DarkPenguin

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A friend of mine helped a professor on a project that used adaptive audio analysis to hear heart murmurers in digital recordings that couldn't normally be heard by human ears. It was a really cool project that aided in early detection of heart defects that could be troublesome in the future and early detection is always a good thing.

Any recording or digitization of things that normally rely solely on the human senses of doctors that can be rechecked by computers is always more helpful than hurtful. $379 is a drop in the bucket compared to a human life.

I'm glad we are using this for something awesome like paleontology and archeology instead of something boring like exploring existing complex proteins or curing cancer.

The book industry tried to claim profits from used books sales a ways back in the same way the video game industry is trying to do this with used video game sales today. The argument is constant (same stuff different day). The people who originally owned the intellectual property believe that they own the physical media. The problem remains that when there is no physical media then a whole new quagmire opens up. What rights do we as consumers have to the media we purchase? Are we leasing the rights or should we own something we pay for? All we can do is stand up for the belief that while you may have written the book; when i pay for it i own the words. There is no reason for the same people to keep making more and more money of the stuff they originally sold. If i sold my couch and wanted to claimed profits from each respective selling of that particular couch even the RIAA would call me ridiculous.

I like Blue!

Can i is has speakers plz?

ebooks yay!

i wish to partake

The non discript PC looks like a Dell inspiron Pentium 2 Laptop. Could be wrong

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