The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are, your files are just there. It turns out they're just there for law enforcement, too, as two Google Docs-using spammers recently found out. More »
The Fool's Story in the Major Arcana I-Newswire.com (press release) It is the same with our spiritual enlightenment. We need some form of loss to gain even more enlightenment, and to gain knowledge and wisdom. ... |
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When the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 began to cause nationwide gas shortages across the United States, the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development seemed rather fortuitously timed.
Yet, as the very name of the symposium stated, its aims were less to reduce oil consump
i-Path has developed web-based software products together with an entirely hosted solution for virtual microscopy, removing the need to store any slides locally and for local installations of software, and providing reliable speedy access to images in a stable, managed environment. The product portfolio, PathXL™, represents cloud computing for virtual microscopy at its best, and offers a unique solution across a range of applications including education, training, competency testing, biomarker research, biobanking, and digital archiving of clinical samples.
Cloud computing is now a familiar cliché but has unique advantages when applied in digital pathology. It removes the need to purchase dedicated server hardware and employ dedicated staff to manage systems, reducing the cost by as much as 50% per annum. Storage and server capacity is all managed off-site in one of i-Path’s dedicated high performance server farms which guarantee up-time, regular backup and disaster recovery plans. Extensive storage facilities are available for clients to upload and manage their digital slide archives on-line. This is fully scalable allowing clients to grow their needs accordingly. i-Path’s cluster of high
performance image servers allows for high volumes of internet traffic without impacting on the speed of delivery. It is resilient where if one server goes down, traffic is routed to another server. By using satellite clusters, dispersed across continents, i-Path have reduced latency of image transmission over distance supporting the sharing of slides and easy collaboration across laboratories, hospitals and or universities. It is a highly secure facility, already being used by major Pharmaceutical organizations and Hospitals.
Clients can be given access to i-Path’s digital pathology software PathXL upon request – no need for on-site software installations and ongoing maintenance. Updates to software are made centrally and clients access all of the functionality via a standard web-browser. i-Path offer a range of digital pathology toolboxes aimed at supporting a range of applications. These include (i) an Educational Authoring Toolbox allowing clients to build and manage an e-learning web site including the ability to configure on-line tests on virtual slides for students, classrooms and residents (ii) External Quality Assurance Toolbox for managing virtual distribution of slides and polling diagnoses on-line (iii) Research Toolbox for management and
sharing of research slide sets and on-line scoring of biomarkers and (iv) TMA Toolbox for on-line archiving and scoring of TMA biomarkers.
PathXL, from i-Path, integrates novel web-based viewing technology and management software with a high performance hosting capacity to provide a cloudbased service to customers, across a range of disciplines.
HTC Droid Incredible Review infoSync World However, if your main objective is to snap images and upload them directly to facebook, flickr, Picassa, email, or MMS, then the HTC Droid Incredible's ... |
After its latest firmware update, available right this instant, Seagate's set top FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player will deliver Netflix streaming, YouTube, vTuner and Mediafly content. Right, just like some other boxes out there today, but there's a caveat. More »
The Droid Incredible follows HTC's standard remix formula: Two parts existing phoneware—Android 2.1 with Sense, speedy processor—one part fresh spice—Verizon's network. More »
Opinion: Copyrights take a back seat to profits on the Web San Jose Mercury News Chen's suggestion of stealing may well have been tongue-in-cheek, but Chen and his colleagues clearly knew their website depended on its users to upload ... |
Josephine writes, “My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on Valentine’s Day. Happy V-Day, right?? She, being the eternal matriarch of the family, called each child individually and told us the news. She is VERY upbeat and positive, and so we are, too. I am a mathematics major in college and when she told me the news, my sister and I both wanted tattoos in her honor. At first I wanted a blue whale, it being her favorite animal, but I went with a heart curve. In mathematics, as I’m sure you know, there are 6 heart curves. This is just one of them, and the least ‘busy.’ I am proud to display it on my right forearm for my mother through this trying time.”
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Here's the difference between the pros and the amateurs who can't never find their fucking Lego pieces. Enjoy, the supply room of a Lego maniac: More »
Congratulations are in order for the Boy Scouts, who have figured out a cool way to combine the old with the new using a "geocaching badge" for Scouts. More »
Okay, I have tried, but pronouncing this one eludes me…I think it needs a new name. (Simply “Kull” might do.) This eruption, though not the largest volcanic event in recent history, has certainly had a huge impact on air travel. Initially, there were even fears of (I’ve always wanted to use this word in a sentence) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis from breathing the silica dust. But the last I heard was that not that much was making it to the ground in high enough concentrations to worry about.
The New York Times has some amazing video, relayed from British TV 4, which is absolutely a must-see. It is some of the closest scenes yet, though the video clearly shows some crazies in a helicopter very close to the plume. I want to see night shots, with the lightning!
Will they resume flights soon? I guess it’s too early to say, but what if it keeps spewing for a long time, like it did from 1821-1823? (After which nearby Katla went off.)
Could it disrupt the climate? I am going to guess that this is a possibility, given that Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991 cooled the planet by a fraction of a degree.
I am interested in finding the specs for diesel injector nozzles, especially the DN type. I am using a DN0SD193 for an Isuzu pup truck but am experimenting with different nozzles to improve performance using veg. oil. I am guessing from what I have been able to gather that the DN is the type, the 0
Despite media smears, world and faithful have warmed to Benedict Irish Times The lecture was part of the pope's dialogue with the post-Enlightenment culture that marked much of his writings. Part of that dialogue was his encounter ... |
Having seen "sewable computing" at the MIT Media Center firsthand, I can say something like Ping clothing will exist someday soon. If wearable, always-on computing gets you hot and bothered, read on, because Ping clothing promises to do that, constantly. More »
I just returned from attending the 2010 Kumbh Mela celebration also known to many as the "Festival of Immortals". The celebration is said to be anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 years old; bringing the holy people of the Hindu religion, their followers, and a few "immortals" together. The event honors the legend of when the Hindu "gods" dropped some of their "amrit" (the nectar of immoratlity) from their pot referred to as Kumbh at 4 spots in India: Allahabad (Prayag), Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjain. The Kumbh Mela in each location takes place every twelfth year; this year being held at Haridwar.
The people who attend the "Ganga Art" ceremony, or sacred bath during the Kumbh Mela, believe taking this bath will make them protected from death aka "immortal" until the next Kumbh Mela. And there are a few who believe with a continuous bathing during each Kumb Mela, they will achieve some form of immortality.
Although I am not a Hindu, I went to the Kumbh Mela, out of curiousity and because I was told that I could possibly meet some real life "immortals" who live amoung the "holy people" of India. One man was said to be somewhere between 150 to 250 years old. There was a story of a 300 year old to 900 year old man who may or may not still be alive. And there was the hope of meeting a legendary man who's age is well beyond 1,000 years of age.
Unfortunately, I did not meet any of these people. However, I did find out much more about the supposed "immortals" and a met a few known people who could easily be well beyond 100 years of age.
I will reveal a few more interesting details of my interesting trip through India in future posts.
Catalogo generale delle opere di Pippo Oriani, primo volume
Edited by Fondazione Oriani
Edizioni Giorgio Mondadori, Milano; 2009
p. 464
ISBN 978-88-6052-195-8
Le edizioni Giorgio Mondadori di Milano hanno pubblicato il primo volume del Catalogo generale delle opere di Pippo Oriani con prefazione di Giovanni Lista e Mariastella Margozzi. Il secondo volume è in corso di preparazione. Coloro che possiedono opere di Oriani, possono rivolgersi alla Fondazione Oriani, 6620 Tommary Drive, Greely On-K4P 1G8 – Canada.
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The publishing house Giorgio Mondadori in Milan has published the first volume of the Catalogo generale delle opere di Pippo Oriani, with preface by Giovanni Lista and Mariastella Margozzi. The second volume is in preparation. Anyone who own Oriani’s works, can apply to Fondazione Oriani, 6620 Tommary Drive, Greely On-K4P 1G8 – Canada.
E-mail: oriani@simpatico.ca
Today in the LA Times Op-Ed section, our recent Point of Inquiry guest has a pretty unexpected take on air pollution: Namely, he describes it as useful for blocking sunlight. (The paper edition closed too early to add info about the recent Icelandic volcano, but for those wondering, Kintisch informs me that the amount of gunk it has spewed out is far too little to have a major climatic effect.) Here's an excerpt from the op-ed:
You’re likely to hear a chorus of dire warnings as we approach Earth Day, but there’s a serious shortage few pundits are talking about: air pollution. That’s right, the world is running short on air pollution, and if we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound. Cleaner air, one of the signature achievements of the U.S. environmental movement, is certainly worth celebrating. Scientists estimate that the U.S. Clean Air Act has cut a major air pollutant called sulfate aerosols, for example, by 30% to 50% since the 1980s, helping greatly reduce cases of asthma and other respiratory problems. But even as industrialized and developing nations alike steadily reduce aerosol pollution — caused primarily by burning ...
