Historically, that is how we've judged the success of cloning, or genetically manipulated animals. A lot has to happen after fertilization -- blastulation, gastrulation, then further development, any one of those can be considered a success. Early cloning experiments with the common frog (Rana pippens) were considered successful because the made it to the gasturla stage, another frog species formed viable embryos, but not frogs, and was still a success. Dolly surviving well into adulthood was a fluke, and she still died early, of something that might have had a genetic cause. It really is all how you care to define success. If you thought we were a few years away from re-creating Jurassic Park, or someone promised you a harem of 50 Jessica Alba clones in a few years time, yeah, this is a very disappointing story for you.
... I'm currently using AVG under Win 2000. I recognize it may be a little slow for some people, but when I installed it, I used custom install so it didn't install: email checker (I only use web based email), link checker (that was a real dog, a noticeable pause with the Google searches.) I'd tried Avast!, but that was annoying me, a daily large pop-up, advertising the full package, often not in English. But hay, that's just me.
And likely, the original poster as well. We all have ideas about what we want: robust safety, snappy response, unobtrusive computer usage. On same level, everything, from McAfee's bloatware, Norton's resource hogging, and the various free options end up with a mix of all three.
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Historically, that is how we've judged the success of cloning, or genetically manipulated animals. A lot has to happen after fertilization -- blastulation, gastrulation, then further development, any one of those can be considered a success. Early cloning experiments with the common frog (Rana pippens) were considered successful because the made it to the gasturla stage, another frog species formed viable embryos, but not frogs, and was still a success. Dolly surviving well into adulthood was a fluke, and she still died early, of something that might have had a genetic cause. It really is all how you care to define success. If you thought we were a few years away from re-creating Jurassic Park, or someone promised you a harem of 50 Jessica Alba clones in a few years time, yeah, this is a very disappointing story for you.
... I'm currently using AVG under Win 2000. I recognize it may be a little slow for some people, but when I installed it, I used custom install so it didn't install: email checker (I only use web based email), link checker (that was a real dog, a noticeable pause with the Google searches.) I'd tried Avast!, but that was annoying me, a daily large pop-up, advertising the full package, often not in English. But hay, that's just me.
And likely, the original poster as well. We all have ideas about what we want: robust safety, snappy response, unobtrusive computer usage. On same level, everything, from McAfee's bloatware, Norton's resource hogging, and the various free options end up with a mix of all three.