Pain in the Asteroids
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NASA wants to move Asteroids
NASA wants to move Asteroids
05/25/2004 07:05 AMSeems NASA has contracted a company to investigate the possibility
of designing a robot that will be used to alter an asteroids course.
[Engadget]
TiWarriors Asteroids Game
TiWarriors Asteroids Game
01/26/2004 12:33 PM0.2 released!!
Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids
Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids
07/29/2004 01:20 AMMADMEN to Protect Earth from Asteroids!
MADMEN to Protect Earth from Asteroids!
05/19/2004 10:15 PMSpace.com has an article about
space robots to hunt space rocks to protect earth.
Movies like Meteor,
Asteroid and Armageddon help us to
imagine blowing
up space rocks with nuclear missles, and saving the Earth, but
neuclear robots really are being developed to save Earth from
Asteroids. Called
MADMEN
(Modular Asteroid Deflection Mission Ejector Node), these swarm
robots will attack an asteroid and try to deflect it away
from the earth. MADMEN will work by drilling bits of rock
and throwing them away pushing the asteroid in the other
direction. Over time the asteroid will move faster and
faster in the opposite direction and away from Earth.
SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI), the maker of MADMEN has
won a NASA award to study Near-Earth Objects (NEO) and an
approach to defend against asteroid impactors. Perhaps it's
just in time to
keep the Earth from being destroyed in 2019!
Magma Oceans Covered Early Asteroids
Magma Oceans Covered Early Asteroids
06/17/2005 03:48 PMSpaceWeather.com -- News and information
about meteor showers, solar flares,
auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information
about meteor showers, solar flares,
auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
10/29/2003 09:10 AMSunspot 464 is wider than fifteen planet Earths lined up in a row ..
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Pain
Pain
12/17/2002 12:28 AM
"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."
- Fight Club
PAiN 0.45
PAiN 0.45
06/08/2004 07:42 AMA new MUD code base written in Java.
Must We Die In Pain?
Must We Die In Pain?
03/28/2005 06:13 PMForbes Mar 28 2005 9:48PM GMT
More Pain at JDS Uniphase
More Pain at JDS Uniphase
04/29/2004 01:27 PM"Narrower loss" contains some bullets.
No Pain, No Hain
No Pain, No Hain
09/01/2004 08:13 AMHain Celestial puts up organically sound prospects -- if not earnings.
The Pain of Text
The Pain of Text
01/22/2004 02:12 AMYeah, this stuff's all getting cranky. Deal. :) At the moment, I'm
trying to work on specifying text stuff for Parrot. Not simple, of
course, because text is such a massive pain. Right now I'm just trying
to sort the various functions on characters and strings into the right
spot so they can be properly overridden, thumped, assaulted, and
generally beaten about. If you've been following along, you've no
doubt seen the rants about text, so I won't reprise them (much) and
instead go for the actual useful bits. As far as I can tell (and this
is all welded...
Total Pain of Using
Total Pain of Using
08/16/2004 04:09 PMTCO or "Total Cost of Ownership" is a notion that one can calculate
(with some accuracy) the complete cost of owning something, including
all the weird side effects of acquiring and owning that thing. For
example, I can by a new 3.2GHz notebook for $2,000 and it comes with
Windows XP. But odds are that I'll spend 20 hours in the first year
dealing with device drivers, spyware, and viruses. If I value my time
at $50/hour, then the total...
Pain bites.
Pain bites.
09/20/2004 08:52 AM
No pain, no gain, they say, and when it comes to real pain, the
inverse is true as well.
"
We
now have research indicating there's a memory of chronic pain,"
said Dr. Doris K. Cope, director of chronic and cancer pain for the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It changes the genic code
sometimes, it changes the biochemistry, and it causes new proteins to
be formed." Or in other words, the more pain you have, the
more pain you have. (
More on this.)
It's no wonder, then, that more money is spent on pain relief than any
other medical problem, and that there has been so much
p
ain research and so many
clinical trials
revealing such painful facts as
redhead
s feel more pain,
men
feel less pain, and that there's a
genetic
difference between tough guys and wimps. (Much more pain
inside.)
Dealing With Pain
Dealing With Pain
02/05/2005 10:16 PMOn the Monday Podcast, Our Geek mentioned that his back
pain was causing him quite a bit of discomfort, so when I seen this
article I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you,
it’s from Wired News and it’s called "The Painful Truth"
“Because nerve blocks affect a precise area of the body,
they fall under the category of regional (rather than general or
local) anesthesia. An elementary form of regional anesthesia is
already widely used in maternity wards: the epidural block, employed
to numb the pain of labor and achieved by injecting analgesics and
narcotics along the spine.”
No pain, no gain
No pain, no gain
12/24/2003 09:21 PMUSA Today Dec 24 2003 8:06PM ET
Authoring Pain
Authoring Pain
07/20/2004 06:25 PMThe person from the General Counsel’s office called to talk about
some legal/regulatory stuff we’re pulling together, and she asked
how it should be delivered. I said it would eventually end up on the
Web, so why didn’t they write it as a web page. She sounded
uncomfortable: “I don’t know how we’d do that,” she said. At
the same time, I’m hearing private gripes from our internal writing
community, from the President to the marketers to the Solaris geeks,
about how their writing tools stink. The state of Web authoring tools
is kind of like the state of what we used to call “Word
Processing” twenty years ago when I was getting into this business.
If everyone’s going to write for the Web (and it looks a lot of
people are going to) we need the Web equivalents of Word Perfect and
Wordstar and Xywrite and Microsoft Word, and we need them right now.
The Atom protocol will give them a standardized way to push the
content online, and the fact that it’s all open formats will make it
real hard for a monopolist to scoop out the market. So, who’s
building them?
Beam of Pain
Beam of Pain
06/07/2004 10:56 AMA roundup of new weapon technologies in this
Sacramento Bee
piece:
Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new,
Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces
for more than three seconds. People who volunteered to stand in front
of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire.
When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.
The long-range column of millimeter-wave energy is known as the
"Active Denial System" for its ability to prevent an aggressor from
advancing. Senior military officials, who plan to deliver the device
for troop evaluation this fall, say years of testing has produced no
sign it will lead to health effects beyond perhaps causing skin to
temporarily redden.(...)
But in an era of secret interrogations of al-Qaida suspects and
revelations of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison,
Executive Director Doug Johnson of the Minneapolis-based Center for
Torture Victims is skeptical. "It seems fundamentally a weapon that's
designed to create a great deal of pain and fear," Johnson said. "The
concern I would have is ... once this kind of technology is available
and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a
natural device to be used in interrogations.
Link (
Via Warren)
Telephone Pain
Telephone Pain
03/27/2005 03:11 AMDave Shea
expl
ains the painful choices facing Canadians who’d like a better
phone. I am in
exactly the same boat, except for I’m near
the end of my service contract with Telus and when it lapses I am
so out of there. By the way, if you get a GSM phone they’ll
try to sell you one that’s locked so that when you’re in Europe
you can’t put in that SIM card you bought in a grubby Brussels
storefront; but I have it from reliable sources that most retailers
will unlock it for a few bucks in cash money under the counter.
Especially if you make it clear that the alternative is you walk out.
Big Pain at Veritas
Big Pain at Veritas
07/06/2004 08:41 AMTheStreet.com Jul 6 2004 12:58PM GMT
PAiN. MUD Codebase
PAiN. MUD Codebase
12/15/2003 05:42 PMPAiN v0.43. Triggers Framework added
I Felt a Shooting Pain
I Felt a Shooting Pain
06/05/2004 01:29 PMThe
Chicago Sun-Times offers some unusual health advice: What
does it feel like to get shot? Each year, around 55,000 more Americans
could answer that question.
TV can be a pain in the back (Reuters)
TV can be a pain in the back (Reuters)
08/27/2004 01:59 PMReuters - Couch potatoes beware -- slumping for hours in front of the
television or
computer can cause severe lower back pain which may take months or
years to cure.
AT&T Sees Pain on Many Fronts
AT&T Sees Pain on Many Fronts
06/23/2004 05:31 PMTheStreet.com Jun 23 2004 9:44PM GMT
aaiPharma Feels the Pain
aaiPharma Feels the Pain
06/21/2004 09:19 AMThe maker of painkiller Darvocet restates its earnings for the prior
two years.
Feeling Nortel's Pain
Feeling Nortel's Pain
04/28/2004 02:34 PMHopeful Nortel shareholders are taken to the woodshed one more time.
Apple's Options: How Much Pain?
Apple's Options: How Much Pain?
06/25/2004 10:30 AM By Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek (via MyAppleMenu)
A Royal Pain in the Internet
A Royal Pain in the Internet
12/12/2003 06:48 AMThe heir to the Spanish throne is set to wed a popular TV anchorwoman,
and the country is in a tizzy. So are the cybersquatters, who have
been snagging domain names related to the royal couple. The government
steps in. Ana Bedia reports from Madrid.
Grantham: Prepare for Pain
Grantham: Prepare for Pain
07/28/2004 03:17 PMA big-time money manager with a long-term boffo track record warns of
impending peril in the U.S. markets.
Paper documents are a pain
Paper documents are a pain
09/02/2004 08:11 AM
David Pescovitz:
A new study from the University of Washington's Information School
provides more proof that search rules:
More than half of survey participants admitted losing
track of a paper document at least once a week -- more than
twice the number of people who reported losing electronic
information.
The result? While more than 60 percent reported being satisfied with
their ability to handle computerized records such as e-mails,
electronic documents and Web bookmarks, only 31 percent were satisfied
with their ability to organize their papers.
The survey is part of an interesting project called
Keeping Found
Things Found, an effort to develop innovative ways to manage
information stored digitally and on dead trees.
Link
Talisma Promises CRM Without Pain
Talisma Promises CRM Without Pain
03/14/2003 01:28 AMWith enterprise execs collectively griping about how difficult and
expensive it is to
implement a CRM initiative and moaning that the pieces of CRM rarely
fit seamlessly
together, Talisma Corporation has adopted a strategy aimed at proving
that executing CRM
can be painless.
Postal 2: Share The Pain
Postal 2: Share The Pain
03/26/2005 10:22 PMRude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Still, it's sick and
twisted fun for gamers looking for a different take on the FPS
experience. By Peter Cohen, Macworld
Hypnosis as pain killer
Hypnosis as pain killer
03/14/2005 05:28 PMDavid Pescovitz:
In a new study, anesthesiologists used functional magnetic resonance
imaging to observe how hypnosis might reduce pain by altering brain
activity. The researchers subjected patients to a painful burning
stimuli while their brains were scanned. The fMRIs of the patients
under hypnosis for pain suppression showed "reduced activity in areas
of the pain network and increased activity in other ares of the
brain," according to University of Iowa professor of anesthetsia
Sebastian Schulz-Stubner.
Hypnosis was successful in reducing pain perception for
all 12 participants. Hypnotized volunteers reported either no pain or
significantly reduced pain (less than 3 on the 0-10 pain scale) in
response to the painful heat....
"...For clinical use, (the study) helps to dispel prejudice about
hypnosis as a technique to manage pain because we can show an
objective, measurable change in brain activity linked to a reduced
perception of pain," (Schulz-Stubner) added.
Link
"The Panther Roars (in Pain)"
"The Panther Roars (in Pain)"
10/29/2003 09:08 AMWill Longhorn be worth the pain?
Will Longhorn be worth the pain?
03/19/2005 02:50 AMMicrosoft has removed some of the functionality from the next version
of Windows to bring forward the release date, which could make the
decision to upgrade even more difficult for some companies
Qualcomm's Royalty Pain
Qualcomm's Royalty Pain
09/17/2004 10:19 AMTheStreet.com Sep 17 2004 2:27PM GMT
Fourteen Years of Pain
Fourteen Years of Pain
03/06/2004 02:06 AMI’m busily editing a fairly complex tech spec written in Microsoft
Word. (Word generally sucks for tech specs except for this one is
being team-edited with little infrastructure, so we needed the
revision-marking feature.) When I first ever used Word it was in 1989
on a Macintosh; this first brush with competent WYSIWYG changed my
thinking about interfaces and documents. There was a problem: back
then the handling of numbered lists in Word was buggy and fragile.
Today, fourteen years later in a recent rev of Office, numbered lists
are
still buggy and fragile. Innocuous changes—simple
cut/paste, joining paragraphs, applying the formatting
palette—intermittently send Word into psychotic spasms, in one case
renumbering the list starting at 65, in another mysteriously removing
the colour-coding from all the text in the doc, in another
re-indenting dozens of apparently randomly-selected paragraphs. I
suppose if it hasn’t gotten fixed in a decade and a half my
grandchildren will probably be stuck with it. But I have hopes that
the world will learn the valuable lessons Word taught us all about the
interfaces between humans and texts, and for God’s sake move on to
something better.
Steve's pain gain
Steve's pain gain
12/16/2003 08:54 AMManchester Online Dec 16 2003 8:08AM ET
The Panther Roars (In Pain)
The Panther Roars (In Pain)
10/28/2003 11:06 PMIs it worth the money? Yes. On an older machine like the iBook,
Panther is a significant improvement. By Leander Kahney (Wired News
via MyAppleMenu)
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