This is the Modem World: Can I pick my own set-top box, please?

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.

This is the Modem World: Can I pick my own set-top Box, Please

When I was a kid, my parents actually rented our home phones from the phone company. They were hard-wired to the wall -- no detachable RJ cables. The phones were heavy, and when you needed a new one, you would call the phone company and get in line. They would then come out in four to six weeks and install the new phone for you at your expense. If you wanted to move the phone to another room, the process was like calling an electrician: holes were drilled, ladders were scaled and money was spent.

The phone equipment itself was drab, heavy and came in your choice of two colors: boring and depressing. Answering machines were rare -- instead, you had to use expensive answering services staffed by cranky women from New Jersey.

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Prior Knowledge: A Predictive Database For Developers

PKlogoPrior Knowledge debuted its predictive database for application developers today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012. Based upon work first done at MIT, the service is offered through the company's Veritable API, which the company says is designed to make applications smarter. The technology uses state of the art machine learning behind the scenes to handle the complexity for real world data.

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Skin infections in cancer patients receiving EGFRI | Health & Fitness ...

Patients who experience dermatologic toxic effects of inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor have a high prevalence of infections of the skin and nails, a new study published online Dec. 9 in the Journal of the National Institute of Cancer.To examine this issue, Mario E. Lacouture, MD, Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University in Chicago and colleagues collected data on 221 patients who were treated in a dermatology clinic of reference for the toxic effects of EGFRIs. They examined associations between patient characteristics and the development of these infections.

The authors write that ?in addition to processing characteristics of dermatological toxicity, special attention should be paid to the prevention or treatment of complicated infections, with the objective of maintaining the quality of life and health of the skin, both of which are essential for optimizing therapy EGFRI cancer patients. ?

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Depression, age, other factors related to dependence after stroke ...

The study has not determined whether the improvement of depression helped people recover their independence after three months. Even if the treatment and improvement of post-stroke depression does not directly affect the recovery, it is extremely important for depression to be identified and treated because it is associated with the health of other social problems, said Schmid said.People who are more likely to be an employee if they are depressed, the problems of older or other doctors, according to a study published in the print edition March 15, 2011, Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The study found that stroke patients with depression were more likely to be dependent if they were older, had other health problems that coincided or were severely depressed than those who were younger , no other health problems or not depressed .

The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and diseases.

For the study, the researchers collected information on 367 ischemic stroke survivors with a mean age of 62, with no language skills or severe impairment of thought.

Of these, 174 were diagnosed with post-stroke depression one month after the stroke.

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Breaking Dawn Part 2: New, Full-Length Trailer!


Robert Pattinson and company gave Twilight Saga fans a look at Breaking Dawn Part 2 during last Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards, presenting a minute-plus montage of clips from the upcoming blockbuster.

And now Summit Entertainment has gone a step further, posting the full-length trailer online from which that footage was taken. It depicts:

  • Bella as a hungry, athletic vampire, taking on a mountain lion, diving off clips and preparing for battle against the Volturi.
  • Lee Pace as Garrett and his shocking first encounter with Casey LaBow's Kate.
  • Scenes from the epic final battle that will bring this franchise to a close.

What are you waiting for? You may never see Pattinson and Kristen Stewart this close ever again! Watch now:

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