Sorry about the repost, forgot to preview and put up that unreadable wall of text...
Apple's IPhone, Obj-C and you need an intel mac dev platform + Apple dev license. But if you got those yea it's pretty fun to dev on. Not really the same as the others though.
RIM's Blackberry, supports generic j2me and has it's own incompatible java api too.
Nokia's line (Symbian), supports generic j2me.
Android phone we can get in Canada. java based but not the same as generic j2me.
J2ME generic app. Preferred if you just want to make the app once and have it support the largest number of devices. (doesn't allow the really cool stuff though)
Web-based UI. Never tried this since I only work on mobile games.
The other dev handles WinMo though it seems pretty easy to work with.
Also keep in mind that Verizon likes it's apps in BREW. (the biggest money maker in the US by far, though At&t is pretty big too)
And if you're going international, most support various versions of java. (often incompatible though)
Apple's IPhone, Obj-C and you need an intel mac dev platform + Apple dev license. But if you got those yea it's pretty fun to dev on. Not really the same as the others though.
RIM's Blackberry, supports generic j2me and has it's own incompatible java api too.
Nokia's line (Symbian), supports generic j2me.
Android phone we can get in Canada. java based but not the same as generic j2me.
J2ME generic app. Preferred if you just want to make the app once and have it support the largest number of devices. (doesn't allow the really cool stuff though)
Web-based UI. Never tried this since I only work on mobile games.
The other dev handles WinMo though it seems pretty easy to work with.
Also keep in mind that Verizon likes it's apps in BREW.
And if you're going international, most support various versions of java. (often incompatible though)
I wouldn't hold my breath for Chinese Democracy, even with the exposure to the West. They've had relatively stable totalitarian governments for ~5000 years. The culture is built around maintaining it. Look at the values promoted in that society. Humility? Conformity? Honor? Obedience?
Even Asian nations with historical Chinese influence have had a difficult time with Democracy and it's associated values. Vietnam, communist totalitarian state. North Korea, communist totalitarian state. Singapore, totalitarian state.
Both South Korea & Taiwan were a totalitarian states into the 1990's. And even today, they maintain rather tight controls on the populace. You ever see how the South Korean government handles labor strikes?
Japan didn't exactly adopt the Republic voluntarily either...
I guess I'm just not buying the idea of Chinese Democracy in my lifetime. and I'm in my early twenties.
That doesnt matter. This isnt a social study, we don't need to know squat about the population's sexual behaviour.
All we need to do is compare the placebo group's HIV rate to the vaccine group's HIV rate. Assuming both groups are drawn from the same larger population, in this case the Military.
Most often the vaccine candidates are tested on higher risk populations.
www.hvtn.org for more information on efforts to find a HIV vaccine. My old employer.
Oxygen is dangerous at high concentrations, but it is essential to nearly all life on Earth. Besides a lot of things are dangerous at high concentrations...
All Eukaryotes, cells with mitochondria, require it for the Citric Acid Cycle (aerobic metabolism). That would include all animals, plants, algae, fungi and protist.
Most bacteria, eubacteria and archaebacteria, also prefer to use aerobic metabolism though they're capable of various other, very interesting, forms of metabolism.
The only life forms that I'm aware of that are completely intolerant of Oxygen are some archaebactium. Now there's some evidence that these were once the dominant form of life. But that's not the current situation.
Oxygen is so prevalent and it's use in metabolism so efficient that most life has evolved to take advantage of it.
Trivia:
Some Eukaryotes, notably our skeletal muscles and yeast will engage in anaerobic metabolism if deprived of Oxygen.
Lifeforms that engage in photosynthesis produce a good amount of Oxygen as a byproduct of sugar manufacture. But they require some Oxygen to metabolize that same sugar. And no they do not save the Oxygen for later use, the concentration of Oxygen gets high enough to interfere with other pathways.
You're way off.
Oxygen is dangerous at high concentrations, but it is essential to nearly all life on Earth. Besides a lot of things are dangerous at high concentrations...
All Eukaryotes, cells with mitochondria, require it for the Citric Acid Cycle (aerobic metabolism). That would include all animals, plants, algae, fungi and protist.
Most bacteria, eubacteria and archaebacteria, also prefer to use aerobic metabolism though they're capable of various other, very interesting, forms of metabolism.
The only life forms that I'm aware of that are completely intolerant of Oxygen are some archaebactium. Now there's some evidence that these were once the dominant form of life.
But that's not the current situation.
Oxygen is so prevalent and it's use in metabolism so efficient that most life has evolved to take advantage of it.
Trivia:
Some Eukaryotes, notably our skeletal muscles and yeast will engage in anaerobic metabolism if deprived of Oxygen.
Lifeforms that engage in photosynthesis produce a good amount of Oxygen as a byproduct of sugar manufacture. But they require some Oxygen to metabolize that same sugar.
Preach on. I've had many fights with my fellow liberals over this point.
I remember a short conversation I once had with Rep. Baird (D) WA regarding Rep. McDermott (D) WA. Baird was working on getting bipartisan support to delay and hopefully prevent military action against Iraq. He even got some moderate Republicans to sign on to it. Then McDermott made his speech in Iraq. That's pretty much a fuck you to the president. Needless to say the Republicans and even a lot of Democrats backed Bush after that one.
Basically killed the cause by forgetting to show the other side some respect.
I think the conversation ended with Baird mumbling something about "that fucking moron... screwed us all."
I'm not saying avoid responsibility or even stop trying to teach people.
But rather, don't get bitter about having to do your job.
When you enter a clinic, most doctors won't say: "Since you choose to smoke you deserve to die." That's basically the approach many of the people here are suggesting.
I'll ignore the little bit on it affects me directly vs indirectly affecting me. That ideological war will get ugly once we move into civil rights, environment, public education, taxes, open source software, etc...
Whenever this sort of thing comes around there are always a dozen or so posts blaming user ignorance. And basically saying good they deserve it.
Quit, it's annoying.
Remember all that medical advice on diet, smoking, exercise... that you're probably ignoring. Does NOT mean you're a moron. Nor that you deserve heart disease, cancer, obesity etc.
It's very difficult to make lifestyle changes, especially in areas you don't know that well. So quite blaming the users. And do the best you can.
Enbrel - For the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular-course juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
- Amgen (my employer)
Novolin - Human insulin products for the treatment of diabetes.
- Zymogenetics
Recombivax - Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Merck
And hopefully...
AIDSVAX - One of many recombinant HIV Vaccine Candidates. Recombinant so we do NOT have to use
the real thing in the vaccine. That's a bit too risky.
Monsanto isn't the only biotech out there.
First off, chinese is not phonetic, its a bunch of pictographs so the pronounciation is irrelavent (well almost, but I'll ignore that). Fact is it's unintelligible between different regions of China. It doesn't matter if the Koreans say it differently from the Cantonese, the character almost always has the same meaning.
Second, in South Korea you're basically illiterate if if you can't read chinese. By the time you reach college text, nearly 60% of words are in chinese characters. That doesn't count chinese words written in Hangul (native korean characters). From what I understand this is also true in Japan.
It makes sense for Japan and Korea to want to work on this considering that their languages incorporate large amounts of chinese.
On another note. Though english is important for recent additions to the languages, it's phonetic. Most english words are changed quite a bit and are not written in english characters (except when going for style points). Basically they're no longer english words, but rather words derived from english. A bit different from the chinese which is often unaltered. (some chinese words are converted to native words)
I dont normally respond to offtopic comments, but that comment hit on a pet peeve of mine.
I dont think the military or police should have guns either. I mean here in Seattle the police shoot unarmed black men all the time. Which is a bit disturbing. Also what about oppressive governments? Then again, having guns allows for events like the one you described.
One shouldnt declare a solution to a complex issue without really thinking about it from all sides. Rarely are social issues that simple.
I find it kind of funny that a key argument here is about the gov. being ripped off by researchers.
I work at the Hood lab as a student.
I've noticed that the researchers were rather concerned by the University of Washington's poor handling of Intellectual property. (one of the reasons they left to form a private non-profit)
I've heard of many small examples but the best one is that of one researcher who developed a cell line that the UW sold the rights to a company for dirt cheap and didnt reserve any rights for itself to continue to work on it. So that reseacher is working illegally on something that he developed.
I'd guess similar things happen a lot of other public research centers. Maybe public research centers need better IP lawyers?
In all cells things go like this: DNA -> RNA -> Protien aka the central dogma of biology
A virus is incapable of doing this by itself, hence it cant reproduce by itself. So it hijacks the host cell.
There are several classes of virus, based on what it injects into the host cell. Some have subclasses that are based mostly on what it looks like (capsid and envelope) of the virus.
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Sorry about the repost, forgot to preview and put up that unreadable wall of text...
Apple's IPhone, Obj-C and you need an intel mac dev platform + Apple dev license. But if you got those yea it's pretty fun to dev on. Not really the same as the others though.
RIM's Blackberry, supports generic j2me and has it's own incompatible java api too.
Nokia's line (Symbian), supports generic j2me.
Android phone we can get in Canada. java based but not the same as generic j2me.
J2ME generic app. Preferred if you just want to make the app once and have it support the largest number of devices. (doesn't allow the really cool stuff though)
Web-based UI. Never tried this since I only work on mobile games.
The other dev handles WinMo though it seems pretty easy to work with.
Also keep in mind that Verizon likes it's apps in BREW. (the biggest money maker in the US by far, though At&t is pretty big too)
And if you're going international, most support various versions of java. (often incompatible though)
Apple's IPhone, Obj-C and you need an intel mac dev platform + Apple dev license. But if you got those yea it's pretty fun to dev on. Not really the same as the others though. RIM's Blackberry, supports generic j2me and has it's own incompatible java api too. Nokia's line (Symbian), supports generic j2me. Android phone we can get in Canada. java based but not the same as generic j2me. J2ME generic app. Preferred if you just want to make the app once and have it support the largest number of devices. (doesn't allow the really cool stuff though) Web-based UI. Never tried this since I only work on mobile games. The other dev handles WinMo though it seems pretty easy to work with. Also keep in mind that Verizon likes it's apps in BREW. And if you're going international, most support various versions of java. (often incompatible though)
I wouldn't hold my breath for Chinese Democracy, even with the exposure to the West. They've had relatively stable totalitarian governments for ~5000 years. The culture is built around maintaining it. Look at the values promoted in that society. Humility? Conformity? Honor? Obedience? Even Asian nations with historical Chinese influence have had a difficult time with Democracy and it's associated values. Vietnam, communist totalitarian state. North Korea, communist totalitarian state. Singapore, totalitarian state. Both South Korea & Taiwan were a totalitarian states into the 1990's. And even today, they maintain rather tight controls on the populace. You ever see how the South Korean government handles labor strikes? Japan didn't exactly adopt the Republic voluntarily either... I guess I'm just not buying the idea of Chinese Democracy in my lifetime. and I'm in my early twenties.
"Also, anyone think it's strange that 2 chemists won the prize for medicine, and 2 doctors won the prize for chemistry? Chemistry != protein studies."
Would you be surprised if a Computer Scientist won the prize for Math?
That doesnt matter. This isnt a social study, we don't need to know squat about the population's sexual behaviour.
All we need to do is compare the placebo group's HIV rate to the vaccine group's HIV rate. Assuming both groups are drawn from the same larger population, in this case the Military.
Most often the vaccine candidates are tested on higher risk populations.
www.hvtn.org for more information on efforts to find a HIV vaccine. My old employer.
You're way off.
Oxygen is dangerous at high concentrations, but it is essential to nearly all life on Earth. Besides a lot of things are dangerous at high concentrations...
All Eukaryotes, cells with mitochondria, require it for the Citric Acid Cycle (aerobic metabolism). That would include all animals, plants, algae, fungi and protist.
Most bacteria, eubacteria and archaebacteria, also prefer to use aerobic metabolism though they're capable of various other, very interesting, forms of metabolism.
The only life forms that I'm aware of that are completely intolerant of Oxygen are some archaebactium. Now there's some evidence that these were once the dominant form of life. But that's not the current situation.
Oxygen is so prevalent and it's use in metabolism so efficient that most life has evolved to take advantage of it.
Trivia:
Some Eukaryotes, notably our skeletal muscles and yeast will engage in anaerobic metabolism if deprived of Oxygen.
Lifeforms that engage in photosynthesis produce a good amount of Oxygen as a byproduct of sugar manufacture. But they require some Oxygen to metabolize that same sugar. And no they do not save the Oxygen for later use, the concentration of Oxygen gets high enough to interfere with other pathways.
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You're way off. Oxygen is dangerous at high concentrations, but it is essential to nearly all life on Earth. Besides a lot of things are dangerous at high concentrations... All Eukaryotes, cells with mitochondria, require it for the Citric Acid Cycle (aerobic metabolism). That would include all animals, plants, algae, fungi and protist. Most bacteria, eubacteria and archaebacteria, also prefer to use aerobic metabolism though they're capable of various other, very interesting, forms of metabolism. The only life forms that I'm aware of that are completely intolerant of Oxygen are some archaebactium. Now there's some evidence that these were once the dominant form of life. But that's not the current situation. Oxygen is so prevalent and it's use in metabolism so efficient that most life has evolved to take advantage of it. Trivia: Some Eukaryotes, notably our skeletal muscles and yeast will engage in anaerobic metabolism if deprived of Oxygen. Lifeforms that engage in photosynthesis produce a good amount of Oxygen as a byproduct of sugar manufacture. But they require some Oxygen to metabolize that same sugar.
Preach on. I've had many fights with my fellow liberals over this point.
I remember a short conversation I once had with Rep. Baird (D) WA regarding Rep. McDermott (D) WA. Baird was working on getting bipartisan support to delay and hopefully prevent military action against Iraq. He even got some moderate Republicans to sign on to it. Then McDermott made his speech in Iraq. That's pretty much a fuck you to the president. Needless to say the Republicans and even a lot of Democrats backed Bush after that one.
Basically killed the cause by forgetting to show the other side some respect.
I think the conversation ended with Baird mumbling something about "that fucking moron... screwed us all."
I'm not saying avoid responsibility or even stop trying to teach people.
But rather, don't get bitter about having to do your job.
When you enter a clinic, most doctors won't say: "Since you choose to smoke you deserve to die."
That's basically the approach many of the people here are suggesting.
I'll ignore the little bit on it affects me directly vs indirectly affecting me. That ideological war will get ugly once we move into civil rights, environment, public education, taxes, open source software, etc...
Whenever this sort of thing comes around there are always a dozen or so posts blaming user ignorance.
And basically saying good they deserve it.
Quit, it's annoying.
Remember all that medical advice on diet, smoking, exercise... that you're probably ignoring. Does NOT mean you're a moron. Nor that you deserve heart disease, cancer, obesity etc.
It's very difficult to make lifestyle changes, especially in areas you don't know that well.
So quite blaming the users. And do the best you can.
- I work in healthcare.
I like these examples better.
Enbrel - For the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular-course juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
- Amgen (my employer)
Novolin - Human insulin products for the treatment of diabetes.
- Zymogenetics
Recombivax - Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Merck
And hopefully...
AIDSVAX - One of many recombinant HIV Vaccine Candidates. Recombinant so we do NOT have to use
the real thing in the vaccine. That's a bit too risky.
Monsanto isn't the only biotech out there.
I hate HTML, whats wrong with plain text for simple shite...
Enbrel - For the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular-course juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. - Amgen (my employer) Novolin - Human insulin products for the treatment of diabetes. - Zymogenetics Recombivax - Hepatitis B Vaccine - Merck And hopefully... AIDSVAX - One of many recombinant HIV Vaccine Candidates. Recombinant so we do NOT have to use the real thing in the vaccine. That's a bit too risky. Monsanto isn't the only biotech out there.
First off, chinese is not phonetic, its a bunch of pictographs so the pronounciation is irrelavent (well almost, but I'll ignore that). Fact is it's unintelligible between different regions of China. It doesn't matter if the Koreans say it differently from the Cantonese, the character almost always has the same meaning.
Second, in South Korea you're basically illiterate if if you can't read chinese. By the time you reach college text, nearly 60% of words are in chinese characters. That doesn't count chinese words written in Hangul (native korean characters). From what I understand this is also true in Japan.
It makes sense for Japan and Korea to want to work on this considering that their languages incorporate large amounts of chinese.
On another note.
Though english is important for recent additions to the languages, it's phonetic. Most english words are changed quite a bit and are not written in english characters (except when going for style points). Basically they're no longer english words, but rather words derived from english. A bit different from the chinese which is often unaltered. (some chinese words are converted to native words)
I dont normally respond to offtopic comments, but that comment hit on a pet peeve of mine.
I dont think the military or police should have guns either. I mean here in Seattle the police shoot unarmed black men all the time. Which is a bit disturbing. Also what about oppressive governments? Then again, having guns allows for events like the one you described.
One shouldnt declare a solution to a complex issue without really thinking about it from all sides. Rarely are social issues that simple.
I find it kind of funny that a key argument here is about the gov. being ripped off by researchers. I work at the Hood lab as a student. I've noticed that the researchers were rather concerned by the University of Washington's poor handling of Intellectual property. (one of the reasons they left to form a private non-profit) I've heard of many small examples but the best one is that of one researcher who developed a cell line that the UW sold the rights to a company for dirt cheap and didnt reserve any rights for itself to continue to work on it. So that reseacher is working illegally on something that he developed. I'd guess similar things happen a lot of other public research centers. Maybe public research centers need better IP lawyers?
In all cells things go like this:
DNA -> RNA -> Protien
aka the central dogma of biology
A virus is incapable of doing this by itself, hence it cant reproduce by itself.
So it hijacks the host cell.
There are several classes of virus, based on
what it injects into the host cell. Some have subclasses that are based mostly on what it looks like (capsid and envelope) of the virus.
I. dsDNA
(papovirus) warts
(adenovirus) respiratory disease
(herpesvirus) herpes, chickenpox
(poxvirus) smallpox, cowpox
II. ssDNA (parvovirus)
roseola
III. dsRNA (reovirus)
diarrhea viruses
IV. ssRNA that can serve as mRNA
(picornavirus) polio, common cold
(togavirus) rubella, yellow fever
V. ssRNA that is a template for mRNA
(rhabdovirus) rabies
(paramyxovirus) measles, mumps
(orthomyxovirus) Influenza viruses
VI. ssRNA that is a template for DNA synthesis
(retrovirus) HIV, tumor viruses
The Retroviruses work something like this:
RNA -> DNA -> RNA -> Protien
This is a case where biology doesnt follow the central dogma of biology! The other virus classes still follow the central dogma.
Another interesting disease agent is a prion, but thats involves a lot of speculation.
-hope that helps.