"Theoreticly", embryonic stem cells have the "potential" to be more useful. This is just theory that has not been proved yet. On the other hand there are over 100 treatments that have been developed from adult stem cells or stem cells from umbilical cord blood. Almost all of these are still in the testing stage, quite a few have progressed to human tests. The one that caught my attention is one from bone marrow stem cells that repairs damage to the heart muscle from a heart attack! There are also treatments for MS, diabetes, and nerve damage in process. Any of these are somewhere in the 5+ years away from wide use. It does seem to take at least forever and sometimes longer to get approval for human use now days, at least it seems that way to anyone afflicted with the problem in question.
Now if they could come up with a cure for just one virus, doesn't matter which one, just a cure for any of them. A vaccine is not a cure and thats all we have so far for any of them.
An engineer that doesn't get out in the field to make sure things are going right will not be an engineer for long. Engineers are held accountable for design failures and can go to jail. A bolt in concrete should either be attached to the re-bar or a threaded hole made of stainless wire is attached to the re-bar before the concrete is poured. I have used both and they work and are simple. Remember, the more complicated you make anything, the more failure points there are.
Why does anyone think this was about traffic relief? From everything I've read over the last 6 years the whole project is about bribing officials so companies can steal money for substandard work. Sounds like a standard goverment project to me. They just had bigger thieves in the Boston crontractors guild, who did shoddier work than the norm.
An engineer that doesn't have the brains to get out in the field and check that things are done right is not an engineer but a peper shuffling beaurocrat! True engineers get their hands dirty and know what is being done because they are there.
What's new about it? Every product M$ puts out for sale is actually a beta. That is their business model, charge everyone to be a beta tester. They have been charging for bug hunts for years. I wonder if M$ will ever release a charlie of anything.
When any company tries to diversify into an area that is to far from their core business it causes trouble, and quite often collapse. Best current example: AOL-Time-Warner, What does anyone at AOL know about publishing (Time) or movies/music/TV networks (Warner Bros.)? What does anyone at Time truly know about the core business of the other two? Why is this company in trouble? Worldcom took a very good long distance telephone company (MCI) and tried to turn it into something else, splat! If Amazon would concentrate on fixing the original business and provide good customer service they would continue to make a decent profit. What do they need to fix? Read many of the comments already posted, there is quite a list of good suggestions.
The Physical Science Lab ant New Mexico State University. They do almost all outside conrtacts and gerneral research. The largest part of the work is for missles by contract with various companies (Lockheed, TRW, Hughes, Gen Dyn, Martin, etc...) and White Sands Missle Range which is 30 miles East over the mountain. This goes back to work with Von Braun and the V2 scientists. PSL has also done geothermal systems research and installed the geothermal system that supplies all the hot water to the dorms and heats the swimming pools. I know because as a student employee in 1980 I dug most of the trenches and installed all the insulated pipe from the 2 wells to the campus (about 4 miles). They do other things there also, some require a security clearance and some don't. Take a look.
OR Israel getting bitched at for hitting a UN site that a member of the UN had stated days earlier was over run by Hezballa and had missles fired from there? Shouldn't the UN have stopped the missle firings? They did nothing and the Isralies stopped the missles!
They have to do something to make sure that the UN doesn't get control. The UN is so corrupt, incompetent, and inept that it make the U. S. Govt look brilliant! Think about Rwanda, Darfur and others where the UN might as well not have showed up for all the good that wasn't done. NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse.
In the short term there is no profit. Think about next year when all the businesses that are still running Win2k, (close to 60% at last count) still refuse to switch due to security concerns, there was never a valid reason to switch to XP and there won't be one for Vista. Where is the profit in never getting your customers to upgrade because the new software is worse than the patched up old stuff? When this group needs something new they are looking at other OS's that don't have M$ unending security problems. Long term means M$ is losing many customers of the next 3 years in everyday businesses just like they have been losing the server market. That is when a business starts the long slide down that is next to impossible to recover from.
Remember, most PR folks have degrees in marketing. I started to get a marketing degree myself, then I realized I wasn't qualified, I have a conscience!
Marketing - the art of persuading as many people as possible to pay way to much for things they don't need! Normally done by a dumbass (in this case for sure) to a thundering herd of dumbass.
I think "Moron" is the person who thinks up names for all Intel processors. There hasn't been a name that made sense, since the 486. I think someone just found a dictionary of the most obscure and goofy words in existance that make no sense to anyone.
Every time I hear "Celeron" I think celery, thats about as boring as it can get!
If the top 5 are taken out that will remove 75% of the SPAM now. It will take some time for that slack to be taken up. Plus the shutting down of the "cartels" should involve jail time and confiscation of hardware. This might intimidate a few of the wannabees that will try to move up. We would get a break in the quantity of SPAM for several years and that time will allow law enforcement to get better at detecting the source.
My ISP has a pretty good filter and they hold what is blocked for a week. When I access my "help mail" file everything is identified by country. Two months ago close to two thirds was from the US and it all got forwarded to the FTC. Today that is down to about 40% from the US and I still forward everything to the FTC. They do file many charges against spammers every month and the US amount is dropping.
I suspect that if things were traced all the way through that many of the US and offshore groups are related and working for or in partnership with each other. If the top five "spam cartels" were taken down I think we would see a 75% or more drop in SPAM worldwide.
Intel will continue to loose the bang for the buck war untill they get less greedy. There is no reason to pay 20% more for the same performance or 30% more for a very small increase. Most games will not show the difference anyway, and since games are what drives the PC industry now, thats really all that counts.
The terrorists at Gitmo are not part of a "uniformed force in the service of a nation state" and in spite of what any says have never been protected by the Geneva Conventions. To be protected the "Government" of the prisoners has to be a signatory of the conventions. They are not part of any recognised government.
I had to learn the Geneva Conventions when I was in the service. If you are not a vet, shut the fuck up!
Damn, someone must be confused to let an intelligent comment sneak in with all the anti-Bush crap. Since he can actually do what the article is saying that means Congress passed a law giving him that power, oh, that means he's acting within the law. The simple fact is that everything he is being accused of is LEGAL, either from the Constitution or from specific acts passed by Congress. With the NSA wiretap, some members of the intelligence committees were informed, just not all, or it would have leaked sooner, the chair of the committee is the only one that HAS to be informed in most cases. It's funny how some members of Congress will vote for an act when the President is from their party and then whine when the other party has the White House and uses the same law the same way!
The larger problem is the fact that most of the congresscritters are bought and paid for by interests that are not good for the average citizen. Remember Congress passes ALL the spending bills that waste over 50% of OUR money!
Simple method: Stated net worth of newly elected official + cola increases + investment income = departing net worth. Anything else is a bribe and will be used to reduce the deficit.
The job is to report the facts. The citizens can make up their own minds. Unfortunately the NYT tries to make it up for you. If you are not a liberal (and pretty far left at that) you will never agree with them.
10% far left 10% far right. When are the 80% in middle going to wake up and take over? The radical morons get all the press and the inteligent thinking moderates get ignored.
An Auxilaryman (A-gang) on a fast attack sub was THE most critical rate in the Navy in Feb. 80. They tried every trick in the book to get me to ship over. Even threatened involuntary hold, my reply was go ahead and pay the perdium and double my pay! (rules at that time) They let me go.
Fast forward to fall 90. My cousin got drafted in 61 and was then a full Colonel in the Army. Wanted to go to Desert Shield, Army says no, you were just Attache in Tokyo (intelligence officer) you know to much and will never be allowed in the Middle East, for life. Not going to take a chance on you getting picked up over there. He would have been in headquarters briefing stormin Norman, not doing John Wayne stuff. He went to Atlanta and briefed every intelligence officer that went over there. A First Lt from the 101st came in and said "hi Dad whatch ya got for me". When July 91 came around he put in for retirement after his 30. He was finaly released in Aug. 92.
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"Theoreticly", embryonic stem cells have the "potential" to be more useful. This is just theory that has not been proved yet. On the other hand there are over 100 treatments that have been developed from adult stem cells or stem cells from umbilical cord blood. Almost all of these are still in the testing stage, quite a few have progressed to human tests. The one that caught my attention is one from bone marrow stem cells that repairs damage to the heart muscle from a heart attack! There are also treatments for MS, diabetes, and nerve damage in process. Any of these are somewhere in the 5+ years away from wide use. It does seem to take at least forever and sometimes longer to get approval for human use now days, at least it seems that way to anyone afflicted with the problem in question.
Now if they could come up with a cure for just one virus, doesn't matter which one, just a cure for any of them. A vaccine is not a cure and thats all we have so far for any of them.
An engineer that doesn't get out in the field to make sure things are going right will not be an engineer for long. Engineers are held accountable for design failures and can go to jail. A bolt in concrete should either be attached to the re-bar or a threaded hole made of stainless wire is attached to the re-bar before the concrete is poured. I have used both and they work and are simple. Remember, the more complicated you make anything, the more failure points there are.
Why does anyone think this was about traffic relief? From everything I've read over the last 6 years the whole project is about bribing officials so companies can steal money for substandard work. Sounds like a standard goverment project to me. They just had bigger thieves in the Boston crontractors guild, who did shoddier work than the norm.
An engineer that doesn't have the brains to get out in the field and check that things are done right is not an engineer but a peper shuffling beaurocrat! True engineers get their hands dirty and know what is being done because they are there.
What's new about it? Every product M$ puts out for sale is actually a beta. That is their business model, charge everyone to be a beta tester. They have been charging for bug hunts for years. I wonder if M$ will ever release a charlie of anything.
When any company tries to diversify into an area that is to far from their core business it causes trouble, and quite often collapse. Best current example: AOL-Time-Warner, What does anyone at AOL know about publishing (Time) or movies/music/TV networks (Warner Bros.)? What does anyone at Time truly know about the core business of the other two? Why is this company in trouble? Worldcom took a very good long distance telephone company (MCI) and tried to turn it into something else, splat! If Amazon would concentrate on fixing the original business and provide good customer service they would continue to make a decent profit. What do they need to fix? Read many of the comments already posted, there is quite a list of good suggestions.
The Physical Science Lab ant New Mexico State University. They do almost all outside conrtacts and gerneral research. The largest part of the work is for missles by contract with various companies (Lockheed, TRW, Hughes, Gen Dyn, Martin, etc...) and White Sands Missle Range which is 30 miles East over the mountain. This goes back to work with Von Braun and the V2 scientists. PSL has also done geothermal systems research and installed the geothermal system that supplies all the hot water to the dorms and heats the swimming pools. I know because as a student employee in 1980 I dug most of the trenches and installed all the insulated pipe from the 2 wells to the campus (about 4 miles). They do other things there also, some require a security clearance and some don't. Take a look.
OR Israel getting bitched at for hitting a UN site that a member of the UN had stated days earlier was over run by Hezballa and had missles fired from there? Shouldn't the UN have stopped the missle firings? They did nothing and the Isralies stopped the missles!
What did you expect from the Clinton administration?
They have to do something to make sure that the UN doesn't get control. The UN is so corrupt, incompetent, and inept that it make the U. S. Govt look brilliant! Think about Rwanda, Darfur and others where the UN might as well not have showed up for all the good that wasn't done. NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse.
In the short term there is no profit. Think about next year when all the businesses that are still running Win2k, (close to 60% at last count) still refuse to switch due to security concerns, there was never a valid reason to switch to XP and there won't be one for Vista. Where is the profit in never getting your customers to upgrade because the new software is worse than the patched up old stuff? When this group needs something new they are looking at other OS's that don't have M$ unending security problems. Long term means M$ is losing many customers of the next 3 years in everyday businesses just like they have been losing the server market. That is when a business starts the long slide down that is next to impossible to recover from.
Remember, most PR folks have degrees in marketing. I started to get a marketing degree myself, then I realized I wasn't qualified, I have a conscience!
Marketing - the art of persuading as many people as possible to pay way to much for things they don't need! Normally done by a dumbass (in this case for sure) to a thundering herd of dumbass.
By the way Gates is a marketing genius.
If they were smart enough to know the flaws, why not just fix them?
I think "Moron" is the person who thinks up names for all Intel processors. There hasn't been a name that made sense, since the 486. I think someone just found a dictionary of the most obscure and goofy words in existance that make no sense to anyone.
Every time I hear "Celeron" I think celery, thats about as boring as it can get!
If the top 5 are taken out that will remove 75% of the SPAM now. It will take some time for that slack to be taken up. Plus the shutting down of the "cartels" should involve jail time and confiscation of hardware. This might intimidate a few of the wannabees that will try to move up. We would get a break in the quantity of SPAM for several years and that time will allow law enforcement to get better at detecting the source.
My ISP has a pretty good filter and they hold what is blocked for a week. When I access my "help mail" file everything is identified by country. Two months ago close to two thirds was from the US and it all got forwarded to the FTC. Today that is down to about 40% from the US and I still forward everything to the FTC. They do file many charges against spammers every month and the US amount is dropping.
I suspect that if things were traced all the way through that many of the US and offshore groups are related and working for or in partnership with each other. If the top five "spam cartels" were taken down I think we would see a 75% or more drop in SPAM worldwide.
When is Taco going to allow the -1 Dumbass mod?
Intel will continue to loose the bang for the buck war untill they get less greedy. There is no reason to pay 20% more for the same performance or 30% more for a very small increase. Most games will not show the difference anyway, and since games are what drives the PC industry now, thats really all that counts.
They cloned them from the ones at New Mexico State in the early 80's.
The terrorists at Gitmo are not part of a "uniformed force in the service of a nation state" and in spite of what any says have never been protected by the Geneva Conventions. To be protected the "Government" of the prisoners has to be a signatory of the conventions. They are not part of any recognised government.
I had to learn the Geneva Conventions when I was in the service. If you are not a vet, shut the fuck up!
Damn, someone must be confused to let an intelligent comment sneak in with all the anti-Bush crap. Since he can actually do what the article is saying that means Congress passed a law giving him that power, oh, that means he's acting within the law. The simple fact is that everything he is being accused of is LEGAL, either from the Constitution or from specific acts passed by Congress. With the NSA wiretap, some members of the intelligence committees were informed, just not all, or it would have leaked sooner, the chair of the committee is the only one that HAS to be informed in most cases. It's funny how some members of Congress will vote for an act when the President is from their party and then whine when the other party has the White House and uses the same law the same way!
The larger problem is the fact that most of the congresscritters are bought and paid for by interests that are not good for the average citizen. Remember Congress passes ALL the spending bills that waste over 50% of OUR money!
Easy! Think of serious graphic artists or heavy duty CAD with computer modeling, like car design.
Simple method: Stated net worth of newly elected official + cola increases + investment income = departing net worth. Anything else is a bribe and will be used to reduce the deficit.
The job is to report the facts. The citizens can make up their own minds. Unfortunately the NYT tries to make it up for you. If you are not a liberal (and pretty far left at that) you will never agree with them.
10% far left 10% far right. When are the 80% in middle going to wake up and take over? The radical morons get all the press and the inteligent thinking moderates get ignored.
An Auxilaryman (A-gang) on a fast attack sub was THE most critical rate in the Navy in Feb. 80. They tried every trick in the book to get me to ship over. Even threatened involuntary hold, my reply was go ahead and pay the perdium and double my pay! (rules at that time) They let me go.
Fast forward to fall 90. My cousin got drafted in 61 and was then a full Colonel in the Army. Wanted to go to Desert Shield, Army says no, you were just Attache in Tokyo (intelligence officer) you know to much and will never be allowed in the Middle East, for life. Not going to take a chance on you getting picked up over there. He would have been in headquarters briefing stormin Norman, not doing John Wayne stuff. He went to Atlanta and briefed every intelligence officer that went over there. A First Lt from the 101st came in and said "hi Dad whatch ya got for me". When July 91 came around he put in for retirement after his 30. He was finaly released in Aug. 92.