It's common in research to implant human stem cells into severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mice. Lacking much of an immune system, the cells won't be rejected as they would be if you implanted human tissue into a normal mouse. It's cheaper than injecting stem cells into humans and then sectioning them to see if it worked.
And that, with the magic of poor editing, becomes mice human stem cells.
Convergent evolution happened fairly regularly during evolution, it shouldn't be a surprise that the same thing happens in software. If something is successful in windows, why not move in that direction with some linux distros?
I can think of just two reasons why you would object to it. 1: You simply don't like change. Don't upgrade if that's the case. 2: You don't like windows due to brand preference, not because of any specific feature. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing, you say "while they are at it, why don't they change everything else" but that doesn't make any sense..
Doing something different because it can be done better, that is okay. I think the things you listed there at the end are clear examples of that. Doing something different simply to do something different, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maintaining the command line interface simply because that's how you do things in linux, those of us who don't belong to the church of linux don't see the logic in that. Linux is still daunting to most users. I say that as a user who has tried to start using linux, but I'm still not comfortable with it. Tried ubuntu and mint, Windows has spoiled me I suppose. When I have to go to the CLI after dealing with not being able to do something I already know how to do in windows, I'm pretty likely to say "fuck it" and just use windows. Most other computer users aren't as computer savvy as me, even though most slashdotters are far more knowledgeable.
So I guess it comes back to why you object to linux distros and windows converging again. If you simply don't like change and would prefer to see linux continue to be used by few people, then I guess keeping the CLI would be a good way to prevent more people from switching away from windows. If you simply don't like windows, then you should be happy to see linux distros moving more toward what users already know and are comfortable with so they can migrate from that closed source OS you don't like. And if you can't stand using it yourself, there are always other distros for you.
A friend of mine was doing an internship in Washington DC, he saw on a schedule a congressional briefing thing about piracy. He went assuming it was about napster etc. It was actually about Somalia. He walked away caring about online piracy a little less.
You see no problem with pumping a human being full of a non-blood liqued at a rapid rate?
If the volume is mainly oxygen and exhalation of CO2 still occurs at a comparable rate, not really. That's making an assumption about the density of the foam I suppose.
The article makes this pretty damn clear, it is not for surgery, it is for emergencies. There already exist perfectly fine methods for putting oxygen into blood, they are used routinely during surgery. But they are bulky and slow, so they can't be used on the scene of an accident or in an emergency room.
But.. that's... I had already said... Okay, well at least we are in agreement about this much and we both read the article if not each other's posts...
I'm also guessing that asking people about "affordable care act" would show significantly less negative responses than "Obamacare."
The republican opposition to this has been mainly FUD, not anything specific, since they consider real arguements against it to be over the heads of the voters.
To be fair, I'm not sure that's an unreasonable conclusion given the average voter.
I think the idea (not saying that's how it will work) is that the number will go from not infinitesimally small to infinitesimally small as people are fined for not being insured as a result of this law.
I knew some families who were uninsured, relying on praying for good health. They probably will wake up after this. Hopefully anyway.
To supply an adult human, you would need 300-600 mL of infused volume per minute. Given that an adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 L, you can imagine that you're going to run into problems pretty quickly.
The mircoparticles themselves sound like they could be made fairly rapidly:
The microcapsules are easy and cheap to make, says Kheir. They effectively self-assemble when the lipid components are exposed to intense sound waves in an oxygen environment — a process known as sonication.
The article notes that this would probably not be something you would do for long term though, and that there are already techniques to oxygenate blood externally then pump it back in, used during surgery.
You mean we're one step closer to the futurama head jars. Or gills for people maybe?
On a more serious note, probably also a step closer to easier surgeries like lung transplants. Maybe a step toward treating cystic fibrosis.
But zombies, absolutely not. There's nothing contagious here, and I thought zombies breathe. I mean, if they weren't using their lungs and windpipes, how are they always moaning... always moaning... day and night, keeping me awake... realizing that it's inevitable...
It's anti-free market for sure. They're skimming off the system without contributing a damn thing and adding inefficiency and misinformation into the markets
How is that anti-free-market? I thought "free market" simply meant the government wasn't regulating it.
And you can use your smartphone or tablet as a remote control. Before you write that off as a gimmick, consider how easy it is to lose a remote control, and how you always have your phone with you.
The top of the line roku and the WD TV box are nice for the USB ports as well, can play torrented videos on the TV easily (though roku limits the formats you can play.)
With the current generation of roku devices, only the top of the line comes with an ethernet cable input and USB port, and then you can only play MP4 files, AVI is a no go.
I returned my roku and got a WD TV box, which is pretty much the same price but plays all the video formats I've thrown at it. I plugged an external hard drive into it and can then play anything I download on it. It isn't as smooth as the roku though, sometimes it freezes. Same price.
One which we stole from the previous tenants, yes. Kind of erodes our moral superiority here.
We have just as much right to keep people out, as we do to shoot someone who tries to break into our living rooms. (Of course it you think illegal entrance is a-okay, maybe I'll come put a tent in your living room later tonight. I need a place to sleep. Oh and some free food. Thanks.)
Ah, the "illegal immigrants are freeloaders who want to suck up welfare" myth. Illegal immigrants generally work harder than citizens, for less pay. It's interesting that you mention food. They're the ones providing us with cheap food. Food prices would go up if we didn't have near slave labor.
I have never once seen an ounce of hostility toward legal immigrants in my life
You're telling me you don't think a legally-emigrated Latino doesn't get lumped in with the illegal immigrant hate? You're telling me that middle-easterners don't get hate? Hell, there were Indian immigrants who were getting death threats shortly after 9/11.
I think the distinction that should be drawn is that those people opposed to immigrants, there are those who are opposed to illegal immigrants and those that really just are opposed to immigrants in general, but illegal immigrants is an easier target.
People don't emigrate illegally because they are out to break the law, they emigrate illegally because we've essentially blocked them from coming in legally. If you set the costs of moving here legally too high for most people from a specific neighboring country, then the important distinction isn't really "Law abiding vs law breaking." You're really just trying to keep the poor people out. And if we go that way, we really should tear down the Statue of Liberty. The hypocrisy is just too much.
I think the "viable offspring" is the closest to a comprehensive definition of species as you'll get aside from "I know it when I see it."
Species is, when you get down to it, a purely artificial distinction for our convenience. Nature doesn't think in terms of species. We're trying to apply a rational, universal organizing scheme to something that is not organized like that.
Furthermore, when you consider that the vast preponderance of life on the Earth is bacteria that don't mate and have no real cohesion and cannot really be put into species, it makes the species question trivial anyway.
There doesn't really need to be outside competition for a company to change, at least in theory. If the A company notices that station 1 and 2 are doing things differently and that one is getting more ears, they might want to know why. They might find out it's because station 2 doesn't play loud commercials, and people like that, and they'll get people listening to both if they limit the noise.
There's always competition with radio even if all the radio stations are owned by the same parent company: you can turn it off.
I'd disagree with GP in any case though: consumers aren't that smart. If I listen to station 2, whether or not it's owned by a different company based on how annoying their commercials are, I'm going to be outweighed by people who don't care.
The housecat is a domesticated species, produced via artificial selection, not natural selection. Yes, we could breed them over the course of a million years to be very smart probably. If humans were to disappear, could felines acquire human-level intelligence via natural selection? Yes, I'd say that's -possible-.
I'm aware I've taken the bait, I'm curious as to where you're going with this.
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It's common in research to implant human stem cells into severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mice. Lacking much of an immune system, the cells won't be rejected as they would be if you implanted human tissue into a normal mouse. It's cheaper than injecting stem cells into humans and then sectioning them to see if it worked.
And that, with the magic of poor editing, becomes mice human stem cells.
Convergent evolution happened fairly regularly during evolution, it shouldn't be a surprise that the same thing happens in software. If something is successful in windows, why not move in that direction with some linux distros?
I can think of just two reasons why you would object to it. 1: You simply don't like change. Don't upgrade if that's the case. 2: You don't like windows due to brand preference, not because of any specific feature. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing, you say "while they are at it, why don't they change everything else" but that doesn't make any sense..
Doing something different because it can be done better, that is okay. I think the things you listed there at the end are clear examples of that. Doing something different simply to do something different, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maintaining the command line interface simply because that's how you do things in linux, those of us who don't belong to the church of linux don't see the logic in that. Linux is still daunting to most users. I say that as a user who has tried to start using linux, but I'm still not comfortable with it. Tried ubuntu and mint, Windows has spoiled me I suppose. When I have to go to the CLI after dealing with not being able to do something I already know how to do in windows, I'm pretty likely to say "fuck it" and just use windows. Most other computer users aren't as computer savvy as me, even though most slashdotters are far more knowledgeable.
So I guess it comes back to why you object to linux distros and windows converging again. If you simply don't like change and would prefer to see linux continue to be used by few people, then I guess keeping the CLI would be a good way to prevent more people from switching away from windows. If you simply don't like windows, then you should be happy to see linux distros moving more toward what users already know and are comfortable with so they can migrate from that closed source OS you don't like. And if you can't stand using it yourself, there are always other distros for you.
Judging by my own defunct hotmail account, I wouldn't want to do that. So much spam.
Last time I checked (maybe a year ago) I think I discovered that posting AC would also undo the moderations, it just wouldn't warn you beforehand.
Well... it's round?
If you can't hear crickets over the sound of you raising your hand, you should really see an orthopedic surgeon or something.
A friend of mine was doing an internship in Washington DC, he saw on a schedule a congressional briefing thing about piracy. He went assuming it was about napster etc. It was actually about Somalia. He walked away caring about online piracy a little less.
You see no problem with pumping a human being full of a non-blood liqued at a rapid rate?
If the volume is mainly oxygen and exhalation of CO2 still occurs at a comparable rate, not really. That's making an assumption about the density of the foam I suppose.
The article makes this pretty damn clear, it is not for surgery, it is for emergencies. There already exist perfectly fine methods for putting oxygen into blood, they are used routinely during surgery. But they are bulky and slow, so they can't be used on the scene of an accident or in an emergency room.
But.. that's... I had already said... Okay, well at least we are in agreement about this much and we both read the article if not each other's posts...
I'm also guessing that asking people about "affordable care act" would show significantly less negative responses than "Obamacare."
The republican opposition to this has been mainly FUD, not anything specific, since they consider real arguements against it to be over the heads of the voters.
To be fair, I'm not sure that's an unreasonable conclusion given the average voter.
I think the idea (not saying that's how it will work) is that the number will go from not infinitesimally small to infinitesimally small as people are fined for not being insured as a result of this law.
I knew some families who were uninsured, relying on praying for good health. They probably will wake up after this. Hopefully anyway.
Well, maybe it will be used for improving bandwidth and ultimately do more for consumers than if the money was given directly to them.
...
Ah, I crack myself up sometimes.
To supply an adult human, you would need 300-600 mL of infused volume per minute. Given that an adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 L, you can imagine that you're going to run into problems pretty quickly.
I don't see why. They inject the microparticles directly into the blood, and this rapid infuser at least can move 1000 mls of fluid per minute.
The mircoparticles themselves sound like they could be made fairly rapidly:
The microcapsules are easy and cheap to make, says Kheir. They effectively self-assemble when the lipid components are exposed to intense sound waves in an oxygen environment — a process known as sonication.
The article notes that this would probably not be something you would do for long term though, and that there are already techniques to oxygenate blood externally then pump it back in, used during surgery.
They just don't realize that Romney would use the encounter to create billions of jobs. By outsourcing them from Earth.
I don't think they -forgot- that, I think they just focused on one step at a time.
You mean we're one step closer to the futurama head jars. Or gills for people maybe?
On a more serious note, probably also a step closer to easier surgeries like lung transplants. Maybe a step toward treating cystic fibrosis.
But zombies, absolutely not. There's nothing contagious here, and I thought zombies breathe. I mean, if they weren't using their lungs and windpipes, how are they always moaning... always moaning... day and night, keeping me awake... realizing that it's inevitable...
It's anti-free market for sure. They're skimming off the system without contributing a damn thing and adding inefficiency and misinformation into the markets
How is that anti-free-market? I thought "free market" simply meant the government wasn't regulating it.
All that effort for so little value to society...
And you can use your smartphone or tablet as a remote control. Before you write that off as a gimmick, consider how easy it is to lose a remote control, and how you always have your phone with you.
The top of the line roku and the WD TV box are nice for the USB ports as well, can play torrented videos on the TV easily (though roku limits the formats you can play.)
With the current generation of roku devices, only the top of the line comes with an ethernet cable input and USB port, and then you can only play MP4 files, AVI is a no go.
I returned my roku and got a WD TV box, which is pretty much the same price but plays all the video formats I've thrown at it. I plugged an external hard drive into it and can then play anything I download on it. It isn't as smooth as the roku though, sometimes it freezes. Same price.
And? It's our home.
One which we stole from the previous tenants, yes. Kind of erodes our moral superiority here.
We have just as much right to keep people out, as we do to shoot someone who tries to break into our living rooms. (Of course it you think illegal entrance is a-okay, maybe I'll come put a tent in your living room later tonight. I need a place to sleep. Oh and some free food. Thanks.)
Ah, the "illegal immigrants are freeloaders who want to suck up welfare" myth. Illegal immigrants generally work harder than citizens, for less pay. It's interesting that you mention food. They're the ones providing us with cheap food. Food prices would go up if we didn't have near slave labor.
I have never once seen an ounce of hostility toward legal immigrants in my life
You're telling me you don't think a legally-emigrated Latino doesn't get lumped in with the illegal immigrant hate? You're telling me that middle-easterners don't get hate? Hell, there were Indian immigrants who were getting death threats shortly after 9/11.
I think the distinction that should be drawn is that those people opposed to immigrants, there are those who are opposed to illegal immigrants and those that really just are opposed to immigrants in general, but illegal immigrants is an easier target.
People don't emigrate illegally because they are out to break the law, they emigrate illegally because we've essentially blocked them from coming in legally. If you set the costs of moving here legally too high for most people from a specific neighboring country, then the important distinction isn't really "Law abiding vs law breaking." You're really just trying to keep the poor people out. And if we go that way, we really should tear down the Statue of Liberty. The hypocrisy is just too much.
I think the "viable offspring" is the closest to a comprehensive definition of species as you'll get aside from "I know it when I see it."
Species is, when you get down to it, a purely artificial distinction for our convenience. Nature doesn't think in terms of species. We're trying to apply a rational, universal organizing scheme to something that is not organized like that.
Furthermore, when you consider that the vast preponderance of life on the Earth is bacteria that don't mate and have no real cohesion and cannot really be put into species, it makes the species question trivial anyway.
There doesn't really need to be outside competition for a company to change, at least in theory. If the A company notices that station 1 and 2 are doing things differently and that one is getting more ears, they might want to know why. They might find out it's because station 2 doesn't play loud commercials, and people like that, and they'll get people listening to both if they limit the noise.
There's always competition with radio even if all the radio stations are owned by the same parent company: you can turn it off.
I'd disagree with GP in any case though: consumers aren't that smart. If I listen to station 2, whether or not it's owned by a different company based on how annoying their commercials are, I'm going to be outweighed by people who don't care.
The housecat is a domesticated species, produced via artificial selection, not natural selection. Yes, we could breed them over the course of a million years to be very smart probably. If humans were to disappear, could felines acquire human-level intelligence via natural selection? Yes, I'd say that's -possible-.
I'm aware I've taken the bait, I'm curious as to where you're going with this.