I'm sorry but that is just the biggest load of nonsense ever encountered. First and foremost, there is no such thing as complete redundancy in genomic information. THe simplest explanation is that there is exactly zero evolutionary benefit of it, as destruction of a redundant copy does not reduce fitness but in fact increases it due to reduced energy requirement to copy the redundant pair in mitosis. In other words, the redundant copy is removed from the genepool very quickly. There are more elaborate reasons but that would make me repeat a few hunderd scientific manuscripts on the topic from the last 10 years or so. Also, there is no point in having redundant pairs of genes to shield from radiation. It is much better to have an improved DNA repair system and remove individuals from the gene pool that fail to stabilize their genome.
Seeing this being +5 insightful is something I'd expect from 4chan, not/.
The difference is that the Times main revenue is the paper edition, whereas Slate mainly existed as a website. As mentioned above, the Times doesn't make any money from the site, but in fact loses money as it makes their paper edition worthless. So for them less online popularity may actually increase revenue.
If you would actually read the article their conclusion states that it is probably remainders of the toxin itself rather than the modified protein inside the plant that is responsible for the effects.
No, if you would actually read the article their conclusion states that it is probably remainders of the toxin itself rather than the modified protein inside the plant that is responsible for the effects.
As a PhD in the research dpt of an academic hospital, I can tell you that such classes are really beneficial. Not in the least so that MDs finally understand what they are working with. Make no mistake: Doctors generally have no clue *why* for instance a lymphe node has swollen, or even what many antibiotics actually do. This complete lack of mechanistical insight in disease and cures by MDs has boggled my mind since I came here (and I have to teach them lab skills). Some background info on their actual work is no luxury.
The funniest IRC quote ever (and happy to burn modpoints for it, as this will doubtlessly be flamed down):
From http://bash.org/?106579 Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. <SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich! <novell>/msg atnt haha. idiot. <novell> whoops. was that out loud? <atnt> rotfl <ibm> lol <SCO> why r u laffin at me? <novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now. <SCO> wtf? <SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now. <red_hat> haha, your linux sucks. <novell> lol <atnt> lol <ibm> lol <SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u! <ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE <SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM. <SCO> can we do linux with you? <SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher... <ibm> *cough* <SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen. * SuSE is now SuSE[UL] * SCO is now caldera[UL] <turbolinux> can we play? <conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too. <ibm> sure! * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL] * conectiva is now conectiva[UL] <ibm> redhat: you should join! <SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich. <red_hat> haha. no. <red_hat> lamers. <ibm> what about you debian? <debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years. <caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux! <turbolinux[UL]> i got owned. <caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame. * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO <SCO> i'm going back to unix. <SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me? <SCO> haha. no. lamer. <novell> lol <ibm> snap! <SGI>:~( <SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm. <ibm> wtf? <SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix. <red_hat> lol <SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen <ibm> lol <SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck. <ibm> go ahead. baby. <SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that? <ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever. <novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that. <SCO> wtf? we bought it from u. <novell> whoops. our bad. <SCO> i own u. haha <SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now! <ibm> whatever. lamer. * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@* * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
You lot should stop whining about your precious feelings that might be hurt and at the same time drop cluster bombs on innocents just because they are not evangelical christians. Erm.. I mean they have oil and won't give it to you freely.. Oh no, I mean 'liberated'. Thats the PC word now right? .
Get off your high horse. If you genuinely get shocked by such a line you must have a terrible time watching the news. The term points to the relative large number of chinese people that we all know there are. And we all need and use footwear, there's nothing racist about that either. It'd be racist saying you will sell a shotgun to every american, or a bomb detonator to every iraqi, as in those cases you are implying something negative to a specific subset of people. That is not the case here.
You're forgetting the part that, after the install, he's stuck with it as a developer / sysadmin. So anyone who has MS software ordered upon them will give a fuck as it affects them in their work for as long as they'll stay in their current job. Therefore it very much is his problem and if he wants a less frustrated future he should indeed act now.
Minidisk was having a format war with Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) which it easily won, despite having a higher compression ratio. Compression on minidisc is about 10x higher compared to CD and even I can hear it.
Shouldn't this be filed under "Ask Slashdot"? because there the audience is highly experienced on the subject you mean? Most people here think sex can be downloaded.
2) No more relevant than a US-centric viewpoint would be. Then why bring it up? It is exacly your arrogant wild-west attitude that makes everyone dislike the US
3) Not much of a point there. The US used them repetitively as weapons of war in 1945. A number of countries have detonated two or more nuclear weapons since then. Not on other people. Slight difference.
4) Iran has a religious council enshrined in their Constitution that literally can disqualify people who are insufficiently religious. The US consitution is clearly christian centered. Besides China has a similar approach as Iran and the US has nooo problem trading with them
5) I didn't say that. What we don't know is whether Iran will start a nuclear war on purpose or by accident, even though they understand the consequences. Exact same thing applies to the US. Even more so I'd say
has Israel behaved well You have a very odd definition of 'well'
its aquisition of nuclear weapons has saved considerable lives. 1) you have no evidence for that statement at all 2) in your line of reasoning nukes in Iran may save eeven more lives
Same goes for most of the world. Many people trust neither. And a lot feel that a balance of power may actually improve. Yes this decreases the options for the US to be a bully, but they abused that position so many times now it may actually be a good thing.
This line of reasoning is disgusting: 1) there is more to the world than just the us when it comes to nuclear fallout (really!). They may not share your sense of a good deal. 2) the rest of the world does care as much about US deaths especially considering the sloppiness US citizens themselves treat other lives 3) many countries had nuclear weapons for a long time. Not only is the US the only one to actually us them *repetitively* but also recently threatened to use them again (sorta around 2004) 4) the US goverment is pretty much as religious as the iranian, and I would not exactly call it stable either. Paranoia or corrupt, sure. 5) If you really think iranian government is so dumb it does not cypher in the consequences of their nuclear strike I'm surprised you can type 6) Why has the US never objected to Israelian nuclear weapons? Not exactly a bunch of happy campers there.
As a research scientist this move doesn't sound too strange. However keep in mind that they are not providing the world with their raw data. Rest assured that the milked it for anything that could give a profit, stripped that off and released the rest. This is how it happens with large scale datasets all the time.
It should be noted that this voting aid is endorsed by all major political parties who actually submit questions to it. The party leaders are also the first to take the test (this time the liberal leader actually did not end up with his own party at all after doing it...bummer:(
In the end you can compare your answer to the one of each political party. There they argue why they give this answer, making it a rather nice tool to learn more about the programs without reading the entire manuscripts, but it is definitely more then just the 30 questions.
Another interesting thing is that there is no large correlation between the suggested votes and those actually casted, indicating that people do not follow the advise blindly. In reality, many people here try a number of these web-based aids (kieskompas.nl is another one).
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I'm sorry but that is just the biggest load of nonsense ever encountered. First and foremost, there is no such thing as complete redundancy in genomic information. THe simplest explanation is that there is exactly zero evolutionary benefit of it, as destruction of a redundant copy does not reduce fitness but in fact increases it due to reduced energy requirement to copy the redundant pair in mitosis. In other words, the redundant copy is removed from the genepool very quickly. There are more elaborate reasons but that would make me repeat a few hunderd scientific manuscripts on the topic from the last 10 years or so. Also, there is no point in having redundant pairs of genes to shield from radiation. It is much better to have an improved DNA repair system and remove individuals from the gene pool that fail to stabilize their genome.
Seeing this being +5 insightful is something I'd expect from 4chan, not /.
If you need to ask slashdot you're in over your head
If i'd eat an infected USB disk, id get the same result?
If I'd cough some influenza on my keyboard id get the same (yet reciprocal) result?
Idle is indeed the word.
it can be done simpler though.
I don't like internet explorer
The difference is that the Times main revenue is the paper edition, whereas Slate mainly existed as a website. As mentioned above, the Times doesn't make any money from the site, but in fact loses money as it makes their paper edition worthless. So for them less online popularity may actually increase revenue.
Ubi
good point
I must admit I rarely play these games but I thought all of them had Rocket Propelled Grenades in them since Doom?
If you would actually read the article their conclusion states that it is probably remainders of the toxin itself rather than the modified protein inside the plant that is responsible for the effects.
No, if you would actually read the article their conclusion states that it is probably remainders of the toxin itself rather than the modified protein inside the plant that is responsible for the effects.
As a PhD in the research dpt of an academic hospital, I can tell you that such classes are really beneficial. Not in the least so that MDs finally understand what they are working with. Make no mistake: Doctors generally have no clue *why* for instance a lymphe node has swollen, or even what many antibiotics actually do. This complete lack of mechanistical insight in disease and cures by MDs has boggled my mind since I came here (and I have to teach them lab skills). Some background info on their actual work is no luxury.
The funniest IRC quote ever (and happy to burn modpoints for it, as this will doubtlessly be flamed down):
/msg atnt haha. idiot. :~(
From http://bash.org/?106579
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell>
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI>
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
You lot should stop whining about your precious feelings that might be hurt and at the same time drop cluster bombs on innocents just because they are not evangelical christians. Erm.. I mean they have oil and won't give it to you freely.. Oh no, I mean 'liberated'. Thats the PC word now right? .
Get off your high horse. If you genuinely get shocked by such a line you must have a terrible time watching the news. The term points to the relative large number of chinese people that we all know there are. And we all need and use footwear, there's nothing racist about that either. It'd be racist saying you will sell a shotgun to every american, or a bomb detonator to every iraqi, as in those cases you are implying something negative to a specific subset of people. That is not the case here.
it's spelled: Escheria coli
(so with the 's' and also no capital on the second word)
Oh well, it's only the most common bacerium ever...
You're forgetting the part that, after the install, he's stuck with it as a developer / sysadmin. So anyone who has MS software ordered upon them will give a fuck as it affects them in their work for as long as they'll stay in their current job. Therefore it very much is his problem and if he wants a less frustrated future he should indeed act now.
Neesan != Nesson
I don't care about his first name
Minidisk was having a format war with Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) which it easily won, despite having a higher compression ratio. Compression on minidisc is about 10x higher compared to CD and even I can hear it.
I think you meant Charles Nesson. It's kinda polite to spell the name correctly.
Most people here think sex can be downloaded.
2) No more relevant than a US-centric viewpoint would be.
Then why bring it up? It is exacly your arrogant wild-west attitude that makes everyone dislike the US
3) Not much of a point there. The US used them repetitively as weapons of war in 1945. A number of countries have detonated two or more nuclear weapons since then.
Not on other people. Slight difference.
4) Iran has a religious council enshrined in their Constitution that literally can disqualify people who are insufficiently religious.
The US consitution is clearly christian centered. Besides China has a similar approach as Iran and the US has nooo problem trading with them
5) I didn't say that. What we don't know is whether Iran will start a nuclear war on purpose or by accident, even though they understand the consequences.
Exact same thing applies to the US. Even more so I'd say
has Israel behaved well
You have a very odd definition of 'well'
its aquisition of nuclear weapons has saved considerable lives.
1) you have no evidence for that statement at all
2) in your line of reasoning nukes in Iran may save eeven more lives
Same goes for most of the world.
Many people trust neither. And a lot feel that a balance of power may actually improve. Yes this decreases the options for the US to be a bully, but they abused that position so many times now it may actually be a good thing.
This line of reasoning is disgusting:
1) there is more to the world than just the us when it comes to nuclear fallout (really!). They may not share your sense of a good deal.
2) the rest of the world does care as much about US deaths especially considering the sloppiness US citizens themselves treat other lives
3) many countries had nuclear weapons for a long time. Not only is the US the only one to actually us them *repetitively* but also recently threatened to use them again (sorta around 2004)
4) the US goverment is pretty much as religious as the iranian, and I would not exactly call it stable either. Paranoia or corrupt, sure.
5) If you really think iranian government is so dumb it does not cypher in the consequences of their nuclear strike I'm surprised you can type
6) Why has the US never objected to Israelian nuclear weapons? Not exactly a bunch of happy campers there.
As a research scientist this move doesn't sound too strange.
However keep in mind that they are not providing the world with their raw data.
Rest assured that the milked it for anything that could give a profit, stripped that off and released the rest.
This is how it happens with large scale datasets all the time.
Not only that, but his publication record is disgusting. All I can really confirm is that pnas paper of which he's 4th author.
yeah yeah, you're really 1337 etc
but snort does not run on windows, which is sorta their target OS....
It should be noted that this voting aid is endorsed by all major political parties who actually submit questions to it. The party leaders are also the first to take the test (this time the liberal leader actually did not end up with his own party at all after doing it...bummer :(
In the end you can compare your answer to the one of each political party. There they argue why they give this answer, making it a rather nice tool to learn more about the programs without reading the entire manuscripts, but it is definitely more then just the 30 questions.
Another interesting thing is that there is no large correlation between the suggested votes and those actually casted, indicating that people do not follow the advise blindly. In reality, many people here try a number of these web-based aids (kieskompas.nl is another one).