So it's safe to assume that this is just to convince the Iranian citizens that Iran has the military might to back up it's bluster? "Yeah, we could totally take the Americans and Israelis in a fight. Their technology may seem formidable, prompting you to question why we're trying to build a nuke and are always threatening them, but it's not tough. Look! Stealth jets! Just came up with this over the weekend! We're all good. Don't question the state, we know what we are doing, and would not throw away your lives in a war we can't possibly win."
(Note that I'm not saying that the US and Israel are morally right just because we happen to have stronger military forces. I wish both sides acted responsibly and had far fewer weapons.)
The proteins are what moves and shapes the cells and thereby the organism. Literally. The proteins are what a lot of the cell is made up of, it's what gives the cell it's structure, and they're all the motors in the cell. Cells are mostly water, and they have lipid envelopes, but what makes them more than bubbles is proteins, which are set by DNA. Environment, like nutrition, can have dramatic effects on the final product, but genetics is really what determines what the product is. There's no combination of environmental factors which will make a fly into Einstein. At least not without affecting proteins and/or genetics.
Maternal effects are probably the most important thing besides genetics and proteins. Absolutely critical for life in our cases, and we don't know what all it does for the embryo yet. Still, the uterus doesn't physically make the embryo, it seems the embryo does most of the self-organizing.
I wouldn't rule it out. My understanding was that folding at home was brute force taking these sequences, testing all possible conformations, and seeing what was the lowest energy conformation. That's still what happens to actual proteins when they fold up, so it's not like the approach doesn't make sense.
It's possible that some protein out there will cure a lot of cancers. It could be in platypus, or in some fungus in a desert, some coral, or some other exotic species. We're never going to test all proteins in very many species to see if they're useful. However, we've already sequenced a lot of genomes, and will sequence a lot more. We thus have a lot of protein sequences. We're never going to purify most of them and determine the structure that way. Computing them and using that to identify proteins that may be useful on the other hand, that's within reason. It will take a lot of computing power though. So there will probably be a use in something like folding@home.
I don't know why people say CoD games are clones of each other. Yes, they all involve mainly shooting bad guys with guns. Yes, they're all pretty linear. Plot and setting wise, they're very different. Comparing them to Mario games is cherrypicking. Most games are very similar to their sequels. Mario is one of the few exceptions to that.
It's fair to say "I don't like call of duty and can't figure out why so many people do," but the criticism that they're all alike doesn't ring true to me.
2. It's not too hard to come up with a scenario where a lot of silk road's buisiness is scared off by a few criminal charges like this. Craigslist was no doubt concerned that a few people getting murdered would cause customers to bolt out of irrational fear.
3. This is the first time evidently someone has gotten arrested for it. It probably won't be the last. I'm not familiar with how silk road works. I'm guessing there are barriers to try to prevent law enforcement or other criminals from using it to find out when and where drug transactions are going to be happening. I'm also guessing those barriers are not foolproof.
Other articles I've read say that's half of it promised in matching funds, and even that isn't completely certain.
I didn't know it was all going to Nokia. That's surprising. I'm guessing they'll make an amazing phone out of graphene, foldable, a trillion core processor, flies, and has AI... and then they'll kill it off and only sell windows phones.
That's not what unlocking is for. You're thinking of jailbreaking for iphones. Which, most people don't use jailbreaking to pirate apps either. Unlocking just means you can use the phone on a different network.
I think gun manufacturers should start licensing some of the guns found in Borderlands 2. I'd love to have a gold plated machine gun with a hubcap wheel for a clip that shoots bullets that electrocutes my enemies. And those handguns that launch rockets, those would be pretty useful.
Why don't they follow where the money for these advertisers is supposed to go? I'm guessing it's not trivial. Is it safe to assume that money from morons who get the ads and want to buy goes to a shady bank in a country with lax laws, and if domestic law enforcement calls said bank for who owns the bank account, they'll be told to fuck off?
Shut the hell up about your hyperbole. "Let's all be reasonable" is EXACTLY why they get away with shit like this.
YOU are the reason america is broken.
(sigh) no, when you engage in hyperbole, it's just masturbation. It feels good to you and looks disgusting to everyone else. You're never going to convince enough people to make a change with "They're not allowing us to unlock our phones. NAZIS!" It's not a good way to convince people of anything. If America is broken, it's because of people like you who make incoherent hyperbole like that.
Given the encryption, how would they even know unless they did it themselves? Maybe this is setting the stage for big content lobbying to get pre-emptive complaints into law. "This is a notice that we own the content to these copyrights, if anyone puts them onto your site in the future, we get to sue you. What's that? This will destroy the internet if it's successful? Oh deary me, what a loss! You've been notified, we'll see you in court immediately after we upload our own stuff to your site."
The Human Brain Project promises a lot (AI, curing neurodegenerative diseases, understanding the brain and consciousness, limiting animal experimentation, etc...) and it is the opinion of most neuroscientists in the US and in Europe that it won't deliver.
I can't understand most of the critics here. Not that I think they're wrong, I just don't see why they're making it. They know how funding works. That money is not going to be spent on hookers and blow. It's going to advance the science, likely in ways that will be exciting to them and that will directly help them out.
They're idiots if they think "Hey, tearing down my colleague will help me!" The program was set up years ago. Trashing this program isn't going to make the agency stop funding the program and reallocate those funds to them. Something like half the funds aren't yet certain either and could be cut. If those funds went to, say, bailing out some giant european corporation instead of research in their field, would they be happy?
Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Too much stupid in our society compared to what? Some other point in time when people in society were less stupid? That's ridiculous. Stupidity in society is a set value. Everyone acts stupid in some ways. And no, mocking people when their stupid acts come back to bite them won't teach them a lesson, you're telling yourself you're better and then trying to justify it as being good for them.
This all depends on whether they assimilate or not. Some might very well be internally hostile towards their host country, or at least unwilling to adopt compatible values.
I'd argue that few students are going to be more hostile to a place they willingly traveled to and got an education from than they would be if they stayed at home.
Americans no longer care for freedom.
Americans no longer willing to fight for liberty.
In other words, America has withered.
How about we not engage in hyperbole like this. It makes people who aren't already convinced of it that the point you're trying to make is insane, and it becomes cyclical reasoning as well. And, it's not even true. "Ability to unlock your phone" isn't critical to what I'd call "freedom."
Kids cry hard all the time. Last night, my kid screamed his head off far worse than when he had his shots, and it was because he had a nightmare. I'd say the connection it comes down to three different illogical thought processes:
1. Autism's first signs often appear around the time that the kid is supposed to get another round of shots. The fact that correlation is not causation doesn't register with illogical people.
2. Celebrities somehow are given more voice and credibility than, you know, doctors and scientists. Because doctors are out to get you! Evil corporations pulling the strings on doctors! Western medicine evil!
3. The Wakefield study. The fact that it was totally tossed out as junk is somehow taken as proof of a conspiracy rather than proof that it was totally junk. Occam's razor is not a concept that is understood here.
I've never heard of a PCM multiplier (and I'm a biologist). Do you mean a PCR cycler? If so, it's actually a lot cheaper than $20,000. Getting the mutations into a virus would require more equipment that I'm not familiar with though.
Why would you ever design a product that's completely and utterly dependent on a service provided by someone else, especially someone else who you view as a competitor or who may down the road view you as a competitor, without an iron-clad, air-tight contract guaranteeing exactly what services they'll provide you and providing scorched-earth-level penalties for their failure to provide service according to the agreed-upon terms?
Probably because they assume that "on down the road" will be at least a few months, and companies don't seem to be thinking more than a few months ahead. Maybe that's just me, because I still can't see how Twitter makes any sense from a business standpoint. I can't believe they're still going. Evidently they're making money hand over fist. Obviously common sense is somehow the enemy of money when it comes to businesses that do things online with social crap.
Slashdot Mirror
Can you say slashvertizement?
I'm pretty sure I could not, actually. Could you give the phonetic spelling?
So it's safe to assume that this is just to convince the Iranian citizens that Iran has the military might to back up it's bluster? "Yeah, we could totally take the Americans and Israelis in a fight. Their technology may seem formidable, prompting you to question why we're trying to build a nuke and are always threatening them, but it's not tough. Look! Stealth jets! Just came up with this over the weekend! We're all good. Don't question the state, we know what we are doing, and would not throw away your lives in a war we can't possibly win."
(Note that I'm not saying that the US and Israel are morally right just because we happen to have stronger military forces. I wish both sides acted responsibly and had far fewer weapons.)
The proteins are what moves and shapes the cells and thereby the organism. Literally. The proteins are what a lot of the cell is made up of, it's what gives the cell it's structure, and they're all the motors in the cell. Cells are mostly water, and they have lipid envelopes, but what makes them more than bubbles is proteins, which are set by DNA. Environment, like nutrition, can have dramatic effects on the final product, but genetics is really what determines what the product is. There's no combination of environmental factors which will make a fly into Einstein. At least not without affecting proteins and/or genetics.
Maternal effects are probably the most important thing besides genetics and proteins. Absolutely critical for life in our cases, and we don't know what all it does for the embryo yet. Still, the uterus doesn't physically make the embryo, it seems the embryo does most of the self-organizing.
I wouldn't rule it out. My understanding was that folding at home was brute force taking these sequences, testing all possible conformations, and seeing what was the lowest energy conformation. That's still what happens to actual proteins when they fold up, so it's not like the approach doesn't make sense.
It's possible that some protein out there will cure a lot of cancers. It could be in platypus, or in some fungus in a desert, some coral, or some other exotic species. We're never going to test all proteins in very many species to see if they're useful. However, we've already sequenced a lot of genomes, and will sequence a lot more. We thus have a lot of protein sequences. We're never going to purify most of them and determine the structure that way. Computing them and using that to identify proteins that may be useful on the other hand, that's within reason. It will take a lot of computing power though. So there will probably be a use in something like folding@home.
AT&Ts service is crap compared to Verizon.
I feel right now what people who vote third party must feel when I mention that I think democrats are better than republicans...
So then not "stealing" but "making a poor investment."
I don't know why people say CoD games are clones of each other. Yes, they all involve mainly shooting bad guys with guns. Yes, they're all pretty linear. Plot and setting wise, they're very different. Comparing them to Mario games is cherrypicking. Most games are very similar to their sequels. Mario is one of the few exceptions to that.
It's fair to say "I don't like call of duty and can't figure out why so many people do," but the criticism that they're all alike doesn't ring true to me.
Explain how he "stole" $80 billion and gave it to Obama's supporters please, Mr. AC. I'm listening.
1. "Showing cracks" doesn't mean "doomed."
2. It's not too hard to come up with a scenario where a lot of silk road's buisiness is scared off by a few criminal charges like this. Craigslist was no doubt concerned that a few people getting murdered would cause customers to bolt out of irrational fear.
3. This is the first time evidently someone has gotten arrested for it. It probably won't be the last. I'm not familiar with how silk road works. I'm guessing there are barriers to try to prevent law enforcement or other criminals from using it to find out when and where drug transactions are going to be happening. I'm also guessing those barriers are not foolproof.
Other articles I've read say that's half of it promised in matching funds, and even that isn't completely certain.
I didn't know it was all going to Nokia. That's surprising. I'm guessing they'll make an amazing phone out of graphene, foldable, a trillion core processor, flies, and has AI... and then they'll kill it off and only sell windows phones.
I think actually you do. Case in point.
That's not what unlocking is for. You're thinking of jailbreaking for iphones. Which, most people don't use jailbreaking to pirate apps either. Unlocking just means you can use the phone on a different network.
I think gun manufacturers should start licensing some of the guns found in Borderlands 2. I'd love to have a gold plated machine gun with a hubcap wheel for a clip that shoots bullets that electrocutes my enemies. And those handguns that launch rockets, those would be pretty useful.
Except that on multiplayer, everyone seems to select paint schemes that make their guns look like nerf guns.
I'm evidently too old to be playing such games: the increased visibility only helps me see my enemies' guns AFTER they shoot me in the head.
Why don't they follow where the money for these advertisers is supposed to go? I'm guessing it's not trivial. Is it safe to assume that money from morons who get the ads and want to buy goes to a shady bank in a country with lax laws, and if domestic law enforcement calls said bank for who owns the bank account, they'll be told to fuck off?
Shut the hell up about your hyperbole. "Let's all be reasonable" is EXACTLY why they get away with shit like this. YOU are the reason america is broken.
(sigh) no, when you engage in hyperbole, it's just masturbation. It feels good to you and looks disgusting to everyone else. You're never going to convince enough people to make a change with "They're not allowing us to unlock our phones. NAZIS!" It's not a good way to convince people of anything. If America is broken, it's because of people like you who make incoherent hyperbole like that.
Given the encryption, how would they even know unless they did it themselves? Maybe this is setting the stage for big content lobbying to get pre-emptive complaints into law. "This is a notice that we own the content to these copyrights, if anyone puts them onto your site in the future, we get to sue you. What's that? This will destroy the internet if it's successful? Oh deary me, what a loss! You've been notified, we'll see you in court immediately after we upload our own stuff to your site."
The Human Brain Project promises a lot (AI, curing neurodegenerative diseases, understanding the brain and consciousness, limiting animal experimentation, etc...) and it is the opinion of most neuroscientists in the US and in Europe that it won't deliver.
I can't understand most of the critics here. Not that I think they're wrong, I just don't see why they're making it. They know how funding works. That money is not going to be spent on hookers and blow. It's going to advance the science, likely in ways that will be exciting to them and that will directly help them out.
They're idiots if they think "Hey, tearing down my colleague will help me!" The program was set up years ago. Trashing this program isn't going to make the agency stop funding the program and reallocate those funds to them. Something like half the funds aren't yet certain either and could be cut. If those funds went to, say, bailing out some giant european corporation instead of research in their field, would they be happy?
Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Too much stupid in our society compared to what? Some other point in time when people in society were less stupid? That's ridiculous. Stupidity in society is a set value. Everyone acts stupid in some ways. And no, mocking people when their stupid acts come back to bite them won't teach them a lesson, you're telling yourself you're better and then trying to justify it as being good for them.
This all depends on whether they assimilate or not. Some might very well be internally hostile towards their host country, or at least unwilling to adopt compatible values.
I'd argue that few students are going to be more hostile to a place they willingly traveled to and got an education from than they would be if they stayed at home.
Americans no longer care for freedom. Americans no longer willing to fight for liberty. In other words, America has withered.
How about we not engage in hyperbole like this. It makes people who aren't already convinced of it that the point you're trying to make is insane, and it becomes cyclical reasoning as well. And, it's not even true. "Ability to unlock your phone" isn't critical to what I'd call "freedom."
Kids cry hard all the time. Last night, my kid screamed his head off far worse than when he had his shots, and it was because he had a nightmare. I'd say the connection it comes down to three different illogical thought processes:
1. Autism's first signs often appear around the time that the kid is supposed to get another round of shots. The fact that correlation is not causation doesn't register with illogical people.
2. Celebrities somehow are given more voice and credibility than, you know, doctors and scientists. Because doctors are out to get you! Evil corporations pulling the strings on doctors! Western medicine evil!
3. The Wakefield study. The fact that it was totally tossed out as junk is somehow taken as proof of a conspiracy rather than proof that it was totally junk. Occam's razor is not a concept that is understood here.
You should probably read the entire post before you respond to the first line.
I've never heard of a PCM multiplier (and I'm a biologist). Do you mean a PCR cycler? If so, it's actually a lot cheaper than $20,000. Getting the mutations into a virus would require more equipment that I'm not familiar with though.
Why would you ever design a product that's completely and utterly dependent on a service provided by someone else, especially someone else who you view as a competitor or who may down the road view you as a competitor, without an iron-clad, air-tight contract guaranteeing exactly what services they'll provide you and providing scorched-earth-level penalties for their failure to provide service according to the agreed-upon terms?
Probably because they assume that "on down the road" will be at least a few months, and companies don't seem to be thinking more than a few months ahead. Maybe that's just me, because I still can't see how Twitter makes any sense from a business standpoint. I can't believe they're still going. Evidently they're making money hand over fist. Obviously common sense is somehow the enemy of money when it comes to businesses that do things online with social crap.