be able to get a PATCH out in a week. However, if you need a new version of the software to address the issue. Then we're talking longer development/testing/QA times if which case 4-5 weeks would not be unreasonable. Bugs should be fixed as soon as they are spotted. If their is need for a whole rewrite then you may want to talk to your staff
We've summoned a small demon to let in cool air particles and shunt out hot ones. Sure the weekly sacrifice gets to be a pain after a while, but there's always a pool of willing interns right?
By the time they get all the procedures into place some auditor who thinks they're a lawyer will just come and change the rules. At least that's how it was when I was working with SOX. I would die a little inside each time I submitted paperwork to test the application for submitting paperwork for testing applications... So it would have no effect on the current 1984 Pigs
I try to keep the marketing/sales guys as far away from the development staff as possible. I tell them WHAT to sell not the other way around. When you have marketing/sales driving development you get a lot of pretty widgets that don't really do anything until the first "bug fix" or unrealistic short sighted applications that go over budget and undersold.
Seriously though, even THAT is too much sometimes. We travel the net under pseudonyms for a reason. Maybe it's because we think that's the name that identifies us better than "Robert Smith of Salt Lake City" or maybe it's because we want a little ambiguity to our actions online. When you're at a party and give your name and number to a girl, you give it to THAT girl and no one else (one can assume). A chat room or social web site is different, you yell it out to the whole room, but in this case the room is the world for those who are listening. So, yes, we as individuals need to be smarter, we need to teach the next generation to be more concerned who DOES in fact know that they are 17/f/Florida and beyond. But, isn't this social engineering? If we start them early to think that giving any/all information to a stranger is okay and the government is protecting me from myself. Then the government wanting to know any/everything about me is just fine?
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I don't think anyone has said it should be illegal. I'm just tired of it being presented as a snake oil cure for everything when it isn't.
In the case of MS they found that yes it helped with pain but over time it worsened some symptoms such as balance and cognitive skills. I'm glad we're looking at herbal and holistic compounds for cures but I'm tired of a "cure" being offered when it really isn't.
Cue the tin foil hats about how this is a conspiracy from the government/Big Pharms.
That weed is a magic cure for "X". A while back they where offering it for glaucoma then M.S. and now cancer. In the end it's still used mostly for getting high.
I don't care what you do, but until there is a viable way to get all the positive herbal healing from it, don't sound the "smoke weed to cure [blah]" horns.
This discovery is FABULOUS!
This is what we get for the writers being on strike.
There is quite a number of small third party applications my users use on a daily basis that are not Vista compatible. If you run EVERYTHING as Microsoft and with the latest/greatest hardware/software I'd assume you'd have no problems. I've had enough problems getting Creative Media Drivers to work on Vista laptop for personal use and I don't want to attempt anything like that at the enterprise level.
It's the risk/reward aspect that I see has a hard sell right now. When our vendors can produce applications that can run Vista we may go up that road, until then I know I'm pushing for XP Pro environment.
Honestly for me, the number of applications that would just stop working or would need to be coaxed to run on Vista that would make it unstable is far more of an administrative headache than I know I'm willing to deal with at HOME let alone from Joe User who know how to turn a computer on and swears that when an icon is gone the application is missing...
Till this is applied to all the YouTube Porn knock offs?
Leave the Sun Alone!!! It loves its Aunt! It's been going through a divorce! You don't know it so you can't judge it!
I know I'm going to hell
This is why you can't patent warp engines isn't it? Yeah, the idea may be nice... But if it's nothing but an idea you're going to squash any sort of REAL research in this area with announcements like that aren't you?
For those of us who need to think bigger EnergyStar has a report and ways to cut energy usage for a whole data center... But energy saving starts at home.
First rule of true hacking... You don't talk about Hacking! Second rule of Hacking... YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT HACKING!
That's why people just assume Crackers are Hackers... Crackers talk, Hackers know better...
It's theft because a company exchanged money for goods. But it's not theft because it happened online and nothing was "really" stolen?
I think we're the wrong people to be debating the merits of this. We won't steal physical media but most have no qualms about downloading data even if it is protected by license or copy write. Is phishing and cracking the wrong in this case? Well of course, but have we jailed people for stealing WoW accounts/items yet?
A patch (IMHO) is a bug fit to existing code. Given the resources we should be able to get a PATCH out in a week. However, if you need a new version of the software to address the issue. Then we're talking longer development/testing/QA times if which case 4-5 weeks would not be unreasonable. Bugs should be fixed as soon as they are spotted. If their is need for a whole rewrite then you may want to talk to your staff
We've summoned a small demon to let in cool air particles and shunt out hot ones. Sure the weekly sacrifice gets to be a pain after a while, but there's always a pool of willing interns right?
I fear mice with only one button...
I have a DivX Player... It's called a computer...
I try to keep the marketing/sales guys as far away from the development staff as possible. I tell them WHAT to sell not the other way around. When you have marketing/sales driving development you get a lot of pretty widgets that don't really do anything until the first "bug fix" or unrealistic short sighted applications that go over budget and undersold.
A/S/L?
Seriously though, even THAT is too much sometimes. We travel the net under pseudonyms for a reason. Maybe it's because we think that's the name that identifies us better than "Robert Smith of Salt Lake City" or maybe it's because we want a little ambiguity to our actions online. When you're at a party and give your name and number to a girl, you give it to THAT girl and no one else (one can assume). A chat room or social web site is different, you yell it out to the whole room, but in this case the room is the world for those who are listening.
So, yes, we as individuals need to be smarter, we need to teach the next generation to be more concerned who DOES in fact know that they are 17/f/Florida and beyond. But, isn't this social engineering? If we start them early to think that giving any/all information to a stranger is okay and the government is protecting me from myself. Then the government wanting to know any/everything about me is just fine?
If a conversation goes long enough SOMEONE will bring up Nazis