Have you? Then zip it. I went on the/. IRC channel because I had a networking issue setting up OpenBSD and when I mentioed that it was an OpendBSD issue, I was a) told by one user they couldn't talk to me because my host-name was too long (sorry I use RCN to connect. I'm an asshole I guess) b) told to go look for OpenBSD help on Effnet at #boysex and c) told to suck Theo's dick. Great job Linux fans.
After talking to a friend that knows networking and being given the lead that it might be a problem with two nics on my network having the same MAC Adress, I googled for it and found a rather pleasant conversation on an OpenBSD forum about a bug configuring the LinkSys card I had (which is the same one in my firewall). I swapped in another card that was detected correctly and I was good to go.
Moral: a) you probably haven't met theo either so shut up b) the OpenBSD community seems friendlier to me than the Linux one.
I fell asleep for a half hour and missed all the good stuff. The guy from the future, the soft porn. Damn. I woke up and started watching again and it seemed to pick up right where I fell asleep. Crap.
"Assuming that the End-User License Agreement for Microsoft Frontpage
actually contains that provision, keep in mind that many contracts contain
illegal (or at least overreaching) clauses. My guess is that the provision
was included in the EULA as a scare tactic, and that a court would strike
down the provision if the EULA was ever litigated. "
Though I always envied the kids on my block that had capsela, the only thing I can think of making with them now would be a bong. All the clear bubbles and motors....
C'mon. Internet service IS NOT essential. I'm an internet junkie too, but I don't NEED it to live. Water, necessary. Heat, necessary (especially here in Boston). Electricity... well, I'd bump into stuff after 5 PM if I didn't have it and hospitals use it to keep people alive, fairly necessary. But the internet? No. I would even argue that the telephone services are not essential, only that the telco's own all the cabling, so the little-guy providers need some sort of regulation to help them exist. How decadent of a country do we live in when we think internet access is necessary?
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PS To be fair, I feel very awkward when my ISP is down, but I get a lot more chores done.;-)
That's what I meant. I hover over a link that says "click here for DeCSS", see it's goatse.cx, and don't click it. I was just giving a potential scenario.
Finger cells, heart cells, etc know they are finger cells, heart cells etc because of they are "told" to become those by proteins, enzymes and the like. Their DNA is the same, just not how they express it.
And not to mention that embryo stem cells have a big disadvantage over adult ones---namely the fact that they have different DNA and will be as prone to rejection as any other transplant. Adult stem cells, of course, don't have this problem.
Huh? What the hell are you talking about? Everyone has different DNA that will only change over your lifetime in the course of stimulated mutation (radiation) or retroviruses (HIV). embryonic stem cells have a HUGE advantage over adult stem cells in that they aren't differentiated yet. In an adult, a finger cell is a finger cell and a heart cell is a heart cell. In embryos, the cells haven't been "assigned" tasks yet so what will eventually become a heart cell could very easily instead be made to become a finger cell.
As for "prone to rejection" the only way you can guarantee that a transplant would work would be to transplant your own tissue to yourself. Donation from blood relations are the best bet, but not 100%. Growing perfectly transplantable organs in a vat doesn't depend on whether you use stem cells from your conception date or your 90th birthday, it's the same DNA. Either you're a troll or you need to learn what you're talking about.
My friend runs a radio show at U of Maryland. He says that the stats the radio station keep show that his internet audience is three times the size of the expected broadcast audience (based on time of day, tower signal, etc). Real audio streaming allows people here in Boston and other cities to catch the show that their radio stations won't play (it's a hardcore show so the people that listen are pretty... well, hardcore).
When their real audio stream goes down, its a big deal because so many regular "listeners" are cut off.
Can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these things?
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Dreamcast has 4 controllers, it will be $79 soon (if not already) and supports WinCE (and can run NetBSD if you're looking for *nix). What are you waiting for?
It kills me to hear this, but the main reason my IS director won't put linux on our network is because he has no one to call if something goes wrong with it like he does with Windows. _I_ realize Red Hat, SuSE, etc all make their money on support, but they aren't IBM. If IBM said "hey, this is our distro and we'll support it" I guarantee people like my IS director would at least give it another thought and not dismiss it as a beard-birkenstock-and-cheetos operating system (that's his view of Linux). C'mon IBM. Help a brutha out.
Wasn't O'Reilly supposed to come out with this? Anyone know what happened to it? I'm fairly sure I remember this being posted because people's main argument against it was that UNIX in a nutshell already existed and there wasn't enough of a difference to warrant the book...maybe I'm just drunk right now.
A good point. My response would be the demand may exceed the supply. It takes time to make a cell reproduce, even a lot of cells. On top of that, you are destroying a lot of cells in the process of determining what medicines might work on them, which don't, etc. To be honest I don't know, but that would be my assumption. Science simply takes time and resources, be those resources be money or cells.
You don't seem to understand the concept behind stem cell research. You do not take stem cells, make them do what you want, and then turn women into baby factories to harvest more stem cells. Stem cells, because they are undifferentiated, can be coaxed into making more stem cells (this is how the one cell that is a sperm and egg become a multicelled organism). In normal human development these cells eventually become differentiated and you have the beginnings of a person (I won't touch where "what is life" etc comes in. That's a theological discussion), but by coaxing them to just keep reproducing you have now have a number of cells on which to test different drugs and so forth. Because these cells can keep "regenerating", they have direct
implications in human aging and organ development as well
PS I will correct myself in saying that cDNA libraries do not deal with stem cells, but I do consider my girlfriend more of an expert than most because she does work in the field and does get cDNA libraries from fetal tissue (though most of it is homologous tissues like pig)
Kind of odd that there's such a brouhaha about this, given that most of the real progress wth stem cells has not featured fetal tissue in any form
What?? My girlfriend is a molecular biologist who works with the cDNA libraries of a lot of animals and she says human adult stem cells are nowhere near as easy to work with or productive as fetal tissue is. I'm not pro-abortion (but I am pro-choice), but the fact of the matter is: a stem cell, in its purest form is an undifferentiated cell. These "pure stem cells" are best found in undeveloped, terminated fetii (sp?).
Secondly, my girlfriend says 60 libraries isn't enough despite what Bush and his bio advisors say. She says there are hundreds out there. While I guess Bush acquiescing to a degree is a step in the right direction, there still is a way to go.
Regardless, most of the companies doing stem cell research don't need federal funding anyway. The private sector of Biotech has plenty of VC.
One of my coworkers just had surgery on his lower back and thus can't sit till the stitches heal, hence no work (I'm a web developer). I said to him, "You have a week off of just laying around on your stomach. Why not borrow my Playstation (1)? I have a bunch of games that will keep you entertained and you won't be bored just lying around". Well I packed up my psx, cords, about 20 games, fit it all into a backpack (that I got from JavaOne. Kinda small) and brought it in for him. Consoles are infinitely more portable than PCs. The Gamecube even has a handle! The new playstations are smaller and have a screen add on. They are meant to be brought from room to room, house to house.
Yeah you can lug your PC to a lan party, but consoles are great because they are small (except Xbox it looks) and they do one thing (most of the time): play games.
It was a similar type setup connected to Tekken3. Now I'm not a Tekken god, but I can hold my own normally. This thing was impossible to use for a game like Tekken where there is a difference between tapping and holding a directional button. Jumping on and off the pad resulted in the "motion" as just standing on it. On top of that, punches and kicks didn't register correctly and forget about doing any sort of combo. The speed needed to get combo chains started in a game like tekken require a lot less time between "button presses" than these sorts of things can provide.
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Have you? Then zip it. I went on the /. IRC channel because I had a networking issue setting up OpenBSD and when I mentioed that it was an OpendBSD issue, I was a) told by one user they couldn't talk to me because my host-name was too long (sorry I use RCN to connect. I'm an asshole I guess) b) told to go look for OpenBSD help on Effnet at #boysex and c) told to suck Theo's dick. Great job Linux fans.
After talking to a friend that knows networking and being given the lead that it might be a problem with two nics on my network having the same MAC Adress, I googled for it and found a rather pleasant conversation on an OpenBSD forum about a bug configuring the LinkSys card I had (which is the same one in my firewall). I swapped in another card that was detected correctly and I was good to go.
Moral: a) you probably haven't met theo either so shut up b) the OpenBSD community seems friendlier to me than the Linux one.
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actually contains that provision, keep in mind that many contracts contain
illegal (or at least overreaching) clauses. My guess is that the provision
was included in the EULA as a scare tactic, and that a court would strike
down the provision if the EULA was ever litigated. "
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PS To be fair, I feel very awkward when my ISP is down, but I get a lot more chores done. ;-)
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1. When and where can I get the new EZ Squirt Funky Purple?
Heinz EZ Squirt Funky Purple will be available nationally this fall. Look for the product to begin appearing on store shelves in September.
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That's what I meant. I hover over a link that says "click here for DeCSS", see it's goatse.cx, and don't click it. I was just giving a potential scenario.
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Huh? What the hell are you talking about? Everyone has different DNA that will only change over your lifetime in the course of stimulated mutation (radiation) or retroviruses (HIV). embryonic stem cells have a HUGE advantage over adult stem cells in that they aren't differentiated yet. In an adult, a finger cell is a finger cell and a heart cell is a heart cell. In embryos, the cells haven't been "assigned" tasks yet so what will eventually become a heart cell could very easily instead be made to become a finger cell.
As for "prone to rejection" the only way you can guarantee that a transplant would work would be to transplant your own tissue to yourself. Donation from blood relations are the best bet, but not 100%. Growing perfectly transplantable organs in a vat doesn't depend on whether you use stem cells from your conception date or your 90th birthday, it's the same DNA. Either you're a troll or you need to learn what you're talking about.
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When their real audio stream goes down, its a big deal because so many regular "listeners" are cut off.
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http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/primer.htm
I suggest people read this before posting because it seems to clear up a lot of the misconceptions readers have, even myself.
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Here's a good primer on the whole subject:
http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/primer.htm
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PS I will correct myself in saying that cDNA libraries do not deal with stem cells, but I do consider my girlfriend more of an expert than most because she does work in the field and does get cDNA libraries from fetal tissue (though most of it is homologous tissues like pig)
What?? My girlfriend is a molecular biologist who works with the cDNA libraries of a lot of animals and she says human adult stem cells are nowhere near as easy to work with or productive as fetal tissue is. I'm not pro-abortion (but I am pro-choice), but the fact of the matter is: a stem cell, in its purest form is an undifferentiated cell. These "pure stem cells" are best found in undeveloped, terminated fetii (sp?).
Secondly, my girlfriend says 60 libraries isn't enough despite what Bush and his bio advisors say. She says there are hundreds out there. While I guess Bush acquiescing to a degree is a step in the right direction, there still is a way to go.
Regardless, most of the companies doing stem cell research don't need federal funding anyway. The private sector of Biotech has plenty of VC.
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One of my coworkers just had surgery on his lower back and thus can't sit till the stitches heal, hence no work (I'm a web developer). I said to him, "You have a week off of just laying around on your stomach. Why not borrow my Playstation (1)? I have a bunch of games that will keep you entertained and you won't be bored just lying around". Well I packed up my psx, cords, about 20 games, fit it all into a backpack (that I got from JavaOne. Kinda small) and brought it in for him. Consoles are infinitely more portable than PCs. The Gamecube even has a handle! The new playstations are smaller and have a screen add on. They are meant to be brought from room to room, house to house.
Yeah you can lug your PC to a lan party, but consoles are great because they are small (except Xbox it looks) and they do one thing (most of the time): play games.
My $.02,
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