I'm missing my right hand, you insensitive clods, and I can type any word I want to. I once typed out the longest word in the english language, the chemical name for the protein "Titan," with just my left hand, so I say THAT is the longest word one can type out with just their left hand.
In case you're wondering, it has 189819 letters, and no, there is no reason one would write out the IUPAC name.
Halo was self-aware that it was running from the HDD?
Probably not, the note actually sounded like bungie put it up on everyone's screen when they logged on after the update went into effect, whether they had installed halo or were running it from the disc.
I got that part, the note that appears when you turn on halo explains it okay. But knowing why it is that way doesn't make it not that way: it's still dissapointing.
No, the types who would call me lazy for not wanting to work to watch a movie are typically what I would call "computer geek snobs." "Geeks who have more fun installing drivers than doing actual fun things" is less catchy, but more precise.
I'm slightly embarassed to say it, but I really like the update.
I love the streaming videos more than I probably should. In fact, I'm going to say I love it for the exact reasons I play games on the console rather than the PC in the first place: I don't like messing around with the PC settings at all when I'm trying to entertain myself. The netflix streaming videos didn't work instantly on my PC and I never bothered with it again, on the console it worked immediately. Call that laziness if you want, I'll just turn around and call you something else.
I was entertained for about 10 minutes with making an avatar even though it was a blatant ripoff of the wii and somehow cheesier.
The running games on the hard drive on the other hand was a letdown, as Halo immediately told me I should not be running the game off the HDD. For offline games it still sounds like a good thing, as the disc drive on those things crap out frequently.
The new menu is really a tossup and not that important either way.
That is part of why I doubt it, especially since we are talking about mammals & not amphibians, so they don't have "equivelant" stages
Way off. Embryology is very heavily conserved, such that while there are clear differences, there are also clear similarities. An egg gets fertilized to make a one cell stage, cell division makes a hollow space called the blastula stage, the part that becomes the embryo is one cell layer thick. A pocket forms that becomes the gut, that's the gastrula stage. The part of the embryo that becomes the central nervous system makes a tube, that's the neurula stage.
After that point, things start to diverge more, but up until that point the two do have the same stages.
As you can see, quite similar. There are certainly equivalent stages.
Here's a wiki page on "embryo" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo) Notice it says just "animals," many places and doesn't specify which species? It's not laziness.
Not that there aren't plenty of ways to get embryonic stem cells that don't involve destroying embryos ( like cord blood.) but that is something often neglected.
Well, if ES cells turn out to be the only way to get replacement cells that you need, it is going to get much stickier. Cord blood would be great for those few individuals who have their cord blood saved. But for those of us who don't, that's not an option. As people are quick to point out, ES cells would be rejected by your body... unless they were from, say, a clone of you...
Fortunately, it's not looking like the only way to repair, say, spinal cords is to clone a person and harvest the clone's ES cells.
I'd point out that ES cells are being widely used for primary research and are giving us new insights into basic cell biology and cellular differentiation. That will inevitably help with adult stem cells.
Also, companies are not the major source of funding in biomedical research, although they do often contribute. Government funding, from taxes, supports far more biomedical research than private enterprises do.
Third, IPS cells, basically cells turned into ES-like cells, are the most promising of all three, although they are the youngest and therefore least developed. IPS cells have the benefits of ES cells without the tissue rejection. So far we've only been able to make them using viruses, but they've only been around for a few years.
Well, I think it's the other side that's making an exception for humans. The only time anyone has a problem with harvesting ES cells is when it's from a human blastula. "Human" means more than a genetic identity. It's not illogical to say a human blastula may not have human rights, because it's not a "Human" in that sense, even though biologically it is an individual human embryo.
Indeed, and what's more, the donation was sort of out of convinience, not necessity (sorta... read on.)
The extracellular matrix that the body makes for its own tissues is pretty complex, I have no idea what our capabilities are as far as artificially producing that, but I would guess we're years off from being able to make a good scaffold in a dish. But it shouldn't be impossible forever. At some point, we should be able to make a scaffold from scratch and then populate them with your stem cells, or maybe get the stem cells to make their own scaffold in a dish before implanting it.
Along those lines, there was a story posted recently about doctors regrowing a man's finger by taking cartilage, powederinzing it, and applying it, giving cells a new scaffold.
Either way, you're right, we are closer to not needing donations.
That's a politically convinient way of looking at it. It ignores the fact that studies on ES cells advanced our understanding of adult stem cells, so the scores are irrevocably intertwined, but I can see why you'd like to ignore that fact.
The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that.
What about the reverse, during the time the computer is booting up, there is no way for these guys to do ANY work? I don't get paid by the hour, so there's no real financial incentive, but I still turn on the computer and then leave to do something while it's turning on.
Has "perfect" taken on a new meaning? The summary didn't explain, and neither did the freaking article as to what they mean by "perfect" or "ideal." Is this merely what the researchers themselves prefered? "9:36 is the ideal time, because that's exactly how long it takes me to walk from my lab to my house."
Slightly off topic, a TV show I was watching a years ago mentioned these guns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) which fired small bullet shaped rockets, as potential space-based weapons (in case the moonraker lasers didn't get developed in time to fight the commies in space, I guess). If NASA finds a need for a grappling gun, they could maybe attach a mini rocket to it.
Of course, the wiki page mentions a long list of problems with the rocket gun itself, and a rocket-based grapple would still not solve the problem of an astronaut being pulled toward whatever they were grabbing. I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Well of course, after all, republicans find plenty of ways to rationalize their own use of tax money while throwing a hissy fit about anyone else using it. That's one of the reasons red states more tax money than they give.
I can't remember the last time I saw something about videogames posted to slashdot in which DRM issues didn't become the focus. Here we have a game that is not released yet, and the first post is "Will it have DRM? Because that sucks. Spore and walmart suck because of DRM."
Why always fixate on DRM? Do people here actually play games, or is trying to defeat DRM everyone's preferred entertainment?
You're actually picking at me saying the Phantom is not a real console? Seriously, you're giving them an out because they technically did make one box that could download games?
A parallel situation to the story at hand would be if they said they got 50% efficiency AND the thing would be available next year to buy, next year rolls around and they release a clip of a jet engine turning a windmill and that's it.
Anyway, lets not get into a semantic argument, the point is that pictures of the thing would be nice to look at but ultimately they don't amount to beans. Not having them is not a reason to assume it's not real.
National Geographic games: rated Adults Only for scenes of intense animal violence and occasional photos of tribal women in traditonal garb showing their boobies.
Yes, the keyboard was real, but of course that was not what the phantom console was supposed to be and was not what the pictures were of. That the company managed to take all that startup money and produce a keyboard with a stand is... well better than nothing I suppose, but the phantom console remains firmly in the land of vaporware. Or maybe just plain fraud.
Right, because pictures are proof. Just like the phantom console, which had pictures (http://gamedeveloper.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=19801) and is totally real right now. In fact, I'm playing the invisible version as I'm typing this!
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I'm missing my right hand, you insensitive clods, and I can type any word I want to. I once typed out the longest word in the english language, the chemical name for the protein "Titan," with just my left hand, so I say THAT is the longest word one can type out with just their left hand.
In case you're wondering, it has 189819 letters, and no, there is no reason one would write out the IUPAC name.
Well, they cut the eye off of the tadpole, it seems only polite to regrow it for them. Geez, the manners of young anonymous cowards these days...
Well, we know how to make tadpoles and flies with extra eyes in wierd places, like the middle of the frog head.
http://dev.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/126/19/4213
So we're almost there.
Halo was self-aware that it was running from the HDD?
Probably not, the note actually sounded like bungie put it up on everyone's screen when they logged on after the update went into effect, whether they had installed halo or were running it from the disc.
I got that part, the note that appears when you turn on halo explains it okay. But knowing why it is that way doesn't make it not that way: it's still dissapointing.
No, the types who would call me lazy for not wanting to work to watch a movie are typically what I would call "computer geek snobs." "Geeks who have more fun installing drivers than doing actual fun things" is less catchy, but more precise.
I'm slightly embarassed to say it, but I really like the update.
I love the streaming videos more than I probably should. In fact, I'm going to say I love it for the exact reasons I play games on the console rather than the PC in the first place: I don't like messing around with the PC settings at all when I'm trying to entertain myself. The netflix streaming videos didn't work instantly on my PC and I never bothered with it again, on the console it worked immediately. Call that laziness if you want, I'll just turn around and call you something else.
I was entertained for about 10 minutes with making an avatar even though it was a blatant ripoff of the wii and somehow cheesier.
The running games on the hard drive on the other hand was a letdown, as Halo immediately told me I should not be running the game off the HDD. For offline games it still sounds like a good thing, as the disc drive on those things crap out frequently.
The new menu is really a tossup and not that important either way.
That is part of why I doubt it, especially since we are talking about mammals & not amphibians, so they don't have "equivelant" stages
Way off. Embryology is very heavily conserved, such that while there are clear differences, there are also clear similarities. An egg gets fertilized to make a one cell stage, cell division makes a hollow space called the blastula stage, the part that becomes the embryo is one cell layer thick. A pocket forms that becomes the gut, that's the gastrula stage. The part of the embryo that becomes the central nervous system makes a tube, that's the neurula stage.
After that point, things start to diverge more, but up until that point the two do have the same stages.
Here are some pictures of blastulas.
http://www.bootstrike.com/Genetics/StemCells/images/human_blastocyst.jpg
http://porpax.bio.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/devel/human_blastula_removed.gif
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/PDS/PDS139/microscopic-image-frog_~AA003891.jpg
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/electron/frog_blastula_composite_image_x350.gif
As you can see, quite similar. There are certainly equivalent stages.
Here's a wiki page on "embryo" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo) Notice it says just "animals," many places and doesn't specify which species? It's not laziness.
Maybe you should take his class?
Not that there aren't plenty of ways to get embryonic stem cells that don't involve destroying embryos ( like cord blood.) but that is something often neglected.
Well, if ES cells turn out to be the only way to get replacement cells that you need, it is going to get much stickier. Cord blood would be great for those few individuals who have their cord blood saved. But for those of us who don't, that's not an option. As people are quick to point out, ES cells would be rejected by your body... unless they were from, say, a clone of you...
Fortunately, it's not looking like the only way to repair, say, spinal cords is to clone a person and harvest the clone's ES cells.
I'd point out that ES cells are being widely used for primary research and are giving us new insights into basic cell biology and cellular differentiation. That will inevitably help with adult stem cells.
Also, companies are not the major source of funding in biomedical research, although they do often contribute. Government funding, from taxes, supports far more biomedical research than private enterprises do.
Third, IPS cells, basically cells turned into ES-like cells, are the most promising of all three, although they are the youngest and therefore least developed. IPS cells have the benefits of ES cells without the tissue rejection. So far we've only been able to make them using viruses, but they've only been around for a few years.
Semantic and moral arguments aside, the post (and now MY post) is not redundant, it had a unique point.
Why make an exception for humans?
Well, I think it's the other side that's making an exception for humans. The only time anyone has a problem with harvesting ES cells is when it's from a human blastula. "Human" means more than a genetic identity. It's not illogical to say a human blastula may not have human rights, because it's not a "Human" in that sense, even though biologically it is an individual human embryo.
I'm not endorsing that view, for the record.
Indeed, and what's more, the donation was sort of out of convinience, not necessity (sorta... read on.)
The extracellular matrix that the body makes for its own tissues is pretty complex, I have no idea what our capabilities are as far as artificially producing that, but I would guess we're years off from being able to make a good scaffold in a dish. But it shouldn't be impossible forever. At some point, we should be able to make a scaffold from scratch and then populate them with your stem cells, or maybe get the stem cells to make their own scaffold in a dish before implanting it.
Along those lines, there was a story posted recently about doctors regrowing a man's finger by taking cartilage, powederinzing it, and applying it, giving cells a new scaffold.
Either way, you're right, we are closer to not needing donations.
That's a politically convinient way of looking at it. It ignores the fact that studies on ES cells advanced our understanding of adult stem cells, so the scores are irrevocably intertwined, but I can see why you'd like to ignore that fact.
Mods, that wasn't redundant, that was pointing out hypocrisy. "You can't decide what's moral for everyone! I'm the only one that gets to do that!"
The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that.
What about the reverse, during the time the computer is booting up, there is no way for these guys to do ANY work? I don't get paid by the hour, so there's no real financial incentive, but I still turn on the computer and then leave to do something while it's turning on.
Has "perfect" taken on a new meaning? The summary didn't explain, and neither did the freaking article as to what they mean by "perfect" or "ideal." Is this merely what the researchers themselves prefered? "9:36 is the ideal time, because that's exactly how long it takes me to walk from my lab to my house."
NOT SCIENCE DAMNIT!!
Slightly off topic, a TV show I was watching a years ago mentioned these guns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) which fired small bullet shaped rockets, as potential space-based weapons (in case the moonraker lasers didn't get developed in time to fight the commies in space, I guess). If NASA finds a need for a grappling gun, they could maybe attach a mini rocket to it.
Of course, the wiki page mentions a long list of problems with the rocket gun itself, and a rocket-based grapple would still not solve the problem of an astronaut being pulled toward whatever they were grabbing. I just thought I'd throw that out there.
Guys, this isn't changing the oil on your car.
They actually were changing the oil on my car, which just so happens to be in space, you insensitive clod!
Well of course, after all, republicans find plenty of ways to rationalize their own use of tax money while throwing a hissy fit about anyone else using it. That's one of the reasons red states more tax money than they give.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
I can't remember the last time I saw something about videogames posted to slashdot in which DRM issues didn't become the focus. Here we have a game that is not released yet, and the first post is "Will it have DRM? Because that sucks. Spore and walmart suck because of DRM."
Why always fixate on DRM? Do people here actually play games, or is trying to defeat DRM everyone's preferred entertainment?
You're actually picking at me saying the Phantom is not a real console? Seriously, you're giving them an out because they technically did make one box that could download games?
A parallel situation to the story at hand would be if they said they got 50% efficiency AND the thing would be available next year to buy, next year rolls around and they release a clip of a jet engine turning a windmill and that's it.
Anyway, lets not get into a semantic argument, the point is that pictures of the thing would be nice to look at but ultimately they don't amount to beans. Not having them is not a reason to assume it's not real.
National Geographic games: rated Adults Only for scenes of intense animal violence and occasional photos of tribal women in traditonal garb showing their boobies.
Yes, the keyboard was real, but of course that was not what the phantom console was supposed to be and was not what the pictures were of. That the company managed to take all that startup money and produce a keyboard with a stand is... well better than nothing I suppose, but the phantom console remains firmly in the land of vaporware. Or maybe just plain fraud.
Right, because pictures are proof. Just like the phantom console, which had pictures (http://gamedeveloper.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=19801) and is totally real right now. In fact, I'm playing the invisible version as I'm typing this!