The abstract seems to suggest that even if a t-rex were found in "mammoth trapped in ice" conditions, which as far as we know is an absurd scenario, it'd still be unusable, right?
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of -5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier â" perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
Tyrannosaurus roamed the earth, what, 65-67 million years ago? That's 9x's older than the maximum listed here. But maybe I've misunderstood...?
"cloud is not about clouds" "cloud means x" "no cloud means x+y" "yeah that's something we had before" "it's marketing on old ideas" "no, it's doing what we used to do, better, with newer tech" "oh whatever my old tech was just as good" "no it wasn't." "yes it was" "well now it's all cheaper and better"
I see. So the plan is to make 99% of people exposed to their campaign think they're absolutely nuts, so 1% might end up engaged with other parts of their website, where some fraction of that 1% will be won over to their cause and become an asset, who will then have to overcome widespread perception that the organization is batshit insane and don't deserve rational consideration?
So if you're right (which is highly speculative), then it's a progressive idea that should do well, and will usher in a coming era of truly open access.
If you're wrong, it's a reasonable middle-ground approach, analogous to iTunes (as they suggest), somewhere between a napster and pressed albums at high prices.
You don't have to recite the "free is better" rhetoric for me, I'm already familiar. I was (repeatedly) asking why a middle ground won't work... because that was the original assertion. Nobody asked about "greatest social benefit".
But now it seems now you've concluded that it could, or even does work?
So, while copyrights will keep journals alive, and will likely keep "middle of the road" approaches alive
If you weren't interested in addressing the question and just wanted a platform to shout from, you should know that you're preaching to the choir, and you're just thread-jacking.
Uh yeah... it's in the article you didn't read. And Kittinger, who hasn't wanted to help anyone beat his record, is on board for this. He's a Stratos team member and the guy that will be talking to him over the radio.
And the point is, precisely as you wrote, to beat those records. If it were primarily to sell drinks, they would have spent the money on TV commercials. Though I'm not surprised they're putting logos on his jump suit to get what little publicity they can out of it.
So he might be the first to break the sound barrier without propulsion or protection of a vehicle. And while it's not like they haven't thought about it, nobody is entirely sure what could happen.
I'm all for people being crazy enough to push the limits of what's been tried. So I say... "god speed, you crazy SOB." I hope he makes it.
Perhaps a camera system that pinpointed the guilty party would be more useful.
I think this is already how they do it, or something similar.
I'm a little leery of the "epidemic" part here, though. 3,700 a year sounds like a lot, but goog returns number of flights as somewhere between 8-14 million per year. And I could be wrong, but I don't think there's ever been an injury from flashing an aircraft, right?
That's not to say we should wait until someone dies to do anything, but perhaps we shouldn't get too out-of-control over this just yet. I do kind of like the licensing idea, much like in radio. That seems like an inexpensive method that even a kid could pass, but would ensure that someone understands the non-zero probability of something bad happening if they're not operated correctly.
Lasers are useful things. I have a couple of projects in mind right now, and I know I'd be pretty cranky if they were outright banned everywhere over stupid stuff like this.
I suppose that's the issue, but not for the kids so much as the adults.
I was shooting by the time I was 12. I had a fixed blade and a pocket knife, slingshot, etc. like the gp. The difference is everyone understands that guns, knives and slingshots are potentially dangerous, with very real and direct consequences. The result is that adults who let their children use those things know to do all the safety and responsibility legwork, and all necessary supervision, right away.
With lasers, it doesn't necessarily even click with adults. There's no bang, no bullet or bb type projectile, just light... so the device doesn't act as its own warning system.
This is why I think I like what some people suggested with licensing. It should be something reasonable and inexpensive like the technician license. That's something even a kid can do, inexpensively, and you know they'll at least understand what they're dealing with.
What we don't need are parents going to jail for life over pointing at a star when they're out with the kids, and a plane passes a mile away. Or everyone being unable to work with lasers anymore (diy etching, microscopy, star gazing, etc) because they were completely banned outside extreme licensing for lab environments. I mean, not to underrate it, but 3,700 in a year that resulted in no injury doesn't seem like a lot when there are something like 50k flights per day.
There's room for middle ground here, since it seems it's a small issue now. But otherwise, I'd rather we err on the side of just enforcing the laws we already have.
The future is now, I guess. Despite living near one of the world's largest malls, I haven't been inside one in years... not sure if this is common or not.
I think his point is the same in either case. "Post hoc" is "after this, therefore because of this" and the other is "with this..." A and B are observationally correlated in both - one just indicates a chronological order.
"Post hoc" is just the one we all had to know to get through middle school.:)
I earned my Eagle in the late 90's, and was (briefly) a Freemason.
Scouting was, without question, the finest program for kids I've ever seen. Especially teens. I never once saw anyone taught to hate. It didn't matter if a kid was gay, atheist, "the weird kid" from school, hispanic, black, or caucasian... nobody was treated badly, ever. Above all else, we were required to treat each other with respect, and that kind of behavior was required of all adults involved. And in fact, I don't even want to think about what would have been said between adults, behind closed doors, if any adult had dared to make any kid feel less of themselves.
Perhaps I was just lucky in the thousands of people I crossed paths with over the years. And I did hear people say awful things about Scouting on TV as a kid, and none of it made any sense to me.
I did not like the (traditional and largely unenforced) religious bits, but it was never once an issue. Nobody cared what my religious opinions were, we were not required to pray or attend religious services of any kind, and we were all expected to be decent people - to leave everyone else alone. If you think about it, it's not entirely surprising for an organization that (as a matter of policy) does accommodate a bajillion religions at the same time. It makes for fairly neutral treatment.
Freemasonry, on the other hand, is quite clear about the religious component. I keep my oath regarding the things you can look up on wikipedia anyways, but it's no secret that the name you put on your god is (mostly) unimportant in Freemasonry. But it is a firm requirement that you believe in a creator, and features prominently (if sometimes abstractly). And it's a shame, really. Masonry has suffered in numbers, arguably due in some part to the old religious requirement, but is otherwise an excellent organization with a very normal, decent purpose.
I did draw the line there, though. If you're going to have to lie to yourself or your brothers, in an environment where honesty and respect for each other is paramount, you shouldn't volunteer yourself into that position. I decided that, despite my philosophical waffling, I did not belong.
It sucks, but it's their organization, and they're not going to change the rules. Probably ever.
Outside of nefarious uses, the information of a dead person is of no pactical value to facebook or its advertising customers. Dead people don't buy anything.
...to avoid a quarter million dollars in fees, I'd light a valley of old tires on fire, put it out with old refrigerant, and back fill old faithful with the remnants.
Ok, not really... but what the hell? That just a really, really bad consumption-based contract with the utility?
I've seen a number of the alternative devices, and they all have their own little ups and downs. Some have cases and come with power supplies, some do not. Most are more expensive, some options cost about the same. Nearly all of them are, "coming soon" rather than "shipping now".
So, not to detract from the Pi (I do have one, and love it), but it's great to have options, and that does mean addressing shortcomings. I have very little respect for people that get mean and shit on others' hard work while producing nothing of value themselves, though. There's no reason we can't keep things civil.
I've heard companies like ACell are using pig's bladders as a structural matrix for regrowing tissue at wound sites. Extracellular matrix, I think they call it.
Last I checked it's mostly used on horses, but I did read about a guy that regrew a good bit of his finger using the same stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
The abstract seems to suggest that even if a t-rex were found in "mammoth trapped in ice" conditions, which as far as we know is an absurd scenario, it'd still be unusable, right?
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of -5 C, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier â" perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
Tyrannosaurus roamed the earth, what, 65-67 million years ago? That's 9x's older than the maximum listed here. But maybe I've misunderstood...?
It seems the theme you use is entirely optional, and there's a bunch of very colorful ones there. ;)
"cloud is not about clouds"
"cloud means x"
"no cloud means x+y"
"yeah that's something we had before"
"it's marketing on old ideas"
"no, it's doing what we used to do, better, with newer tech"
"oh whatever my old tech was just as good"
"no it wasn't."
"yes it was"
"well now it's all cheaper and better"
This horse is thoroughly dead.
I see. So the plan is to make 99% of people exposed to their campaign think they're absolutely nuts, so 1% might end up engaged with other parts of their website, where some fraction of that 1% will be won over to their cause and become an asset, who will then have to overcome widespread perception that the organization is batshit insane and don't deserve rational consideration?
Yeah, still a horrible plan.
And Slashdot has given them exactly what they wanted.
A collective, "wtf is wrong with you people"? That doesn't seem like a well considered strategy.
So if you're right (which is highly speculative), then it's a progressive idea that should do well, and will usher in a coming era of truly open access.
If you're wrong, it's a reasonable middle-ground approach, analogous to iTunes (as they suggest), somewhere between a napster and pressed albums at high prices.
I guess we've cleared that up...
You don't have to recite the "free is better" rhetoric for me, I'm already familiar. I was (repeatedly) asking why a middle ground won't work... because that was the original assertion. Nobody asked about "greatest social benefit".
But now it seems now you've concluded that it could, or even does work?
So, while copyrights will keep journals alive, and will likely keep "middle of the road" approaches alive
If you weren't interested in addressing the question and just wanted a platform to shout from, you should know that you're preaching to the choir, and you're just thread-jacking.
It is like asking about the middle ground between cars and horses -- which is ridiculous and pointless red flag laws.
You mean like bicycles, atv's, tractors, and motorcycles? ;)
Kidding aside, I still don't see why a middle ground between free and ridiculously-high-paywall is dead from the start.
If there are open ones and closed ones, I don't see why there can't be something in the middle.
Uh yeah... it's in the article you didn't read. And Kittinger, who hasn't wanted to help anyone beat his record, is on board for this. He's a Stratos team member and the guy that will be talking to him over the radio.
And the point is, precisely as you wrote, to beat those records. If it were primarily to sell drinks, they would have spent the money on TV commercials. Though I'm not surprised they're putting logos on his jump suit to get what little publicity they can out of it.
So he might be the first to break the sound barrier without propulsion or protection of a vehicle. And while it's not like they haven't thought about it, nobody is entirely sure what could happen.
I'm all for people being crazy enough to push the limits of what's been tried. So I say... "god speed, you crazy SOB." I hope he makes it.
Yeah they got this one in with some time to spare. T-21m as I'm writing this.
And it looks like wired's embedded ustream feed isn't working... so there's this:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Perhaps a camera system that pinpointed the guilty party would be more useful.
I think this is already how they do it, or something similar.
I'm a little leery of the "epidemic" part here, though. 3,700 a year sounds like a lot, but goog returns number of flights as somewhere between 8-14 million per year. And I could be wrong, but I don't think there's ever been an injury from flashing an aircraft, right?
That's not to say we should wait until someone dies to do anything, but perhaps we shouldn't get too out-of-control over this just yet. I do kind of like the licensing idea, much like in radio. That seems like an inexpensive method that even a kid could pass, but would ensure that someone understands the non-zero probability of something bad happening if they're not operated correctly.
Lasers are useful things. I have a couple of projects in mind right now, and I know I'd be pretty cranky if they were outright banned everywhere over stupid stuff like this.
I suppose that's the issue, but not for the kids so much as the adults.
I was shooting by the time I was 12. I had a fixed blade and a pocket knife, slingshot, etc. like the gp. The difference is everyone understands that guns, knives and slingshots are potentially dangerous, with very real and direct consequences. The result is that adults who let their children use those things know to do all the safety and responsibility legwork, and all necessary supervision, right away.
With lasers, it doesn't necessarily even click with adults. There's no bang, no bullet or bb type projectile, just light... so the device doesn't act as its own warning system.
This is why I think I like what some people suggested with licensing. It should be something reasonable and inexpensive like the technician license. That's something even a kid can do, inexpensively, and you know they'll at least understand what they're dealing with.
What we don't need are parents going to jail for life over pointing at a star when they're out with the kids, and a plane passes a mile away. Or everyone being unable to work with lasers anymore (diy etching, microscopy, star gazing, etc) because they were completely banned outside extreme licensing for lab environments. I mean, not to underrate it, but 3,700 in a year that resulted in no injury doesn't seem like a lot when there are something like 50k flights per day.
There's room for middle ground here, since it seems it's a small issue now. But otherwise, I'd rather we err on the side of just enforcing the laws we already have.
The future is now, I guess. Despite living near one of the world's largest malls, I haven't been inside one in years... not sure if this is common or not.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/26/billboard-with-face-recognition-technology-ad-women-not-men_n_1302286.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/11/db.smartsigns/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2009-01-30-ad-privacy_N.htm
Well, and one of the co-founders (who I believe were college buddies) died. I imagine that could take the wind out of your sails on a project.
I think his point is the same in either case. "Post hoc" is "after this, therefore because of this" and the other is "with this..." A and B are observationally correlated in both - one just indicates a chronological order.
"Post hoc" is just the one we all had to know to get through middle school. :)
I blame Apple maps.
I know, dead horse is dead.
Huh, what a coincidence... that's the code on my luggage.
I earned my Eagle in the late 90's, and was (briefly) a Freemason.
Scouting was, without question, the finest program for kids I've ever seen. Especially teens. I never once saw anyone taught to hate. It didn't matter if a kid was gay, atheist, "the weird kid" from school, hispanic, black, or caucasian... nobody was treated badly, ever. Above all else, we were required to treat each other with respect, and that kind of behavior was required of all adults involved. And in fact, I don't even want to think about what would have been said between adults, behind closed doors, if any adult had dared to make any kid feel less of themselves.
Perhaps I was just lucky in the thousands of people I crossed paths with over the years. And I did hear people say awful things about Scouting on TV as a kid, and none of it made any sense to me.
I did not like the (traditional and largely unenforced) religious bits, but it was never once an issue. Nobody cared what my religious opinions were, we were not required to pray or attend religious services of any kind, and we were all expected to be decent people - to leave everyone else alone. If you think about it, it's not entirely surprising for an organization that (as a matter of policy) does accommodate a bajillion religions at the same time. It makes for fairly neutral treatment.
Freemasonry, on the other hand, is quite clear about the religious component. I keep my oath regarding the things you can look up on wikipedia anyways, but it's no secret that the name you put on your god is (mostly) unimportant in Freemasonry. But it is a firm requirement that you believe in a creator, and features prominently (if sometimes abstractly). And it's a shame, really. Masonry has suffered in numbers, arguably due in some part to the old religious requirement, but is otherwise an excellent organization with a very normal, decent purpose.
I did draw the line there, though. If you're going to have to lie to yourself or your brothers, in an environment where honesty and respect for each other is paramount, you shouldn't volunteer yourself into that position. I decided that, despite my philosophical waffling, I did not belong.
It sucks, but it's their organization, and they're not going to change the rules. Probably ever.
Outside of nefarious uses, the information of a dead person is of no pactical value to facebook or its advertising customers. Dead people don't buy anything.
Someone should tell Ancestry.com that. ;)
You might be thinking of Capone, convicted on tax evasion.
He's a scumbag con man that violated the terms of his probation. I think we can come to an agreement on the word, "illegal" here.
As for the rest of your rant, start reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States#Categorical_exclusions
...to avoid a quarter million dollars in fees, I'd light a valley of old tires on fire, put it out with old refrigerant, and back fill old faithful with the remnants.
Ok, not really... but what the hell? That just a really, really bad consumption-based contract with the utility?
I've seen a number of the alternative devices, and they all have their own little ups and downs. Some have cases and come with power supplies, some do not. Most are more expensive, some options cost about the same. Nearly all of them are, "coming soon" rather than "shipping now".
So, not to detract from the Pi (I do have one, and love it), but it's great to have options, and that does mean addressing shortcomings. I have very little respect for people that get mean and shit on others' hard work while producing nothing of value themselves, though. There's no reason we can't keep things civil.
I've heard companies like ACell are using pig's bladders as a structural matrix for regrowing tissue at wound sites. Extracellular matrix, I think they call it.
Last I checked it's mostly used on horses, but I did read about a guy that regrew a good bit of his finger using the same stuff.
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_matrix