So, you have to only invest in what is profitable, yet at the same time you have to invest in research (which by nature isn't profitable) to find the next product that will be profitable when your old products are outdone? And, what's so insightful about saying that someone coming along and giving away your "free" product for even "freer" is some inherent danger to free services? If I bake cookies for a living, and some philanthropists starts giving away cookies of a similar recipe for free (with his business logo on them), of course my business will be hurt.
But, you're assuming that these abnormalities are obvious. I'm not talking about an arm growing out of your forehead. I'm talking about disease resistances that might not be evident until some pandemic strikes. And, that's the problem. You firstly don't know the full effects of your changes and you secondly don't know what environmental pressures are going to pop up in the future that will exploit your changes.
What if these bigger, faster-growing, tasty tuna just happen to be slow and stupid compared to normal tuna; causing their numbers in the wild to be decimated by natural predators? Or, maybe they're super-sensitive to certain parasites or diseases that ruin their meat. Genetic engineering ain't dustin' crops, boy.
Until of course we find that these genetically-mutated tuna have infiltrated natural stocks and any unforeseen genetic abnormalities are passed on to them as well. I don't know why it's so hard to understand the differences between natural selection and the dangers posed by genetically-introduced traits. I'm not a biologists, but I've seen the insanely haphazard changes you can get in plants and animals by manipulating even one seemingly harmless gene. And, not completely understanding what we're doing means that there are HUGE risks involved.
In my life, I cannot recall a cyclist doing something jerk-wad-ish on the road. I can only recall a few incidents of motorcyclists being reckless. Yet, EVERY WEEK I have at least once incident with some dumbass in a car doing something thoughtless, reckless, or stupid. This week I had a woman cruising the wrong way through the parking garage who ran me off the ramp, an idiot who pulled into a parking space and immediately decided to dive back into traffic without looking, and a neighbor who backed up his truck into the road without looking for cars. I've never understood how drivers can be so annoyed by the few minutes of their lives inconvenienced by having to navigate around bikes. Do you not understand that your 2 ton vehicle will KILL people if you aren't careful? There is NO competition and even if a cyclist was being careless, you're going to end up with maybe a dent while he'll end up in traction for a year.
Instead of all the bitching about the "slow bikes" in front of you, how about you put down your damned cell phone and pay attention to the road?
I've never read anything about gases and radiation causing the extinction cycles, I'd be curious to know where everyone has seen this before. What I have heard is that the same undulating motion of our solar system through the "denser" galactic plane brings us into contact with more asteroids.
How can you ever know how many pirates would ever purchase your product? I do think that piracy is hurting these companies, but they can't keep making the assumption that there's a goldmine of potential customers out there if only they figure out a way to make acquiring their products even more difficult. I'm pissed off enough with the way my HDMI connections constantly flake out or introduce annoying delays into my home theater setup. Now, how are people like my Luddite parents going to react to yet another hurdle? Content providers need to do some serious soul searching to see how many people they're deterring as opposed to the numbers they think they'll draw in from the shadows.
I've always thought that distinction was a woeful attempt to separate the negative connotations from the "coolness" factor. The fact is, I'm a coder or a programmer or a software engineer for the initiated. A hacker is someone who hacks out code and I've been forced to work with more than enough of those crappy libraries to embrace the title.
I hope that TV execs learn the lesson that they've got too many commercials in their shows. I remember when commercial breaks on my shows (as a kid) were 2 minutes or 4 X 30 second spots). Now, I'm actually deterred from watching TV. I'm a huge football fan and I'd watch every possible game I could (in the pre-Tivo days). Now, I only follow my favorite team as the annoyance of commercials overcomes my casual interest in other teams. Monday Night Football IMO died because they inserted so many commercial breaks that, beyond their normal annoyance, they started to interrupt the continuity of games and even omit game coverage like kick-offs.
To what End? I think our contribution to this universe should be the perpetuation of life, even if it isn't our own. Who knows how many times this miracle has happened elsewhere? I think it has, but I don't assume it. If we can verify that a planet is lifeless, I'm all for seeding planets. And, the moon is a pretty "pristine" ball of rock if you want to look at it that way.
How come you trolls always knock any alternative fuel solution that isn't a 100% replacement? Stop thinking in terms of the glass half empty and think about what you're NOT doing to get that 200 MW if this solution pans out.
I learned from school never to assume that what you think you know is true. Studies like this might seem like a waste, but they could also reveal something obvious that's never been considered. Maybe this information can be used to change the entire design of a condom, or the packaging, or the odor? There's not a lot of bad research IMO.
I'm surprised that it hasn't been worse. The Grand Ayatollah basically dared the protesters to call his bluff when he threatened them, then he didn't do much to stop them afterwards. A-hole Oppressive Authoritarianism 101 says you crack down hard and fast. Now, the protesters have had a taste of victory and the leadership looks weak.
"...much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy."
I've noticed a pattern in a lot of talent-based industries. On a small scale, or with an upstart CEO you can have talent-driven companies. But, as soon as they hit a critical mass, the bureaucracy becomes the dominate force and turns the talent into powerless labor. Every company I ever interacted with in the corporate world was like this. And, once you've got suits in charge, they make sure that they're well compensated.
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So, you have to only invest in what is profitable, yet at the same time you have to invest in research (which by nature isn't profitable) to find the next product that will be profitable when your old products are outdone? And, what's so insightful about saying that someone coming along and giving away your "free" product for even "freer" is some inherent danger to free services? If I bake cookies for a living, and some philanthropists starts giving away cookies of a similar recipe for free (with his business logo on them), of course my business will be hurt.
Thats about how long it took to make a wolf look like a chihuahua. I'd say that's plenty of time.
But, you're assuming that these abnormalities are obvious. I'm not talking about an arm growing out of your forehead. I'm talking about disease resistances that might not be evident until some pandemic strikes. And, that's the problem. You firstly don't know the full effects of your changes and you secondly don't know what environmental pressures are going to pop up in the future that will exploit your changes.
By that logic, the single point of failure for any software is access to the base operating system.
What if these bigger, faster-growing, tasty tuna just happen to be slow and stupid compared to normal tuna; causing their numbers in the wild to be decimated by natural predators? Or, maybe they're super-sensitive to certain parasites or diseases that ruin their meat. Genetic engineering ain't dustin' crops, boy.
Until of course we find that these genetically-mutated tuna have infiltrated natural stocks and any unforeseen genetic abnormalities are passed on to them as well. I don't know why it's so hard to understand the differences between natural selection and the dangers posed by genetically-introduced traits. I'm not a biologists, but I've seen the insanely haphazard changes you can get in plants and animals by manipulating even one seemingly harmless gene. And, not completely understanding what we're doing means that there are HUGE risks involved.
In my life, I cannot recall a cyclist doing something jerk-wad-ish on the road. I can only recall a few incidents of motorcyclists being reckless. Yet, EVERY WEEK I have at least once incident with some dumbass in a car doing something thoughtless, reckless, or stupid. This week I had a woman cruising the wrong way through the parking garage who ran me off the ramp, an idiot who pulled into a parking space and immediately decided to dive back into traffic without looking, and a neighbor who backed up his truck into the road without looking for cars. I've never understood how drivers can be so annoyed by the few minutes of their lives inconvenienced by having to navigate around bikes. Do you not understand that your 2 ton vehicle will KILL people if you aren't careful? There is NO competition and even if a cyclist was being careless, you're going to end up with maybe a dent while he'll end up in traction for a year.
Instead of all the bitching about the "slow bikes" in front of you, how about you put down your damned cell phone and pay attention to the road?
No, that would just turn us all green and make us speak in broken english.
I've never read anything about gases and radiation causing the extinction cycles, I'd be curious to know where everyone has seen this before. What I have heard is that the same undulating motion of our solar system through the "denser" galactic plane brings us into contact with more asteroids.
"Sun-like stars (sic) are not that common."
Isn't the Sun a run-of-the-mill main sequence star? I thought it typified "common"?
IDEs aren't about a "need," they're about convenience.
How can you ever know how many pirates would ever purchase your product? I do think that piracy is hurting these companies, but they can't keep making the assumption that there's a goldmine of potential customers out there if only they figure out a way to make acquiring their products even more difficult. I'm pissed off enough with the way my HDMI connections constantly flake out or introduce annoying delays into my home theater setup. Now, how are people like my Luddite parents going to react to yet another hurdle? Content providers need to do some serious soul searching to see how many people they're deterring as opposed to the numbers they think they'll draw in from the shadows.
I've always thought that distinction was a woeful attempt to separate the negative connotations from the "coolness" factor. The fact is, I'm a coder or a programmer or a software engineer for the initiated. A hacker is someone who hacks out code and I've been forced to work with more than enough of those crappy libraries to embrace the title.
I hope that TV execs learn the lesson that they've got too many commercials in their shows. I remember when commercial breaks on my shows (as a kid) were 2 minutes or 4 X 30 second spots). Now, I'm actually deterred from watching TV. I'm a huge football fan and I'd watch every possible game I could (in the pre-Tivo days). Now, I only follow my favorite team as the annoyance of commercials overcomes my casual interest in other teams. Monday Night Football IMO died because they inserted so many commercial breaks that, beyond their normal annoyance, they started to interrupt the continuity of games and even omit game coverage like kick-offs.
It invigorates the mind.
Don't you know that when you want to stop riots, you do it with a Godfather of Soul concert!
Smothered with Earth moon cheese, and we've got ourselves a party!
To what End? I think our contribution to this universe should be the perpetuation of life, even if it isn't our own. Who knows how many times this miracle has happened elsewhere? I think it has, but I don't assume it. If we can verify that a planet is lifeless, I'm all for seeding planets. And, the moon is a pretty "pristine" ball of rock if you want to look at it that way.
Are you making the argument that we don't have more solar power, wind power, hydroelectric, and hybrids because of environmentalists?
How come you trolls always knock any alternative fuel solution that isn't a 100% replacement? Stop thinking in terms of the glass half empty and think about what you're NOT doing to get that 200 MW if this solution pans out.
I don't think you understand what "investment" means.
Calling Obama a socialist has as much to do with classification as Macarthy calling his enemies communists.
I learned from school never to assume that what you think you know is true. Studies like this might seem like a waste, but they could also reveal something obvious that's never been considered. Maybe this information can be used to change the entire design of a condom, or the packaging, or the odor? There's not a lot of bad research IMO.
I'm surprised that it hasn't been worse. The Grand Ayatollah basically dared the protesters to call his bluff when he threatened them, then he didn't do much to stop them afterwards. A-hole Oppressive Authoritarianism 101 says you crack down hard and fast. Now, the protesters have had a taste of victory and the leadership looks weak.
"...much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy."
I've noticed a pattern in a lot of talent-based industries. On a small scale, or with an upstart CEO you can have talent-driven companies. But, as soon as they hit a critical mass, the bureaucracy becomes the dominate force and turns the talent into powerless labor. Every company I ever interacted with in the corporate world was like this. And, once you've got suits in charge, they make sure that they're well compensated.