Comment Re:Walled garden... or Zuccotti Park? (Score 2) 226
Good God, no. I mean, you know what someone will do for a Klondike bar??!?
Submission + - Learn Coding Online (wsj.com)
JoeMerchant writes: Online services like CodeCademy and Treehouse are making a business of teaching programming online. Despite the fact colleges are churning out more programmers, many fast-growing Silicon Valley companies say they still can't find enough of them.
Do you think that the online schools will add anything to traditional self-teaching of programming skills?
Do you think that the online schools will add anything to traditional self-teaching of programming skills?
Submission + - 17yr old creates cancer-killing nanoparticle (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Angela Zhang has just been awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.”
Her creation is being heralded as a “Swiss army knife of cancer treatment.” Zhang managed to develop a nanoparticle that can be delivered to the site of a tumor through the drug salinomycin. Once there it kills the cancer stem cells. However, Zhang went further and included both gold and iron-oxide components, which allow for non-invasive imaging of the site through MRI and Photoacoustics.
Her creation is being heralded as a “Swiss army knife of cancer treatment.” Zhang managed to develop a nanoparticle that can be delivered to the site of a tumor through the drug salinomycin. Once there it kills the cancer stem cells. However, Zhang went further and included both gold and iron-oxide components, which allow for non-invasive imaging of the site through MRI and Photoacoustics.
Comment Re:FP (Score 2) 1797
In what perfect world do you live?
1.) end federal guaranteed student loans.
2. college enrollment goes down.
3. Universities blame Ron Paul. Ron Paul blames universities.
4. catch 22 persists for 250 years as the world rolls on towards "Idiocracy"...
5. In 2261, no one goes to koledge or spels*)or properly use pro-nunk-u-ay-shun.
6. Ron Paul's utopia is reality!
7. Profit?
Comment Deep Thoughts... (Score 1) 239
What is the effect of the world's calmest music on a person whom is deaf?
Comment Re:AT&T's Response (Score 1) 301
Totally agree. Using T-Mobile because their data rate on Blackberry's is VASTLY superior to most other providers, specifically AT&T's... if the merger finally does occur, the data cost will likely double per month. That's not doing me, as a consumer in a depression, any good.
Submission + - Western Digital introduces 3TB My Book Studio (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: External hard drives are available in a number of different guises to suit an individual need. That includes drives specifically designed to not look out of place next to the aesthetics of a Mac computer or laptop.
Western Digital has designed its latest external drive specifically for that purpose. The My Book Studio is a desktop storage solution that places a Caviar Green hard drive inside a brushed aluminium casing. This combination not only makes for a gorgeous exterior, but also allowed Western Digital to leave out any fans for cooling. So it looks good and is completely silent except for the whirring drive inside.
As this is a drive mainly aimed at Mac owners you get both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Of course, it’s compatible with PCs too, but then the lack of USB 3.0 may be a deal breaker for most people. The lack of Thunderbolt may also be a let down for Mac users too.
There’s three models of the My Book Studio offering 1, 2, or 3TB of storage. Software shipped with each drive includes an automatic backup solution, password protection options, and hardware encryption. Western Digital has been shipping a 3TB My Book option since the beginning of 2010, so you can buy with confidence that they’ve got the formula right by now.
Western Digital has designed its latest external drive specifically for that purpose. The My Book Studio is a desktop storage solution that places a Caviar Green hard drive inside a brushed aluminium casing. This combination not only makes for a gorgeous exterior, but also allowed Western Digital to leave out any fans for cooling. So it looks good and is completely silent except for the whirring drive inside.
As this is a drive mainly aimed at Mac owners you get both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Of course, it’s compatible with PCs too, but then the lack of USB 3.0 may be a deal breaker for most people. The lack of Thunderbolt may also be a let down for Mac users too.
There’s three models of the My Book Studio offering 1, 2, or 3TB of storage. Software shipped with each drive includes an automatic backup solution, password protection options, and hardware encryption. Western Digital has been shipping a 3TB My Book option since the beginning of 2010, so you can buy with confidence that they’ve got the formula right by now.
Submission + - Flash Obsoleted by IBM Breakthrough in PCM (smartertechnology.com)
An anonymous reader writes: IBM claims to have refined phase change memory (PCM) to put it on track to replace flash within three years. PCMs will be 100-times faster, last 3000 times longer and achieve densities that make flash look like an antique. We've heard these claims before, but this time it looks like they've got the deep-pockets and architectural changes to make it work.
Submission + - Web Devs Optimistic Over IE10 Conditionals Demise (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Microsoft has announced some changes due in Internet Explorer 10 that promise to improve its HTML5 parsing with respect to other browsers, but the removal of certain features, including the death of conditional comments, is causing a stir in the web development community.
Comment Re:Cause of the illness? (Score 1) 300
I call shenanigans on the need for documentation... what's a zombie going to do? Check my driver's license before it eats my liver?
Comment Netflix still doesn't do captioning (Score 2) 333
Netflix having so many customers demonstrates a viable business model. One that has more or less destroyed the Blockbuster empire. I would have no problem with being a Netflix customer myself, except that Netflix still demonstrates they have no desire for DEAF customers. They insist on pretending that Closed Captioning is an arcane and difficult technology to implement.
So, while I applaud Netflix for their massive customer base, I do NOT welcome these Netflix overlords, because they insist on treating me as a second class citizen. Shape up, Netflix!
Comment Missing Option: I'M DEAF, YOUR IGNORANT CLOD! (Score 1) 344
I'm DEAF you ignorant clod! I only listen to music via tinnitus!
Comment Re:tb;dw (Score 1) 82
Too deaf, no caption, did not watch (TD;NC;DNW)
Comment Re:libraries (Score 1) 98
Really? For everything in that post, you focused on the Fox News comment?
To clarify: Informational Literacy means ALL SOURCES. Currently, many news sources are guilty of reporting OPINION as NEWS. Fox News is extremely fond of this. MSNBC is as well.
Thank you for playing "let's miss the point entirely"
Comment Re:libraries (Score 5, Informative) 98
As one who works in a library, my response is more than likely to be prejudiced...
Part of why we need libraries is a total failure of informational literacy. Many of the people we see today have no clue how to tell the difference between REAL and NOT REAL (hence, people who think World News Digest or Fox News are "real": they lack the skill set to determine what information has value and what does not.)
Libraries are also tremendous community and learning centers. We're really the center of democracy and freedom. We aid the local schools, the senior centers, the youth assistance groups, and provide training and access to job searching. A community without a Library is a community without a heart: it will wither, suffer and die.
Maybe one day a level of informational literacy will exist. Maybe one day it'll be taught in schools, from Pre-School through College/University. That day is not today, and not likely in this century. Modern Librarians are experts on finding information, and making sure it's good information.
Need to know more? Look up multiple resources on Informational Literacy. Just for an example: http://tln.lib.mi.us/searchpath/
