huh? Why would you want lock your own post? Unless you were being sarcastic.

ahh...then he shuldn't of made a whine and rant board!!   

Exactly.

Speaking of efficiency, i have allot of complaints about the public transport here in Sydney Australia!

Primarily it is simply too expensive... i find it amazing that it is actually cheaper to run a small car than to use public transport and that should not be the case.

then to add insult to injury, the government has been busy making bus lanes, bus lights and even bus only turnoff lanes! oh and they have been banning vehicle access to train stations to make way for buses as well. If you want to pick somone up from the station, they have to walk half a kilometer down the road, it makes me sick!

All this wouldn't be so bad if busses and trains weren't so damb expensive!!!

Oh and for anyone who is thinking that buses are at least better for the environment, let me just point out that the basted greedy bus companies are currently moving to ban bicycles from using bus lanes. Bicycles of course being even more environmentally freindly than busses!

Here's my friggin rant! I am tired of everyone I come across using lame excuses for not doing their job well or even properly for that matter, and no, this isn't picking on software developers specifically, this is aimed at ALL of those who claim to know their job, who claim to do their job, yet don't. To all of those who say, "why should I care", or "what's in it for me", or "let him worry about it"...
Never have I seen such a level of laziness and incompetence. There was a time when customer service meant something... it was the lifeblood of how business operated. People realized that without the customer their business would flounder. Now however, it seems all of that means nothing. Consumers are just stupid cattle to be herded to different parts of the pasture to consume different products. Yet those of you who enjoy the fruits of our fortunes continue to view us as such, while sipping your exotic little umbrella drinks on a white, pristine beach under a cloudless sky... not actually aware that you have your spoils thanks to us, the cattle, the herd.
So to all of you lazy snots, be it programmers, architects, cooks, mechanics, salespeople... all of you who cannot or will not do your job to the best of your God given ability... I say choke... choke on the spittle that fills your mouth every time you go to speak of all the excuses that make up the reasoning behind your inability to do your job!!!!!!!!

It's the same way in Seattle, WA; they don't even bother looking before merging, and why should they when they are legally immune to the consequences. Un-damned-believable.

ONE MORE THING: Also in Seattle. Apparently that city uses special magic paint for their cross-walks; no where else have I seen pedestrians who think that two white lines will somehow mystically prevent a car just 20 ft away and traveling at 50mph from coming into contact with them. And somehow it's my damn fault the lemmings don't look both ways before crossing.

EDIT:Sorry for the double post. I thought for sure someone would have another rant before I.

If everyone did their jobs to the best of their abilities then most companies could probably be able cut their staffing levels in half and who the hell want's that to happen??



The problem lies with the inability to properly monitor age affected driving skill. It is probably impossible to solve completely, because everyone is different and affected by age in different ways.

i am sorry general for my part in almost wrecking this post

Appology accepted.

The first commercially viable CT system was invented by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield in Hayes, England at THORN EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967, and it was publicly announced in 1972. It is claimed that the CT scanner was "the greatest legacy" of the Beatles; the massive profits from their record sales enabled EMI to fund scientific research.[1] Allan McLeod Cormack of Tufts University independently invented a similar process and they shared a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1979.

Quote your sources or stop posting junk, daniel.

kryo this man/woman has already started to attack me again Marcathonas

Body Imaging

Apollo research spawned new medical and diagnostic tools

The high-tech art of digital signal processing (DSP) was pioneered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the mid-196Os for use in the Apollo Lunar Landing Program. Designed to computer-enhance pictures of the moon, this technology became the basis for the Landsat Earth resources satellites and subsequently has been incorporated into a broad range of Earthbound medical and diagnostic tools.

DSP is employed in advanced body imaging techniques including computer-aided tomography, also known as CT and CATScan, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). CT images are collected by irradiating a thin slice in the body with a fan-shaped x-ray beam from a number of directions around the body's perimeter. A tomographic (slice-like) picture is reconstructed from these multiple views by a computer. MRI employs a magnetic field and radio waves to create images, rather than x-rays. The resultant MRI and CT images are often complementary. In most cases, MRI is useful for viewing soft tissue but not bone, while CT images are good for bone but not always for soft tissue discrimination.

Physicians and engineers in the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan, are developing a method for combining the best features of MRI and CT scans to increase the accuracy of discriminating one type of body tissue from another. one of their research tools is a computer program originally developed to distinguish Earth surface features in Landsat image processing. Called HICAP, the program can be used to distinguish between healthy and diseased tissue in body images.

At top is a CT image of a slice of human liver with many lesions. It was analyzed and processed by HICAP to produce the image at bottom, in which the false-color red areas represent regions of a normal liver. Consecutive liver slices can be processed in this manner to produce a three-dimensional view of the liver.

HICAP was supplied to the Department of Radiology by NASA's Computer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC*). Located at the University of Georgia, COSMIC makes available to the private sector government-developed computer programs that have commercial applications.

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and since apollo came 10 years before the actual invention of the ct scanner and the two men got the idea from this scanner

i never said that they took the same device and used it for medical device i said that nasa invented the devise that became the ct scanner

and next time you tell me to get my source get your own too

The both of you need to learn to get along with (or just ignore) each other.