Well, hate to be a drag but the screen color is blue when I get that error. Too bad I rectified the problem, or perhaps I'd be able to upload a picture of the screen, taken via a camera... Would have been nice if it was green... that's my fav color:)
I'm out here in Hawaii and,thanks in part to Slashdot, my M400 tablet is playing quicktime movies like a champ now:) The rant below aside, I DO very much appreciate the community thought that went into this, the response was great and that seems to have gotten the attention of Toshiba, which has issued a new RAID driver.
So, for whatever reason I still don't understand, Quicktime was accessing hard drives , those controlled by the SATA RAID controller in the laptop AND the ones hooked up by USB (external drives)in such a different way that the computer BSOD'ed every time. I don't pretend to understand it fully, I just knew from the start that it was some fundamental level of tinkering I couldn't do on my own.
A hearty thanks to everyone who offered advice, called me or the author an idiot, or delved deeper (too deep) into information that couldn't have been contained in the paltry few sentances I wrote for the story submission. hehe. I went out to lunch to buy some RAM, and then there were 200 posts, so I'm sorry I wasn't more involved in giving MORE information. I know that everyone needed it, but I missed the window on timing, I think... who knew it would get accepted and start up such a fire-storm of responses? It reminds me of that maxim "Whe you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.":) Of course, that in part was the point, right? Submit a vexing problem to Slashdot, give just enough information for people to identify it and hope and pray that someone smart, informed, kind slashdotter would know the answer when all the google queries in the world, tech support hours wasted and dead end hunches didn't get me anywhere.
I'm out here and thanks in part to Slashdot, my M400 tablet is playing quicktime movies like a champ now:) The rant below aside, I DO very much appreciate the community thought that went into this, the response was great and that seems to have gotten the attention of Toshiba, which has issued a new RAID driver.
So, for whatever reason I still don't understand, Quicktime was accessing hard drives , those controlled by the SATA RAID controller in the laptop AND the ones hooked up by USB (external drives)in such a different way that the computer BSOD'ed every time. I don't pretend to understand it fully, I just knew from the start that it was some fundamental level of tinkering I couldn't do on my own.
A hearty thanks to everyone who offered advice, called me or the author an idiot, or delved deeper into information that couldn't have been contained in the paltry few sentances I wrote for the story submission. hehe. I went out to lunch to buy some RAM, and there were 200 posts, so I'm sorry I wasn't more involved in giving MORE information. I know that everyone needed it, but I missed the window on timing, I think... who knew it would get accepted and start up such a fire-storm of responses? It reminds me of that maxim "Whe you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.:) Of course, that in part was the point, right? Submit a vexing problem to Slashdot, give just enough information for people to identify it and hope and pray that someone smart, informed, kind slashdotter would know the answer when all the google queries in the world, tech support hours wasted and dead end hunches didn't get me anywhere.
Hi there. Long time lurker, first time poster.:)
As a member of the scientific community, I just wanted to put my thoughts down on this subject.
In regards to those people who stated that creating stem cells was looked on as impossible (one of the earlier posts), I would like to point out that this is not so. As can be seen from the research I myself have done on the subject with my fellow workers, we know that not only is it feasible in theory, but also in practice. Although our group has had trouble in creating truly totipotent cells, we have created, from adult living differentiated cells, cells which we can manipulate into other types of cells. i.e. we can take a breast tissue skin cell, and use it as a base model to turn it into any type of of breast cell. This in turn can then be treated, and they will form natural pathways and structures as are seen in natural tissue.
http://www.msu.edu/trosko I details some of our work. I know, the front page picture rotation thing is a bit evil, but I didn't make the web page:)
To clarify another point made earlier, the technology needed for an artificial womb (a necessary step in making clones of full animals in mass amounts) is still a good while off, and though an interesting idea in replacing food/animal farms with produced meat and such, no one in the scientific community that I know (which admittadly is not everyone) would try just yet to pull that one off, as such a technical procedure is quite difficult. To do so in a mass market way at any time in the near future is just impossible.:( The regulations from the FDA would be quite restrictive, and at the moment, the average person is a bit put-off by the idea of 'simple' modified gene Franken-food.
Concerning the whole immortality thing... that's just whack on so many levels, both technically and morally to most anyone in the field. But, there's always someone willing to try that kind of thing. Again though, even with the research going on now with telomeric extensions in active tissue, too many things are conspiring against that to make it feasable in either a technical or legal sense right now, or any time in the near future.
Science moves in little bitty steps:)
I don't think that anyone who knows what's what is saying it's impossible. It just can't be done yet.:) And that's a big big difference when it comes to scientific endeavours. All this typing to you crazy slashdotters is making me nervous, so I'm going to stop 'informing' and just hit the submit button. Message me personally if you'd like to ask me any other technical questions, or would like to purchase regulated chemicals at discount prices;)
BTW, I have personally worked with all these things, if I didn't make it clear in the main body of text. Yay Science.
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Well, hate to be a drag but the screen color is blue when I get that error. Too bad I rectified the problem, or perhaps I'd be able to upload a picture of the screen, taken via a camera... :)
Would have been nice if it was green... that's my fav color
Aloha everyone,
,thanks in part to Slashdot, my M400 tablet is playing quicktime movies like a champ now :)
:) Of course, that in part was the point, right?
I'm out here in Hawaii and
The rant below aside, I DO very much appreciate the community thought that went into this, the response was great and that seems to have gotten the attention of Toshiba, which has issued a new RAID driver.
So, for whatever reason I still don't understand, Quicktime was accessing hard drives , those controlled by the SATA RAID controller in the laptop AND the ones hooked up by USB (external drives)in such a different way that the computer BSOD'ed every time.
I don't pretend to understand it fully, I just knew from the start that it was some fundamental level of tinkering I couldn't do on my own.
A hearty thanks to everyone who offered advice, called me or the author an idiot, or delved deeper (too deep) into information that couldn't have been contained in the paltry few sentances I wrote for the story submission. hehe. I went out to lunch to buy some RAM, and then there were 200 posts, so I'm sorry I wasn't more involved in giving MORE information. I know that everyone needed it, but I missed the window on timing, I think... who knew it would get accepted and start up such a fire-storm of responses?
It reminds me of that maxim "Whe you assume, you make an ass out of u and me."
Submit a vexing problem to Slashdot, give just enough information for people to identify it and hope and pray that someone smart, informed, kind slashdotter would know the answer when all the google queries in the world, tech support hours wasted and dead end hunches didn't get me anywhere.
Hooray for everyone!
Aloha everyone,
:)
:) Of course, that in part was the point, right?
I'm out here and thanks in part to Slashdot, my M400 tablet is playing quicktime movies like a champ now
The rant below aside, I DO very much appreciate the community thought that went into this, the response was great and that seems to have gotten the attention of Toshiba, which has issued a new RAID driver.
So, for whatever reason I still don't understand, Quicktime was accessing hard drives , those controlled by the SATA RAID controller in the laptop AND the ones hooked up by USB (external drives)in such a different way that the computer BSOD'ed every time.
I don't pretend to understand it fully, I just knew from the start that it was some fundamental level of tinkering I couldn't do on my own.
A hearty thanks to everyone who offered advice, called me or the author an idiot, or delved deeper into information that couldn't have been contained in the paltry few sentances I wrote for the story submission. hehe. I went out to lunch to buy some RAM, and there were 200 posts, so I'm sorry I wasn't more involved in giving MORE information. I know that everyone needed it, but I missed the window on timing, I think... who knew it would get accepted and start up such a fire-storm of responses?
It reminds me of that maxim "Whe you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.
Submit a vexing problem to Slashdot, give just enough information for people to identify it and hope and pray that someone smart, informed, kind slashdotter would know the answer when all the google queries in the world, tech support hours wasted and dead end hunches didn't get me anywhere.
Hooray for everyone!
Hi there. Long time lurker, first time poster. :)
As a member of the scientific community, I just wanted to put my thoughts down on this subject.
In regards to those people who stated that creating stem cells was looked on as impossible (one of the earlier posts), I would like to point out that this is not so. As can be seen from the research I myself have done on the subject with my fellow workers, we know that not only is it feasible in theory, but also in practice. Although our group has had trouble in creating truly totipotent cells, we have created, from adult living differentiated cells, cells which we can manipulate into other types of cells. i.e. we can take a breast tissue skin cell, and use it as a base model to turn it into any type of of breast cell. This in turn can then be treated, and they will form natural pathways and structures as are seen in natural tissue.
http://www.msu.edu/trosko I details some of our work. I know, the front page picture rotation thing is a bit evil, but I didn't make the web page :)
To clarify another point made earlier, the technology needed for an artificial womb (a necessary step in making clones of full animals in mass amounts) is still a good while off, and though an interesting idea in replacing food/animal farms with produced meat and such, no one in the scientific community that I know (which admittadly is not everyone) would try just yet to pull that one off, as such a technical procedure is quite difficult. To do so in a mass market way at any time in the near future is just impossible. :( The regulations from the FDA would be quite restrictive, and at the moment, the average person is a bit put-off by the idea of 'simple' modified gene Franken-food.
Concerning the whole immortality thing... that's just whack on so many levels, both technically and morally to most anyone in the field. But, there's always someone willing to try that kind of thing. Again though, even with the research going on now with telomeric extensions in active tissue, too many things are conspiring against that to make it feasable in either a technical or legal sense right now, or any time in the near future.
Science moves in little bitty steps :)
I don't think that anyone who knows what's what is saying it's impossible. It just can't be done yet. :) And that's a big big difference when it comes to scientific endeavours. All this typing to you crazy slashdotters is making me nervous, so I'm going to stop 'informing' and just hit the submit button. Message me personally if you'd like to ask me any other technical questions, or would like to purchase regulated chemicals at discount prices ;)
BTW, I have personally worked with all these things, if I didn't make it clear in the main body of text. Yay Science.