It reminds me of an old Sega-CD game called Dungeon Explorer where you can wish for great wealth at the end and you just get stuck on a planet sized diamond. (Sort of a "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.)
What I'm talking about is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCNT
Basically taking a fertilized egg, which is an embryo, and gutting out its genetic material and replacing it with new genetic material. (Making a new embryo) Then growing that embryo up a bit to use for ESC. (I'd think this is what you'd want to do with real ESC Therapy to avoid rejection.)
Those treatments would probably use somatic cell nuclear transfer of modified material. IE they'd take the genetic information out of your cell, fix whatever was wrong with it and create a new embryo out of that. So you can sit back and enjoy the show as righties flip out because it involves cloning and creation of embryos for destruction while lefties will flip out over that it uses genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms.(Because if there's any form of science liberals hate it's genetic engineering. Oh well, -1 for being a troll, right?)
I'll probably get modded down for pointing this out. (For basically saying anything about big oil that isn't "They suck boy do I hate them.) Anyway last I checked their profit is and has been for a long time about 10%. (I'm guessing alot of people probably think it's 20 or 30 percent.) They make their money on volume and they make that much because they're huge. It's weird to complain about their profits and then how they don't need to be any bigger because the 2 are actually pretty much the same thing. I mean seriously, the reason they make that much money is that they sell that much product. Yes, the world really uses that much fuel. (I think Exxon was selling on the order of 100 billion gallons of product a year. To give a number for comparison the entire US beer industry produces between 5-10 billon gallons of beer.)
Oh well, I've got plenty of karma so it doesn't matter if I get modded down by some chump moderator. (Oh my god, he's on slash dot and doesn't totally hate big oil. I must mod him down.)
I suppose it could be stuff like the Wii and the PS3. (Maybe I scanned the article too quickly but does it say that it's desktop only or what? I'd figure mobile devices would be more than 6% or so.)
Since I had ubuntu installed on my system (which had Vista and Reinstall Win 7) and I tried the upgrade option which pretty much just hosed my Ubuntu install. (Oddly enough of those 3 the one that has given me the least amount of trouble is Vista. I think I'm on my 6th reinstall of Reinstall Win 7. Yes, really.)
The set-top boxes are energy hogs mostly because their drives, tuners and other components are running full tilt, 24 hours a day, even when not in active use.
Isn't that kind of the point? If their drives and tuners weren't running then they couldn't record stuff while you were away. (I mean how else would it build up a buffer of the last 30 minutes of a show or record suggestions if it wasn't running.)
So for example the school I went to expected you'd take 32 courses over 4 years. 6 of these would be the first set of "gen-ed". Then there was the dreaded foreign language requirement which was another 4 courses. (And yes, you had to take them in the same language.) Then there was the 2 course english requirement and the math requirement which pretty much was 1 course. Of course you could test out of some of this or end up doing them anyway as part of your major but you were looking at at least 10 courses outside of your major.(but probably more) Given that your major was about 15 courses that meant you'd probably get around 3 courses in your entire "career" of stuff you might have an interest in that was outside of you major.
Oh well, I will probably take a karma hit on this one. (Got it to burn though) Anyway I pretty much agree with you that gen-ed requirements are at best a complete waste of time. (I say at best since I blame the foreign language requirement, IE the undergrad torture requirement, for driving me crazy. Yes, by that I blame them for making me literally mentally ill.) The problem is that I can't think of any place that doesn't have a bug up their ass for those requirements. Well ok, maybe Brown. I've heard that they don't have any requirements but you have to put together academic study plan or something with an advisor which would probably amount to the same thing so I'm not hopeful there either. So your best bet is to find the school with the least onerous requirements. (Avoid a foreign language requirement like the plague that it is. Remember the excuses you will be given for that requirement, like cake, is a lie.)
Oh and before anybody says anything to the effect of "Well they'll be useful to you in your life" I graduated almost 20 years ago. If they were ever going to be useful to me it would have happened by now. It hasn't so they were a waste. (The saddest thing is not only did they drive me crazy but they actually kept me from taking stuff I was actually interested in outside of Computer Science like bio and chem. I simply didn't have any spots in my schedule after you put all the CS courses plus the gen-ed requirements I got stuck with.) I suppose there's always Software Engineering but I think that's got gen-ed requirements as well.
somebody says something is X years in the future. The translation of "10 years in the future" is "I don't know. If they say "20 years in the future" that means "I really don't know" and if they say "50 years in the future" that means "Go ask my dog, he's more likely to give a correct answer than me."
Sure it does, I mean it's pretty much statistics. You have thousands of customers with old meters some will under measure and some will over measure. Since the only way to know how much energy they used is from the meter the lucky ones that got a meter that under measure will be under charged.(And some will be over charged.) However once the new meters more accurate meters come in the only customers that are going to complain are the ones that see their bill go up because the new meter is more accurately measuring how much power they've been using.
This is pretty much it. The number I heard is that only for about 100 hours every year is the grid at capacity.(In the summer from from what I remember. Lot of people using their AC's.) The entire rest of the time there's a surplus of power. Of course one thing that doesn't get mentioned is that the new meters necessary for the smart grid are quite accurate. (People get kind of pissed when their bill goes up because their old meter under measured their energy usage.)
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One, is it real or is some photo shop fake. Two, why is he wearing a dress?
It reminds me of an old Sega-CD game called Dungeon Explorer where you can wish for great wealth at the end and you just get stuck on a planet sized diamond. (Sort of a "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.)
Since I figure people will just find yet another reason to get P.O.'ed about it. (But I'm pretty jaded and cynical)
Apple fans what to think?
of polio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication#2001.E2.80.932004
What I'm talking about is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCNT Basically taking a fertilized egg, which is an embryo, and gutting out its genetic material and replacing it with new genetic material. (Making a new embryo) Then growing that embryo up a bit to use for ESC. (I'd think this is what you'd want to do with real ESC Therapy to avoid rejection.)
Those treatments would probably use somatic cell nuclear transfer of modified material. IE they'd take the genetic information out of your cell, fix whatever was wrong with it and create a new embryo out of that. So you can sit back and enjoy the show as righties flip out because it involves cloning and creation of embryos for destruction while lefties will flip out over that it uses genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms.(Because if there's any form of science liberals hate it's genetic engineering. Oh well, -1 for being a troll, right?)
I mean given how many people I've seen use computers that never learned to type which would actually be more immediately useful than ctrl-f
I hope he doesn't go and whore up black holes yet again. (Oh well, at least he's not as bad as Michio Kaku)
I'll probably get modded down for pointing this out. (For basically saying anything about big oil that isn't "They suck boy do I hate them.) Anyway last I checked their profit is and has been for a long time about 10%. (I'm guessing alot of people probably think it's 20 or 30 percent.) They make their money on volume and they make that much because they're huge. It's weird to complain about their profits and then how they don't need to be any bigger because the 2 are actually pretty much the same thing. I mean seriously, the reason they make that much money is that they sell that much product. Yes, the world really uses that much fuel. (I think Exxon was selling on the order of 100 billion gallons of product a year. To give a number for comparison the entire US beer industry produces between 5-10 billon gallons of beer.) Oh well, I've got plenty of karma so it doesn't matter if I get modded down by some chump moderator. (Oh my god, he's on slash dot and doesn't totally hate big oil. I must mod him down.)
I suppose it could be stuff like the Wii and the PS3. (Maybe I scanned the article too quickly but does it say that it's desktop only or what? I'd figure mobile devices would be more than 6% or so.)
I mean if you look at the article the break down is as follows XP 49.94%, Win7 27.87%, Vista 9.24%, Other 5.77%, Mac 5.59%, and Linux 0.98%
Since black is also the best emitter as well. (IE it'll let the heat out of the building better than white.)
considered to be a kind of reptile? (I think I saw that on XKCD.)
Since I had ubuntu installed on my system (which had Vista and Reinstall Win 7) and I tried the upgrade option which pretty much just hosed my Ubuntu install. (Oddly enough of those 3 the one that has given me the least amount of trouble is Vista. I think I'm on my 6th reinstall of Reinstall Win 7. Yes, really.)
The set-top boxes are energy hogs mostly because their drives, tuners and other components are running full tilt, 24 hours a day, even when not in active use.
Isn't that kind of the point? If their drives and tuners weren't running then they couldn't record stuff while you were away. (I mean how else would it build up a buffer of the last 30 minutes of a show or record suggestions if it wasn't running.)
So for example the school I went to expected you'd take 32 courses over 4 years. 6 of these would be the first set of "gen-ed". Then there was the dreaded foreign language requirement which was another 4 courses. (And yes, you had to take them in the same language.) Then there was the 2 course english requirement and the math requirement which pretty much was 1 course. Of course you could test out of some of this or end up doing them anyway as part of your major but you were looking at at least 10 courses outside of your major.(but probably more) Given that your major was about 15 courses that meant you'd probably get around 3 courses in your entire "career" of stuff you might have an interest in that was outside of you major.
Oh well, I will probably take a karma hit on this one. (Got it to burn though) Anyway I pretty much agree with you that gen-ed requirements are at best a complete waste of time. (I say at best since I blame the foreign language requirement, IE the undergrad torture requirement, for driving me crazy. Yes, by that I blame them for making me literally mentally ill.) The problem is that I can't think of any place that doesn't have a bug up their ass for those requirements. Well ok, maybe Brown. I've heard that they don't have any requirements but you have to put together academic study plan or something with an advisor which would probably amount to the same thing so I'm not hopeful there either. So your best bet is to find the school with the least onerous requirements. (Avoid a foreign language requirement like the plague that it is. Remember the excuses you will be given for that requirement, like cake, is a lie.) Oh and before anybody says anything to the effect of "Well they'll be useful to you in your life" I graduated almost 20 years ago. If they were ever going to be useful to me it would have happened by now. It hasn't so they were a waste. (The saddest thing is not only did they drive me crazy but they actually kept me from taking stuff I was actually interested in outside of Computer Science like bio and chem. I simply didn't have any spots in my schedule after you put all the CS courses plus the gen-ed requirements I got stuck with.) I suppose there's always Software Engineering but I think that's got gen-ed requirements as well.
I mean pulling out an inflated foley catheter would probably be like passing a good sized kidney stone.
somebody says something is X years in the future. The translation of "10 years in the future" is "I don't know. If they say "20 years in the future" that means "I really don't know" and if they say "50 years in the future" that means "Go ask my dog, he's more likely to give a correct answer than me."
I'm going to have to call Jenny about this
Believe it or not surgeons who play games may make less mistakes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/surgeons-may-err-less-playing-video-games/
1. Never comment anything
2. Never document ever
3. Don't produce error messages and if you do be sure to use a number and not a human readable string
Unfortunately it seems that way to many software engineers write their code according to those 3 laws.
Sure it does, I mean it's pretty much statistics. You have thousands of customers with old meters some will under measure and some will over measure. Since the only way to know how much energy they used is from the meter the lucky ones that got a meter that under measure will be under charged.(And some will be over charged.) However once the new meters more accurate meters come in the only customers that are going to complain are the ones that see their bill go up because the new meter is more accurately measuring how much power they've been using.
This is pretty much it. The number I heard is that only for about 100 hours every year is the grid at capacity.(In the summer from from what I remember. Lot of people using their AC's.) The entire rest of the time there's a surplus of power. Of course one thing that doesn't get mentioned is that the new meters necessary for the smart grid are quite accurate. (People get kind of pissed when their bill goes up because their old meter under measured their energy usage.)