Make sure you click on every story that doesn't involve you, and inform us of how it doesn't relate to you. I find that comments like yours really add to the discussion.
Your response is not really an issue for those of us who are not Rival.
This message should be modded up to 5 insightful if recent trends are any indication.
Does this remind anyone else of the phantom. An electronic device that sounds too good to be true gathering investment money, the people who were supposed to be developing the thing have "offices" which are not really there.
Of course in this case, one of the guys involved already has a record. At least with the phantom no one was outed as a known fraudster beforehand.
I'm guessing that in 10 years, Zer01 will come out with a handy device to hold your phone up to your ear for you.
It is true that the repeal of the 1961 Defamation Act and its replacement with (slightly) less outrageous legislation would leave a hole in the statute books if blasphemy were not outlawed. Yet the obvious answer is to amend the constitution, which, in Ireland, requires a popular referendum. Yet the minister behind the update to the defamation laws, Dermot Ahern, says that a referendum would be âcostly and unwarrantedâ(TM)
Somehow I'm still shocked that a government official would justify killing free speech by saying it's more cost effective than having a vote.
These books should be public domain by now. God damn extended copyright might kill another production.
In this case, I'd say it's not just copyright laws. Hollywood accounting is in my eyes more clearly douchebaggery than using the broken copyright system. It might be absurd that the estate maintains a copyright what should be public domain, but it's even more absurd for New Line Cinema to claim the Lord of the Rings movies didn't make a boatload of money.
A 15 mile gooey organic blob floating off the Alaska coast? What a coincidence I just heard that Brittney Spears was vacationing someplace north... oh wait, I think I just solved the mystery...
So actually, its possible that the dollar could somehow inflate that high so 23 quadrillion isn't that much.
Possible? Yes, but I don't think Zimbabwe's troubles are indicative of how the dollar could be hyperinflated. After all, that wiki page suggests one of two events that started it was the confiscation of white owned farmland. I kind of doubt that's going to happen over here.
(A few particularly crazy farmers might disagree, and probably have elaborate conspiracy theories that start with Obama getting elected, involve a world government, stem cells somehow, climax with gun control, and end in the apocalypse, but I'd like to ignore those people as usual.)
make em small, enough to power a city and indestructible, tamper-proof, very low maintenance,
Don't forget free. Preferably they should use nuclear waste rather than producing it. The reactors should be shaped like large robots which would kill terrorists. Also they should dispense herbal pills that enlarge your genitals.
Suppose they sequence a specific human's genome. Now they do it again. Will the two sequences be the same.
You're talking about for different individuals? There will be differences, yes, but most of that difference should be in non-coding regions. The actual regions making proteins should be nearly identical. I only work with a few DNA sequences that code for proteins, so that's all I'd be interested in, but there are other applications for medicine that the variation in non-coding regions would be important.
Yes, its a great waste of time. A bit of pointless fun is one thing, and I'm all for it. Hell I engage in lots myself;./ included. But the end result of facebook for too many people is to become a slave to it... its got to be on your phone, and you've got to check it 100 times a day, and reply to all those 2nd degree friends...
Are we talking about facebook, most of the internet, sports, celebrity gossip, work*, TV (as you mentioned), or heroin, because to different people, that would apply to various degrees. People are quite good at frittering away their time, I don't think you can blame facebook for that. I personally find I waste much more time on heroin than I do facebook. Wait, not heroin, I meant to say videogames.
* I mean people who let their jobs become 100% of their lives. Not implying that working at all is a waste of time...
In that case, why is he trusting any device that is outside his administrative control, and has no contractual agreement or working relationship of any kind, with the owner of said device? O.o
Because, as I said in the post you responded to, I only use the Nintendo DS on airport wifi. To play Tetris or Mariokart. Worst case scenario I can see is that there could be a vulnerability in the DS that would allow someone to brick it. More likely someone would be using it to cheat. All of which would be annoying, but I think the likelyhood of that is pretty low, and I should really be reading papers on molecular biology when I'm on the plane, especially if I'm so concerned about educating myself.
Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time, especially when you are trying to beat the same level and keep dying, it just makes you want to throw your controller through the monitor.
It doesn't really seem to me like that's a huge obstacle in too many settings. If there is ANY cutscene you have to view multiple times, or any dialogue to repeat a level after dying, that's annoying even if it isn't a joke. Jokes would also be old if you had an NPC say it too many times, like every time you walked by, but again, that's almost anything. GTA for example has some funny lines from pedestrians ("Baby fat- I just never lost it") that got old after a few hours, but so did the non-jokes, like "Hey CJ, what up?"
Repetitiveness isn't unique to games, there are just a -few- more situations in which repetitiveness can be a problem, and you can avoid those situations easily, you know what parts are going to be repeated.
A few times the repetitiveness has been actually pretty funny. I'm thinking of one example in Fallout 3
***minor spoilers***
In one of the vaults, all the residents are clones of "Gary." They know only one word: Gary. They say it gleefully as they run at you to kill you. They say "Gary???" when they lose track of you. They say "Gaaaaaarrrryyyy!!!!" in pain as they die (when you don't blow off their heads with a shotgun.) Not laugh out loud funny, but it was a good little dark comedy situation.
I think the real reason there's not much humor in games is because videogames are really a pretty new medium. Decent plots, dialogues, and humor in videogames are more common than they were a few years ago, but the writing in your average blockbuster movie is still high above the dialogue in your average big release game. To that end, Grossman says "To make a game so funny with so many comic alternatives, that would be like writing three hit movies. The scripts are impossibly long. That would be a considerable investment."
Plus I think we gamers LET them get away with it because we don't have the same level of expectations for dialogue that we do for movies. Yet.
I think it's more ignorance. Of a fairly technical issue, at least for most people. A little bit of self-defensiveness there, I'm far less computer literate than most/. users and had no idea that WEP had been broken for 8 years.
Granted, I wasn't assuming it was safe, doing online banking while on an unknown network in a crowded airport. I've only used my nintendo DS on them. Now I guess I can't even do that, assholes always trying to steal me level 40 Charizard...
I'm also not sure that this is easily applicable to people. The blurb mentions that female comb and her fertility are strongly correlated in several ways
female attractiveness is determined by the expression of a sexual ornament -- the comb -- which is phenotypically and genetically correlated to the number and mass of eggs females lay
Is there a similar correlation for human females? I've never heard such a stat, seems like it would be much more complicated (quantifying attractiveness, factoring in health, contraceptives... normal "humans are more difficult to study" stuff), and the article didn't mention it.
I considered a google search, but decided the results might not be work appropriate, and my boss is milling around...
That egg mass also is correlated to combs to me suggests there's more at work here than the mechanism they describe. The real paper may have done this, but I'd expect a control group of females who had great combs which were surgically removed. If the hot combs are making the males fire... uh... both barrels because they're so turned on, then sperm should be slower, wheras if its something like the same genes that make nice combs also, say, make a female more fertile, or make her reproductive tract more stimulatory to sperm, then cutting off the comb wouldn't change that.
And we shouldn't be critical about our own current US government that has assassinated leaders, orchestrated coups, and has been directly responsible for numerous deaths?
Yes. If you're implying there's hypocrisy in criticizing other countries because our own government has done bad things, I'd say I told them not to do it and they did it anyway. What can I do aside from voting and making my voice heard as much as possible? There are too many people who act as if the US has divine right to use force however it wants to bend over my knee and spank the bejeezus out of.
Take a bunch of kids that like to sit around playing games and browsing for porn, isolate them from friends and family, label them as "addicts", brainwash them, put rifles in their hands and train them how to kill people, then declare them "cured". I'm glad that society has its priorities right.
Plus side: chinese army staging a coup demanding porn and WOW will be pretty entertaining in a few years.
Add that to the list if there's room. I know they're likewise clueless about basic biology, let alone stem cells, genetics, evolutionary theory, or microbiology. A friend of mine who is an ordained priest once pointed out to me that they're usually off on religious issues as well. General news services aren't really good at anything it seems besides celebrity gossip. Of course, it's a reflection of society's ignorance, which is even more depressing. Ask some guy off a street what a hacker is, I bet you'd be dissapointed. Hell, you'd probably be dissapointed in MY answer as to what a hacker is.
For both our sakes, I won't answer, nor will I start quizing you about biology.
Our understanding of gene function if FAR too primitive to accurately assess the importance of those genes.
Besides, it seems fairly obvious that the logic, common sense, and notbepsycho genes are among them.
I'm not sure if that first line was just a setup for the joke, but in seriousness, women do demonstrate that the genes are non-essential for non-males, and the aforementioned wiki page also points out that some mammals' Y chromesome has basically been whittled down the the SRY gene that causes male development. So "women are crazy" joke aside, every female on earth is walking proof that you don't need the genes on the Y chromesome.
So you could take a stem cell from a man and generate an ovum, and take a stem cell from a woman and generate a sperm, and then put them together and conceive a child.
As far as I know, we haven't made eggs from stem cells. Did a google search for "eggs from stem cells" but everything that came up was talking about the reverse (paying women to donate eggs to harvest ESC from) and didn't want to sort through those. It might be more difficult to make eggs from male stem cells, in fact we might find it's much more difficult to make eggs from any pluripotent stem cells, even if you do have 2 X chromosomes. And actually, I haven't been able to access the real article in stem cell and development, and no one seems to be sure if the sperm are from XY stem cells or not, or if they can functionally fertilize an egg or not. They may have gotten cells that look like sperm from male ESC that aren't actually fully functional.
So we're probably a few years away from a female father and a male mother scenario.
But would some of the eggs have a Y chromosome, and all of the sperm have X chromosomes? And would that work (i.e. where the fertilised egg was XY)?
Assuming they do figure out how to get opposite gametes, sperm from XX and eggs from XY, then yeah, that could happen. If you are doing fully reversed gametes, that might work out as normal.
What might become an issue is if, say, two gay men wanted to have a child that was basically their offspring. If we figure out how to make an egg from male cells, seems like half the eggs would have a Y chromesome. If you're fertilizing them with normal male sperm, half of them are also going to have a Y chromesome. Half the resulting offspring would have XY and be male, a quarter would have XX and be female, but there would be a quarter that had no X chromosome, and would be YY. They wouldn't survive, but I'm not sure how far they would develop. If they started to, and in an IVF setting a (female) surrogate were carrying normal embryos and one YY, would the YY implant but then later spontaneously abort, and would that event cause the other, viable embryos to also be lost?
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This is not really an issue for those of us without iPhones.
You forgot about ipod touches.
Before you hit post, yes, this is still not an issue if you don't have an ipod touch or an iphone.
Make sure you click on every story that doesn't involve you, and inform us of how it doesn't relate to you. I find that comments like yours really add to the discussion.
Your response is not really an issue for those of us who are not Rival.
This message should be modded up to 5 insightful if recent trends are any indication.
Does this remind anyone else of the phantom. An electronic device that sounds too good to be true gathering investment money, the people who were supposed to be developing the thing have "offices" which are not really there.
Of course in this case, one of the guys involved already has a record. At least with the phantom no one was outed as a known fraudster beforehand.
I'm guessing that in 10 years, Zer01 will come out with a handy device to hold your phone up to your ear for you.
It is true that the repeal of the 1961 Defamation Act and its replacement with (slightly) less outrageous legislation would leave a hole in the statute books if blasphemy were not outlawed. Yet the obvious answer is to amend the constitution, which, in Ireland, requires a popular referendum. Yet the minister behind the update to the defamation laws, Dermot Ahern, says that a referendum would be âcostly and unwarrantedâ(TM)
Somehow I'm still shocked that a government official would justify killing free speech by saying it's more cost effective than having a vote.
These books should be public domain by now.
God damn extended copyright might kill another production.
In this case, I'd say it's not just copyright laws. Hollywood accounting is in my eyes more clearly douchebaggery than using the broken copyright system. It might be absurd that the estate maintains a copyright what should be public domain, but it's even more absurd for New Line Cinema to claim the Lord of the Rings movies didn't make a boatload of money.
A 15 mile gooey organic blob floating off the Alaska coast? What a coincidence I just heard that Brittney Spears was vacationing someplace north... oh wait, I think I just solved the mystery...
So actually, its possible that the dollar could somehow inflate that high so 23 quadrillion isn't that much.
Possible? Yes, but I don't think Zimbabwe's troubles are indicative of how the dollar could be hyperinflated. After all, that wiki page suggests one of two events that started it was the confiscation of white owned farmland. I kind of doubt that's going to happen over here.
(A few particularly crazy farmers might disagree, and probably have elaborate conspiracy theories that start with Obama getting elected, involve a world government, stem cells somehow, climax with gun control, and end in the apocalypse, but I'd like to ignore those people as usual.)
make em small, enough to power a city and indestructible, tamper-proof, very low maintenance,
Don't forget free. Preferably they should use nuclear waste rather than producing it. The reactors should be shaped like large robots which would kill terrorists. Also they should dispense herbal pills that enlarge your genitals.
Slashdot mentality always seems to be that any contradicting reports beat the initial report.
No it doesn't.
(waits for the +5 insightful mod)
In real science, you need a control group as well as an experimental group to make statements like that.
Yes, real scientists ALWAYS have controls before they make statements like this *snicker*.
And this is meant to be a scientific finding. He's planning on submitting that post to Nature in fact.
Suppose they sequence a specific human's genome. Now they do it again. Will the two sequences be the same.
You're talking about for different individuals? There will be differences, yes, but most of that difference should be in non-coding regions. The actual regions making proteins should be nearly identical. I only work with a few DNA sequences that code for proteins, so that's all I'd be interested in, but there are other applications for medicine that the variation in non-coding regions would be important.
At least it's backed up well. 3 backups of almost everything ain't bad.
Two strands on each chromesome... I'm probably in the wrong crowd of nerds...
Yes, its a great waste of time. A bit of pointless fun is one thing, and I'm all for it. Hell I engage in lots myself; ./ included. But the end result of facebook for too many people is to become a slave to it... its got to be on your phone, and you've got to check it 100 times a day, and reply to all those 2nd degree friends...
Are we talking about facebook, most of the internet, sports, celebrity gossip, work*, TV (as you mentioned), or heroin, because to different people, that would apply to various degrees. People are quite good at frittering away their time, I don't think you can blame facebook for that. I personally find I waste much more time on heroin than I do facebook. Wait, not heroin, I meant to say videogames.
* I mean people who let their jobs become 100% of their lives. Not implying that working at all is a waste of time...
In that case, why is he trusting any device that is outside his administrative control, and has no contractual agreement or working relationship of any kind, with the owner of said device? O.o
Because, as I said in the post you responded to, I only use the Nintendo DS on airport wifi. To play Tetris or Mariokart. Worst case scenario I can see is that there could be a vulnerability in the DS that would allow someone to brick it. More likely someone would be using it to cheat. All of which would be annoying, but I think the likelyhood of that is pretty low, and I should really be reading papers on molecular biology when I'm on the plane, especially if I'm so concerned about educating myself.
I don't think the people we were talking about would do anything besides hit OK and go ahead and do whatever they were going to.
Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time, especially when you are trying to beat the same level and keep dying, it just makes you want to throw your controller through the monitor.
It doesn't really seem to me like that's a huge obstacle in too many settings. If there is ANY cutscene you have to view multiple times, or any dialogue to repeat a level after dying, that's annoying even if it isn't a joke. Jokes would also be old if you had an NPC say it too many times, like every time you walked by, but again, that's almost anything. GTA for example has some funny lines from pedestrians ("Baby fat- I just never lost it") that got old after a few hours, but so did the non-jokes, like "Hey CJ, what up?"
Repetitiveness isn't unique to games, there are just a -few- more situations in which repetitiveness can be a problem, and you can avoid those situations easily, you know what parts are going to be repeated.
A few times the repetitiveness has been actually pretty funny. I'm thinking of one example in Fallout 3
***minor spoilers***
In one of the vaults, all the residents are clones of "Gary." They know only one word: Gary. They say it gleefully as they run at you to kill you. They say "Gary???" when they lose track of you. They say "Gaaaaaarrrryyyy!!!!" in pain as they die (when you don't blow off their heads with a shotgun.) Not laugh out loud funny, but it was a good little dark comedy situation.
I think the real reason there's not much humor in games is because videogames are really a pretty new medium. Decent plots, dialogues, and humor in videogames are more common than they were a few years ago, but the writing in your average blockbuster movie is still high above the dialogue in your average big release game. To that end, Grossman says "To make a game so funny with so many comic alternatives, that would be like writing three hit movies. The scripts are impossibly long. That would be a considerable investment."
Plus I think we gamers LET them get away with it because we don't have the same level of expectations for dialogue that we do for movies. Yet.
I think it's more ignorance. Of a fairly technical issue, at least for most people. A little bit of self-defensiveness there, I'm far less computer literate than most /. users and had no idea that WEP had been broken for 8 years.
Granted, I wasn't assuming it was safe, doing online banking while on an unknown network in a crowded airport. I've only used my nintendo DS on them. Now I guess I can't even do that, assholes always trying to steal me level 40 Charizard...
I'm also not sure that this is easily applicable to people. The blurb mentions that female comb and her fertility are strongly correlated in several ways
female attractiveness is determined by the expression of a sexual ornament -- the comb -- which is phenotypically and genetically correlated to the number and mass of eggs females lay
Is there a similar correlation for human females? I've never heard such a stat, seems like it would be much more complicated (quantifying attractiveness, factoring in health, contraceptives... normal "humans are more difficult to study" stuff), and the article didn't mention it.
I considered a google search, but decided the results might not be work appropriate, and my boss is milling around...
That egg mass also is correlated to combs to me suggests there's more at work here than the mechanism they describe. The real paper may have done this, but I'd expect a control group of females who had great combs which were surgically removed. If the hot combs are making the males fire... uh... both barrels because they're so turned on, then sperm should be slower, wheras if its something like the same genes that make nice combs also, say, make a female more fertile, or make her reproductive tract more stimulatory to sperm, then cutting off the comb wouldn't change that.
Anyone know where the real article is?
And we shouldn't be critical about our own current US government that has assassinated leaders, orchestrated coups, and has been directly responsible for numerous deaths?
Yes. If you're implying there's hypocrisy in criticizing other countries because our own government has done bad things, I'd say I told them not to do it and they did it anyway. What can I do aside from voting and making my voice heard as much as possible? There are too many people who act as if the US has divine right to use force however it wants to bend over my knee and spank the bejeezus out of.
Having gone through Boot Camp myself (Not in China mind you) I highly recommend it as a means of turning useless people into productive citizens.
Productive you say? I can't help noticing you're posting to /. ...
Take a bunch of kids that like to sit around playing games and browsing for porn, isolate them from friends and family, label them as "addicts", brainwash them, put rifles in their hands and train them how to kill people, then declare them "cured". I'm glad that society has its priorities right.
Plus side: chinese army staging a coup demanding porn and WOW will be pretty entertaining in a few years.
Why am I not surprised that the girls like to talk and the boys like to play combat (remember cowboys and indians? cops and robbers?).
Very indicative of our society as a whole. Just sayin' . . .
OUR society? You're chinese? You might want to log off now, I bet at those boot camps, the regular web addicts pick on the slashdotters.
The media has no clue about hackers.
Add that to the list if there's room. I know they're likewise clueless about basic biology, let alone stem cells, genetics, evolutionary theory, or microbiology. A friend of mine who is an ordained priest once pointed out to me that they're usually off on religious issues as well. General news services aren't really good at anything it seems besides celebrity gossip. Of course, it's a reflection of society's ignorance, which is even more depressing. Ask some guy off a street what a hacker is, I bet you'd be dissapointed. Hell, you'd probably be dissapointed in MY answer as to what a hacker is.
For both our sakes, I won't answer, nor will I start quizing you about biology.
Our understanding of gene function if FAR too primitive to accurately assess the importance of those genes.
Besides, it seems fairly obvious that the logic, common sense, and notbepsycho genes are among them.
I'm not sure if that first line was just a setup for the joke, but in seriousness, women do demonstrate that the genes are non-essential for non-males, and the aforementioned wiki page also points out that some mammals' Y chromesome has basically been whittled down the the SRY gene that causes male development. So "women are crazy" joke aside, every female on earth is walking proof that you don't need the genes on the Y chromesome.
So you could take a stem cell from a man and generate an ovum, and take a stem cell from a woman and generate a sperm, and then put them together and conceive a child.
As far as I know, we haven't made eggs from stem cells. Did a google search for "eggs from stem cells" but everything that came up was talking about the reverse (paying women to donate eggs to harvest ESC from) and didn't want to sort through those. It might be more difficult to make eggs from male stem cells, in fact we might find it's much more difficult to make eggs from any pluripotent stem cells, even if you do have 2 X chromosomes. And actually, I haven't been able to access the real article in stem cell and development, and no one seems to be sure if the sperm are from XY stem cells or not, or if they can functionally fertilize an egg or not. They may have gotten cells that look like sperm from male ESC that aren't actually fully functional.
So we're probably a few years away from a female father and a male mother scenario.
But would some of the eggs have a Y chromosome, and all of the sperm have X chromosomes? And would that work (i.e. where the fertilised egg was XY)?
Assuming they do figure out how to get opposite gametes, sperm from XX and eggs from XY, then yeah, that could happen. If you are doing fully reversed gametes, that might work out as normal.
What might become an issue is if, say, two gay men wanted to have a child that was basically their offspring. If we figure out how to make an egg from male cells, seems like half the eggs would have a Y chromesome. If you're fertilizing them with normal male sperm, half of them are also going to have a Y chromesome. Half the resulting offspring would have XY and be male, a quarter would have XX and be female, but there would be a quarter that had no X chromosome, and would be YY. They wouldn't survive, but I'm not sure how far they would develop. If they started to, and in an IVF setting a (female) surrogate were carrying normal embryos and one YY, would the YY implant but then later spontaneously abort, and would that event cause the other, viable embryos to also be lost?