we're finally getting wide rollout of Verizon's FIOS network.
5Mbit/1Mbit for $39.95 15Mbit/2Mbit for $49.95/month 30Mbit/5Mbit for $199.95/month
Unfortunately, they aren't actually hooking up the good parts of the city (ie Cambridge and downtown) because apparently they don't like installing it in multihome dwellings. Yawn! Guess I'll have to move to Newton.:(
The stem cells would be attacked by the immune system anyway, unless the original doner fetus just happened to be a match (i.e. similar HLA type).
For example, in donation of hematopoietic stem cells, close family members are generally screened as potential doners because the likelyhood of matching HLA isotypes is highest. Siblings have the highest chance of a full HLA match (at a modest 25%). Do you think some random stem cells are going to work?
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, these current stem cell lines will likely never be used as therapeutics. They are used almost exclusively in basic research. They just aren't that well suited for use as therapeutics. This is one of the reasons why embryonic stem cells aren't going to magically cure diseases any time in the near future.
As much as I would like the federal government to open up funding for embrionic stem cell research, this news post is total crap. The 'contamination' doesn't render the cells useless. The contamination comes from the fact that the medium used to grow cell lines generally contains animal-based serum. This might be a problem in some small subset of experiments, but scientists have been using animal serum for decades. The cells can still be used. Even the referenced article points out that next to nobody is THAT concerned about this.
This gets two big *yawns* up from me.
How about non-scientists stop submitting articles about science topics if they're going to keep insisting on misinterpreting everything?
Most open scientific knowledge exists because of tax money being given away in the form of grants. That tax money depends on a robust economy that is in large part driven by 'closed knowledge.'
Software development is sort of an odd case because it doesn't really require that much capital investment, just lots of time and labor. Try funding an 'open source' sciences research lab with no public funding.
I talk to a lot of scientists, and they support both the open dissemation of scientific knowledge and the development of products. Anybody that thinks the world would work without both of them is just being a naive idealist.
Why do you care about it being 'through a digital interface'?
Its going to sound better through 6 analog connections. Compression isn't a good thing if you can avoid it, regardless of what Dolby marketing has led people to believe.
The only advantage AT ALL is saving a few dollars on cables. This might be a great advantage if you also buy $50 interconnects, but not if you buy cheap and equally good cables from companies not rhyming with Ronster Bable.
Immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes can be spliced in enough ways to allow for millions of potential varients. I doubt you'll find that kind of variability outside of immune proteins, however.
The thing is, adding something like RAID5 to an existing RAID system would be trivial and vastly cheaper.
Look at something like nVidia's Soundstorm. The extra silicon on the chip for Soundstorm costs, what, a few dollars? Compare that to buying a seperate sound card for $50-150.
The fact that a market doesn't exist (or more likely not a big enough market) doesn't mean that it isn't possible or a lot cheaper.
We already use CO2 produced from coal gasification plans in advanced oil recovery. You shoot the CO2 into oil pockets to get more of the oil out. The CO2 just gets trapped where the oil was.
If you were so concerned about audio fidelity, why would you want to use a lossy compression system like Dolby Digital when you can just as easily output uncompressed discreet 5.1 channel analog?
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Slight correction, that 5Mbit/2Mbit, not 5/1.
we're finally getting wide rollout of Verizon's FIOS network.
:(
5Mbit/1Mbit for $39.95
15Mbit/2Mbit for $49.95/month
30Mbit/5Mbit for $199.95/month
Unfortunately, they aren't actually hooking up the good parts of the city (ie Cambridge and downtown) because apparently they don't like installing it in multihome dwellings. Yawn! Guess I'll have to move to Newton.
The stem cells would be attacked by the immune system anyway, unless the original doner fetus just happened to be a match (i.e. similar HLA type).
For example, in donation of hematopoietic stem cells, close family members are generally screened as potential doners because the likelyhood of matching HLA isotypes is highest. Siblings have the highest chance of a full HLA match (at a modest 25%). Do you think some random stem cells are going to work?
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, these current stem cell lines will likely never be used as therapeutics. They are used almost exclusively in basic research. They just aren't that well suited for use as therapeutics. This is one of the reasons why embryonic stem cells aren't going to magically cure diseases any time in the near future.
As much as I would like the federal government to open up funding for embrionic stem cell research, this news post is total crap. The 'contamination' doesn't render the cells useless. The contamination comes from the fact that the medium used to grow cell lines generally contains animal-based serum. This might be a problem in some small subset of experiments, but scientists have been using animal serum for decades. The cells can still be used. Even the referenced article points out that next to nobody is THAT concerned about this.
This gets two big *yawns* up from me.
How about non-scientists stop submitting articles about science topics if they're going to keep insisting on misinterpreting everything?
HDTV is already mpeg2.
Newsflash, Chinese isn't a language.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu, and Min are, however.
And what about us scientists getting MBAs?
Most open scientific knowledge exists because of tax money being given away in the form of grants. That tax money depends on a robust economy that is in large part driven by 'closed knowledge.'
Software development is sort of an odd case because it doesn't really require that much capital investment, just lots of time and labor. Try funding an 'open source' sciences research lab with no public funding.
I talk to a lot of scientists, and they support both the open dissemation of scientific knowledge and the development of products. Anybody that thinks the world would work without both of them is just being a naive idealist.
You read my mine.
Those are my major gripes.
Why do you care about it being 'through a digital interface'?
Its going to sound better through 6 analog connections. Compression isn't a good thing if you can avoid it, regardless of what Dolby marketing has led people to believe.
The only advantage AT ALL is saving a few dollars on cables. This might be a great advantage if you also buy $50 interconnects, but not if you buy cheap and equally good cables from companies not rhyming with Ronster Bable.
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Or more likely there are a lot more computer-related jobs now than there were 20 years ago.
And, not suprisingly, a lot more of those jobs don't require the same level of technical competence.
Its not *actually* 1080i.
Its only 1080i in that it accepts a 1080i signal. A CRT HDTV from 3 years ago probably only had 600 or so actual lines of horizontal resolution.
The one nice thing about projectors is that they actually tell you the resolution. Not so lucky with CRTs.
Immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes can be spliced in enough ways to allow for millions of potential varients. I doubt you'll find that kind of variability outside of immune proteins, however.
The thing is, adding something like RAID5 to an existing RAID system would be trivial and vastly cheaper.
Look at something like nVidia's Soundstorm. The extra silicon on the chip for Soundstorm costs, what, a few dollars? Compare that to buying a seperate sound card for $50-150.
The fact that a market doesn't exist (or more likely not a big enough market) doesn't mean that it isn't possible or a lot cheaper.
Now I can have a digital camera in my cell phone, PDA, digital music player, underwear, toast, milk carton, and pencil.
We get the point, CCDs are cheap and small now. Isn't technology grand. Now stop shoving shit into places they shouldn't be.
Constant volume, increased temperature = increased pressure.
Thermodynamics isn't that hard, folks.
Apparently you're confused.
Stores don't set the prices that they buy at from the distributor.
Well, unless you're Walmart.
Which is unlikely to produce close to enough methane.
The CO2 is a liquid because of the pressure, not because it is really cold.
"Warming it up" won't make it boil.
Why not?
We already use CO2 produced from coal gasification plans in advanced oil recovery. You shoot the CO2 into oil pockets to get more of the oil out. The CO2 just gets trapped where the oil was.
And where exactly is all of this methane going to come from?
You can convert coal and oil to methane, but it isn't a clean process by any stretch of the imagination.
I doubt existing natural gas supplies would last long under this proposed plan.
And religion has no room for morality either.
That is what philosophy is for.
The AK4355 DAC in the Revolution 7.1 isn't exactly a low-end DAC and is more than capable of feeding high-end amps without problem.
You'll likely find similar quality DACs in $1000 receivers.
If you were so concerned about audio fidelity, why would you want to use a lossy compression system like Dolby Digital when you can just as easily output uncompressed discreet 5.1 channel analog?