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That was funky in the extreme!-Edvard (November 20, 2011, 05:22 PM)
I would think it took 3 years because of how borderline the claim is. In the end they decided you can't claim drinking water reduced the risk of dehydration because the "risk-factors" were so badly defined.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 09:49 PM)
Simple really, if you want to claim your product reduces the risk-factors of something, you'd really want to know what those risk factors are. These guys clearly didn't.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 09:49 PM)
If someone else can come along and show otherwise the regulations will undoubtedly be changed. The media won't report that of course, because that would be boring.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 09:49 PM)
Maybe the manufacturers should be required to include a line stating that drinking large amounts of water in a short period of time can result in death (which is true).-mrainey (November 20, 2011, 09:59 PM)
In some twisted way, it would be true... Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Abstract
Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge.
Design Systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
Data sources: Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases; appropriate internet sites and citation lists.
Study selection: Studies showing the effects of using a parachute during free fall.
Main outcome measure Death or major trauma, defined as an injury severity score > 15.
Results We were unable to identify any randomised controlled trials of parachute intervention.
Conclusions As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.
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Yeah seriously! Dehydration as a medical/biological state was obviously defined in such a way that the claim the water will cure it is not medically proven enough that companies can go around claiming their products are a cure.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 05:28 PM)
The Panel notes that dehydration was identified as the disease by the applicant. Dehydrationis a condition of body water depletion. Upon request for clarification on the risk factor, the applicant proposed “water loss in tissues” or “reduced water content in tissues” as risk factors, the reduction of which was proposed to lead to a reduction of the risk of development of dehydration. The Panel notes that the proposed risk factors are measures of water depletion and thus are measures of the disease (dehydration).
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said.
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The issue seems to be the dehydration is a symptom which can have causes other than simply not drinking enough. In such cases drinking water is not a cure. If you even just read to the end of the article you linked you'd have realised this.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 05:28 PM)
Companies shouldn't be allowed to make medical claims willy-nilly and the only way to stop them is through regulations.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 05:28 PM)
But as usual people don't care about the actual case or the facts behind it, it's more fun to assume everyone else is stupid and if that means misrepresenting facts and outright lying most people are happy.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 05:28 PM)
Medical claims require scientific backing? My god what is the world coming to? The ignorance expressed in this thread is hilarious, yet expected.-Eóin (November 20, 2011, 12:30 PM)
The claimed effect is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the
risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance”. The target
population is assumed to be the general population. Dehydration is a condition of body water
depletion. The proposed risk factors are measures of water depletion and thus are measures of
the disease. The proposed claim does not comply with the requirements for a disease risk
reduction claim pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.
According to the applicant, “water (chemical formula H2O, MW=18.015), a transparent, odourless and
tasteless liquid (melting point: 0°C=273,15 K; boiling point: 100°C=373,15 K). In small quantities
colourless, the colour of water in thick layers is of a slight blue hue. Water is generally considered an
essential nutrient.”
(Original version submitted in German: “Wasser (Wasserstoffoxid, H2O, MR 18,015), eine klare,
geruch- und geschmacklose, generell farblose, in dicker Schicht bläulich schimmernde Flüssigkeit
(Schmelzpunkt 0°C=273,15 K, Siedepunkt 100°C=373,15 K), die ernährungswissenschaftlich
allgemein als essentieller Nährstoff gilt.“
EFSA DISCLAIMER
The present opinion does not constitute, and cannot be construed as, an authorisation to the marketing
of water, a positive assessment of its safety, nor a decision on whether water is, or is not, classified as
a foodstuff
This is the kind of camera photo that I would like to take: Cappelle sistina
There's more here - "spherical panoramas".-IainB (November 20, 2011, 03:58 AM)
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
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A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.
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“The European Commission is wrong; it should have authorised the claim. That should be more than clear to anyone who has consumed water in the past, and who has not? We fear there is something wrong in the state of Europe.”
Of those two, LED is more common and has no screen "burn in" issues,Definitely not true, no matter what the industry pundits keep saying. I am looking at 6 different 42" Samsung LCD monitor/TV's here at work right now and 3 of them have severe burn-in. They also have a nasty habit of burning out completely after only a year or two...Of course they are on 24/7/365 - so that may have something to do with it. The only time they are "off" is during the PC reboot.-JavaJones (November 19, 2011, 04:58 PM)-steeladept (November 19, 2011, 11:11 PM)
But I won't be ordering a Lytro camera just yet, at those prices.-IainB (November 18, 2011, 08:31 PM)
(Kidding -- it looks very cool!)
I've never seen any reports on what HDDs cost to manufacture and sell that indicated anything about their pricing.
Does anyone have any inside information or know of any reliable information on the topic? I'm curious.-Renegade (November 17, 2011, 07:19 PM)
The cost of goods manufactured will be on the financial statement of any publicly traded company, so you could look this up if you wanted. Depending on how detailed the information you got was, it could be the total cost of the goods (including labor), or itemized all the way down to every piece. Of course, there is the set cost and the dynamic cost (incorrect terms, go look up the right ones, but you know what I mean, the base cost of doing business [e.g. factory], then cost per unit for quantity). Right now, of course, it is all about supply and demand (and speculation), and a temporary inability to produce sufficient capacity resulting in an excuse to raise prices.
UPDATE: Of course, the end retail price is of course inflated further, as the manufacturers sell in large bulk blocks, with each individual unit costing substantially less than you'd pay retail on a single unit basis. On eBay I saw large blocks of WD20EARS going for around $200 a piece though, indicating the likely end retail price, at least as predicted by some, in the short term.-db90h (November 17, 2011, 07:59 PM)
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I could go on, but I won't. Each change was minor, taken by itself, but they added up, and turned a good user experience into a mediocre user experience. Maybe I wouldn't feel so strongly if I weren't accustomed to the neater, trimmer Android that Google delivers; but suddenly, the light went on, and I said, "Oh, that's why Apple fans hate Android so much."
I say both.
Get multiple large monitors.-Deozaan (November 16, 2011, 05:16 PM)
Meaning, even when they don't screw you one way, they have others. That guy on their payroll whose job it is to stay awake every night and think up new ways to screw the customers (and their employees) earns every dollar he is paid.-app103 (November 17, 2011, 03:38 AM)
It would nice to see "expected speed with variance in standard deviations" advertised.-Renegade (November 16, 2011, 07:14 AM)
Superficially a standard deviation would be nice (because sheeple can't grasp the whole traffic concept - even when they're stuck in it on the freeway...), but... (in reality) It would unfortunately only end up opening the door for Zero to be one of the standards it deviated to...More often than not.
So when the "freeway" grinds to a screeching halt (Speed=0) it will be construable as an acceptable part of the (fine printed) "Norm"...Because it is within the "standard".-Stoic Joker (November 16, 2011, 11:34 AM)
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