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Re:Theres no scientific proof for any of this.
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Actually the PET studies are more complicated than that. Since its ethically wrong to do PET on children since it involves dosing them with radiation. The studies were only done on adult males. And since its been noted that Methylphenidate acts differently in children/adolescencts than it does in adults the comparison here is difficult.
For the same reason the etimology of the disorder is difficult to determine because you can't see whats going on in a child's brain (because of the ethical issues of radiation).
As for comparing ADDERALL(r) to RITALIN(r) they both affect the dopamine levels of the brain so yes they're in the same league (mechanism of action is similar).
Methylphenidate (MPH) is the generic NAME of RITALIN(r). MPH has been used in the treatment of ADHD since the 1940s. Generic forms of Ritalin are available and generic companies are required in their ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Application filed with the FDA) to show bioequivalence to Ritalin. MPH has been shown to be less abusable habit forming than amphetamines. In fact European markets in essence avoid mixed amphetamine salts altogether.
CONCERTA(r) is a time release formulation of methylphenidate HCL which is produced by McNeil Consumer (A division of Johnson & Johnson). The actual pill is for all intensive purposes a medical device. It consists of an nonabsorbable osmotic capsule and a push compartment. As water enters the shell the push compartment expands releasing the MPH at a controlled rate. CONCERTA is the only ADHD drug to be indicated for 12 hours. The beauty of the system is that the Pharmacokinetics of the drug provide a smooth PK plasma curve rather than having 2-3 sharp spikes like ADDERALL-XR(r) or RITALIN-LA(r). RITALIN-LA of course being another drug you didn't mention. RITALIN-LA essentially replaced RITALIN-SR when it was determined that RITALIN-SR didn't last long enough.
On an abusability level CONCERTA is considered to be safer than other MPH alternatives because the MPH is made into a paste which is considered unsnortable. Regardless the drug is Schedule II and you must go to your doctor's office for new prescriptions.
Antidepressants are also sometimes used in the treatment algorithm for ADHD. Disclaimer: I work for a divison of J&J
This may prove that the code is speech but because this is an issue internal to the United States (as opposed to the export of PGP which was an international issue) why can't the judge ban the use of the code. You may be able to argue that having the code printed is free speech and I'd agree with you; however, once you compile that code its no longer speech (as the law goes). Then by using that code you could commit a crime. I understand how this wouldn't apply to PGP because once its outside the US your dealing the the law of the nation in which you reside. To the best of my knowledge no nation has a law stating that your not allowed to use PGP.
At first I was about to disagree with you arguing that some of the bacteria they launched on the rocket was found in the hot springs of Yellowstone national park. These Archaea bacteria could easily survive the heat however the radiation is a much bigger concern. The article says there was a 1000-fold reduction in cells and this was only from a suborbital (10 minute or less) flight! If these cells were to travel to another planet they'd be in space for a number of years! The mutations involved would be tremendous and the chance of any cells surviving would be scant at best. I think this article is almost proof against cells surviving in space. The one chance the cells would have would be to survive in the depths of a meteor potentially in a pocket of rock. The odds would still be slim but with infinite space and infinite celestial bodies I guess anything can happen... as it did.
Sharky Extreme seems to like the new chip. Check it out here. I'm all for more than one opinion. I think Tom bashed it hard and it probablly deserved the bashing, however now I've got to decide whom to believe.
You just don't seem to understand. Why sell the boards when by keeping them you could easily become number one in the SETI standings. Come on whats more valuable a billion dollars or SETI standings? I think all the true geeks here know the answer to this question standing on their heads with their eyes CLOSED!
Maybe they really have the board and want to save all the units for themselves? Ever think of that one? They'd have tricked you all twice! No this is not a conspiracy theory!
The homing beacons that they use only transmit if they're above water. Seeing as that Great White Sharks live in the water the tracker would just stop transmitting and we'd see the tracker as fallen off or Peter as yummy shark food.
Actually a group at Cornell, I can't seem to find their web page, has been working on a hybrid electric vehicle(HEV) SUV. Kind of self defeating IMHO but because of the SUV popularity and the push to create less polution car manufactures think their might be a market for a practical HEV SUV. I believe it was last year that a brand new Blazer was donated by a trustee to convert into an HEV.
For those of you who don't know, most HEV's now adays use some amount of fuel to power a high speed flywheel which in turns powers the car through batteries. The challenge of creating an SUV that runs on batteries is keeping the weight from going through the roof. A lot of "new" materials are being tested due to the high speed flywheel needed to charge the batteries.
When I was given a tour of a HEV the team was working on they told me some funny stories of how the fly wheel had stopped working on a test drive and they had pulled to the side of the road to see what was wrong with it. A police officer pulled over to offer his assistance like calling a tow truck or something. They told him that their engine had broke but no big deal they'd just drive home (on battery power). They got a VERY strange look.
I've heard the distate some guys that work for one of the power companies here in NJ have for their natural gas vehicles. The company has some gasoline vehicles as well as some natural gas vehicles and they fight to not get a natural gas van. They told me they feel the vans have limited range and take all night to fuel up. Arizona may pay you 6000$ for your conversion but it seems to me you have to undergo a lot of hassle. On top of that until a large infrastructure is available to support alternate fueling methods you're not going to see a large shift in the publics use of the alternate fuel. Oil companies don't need to pay anyone off its very pricey to create the infrastructure.
I think your missing the point. The way I interpret the article is more about creating something that performs Xs job but is slimer faster and cheaper (well free) (choose all three). Technology has advanced leaps and bounds, we know more about graphics. Heck we've even solved Fermat's last therom, we've just plain learned a lot.
His challenge is to fit the whole OS and windowing environment as well as a browser on one floppy and well, X isn't gonna help. Start with a fresh sheet of paper and some great minds, odds are you can do better with today's knowledge.
I wonder how my PC will survive being dropped from the third floor. I mean their unit was just a simple arcade machine, a desktop PC should survive three stories shouldn't it?
If you don't hear from me in a couple days you can assume the worst....I must bodly go where no computer has gone before!
What comes out of this Open Media is garbage because it's run by a bunch of kiddies who know nothing of content and quality. It pure-and-simple rubbish - quantity, and not quality.
Why do you read Slashdot?
I read it to scan a vast amount of media aimed at me. Its a clear concise summary of things my peers think would be interesting to me. Everyday it posts a slew of articles at me (Quantity). I read a quick summary of these articles and with the help of the Internet I go DIRECTLY to the source of the news(Quality).
Your problem seems to be that you've read news from Time for so long that you cannot accept the change in media presentation. New media throws everything at me, and I research what I find interesting, STRAIGHT from the source.
Do you really find Time's third person biased summaries of value....of course you do you were raised to believe all of its media. Thanks to the Internet the new generation can go straight to the source with the click of a button(tm). Don't get me wrong Time did everything right. In the day when news needed to be brought to your home it did it. But today, I can get my own news, thanks.
I have the exact same player and mine has never skipped. I haven't jogged with it yet but I assume that would be the ultimate test.
It was a bit of a problem when I installed it in my car. I used only a 1 amp converter and whenever I hit a bump it would shut off. After a few bumps I figured out that skip protection draws more than an amp and my new 10 amp converter works great.
I was also a little confused with my MpTrip not being able to go back a song. The buttons are a little mislabeled. Preview, is really like Previous. If you hit it once it brings you to the beggining of the track and if you hit it twice it goes back one track. If you hit it twice and hold it, it scrolls backwards through the songs. Same deal with Next, two taps and hold and it scrolls forward through the songs.
I got an MpTrip player for my birthday in May. Back then they were labeled as Generic MP3CD players. Other than the front logo they're spitting images of each other (mine just says "mp3" rather than "MpTrip").
I really enjoy listening to it the music sounds great and I practically never have to switch CDs. The one truly negative comment I have is the keys are slightly hard to press. Once you press them they work but some are small and must be pressed rather hard to register. Maybe they've fixed this since then though I doubt it. Its a flaw with the overall design (switches being located on the lower half and buttons on the upper half).
The instructions that came with it were unintelligible. Until now I had no clue it was capable of 500 seconds of voice recording, though of what use this I don't know. I did glean from them that if you record your songs in directories labeled "directory1, directory2..." that you can play just the songs in that directory. Of course you also have the option of playing randomly, just a single song, or all of them sequentially.
I do reccommend buying another set of earphones, the earphones it comes with can be rough on your ears after extended periods of time. And at 100$ you can certainly afford a pair of earphones and still have spent less than if you were to purchase a competing player.
Every slashdot article on MP3 players includes comments about MDs. If there was anything good coming out for MDs you'd probablly see the article on Slashdot wouldn't you?
It may be enjoyable for YOU to purchase MDs at 2$ for 140 megs. However, I enjoy purchasing sub 1$ CDs which hold at least 4.6 times the music.
I had an MD player it was wonderful. Then came MP3CD players. Now I own an MpTrip and couldn't be happier. My MD player held a max of 65 mins (17 tracks or so) of music. Where now I have more than 100 tracks on my MpTrip. On top of that it takes me 20 mins to burn a CD where it took me 65 mins to create a MD.
Come on, lets get at least 650 megs per MD before we start going wild over it.
The article is old news. I've seen it on/. once before as well as in Forbes. From what I've read doing things fast in parallel is normally faster than just doing it fast singularly. The trick that this is trying to come up with is the code which DYNAMICALLY programs these FPGAs. They're pretty quick to reprogram (not blazingly fast supercomputer speed). So if your doing one task for awhile (or many tasks for awhile) which is what the mainframes where I work do, then you get a cheap, fast supercomputer. In fact we could really use about 100,000 4 bit adders tacked on to our mainframe here.
However if I were to replace it with my workstation, where I multitask programs AND start new tasks and stop old tasks continuously, then the time it would take to reprogram the FPGAs would be substantial (in comparison to the number of operations it could do in that amount of time).
This technology isn't for the benefit of every average person (yet), unfortunately they wish it was and mis-advertise it occasionally. One of their biggest partners is a Cable company which wants to use their computers for cable encoding and such. A task that just needs a ton of FPGAs.
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His estate could carry on the lawsuit indefinitely. His heirs or the beneficiaries of his will would still profit in the event of a judgment for him.
This just means the paid assassin(s) have a few extra targets.
Ok, now my pumpkin is black and blue and the cops are after me for pumpkin abuse. What next?
These people are "working 24 hours a day (Timezone differences may apply)"
Actually the PET studies are more complicated than that. Since its ethically wrong to do PET on children since it involves dosing them with radiation. The studies were only done on adult males. And since its been noted that Methylphenidate acts differently in children/adolescencts than it does in adults the comparison here is difficult.
For the same reason the etimology of the disorder is difficult to determine because you can't see whats going on in a child's brain (because of the ethical issues of radiation).
As for comparing ADDERALL(r) to RITALIN(r) they both affect the dopamine levels of the brain so yes they're in the same league (mechanism of action is similar).
CONCERTA(r) is a time release formulation of methylphenidate HCL which is produced by McNeil Consumer (A division of Johnson & Johnson). The actual pill is for all intensive purposes a medical device. It consists of an nonabsorbable osmotic capsule and a push compartment. As water enters the shell the push compartment expands releasing the MPH at a controlled rate. CONCERTA is the only ADHD drug to be indicated for 12 hours. The beauty of the system is that the Pharmacokinetics of the drug provide a smooth PK plasma curve rather than having 2-3 sharp spikes like ADDERALL-XR(r) or RITALIN-LA(r). RITALIN-LA of course being another drug you didn't mention. RITALIN-LA essentially replaced RITALIN-SR when it was determined that RITALIN-SR didn't last long enough.
On an abusability level CONCERTA is considered to be safer than other MPH alternatives because the MPH is made into a paste which is considered unsnortable. Regardless the drug is Schedule II and you must go to your doctor's office for new prescriptions.
Antidepressants are also sometimes used in the treatment algorithm for ADHD.
Disclaimer: I work for a divison of J&J
This may prove that the code is speech but because this is an issue internal to the United States (as opposed to the export of PGP which was an international issue) why can't the judge ban the use of the code. You may be able to argue that having the code printed is free speech and I'd agree with you; however, once you compile that code its no longer speech (as the law goes). Then by using that code you could commit a crime. I understand how this wouldn't apply to PGP because once its outside the US your dealing the the law of the nation in which you reside. To the best of my knowledge no nation has a law stating that your not allowed to use PGP.
One step forward two steps backward?
At first I was about to disagree with you arguing that some of the bacteria they launched on the rocket was found in the hot springs of Yellowstone national park. These Archaea bacteria could easily survive the heat however the radiation is a much bigger concern. The article says there was a 1000-fold reduction in cells and this was only from a suborbital (10 minute or less) flight! If these cells were to travel to another planet they'd be in space for a number of years! The mutations involved would be tremendous and the chance of any cells surviving would be scant at best. I think this article is almost proof against cells surviving in space. The one chance the cells would have would be to survive in the depths of a meteor potentially in a pocket of rock. The odds would still be slim but with infinite space and infinite celestial bodies I guess anything can happen... as it did.
Sharky Extreme seems to like the new chip. Check it out here. I'm all for more than one opinion. I think Tom bashed it hard and it probablly deserved the bashing, however now I've got to decide whom to believe.
You just don't seem to understand.
Why sell the boards when by keeping them you could easily become number one in the SETI standings. Come on whats more valuable a billion dollars or SETI standings? I think all the true geeks here know the answer to this question standing on their heads with their eyes CLOSED!
Maybe they really have the board and want to save all the units for themselves?
Ever think of that one? They'd have tricked you all twice!
No this is not a conspiracy theory!
The homing beacons that they use only transmit if they're above water. Seeing as that Great White Sharks live in the water the tracker would just stop transmitting and we'd see the tracker as fallen off or Peter as yummy shark food.
Actually a group at Cornell, I can't seem to find their web page, has been working on a hybrid electric vehicle(HEV) SUV. Kind of self defeating IMHO but because of the SUV popularity and the push to create less polution car manufactures think their might be a market for a practical HEV SUV. I believe it was last year that a brand new Blazer was donated by a trustee to convert into an HEV.
For those of you who don't know, most HEV's now adays use some amount of fuel to power a high speed flywheel which in turns powers the car through batteries. The challenge of creating an SUV that runs on batteries is keeping the weight from going through the roof. A lot of "new" materials are being tested due to the high speed flywheel needed to charge the batteries.
When I was given a tour of a HEV the team was working on they told me some funny stories of how the fly wheel had stopped working on a test drive and they had pulled to the side of the road to see what was wrong with it. A police officer pulled over to offer his assistance like calling a tow truck or something. They told him that their engine had broke but no big deal they'd just drive home (on battery power). They got a VERY strange look.
I've heard the distate some guys that work for one of the power companies here in NJ have for their natural gas vehicles. The company has some gasoline vehicles as well as some natural gas vehicles and they fight to not get a natural gas van. They told me they feel the vans have limited range and take all night to fuel up. Arizona may pay you 6000$ for your conversion but it seems to me you have to undergo a lot of hassle. On top of that until a large infrastructure is available to support alternate fueling methods you're not going to see a large shift in the publics use of the alternate fuel. Oil companies don't need to pay anyone off its very pricey to create the infrastructure.
I think your missing the point. The way I interpret the article is more about creating something that performs Xs job but is slimer faster and cheaper (well free) (choose all three). Technology has advanced leaps and bounds, we know more about graphics. Heck we've even solved Fermat's last therom, we've just plain learned a lot.
His challenge is to fit the whole OS and windowing environment as well as a browser on one floppy and well, X isn't gonna help. Start with a fresh sheet of paper and some great minds, odds are you can do better with today's knowledge.
I wonder how my PC will survive being dropped from the third floor. I mean their unit was just a simple arcade machine, a desktop PC should survive three stories shouldn't it?
If you don't hear from me in a couple days you can assume the worst....I must bodly go where no computer has gone before!
Farewell,
Brave computer dropper
Why do you read Slashdot?
I read it to scan a vast amount of media aimed at me. Its a clear concise summary of things my peers think would be interesting to me. Everyday it posts a slew of articles at me (Quantity). I read a quick summary of these articles and with the help of the Internet I go DIRECTLY to the source of the news(Quality).
Your problem seems to be that you've read news from Time for so long that you cannot accept the change in media presentation. New media throws everything at me, and I research what I find interesting, STRAIGHT from the source.
Do you really find Time's third person biased summaries of value....of course you do you were raised to believe all of its media. Thanks to the Internet the new generation can go straight to the source with the click of a button(tm). Don't get me wrong Time did everything right. In the day when news needed to be brought to your home it did it. But today, I can get my own news, thanks.
My first thought was of all the poor programs that already start with gnu:
.god, .gnu, etc etc... I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime.
GnuCash.Gnu
Run Spot Run
But Seriously how many TLDs are we going to propose before we see a single one?
I have the exact same player and mine has never skipped. I haven't jogged with it yet but I assume that would be the ultimate test.
It was a bit of a problem when I installed it in my car. I used only a 1 amp converter and whenever I hit a bump it would shut off. After a few bumps I figured out that skip protection draws more than an amp and my new 10 amp converter works great.
I was also a little confused with my MpTrip not being able to go back a song. The buttons are a little mislabeled. Preview, is really like Previous. If you hit it once it brings you to the beggining of the track and if you hit it twice it goes back one track. If you hit it twice and hold it, it scrolls backwards through the songs. Same deal with Next, two taps and hold and it scrolls forward through the songs.
I really enjoy listening to it the music sounds great and I practically never have to switch CDs. The one truly negative comment I have is the keys are slightly hard to press. Once you press them they work but some are small and must be pressed rather hard to register. Maybe they've fixed this since then though I doubt it. Its a flaw with the overall design (switches being located on the lower half and buttons on the upper half).
The instructions that came with it were unintelligible. Until now I had no clue it was capable of 500 seconds of voice recording, though of what use this I don't know. I did glean from them that if you record your songs in directories labeled "directory1, directory2..." that you can play just the songs in that directory. Of course you also have the option of playing randomly, just a single song, or all of them sequentially.
I do reccommend buying another set of earphones, the earphones it comes with can be rough on your ears after extended periods of time. And at 100$ you can certainly afford a pair of earphones and still have spent less than if you were to purchase a competing player.
It may be enjoyable for YOU to purchase MDs at 2$ for 140 megs. However, I enjoy purchasing sub 1$ CDs which hold at least 4.6 times the music.
I had an MD player it was wonderful. Then came MP3CD players. Now I own an MpTrip and couldn't be happier. My MD player held a max of 65 mins (17 tracks or so) of music. Where now I have more than 100 tracks on my MpTrip. On top of that it takes me 20 mins to burn a CD where it took me 65 mins to create a MD.
Come on, lets get at least 650 megs per MD before we start going wild over it.
I'm still missing one set of letters
.-- .- .--. .--."
My guess is:
Well Done, Now apply for a job!
WELLD "23 05 12 12 04"
ONE,N ???????????????
OWAPP "---
LYFOR "01001100 01011001 01000110 01001111 01010010"
AJOB! "Mouse rollover"
Matt
So when will I be able to get an mp3 player in my electric toothbrush?
Odds an NT or 98 box will go down 1:1
Odds a Linux box will go down, well that's impossible.
Matt
The article is old news. I've seen it on /. once before as well as in Forbes. From what I've read doing things fast in parallel is normally faster than just doing it fast singularly. The trick that this is trying to come up with is the code which DYNAMICALLY programs these FPGAs. They're pretty quick to reprogram (not blazingly fast supercomputer speed). So if your doing one task for awhile (or many tasks for awhile) which is what the mainframes where I work do, then you get a cheap, fast supercomputer. In fact we could really use about 100,000 4 bit adders tacked on to our mainframe here.
However if I were to replace it with my workstation, where I multitask programs AND start new tasks and stop old tasks continuously, then the time it would take to reprogram the FPGAs would be substantial (in comparison to the number of operations it could do in that amount of time).
This technology isn't for the benefit of every average person (yet), unfortunately they wish it was and mis-advertise it occasionally. One of their biggest partners is a Cable company which wants to use their computers for cable encoding and such. A task that just needs a ton of FPGAs.
Enjoy
Umbro2