My guess is that they're referring to human specific variation, i.e. 10% of the DNA that varies within human populations, rather than variation in all DNA.
What about 3D content? Assuming your calculations are correct, add another 2000 for z resolution, and you're getting to around 10PB for a 2 hour movie.
I'd expect that to fill up such a hard drive fairly fast...
Just to start this off (if anyone wishes to continue the debate), prostate cancer (PC) is a somewhat more tricky thing to deal with at the moment. Tests (I'm thinking mainly about PSA here, which is fairly common for detecting PC) have quite a high false positive rate, and they're not all that sensitive. In many cases, by the time PC is detected, the only realistic options may end up being removal of the prostate or radiation treatment, which can result in a reduction of the quality of life of a person (those "leaky hose" analogies come to mind). In addition, PC tends to be more prevalent in older generations, and death by PC may not end up being that much earlier than death by other causes -- yes, it's not very nice to live with, but there's not really a magic bullet to make all people feel better after treatment. With the increase in life expectancy, and development of better treatments, this may change and allow a more positive PR campaign to be carried out.
There was a recent poll about the favourite end-of-world scenario. The voters voted for a mad max / terminator end to their world above the rest. Of course, "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
The amazing part was that if you stuck the electrode anywhere in the correct general area it would "just work" without needing to worry about hitting exact nerves, etc.
That would probably be because in that case, it is not the computer that is learning from the animal, but the animal learning to interact with the computer. I have a suspicion that the area of human-controlled manipulation will move forward in leaps and bounds when the people hooking these things up realise that brains are actually quite good at learning things. Just stick the electrodes anywhere in the body near some nerves in the central nervous system that occasionally receive signals from the brain (the forearm might be a good place), give each electrode some function, and let the body work out how to manipulate it.
Corollary: if you think DVD is crap, then so is 10,000,000,000 by 10,000,000,000 pixels. Holographic super-DVD.
That doesn't sound like something that should be called a corollary. birge's statement was something following the pattern A implies B. Assuming this is true, a corollary to this statement would be ~(not)B implies ~A. In this case, something like "if regular format TV is not fine, then you don't think DVD is fine either". What you have suggested is ~A implies Z (or anything else), which does not follow logically from the statement that birge has given.
Okay, $500,000 is a lot of money to me, but is it all that much to Google? Given that this is meant to be a class-action lawsuit against Google, I would expect a value a bit higher than this. I figure that if there's even a whiff of AIT being correct, a simple "settle out of court for a little less" might be an option here.
Perhaps the case just doesn't seem big enough to have the class-action label stuck to it...
How about we remove the gene that contributes the most to red blood cell production (I'm not claiming that this has been found yet...), and find out? If red blood cell production were reduced as a result of this, you might find that you have a bit more trouble storing oxygen in your blood.
I'm wondering if this may have anything that could be useful in recovery following wounding. Obviously there is already some way for cells to regenerate to some degree after damage. Maybe you could do something like applying a spray of smedwi-2 to either speed up the process, or allow the body to recover from more serious damage.
There's a DNA preparation stage as well, which also contributes to the total time involved in a single PCR reaction. If you're willing to work with slightly smaller volumes, then the LightCycler is something that I consider to be pretty fast already.
An entire 35-cycle run can be completed in as little as 30 minutes (with 20 microlitre capillaries) or 60 minutes (with 100 microlitre capillaries).
When you're getting down near that speed, DNA preparation time can take longer than the PCR process itself (especially when the preparation is done by real people). As a side note, a 30-45 minute decrease in PCR from that speed (for the 20 microlitre volume) is going into the negatives.
The company plans to leverage its patented technology in accelerated thermal cycling through licensing and internally developing devices for clinical diagnostics, general biotechnology, bio-defense and other related industries.
Yay for another patent on PCR technology, only a few months after the original PCR patent has expired. But of course they're only going with the trend -- there's other patents on PCR and associated technologies.
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Close. I'm suggesting that perhaps the DNA that varies between two people is 10% of the DNA that varies in the human population.
My guess is that they're referring to human specific variation, i.e. 10% of the DNA that varies within human populations, rather than variation in all DNA.
If you were able to stand all the current and future potential PS3 players on each others head, stretching up towards the moon...
most of them would die by asphyxiation.
peripherals -> mouse -> (General tab) -> (Icons) -> Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)
KDE -- so customisable that 'settings' is a menu in almost every application
By using a resistor, of course.
What about 3D content? Assuming your calculations are correct, add another 2000 for z resolution, and you're getting to around 10PB for a 2 hour movie.
I'd expect that to fill up such a hard drive fairly fast...
That's "...fsck.reiserfs'ed now". I don't think the standard fsck works on reiser.
Creamy yellow (think about what this cancer affects first...)
Just to start this off (if anyone wishes to continue the debate), prostate cancer (PC) is a somewhat more tricky thing to deal with at the moment. Tests (I'm thinking mainly about PSA here, which is fairly common for detecting PC) have quite a high false positive rate, and they're not all that sensitive. In many cases, by the time PC is detected, the only realistic options may end up being removal of the prostate or radiation treatment, which can result in a reduction of the quality of life of a person (those "leaky hose" analogies come to mind). In addition, PC tends to be more prevalent in older generations, and death by PC may not end up being that much earlier than death by other causes -- yes, it's not very nice to live with, but there's not really a magic bullet to make all people feel better after treatment. With the increase in life expectancy, and development of better treatments, this may change and allow a more positive PR campaign to be carried out.
This is already in Wikipedia, although it's only a couple of days old. Have a look at [[Moon landing]] if you don't believe me. Or see the diff here:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moon_la
There was a recent poll about the favourite end-of-world scenario. The voters voted for a mad max / terminator end to their world above the rest. Of course, "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
The amazing part was that if you stuck the electrode anywhere in the correct general area it would "just work" without needing to worry about hitting exact nerves, etc.
That would probably be because in that case, it is not the computer that is learning from the animal, but the animal learning to interact with the computer. I have a suspicion that the area of human-controlled manipulation will move forward in leaps and bounds when the people hooking these things up realise that brains are actually quite good at learning things. Just stick the electrodes anywhere in the body near some nerves in the central nervous system that occasionally receive signals from the brain (the forearm might be a good place), give each electrode some function, and let the body work out how to manipulate it.
How about a free software database, containing programs that are known to work on many different computer systems.
It could be called... Debian!
Corollary: if you think DVD is crap, then so is 10,000,000,000 by 10,000,000,000 pixels. Holographic super-DVD.
That doesn't sound like something that should be called a corollary. birge's statement was something following the pattern A implies B. Assuming this is true, a corollary to this statement would be ~(not)B implies ~A. In this case, something like "if regular format TV is not fine, then you don't think DVD is fine either". What you have suggested is ~A implies Z (or anything else), which does not follow logically from the statement that birge has given.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those...
Oh, wait a second. You already have.
I don't think the sucking matters all that much. Babies can usually cause milk to come out by just massaging the nipple with their tongue.
Careful what you say to the sub-1000s. They have more power than you can possibly imagine.
Okay, $500,000 is a lot of money to me, but is it all that much to Google? Given that this is meant to be a class-action lawsuit against Google, I would expect a value a bit higher than this. I figure that if there's even a whiff of AIT being correct, a simple "settle out of court for a little less" might be an option here.
Perhaps the case just doesn't seem big enough to have the class-action label stuck to it...
How about we remove the gene that contributes the most to red blood cell production (I'm not claiming that this has been found yet...), and find out? If red blood cell production were reduced as a result of this, you might find that you have a bit more trouble storing oxygen in your blood.
I'm wondering if this may have anything that could be useful in recovery following wounding. Obviously there is already some way for cells to regenerate to some degree after damage. Maybe you could do something like applying a spray of smedwi-2 to either speed up the process, or allow the body to recover from more serious damage.
There's a DNA preparation stage as well, which also contributes to the total time involved in a single PCR reaction. If you're willing to work with slightly smaller volumes, then the LightCycler is something that I consider to be pretty fast already.
An entire 35-cycle run can be completed in as little as 30 minutes (with 20 microlitre capillaries) or 60 minutes (with 100 microlitre capillaries).
When you're getting down near that speed, DNA preparation time can take longer than the PCR process itself (especially when the preparation is done by real people). As a side note, a 30-45 minute decrease in PCR from that speed (for the 20 microlitre volume) is going into the negatives.
The company plans to leverage its patented technology in accelerated thermal cycling through licensing and internally developing devices for clinical diagnostics, general biotechnology, bio-defense and other related industries.
Yay for another patent on PCR technology, only a few months after the original PCR patent has expired. But of course they're only going with the trend -- there's other patents on PCR and associated technologies.
Only if the Titans ate meat as well (Rhetorical answer).
Cue on the discussions about if false then X...
...the advanced technologies in the Solaris 10 OS, such as Predictive Self-Healing...
Yes, this is a technology that is able to predict when breaks will happen, and carry out the repairs before the problems ever surface.