And so is everyone else. No one changed their vote based on taking that gaffe seriously. I was already going to vote against Romney. Thinking he didn't understand altitudes and air pressure was a reason to laugh at him, not my reason to vote against him.
There may be some people who changed their vote based on taking that statement seriously, but such people are basically flipping coins to determine their vote anyway.
I think we should avoid over-hyping this. This is a mouse that can regenerate skin rather than scar tissue. I see nothing to suggest it grows new bones, muscles, major blood vessels, or nerves, so it's unlikely that this will move us much closer to regenerating lost limbs. Not to dismiss the findings. I'm a cell biologist, this is extremely interesting to me still, and regenerating skin rather than scar tissue is obviously important enough to merit a lot more study.
I'd hazard a guess that it's likely we'll be able to make as many skin cells as you'd need using induced pluripotent stem cell technology before too long. However, that wouldn't be -skin- that would be some flasks of cells. With the skin cell gun, it's possible to treat and heal second degree burns, but wiki tells me it isn't yet been validated for third degree burns, and I'm guessing has little hope of replacing skin that is completely lost due to disease or other injury. So the ability to make new skin in humans will be an important breakthrough, and these mice may tell us how, that's very exciting. But I don't think it's likely to help all types of regenerative medicine.
One wonders what WOULD have been acceptable terms for apple. "We demand you give us turn by turn navigation. In exchange we will allow you a limited existence on the iphone. Which WILL BE the only mobile platform out there once we sue all your pathetic android makers into oblivion! MUHAHAHAHAH!!! BEG FOR YOUR MOBILE LIFE, GOOGLE!!!!"
Competition usually does get better products at a lower price... but google maps is essentially free, and it's maps. Streetview is nice, but honestly, where's the room for improvement?
Thinking differently just to think differently isn't better if there was nothing wrong with the original thinking in the first place. Maybe I just lack the imagination to see what new places map services could go.
That's why they have their own special ways of apologizing. For instance, making it sound like they're sorry to the dumbasses that voted for them, so they'll never do it again.
Or the "Half apology while continuing to do whatever it is you're apologizing for." Like Todd Akin's apologizing for his remarks about how women magically don't get pregnant if they don't want to, while his wife was essentially restating that as a fact again.
Not sure the media is "brainwashing" people into accepting them so much as "Most people have accepted them and none of the media really cares to beat a dead horse, they'd rather focus on which politician said which soundbite, because that's what people pay attention to."
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
Or, you know, because westerners in general don't care about Pakistan in general, and the idea of Christians in Pakistan is confusing to us, and goes against our simplistic worldview. But no, we'll go with your conspiracy theory that we liberals hate Christianity to the point of liking Islamic fundamentalists. Who, in turn, just LOVE liberal atheists.
I wonder if it's circular logic, that american beer sucks because american beer sucks and everyone says so. Or is some type of hipster sentiment "You like American beer? Bah! You don't know beer. My favorite beer? You've probably never heard of it, so I won't bother mentioning it."
I disagree that, at least in samsung's case, touchwiz runs like crap.
I rooted it and replaced it with non-touchwiz ICS after a few months. It was not really that different to me.
Seems to me that slashdotters and mobile enthusiasts get upset about touchwiz at least on principle, not on any real disadvantages on it. Well... aside from the current vulnerability, so maybe they have a point. Anyway, yes, it comes with Need for speed and some other crap you didn't ask for, and yes some of it can't be uninstalled simply, and yes, it is annoying when samsung delays updating from gingerbread for months and months simply because they haven't finished diddling ICS. But it's not like they took Windows 7 and customized it to the level of crap of windows ME.
They don't want respect. If someone is getting angry and getting violent and keeps going on about respect, they just want an excuse to get mad and violent. If it's not perceived disrespect, it will be about something else.
It's a universal rule. In every culture, there are angry people who want to hurt you. "Disrespect" is usually the default excuse, but it is just an excuse. The real reason is testosterone, or misery loves company, or sexual frustration, or some other pathetic thing that won't be solved by beating someone up anyway.
This is just another patent battle between two soulless mega-corps
That doesn't mean one isn't better for us consumers than the other one.
Today for lunch, I could eat leftover chili from last night, or I could eat a moldy sandwich that happens to be in the fridge. I don't know how old the sandwich is, but I'm guessing it will make me sick.
Neither is delicious pizza, which I want to eat, so I guess it doesn't matter which one I eat, huh? I'll just flip a coin.
That and features you can get on your iphone by jailbreaking. When I upgraded to iOS5 it was because apps I needed were no longer compatible with iOS4, not because of any features: I already had pretty much all of them. If anything, I lost some features, at least until I jailbroke again.
Remove the ad-homenim whining and you're left with "They're moving the target, so it's not science." To that I say: you misunderstand and should feel like an ignorant fool about it.
Is there any reason for people to upgrade? I know that a fast update schedule is a feature of ubuntu, but I've never understood why that's a positive thing.
I find it odd that you're still trying to convince me I'm biased against apple. What's your motivation? I don't like apple, if that's what you're after. My sarcastic reply to AC was more about how inconsequential TOS violations were. I think apple banned him for showing that their walled garden wasn't perfect. That probably isn't the case for google, since everyone already knew that has malware.
I'll defend my sarcasm in light of what AC wrote initially. From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them. That to me sounds like more of a PR move, though I'm not sure that's more boneheaded than banning him simply for violating the TOS. As I said, apples actions seem to be telling him that it would have been better had he given the exploit to someone who would use it maliciously, than broadcasting it to everyone.
As far as google goes, I'm not sure why you keep trying to paint me as a hypocrite for not criticizing them as well. No details ( were given in that ethicalhacker story, and I couldn't immediately find any second source verifying that he had been banned from google, let alone any more details. I did find this suggesting he was working with Google.
So I have to ask why I need to condemn google when I just have one line on one website saying they did the same thing?
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And so is everyone else. No one changed their vote based on taking that gaffe seriously. I was already going to vote against Romney. Thinking he didn't understand altitudes and air pressure was a reason to laugh at him, not my reason to vote against him.
There may be some people who changed their vote based on taking that statement seriously, but such people are basically flipping coins to determine their vote anyway.
Probably depends on how much money. Is that known how much they offered? Any estimates for how much it would have been worth?
I think we should avoid over-hyping this. This is a mouse that can regenerate skin rather than scar tissue. I see nothing to suggest it grows new bones, muscles, major blood vessels, or nerves, so it's unlikely that this will move us much closer to regenerating lost limbs. Not to dismiss the findings. I'm a cell biologist, this is extremely interesting to me still, and regenerating skin rather than scar tissue is obviously important enough to merit a lot more study.
I'd hazard a guess that it's likely we'll be able to make as many skin cells as you'd need using induced pluripotent stem cell technology before too long. However, that wouldn't be -skin- that would be some flasks of cells. With the skin cell gun, it's possible to treat and heal second degree burns, but wiki tells me it isn't yet been validated for third degree burns, and I'm guessing has little hope of replacing skin that is completely lost due to disease or other injury. So the ability to make new skin in humans will be an important breakthrough, and these mice may tell us how, that's very exciting. But I don't think it's likely to help all types of regenerative medicine.
Anyone else find it a little odd that asking what steam is can be modded "+5 informative?"
One wonders what WOULD have been acceptable terms for apple. "We demand you give us turn by turn navigation. In exchange we will allow you a limited existence on the iphone. Which WILL BE the only mobile platform out there once we sue all your pathetic android makers into oblivion! MUHAHAHAHAH!!! BEG FOR YOUR MOBILE LIFE, GOOGLE!!!!"
Competition usually does get better products at a lower price... but google maps is essentially free, and it's maps. Streetview is nice, but honestly, where's the room for improvement?
Thinking differently just to think differently isn't better if there was nothing wrong with the original thinking in the first place. Maybe I just lack the imagination to see what new places map services could go.
That's why they have their own special ways of apologizing. For instance, making it sound like they're sorry to the dumbasses that voted for them, so they'll never do it again.
Or the "Half apology while continuing to do whatever it is you're apologizing for." Like Todd Akin's apologizing for his remarks about how women magically don't get pregnant if they don't want to, while his wife was essentially restating that as a fact again.
Not sure the media is "brainwashing" people into accepting them so much as "Most people have accepted them and none of the media really cares to beat a dead horse, they'd rather focus on which politician said which soundbite, because that's what people pay attention to."
It's not a conspiracy, it's just apathy.
Trust me, nobody really wants to ogle your naked outline.
Then why ARE they ogleing my naked outline?
Yes, that will keep you anonymous for sure.
You just can't hire competent criminal IT staff these days.
You really can't see the difference between the two? Honestly?
That is because the Western main stream media, - from New York Times to Le Monde of France, - are being controlled by the liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else.
Or, you know, because westerners in general don't care about Pakistan in general, and the idea of Christians in Pakistan is confusing to us, and goes against our simplistic worldview. But no, we'll go with your conspiracy theory that we liberals hate Christianity to the point of liking Islamic fundamentalists. Who, in turn, just LOVE liberal atheists.
I wonder if it's circular logic, that american beer sucks because american beer sucks and everyone says so. Or is some type of hipster sentiment "You like American beer? Bah! You don't know beer. My favorite beer? You've probably never heard of it, so I won't bother mentioning it."
I disagree that, at least in samsung's case, touchwiz runs like crap.
I rooted it and replaced it with non-touchwiz ICS after a few months. It was not really that different to me.
Seems to me that slashdotters and mobile enthusiasts get upset about touchwiz at least on principle, not on any real disadvantages on it. Well... aside from the current vulnerability, so maybe they have a point. Anyway, yes, it comes with Need for speed and some other crap you didn't ask for, and yes some of it can't be uninstalled simply, and yes, it is annoying when samsung delays updating from gingerbread for months and months simply because they haven't finished diddling ICS. But it's not like they took Windows 7 and customized it to the level of crap of windows ME.
Me too. At least with gruB's "Dr. Bob Chiropractor," the posts were funny sometimes. This is just depressing.
16 minutes and none so far. I'm genuinely surprised.
They don't want respect. If someone is getting angry and getting violent and keeps going on about respect, they just want an excuse to get mad and violent. If it's not perceived disrespect, it will be about something else.
It's a universal rule. In every culture, there are angry people who want to hurt you. "Disrespect" is usually the default excuse, but it is just an excuse. The real reason is testosterone, or misery loves company, or sexual frustration, or some other pathetic thing that won't be solved by beating someone up anyway.
This is just another patent battle between two soulless mega-corps
That doesn't mean one isn't better for us consumers than the other one.
Today for lunch, I could eat leftover chili from last night, or I could eat a moldy sandwich that happens to be in the fridge. I don't know how old the sandwich is, but I'm guessing it will make me sick.
Neither is delicious pizza, which I want to eat, so I guess it doesn't matter which one I eat, huh? I'll just flip a coin.
That and features you can get on your iphone by jailbreaking. When I upgraded to iOS5 it was because apps I needed were no longer compatible with iOS4, not because of any features: I already had pretty much all of them. If anything, I lost some features, at least until I jailbroke again.
I sincerely hope microsoft is paying you to create new accounts and shill on slashdot. Because if you're just doing this for free, that's pretty sad.
Conversely, if MS is wasting money trying to get slashdotters to like the windows phone, that's really funny.
Remove the ad-homenim whining and you're left with "They're moving the target, so it's not science." To that I say: you misunderstand and should feel like an ignorant fool about it.
Is there any reason for people to upgrade? I know that a fast update schedule is a feature of ubuntu, but I've never understood why that's a positive thing.
I find it odd that you're still trying to convince me I'm biased against apple. What's your motivation? I don't like apple, if that's what you're after. My sarcastic reply to AC was more about how inconsequential TOS violations were. I think apple banned him for showing that their walled garden wasn't perfect. That probably isn't the case for google, since everyone already knew that has malware.
I'll defend my sarcasm in light of what AC wrote initially. From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them. That to me sounds like more of a PR move, though I'm not sure that's more boneheaded than banning him simply for violating the TOS. As I said, apples actions seem to be telling him that it would have been better had he given the exploit to someone who would use it maliciously, than broadcasting it to everyone.
As far as google goes, I'm not sure why you keep trying to paint me as a hypocrite for not criticizing them as well. No details ( were given in that ethicalhacker story, and I couldn't immediately find any second source verifying that he had been banned from google, let alone any more details. I did find this suggesting he was working with Google.
So I have to ask why I need to condemn google when I just have one line on one website saying they did the same thing?