Re:I won't support EMBRYONIC stem cell research un
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That is true. I should have clarified. Once a cell differentiates it is almost impossible to get back to the state it was once in.
My analogy would be that a skin/other cell is like a car while a stem cell is a box containing the raw materials to make a car.
It is easy to make a car out of the raw materials but its nearly impossible to create a cadillac out of an Kia.
Re:I won't support EMBRYONIC stem cell research un
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Everyday I discard more human cells than exist in these embryos that are destroyed. I work in a hospital and the bronchoscopy lavage fluid that I handle contains millions of cells that are going to be cultured then destroyed.
If you go to the doctors you will have millions and millions of cells disposed of for the purpose of preventing you from getting ill (Drawing blood).
These cells that are bing destroyed everyday are no diffferent than the cells in an embryo. It does not hurt for these individual cells to die, If it did your skin would be crying in pain as you shed thousands of cells each day.
What tend to forget is that a cell is a cell is a cell. A sperm uniting with a egg does not make the newly formed unit into something miraculous, it just reforms into a cell.
The article instantly delcares that IPv4 was short sighted because it didn't allow for enough IP address but is IPv6 any better? The articles states that it will allow every person in the world to have close to 10 IPs but with the expanding products that carry addresses could this be short sighted as well? Think about the products that people are getting or are supposed to have within the next 20 years.
Phone (Voip) Cell Computer (could be many) TV (could potentially need IP) Webcams
then we have the possible use that people keep proclaiming will happen
Fridges, and other appliances. This list could continue to grow and I could potentially see 100 being the closer value for many folks in many years. This being said of course not every person in the world is going to need lost of IP addy's since many people dont even need to use one now.
But just think how fast the growth of Ip-Address need has grown in the past 30 years and use that to predict the growth for the next 30. As soon as there are available addresses people will use them. The only reason they aren't being used as liberally now is because they are not available.
We might look back in 10 years and think how short sighted IPv6 was and why another 2 byes weren't just added to the protocol to make its growth laster for many, many,.... years.
The is great news. If the JAMA can do it then so should everyone else. In addition to the NIH proclaiming that they are hoping to force Researches to publish to public domain, research and reporting of research is moving in a positive direction.
I cannot validate how useful these will be for you since I myself have no idea about what it takes to run a law office or be a laywer but theseshould be a good start for you.
Why have the candidates not been asked for a slashdot style interview? Someone high up on the slashdot chain should invite both the candidates to do an email interview like what has been done in the past with interesting people. I am sure with the millions of hit that are here they might be interested.
Why couldnt they have created a little pad at the bottom of the stand and had everything plug in there. It doesnt make sense to have everythign plug into the sense to have a bundle of wires poking out like that if you desk faces out. Apple reputes itself to be aesthetically pleasing but they fall to the same trap that all computer makers have, they forget about those damn ugly cords.
Never-the-less I still thinks its a beautiful design.
Its beautiful but I bet when you plug everything in those cords are going to make that impressive floating screen look more like squid with a ton of tennacles.
Re:The correct pricing structure for most software
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What happens if you have to begin charging for the product itself because it is no longer feasible to offer it for free. I know I am instantly turned off by a product that was once free and has grown so large or its market share increased that they turn to charging a price, even if it is essentially the same price.
This should become interesting as Free software matures and becomes viable products for the common man (please dont flame on "there already viable")
What if Microsoft bundles a DVD/CD - burning program with LongHorn? Then this might not be such a bad idea for Roxio. The software is great but if microsoft is playing the browser-war with burning software then its potentially a good thing for the ROxio company.
Also to consider are new DRM rules. Roxio could have to do major upgrading to the software to enable proper DRM and even then Microsoft/MPAA could decide its not good enough.
What is a great product now does not mean that it will always be the best. You have to admit that CD/DVD burning software is kind of a one-trick-pony-kind-of software that does not have great potential for growth. Sooner or later Microsoft will start to integrate burning capabilities like Apple.
Also another thing to consider is with growing HD sizes CD burning I am assuming is decreasing. also with MP3 players, which I am assuming will lead to MP3 car players, CDr's could potentially.. gasp.. die. Leaving ROxio with a sinking ship.
Just some thoughts as to why they would do this drastic move
Thats why I thought that compiling should be wrapped with a Gui. The emphasis on GUI installation has been primarily been on binary package systems. I am fairly new to Linux but why isnt there a gui based config-make-install that would show you which flags could be set, allow the flag to be set via a check box, and tell it where to install.
Why not have a universal flag for configuration that would spit out a XML file of flags that could be set and how they should be presented to a user for this above mentioned gui-ed config-make-install program.
Everyone complains about having to compile software for Linux and that because of this "need" to compile linux is not ready for the desktop.
Why do we have to tell the masses they are compiling. Create an application(or shell script) called GreatInstall which does the./configure , make, make install. This GreatInstall would be the envy;) of every Windows' User for its ease of installation.
I was playing on the stereotype of nerds, which I think falls in line with the many Beowulf cluster, Insensitive clod, Soviet Russia comments that are dropped here every day/Article.
I saw my first Masquerade at Penguicon 1.0, in April 2003. I decided that that looked like fun, and I wanted to do something like it. I'd idly pondered a TRON costume in the past, and this seemed like the perfect venue for it, being a cross between a Linux and SF con.
I saw lots of TRON costumes on the net, and wasn't satisfied with any of them. The biggest deficiency was that none of them attempted to capture the green tint of the characters' outfits in the computer world. Yes, I know that was added in the digital animation process, but, still, a white costume just doesn't look right. Many of them also used black for the circuit patterns, one more step away from the costumes the viewer saw in the movie.
I decided I could do better, at least to my own way of thinking. This is not a slam on those who have gone before by any means, just an observation that I could resolve what I saw as deficiencies.
I would love to go into this sort of thing and was wondering if people knew of any graduate programs in this field working with the interaction of cells and electronics. Any advice or the such on the field would be much appreciated.
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That is true. I should have clarified. Once a cell differentiates it is almost impossible to get back to the state it was once in.
My analogy would be that a skin/other cell is like a car while a stem cell is a box containing the raw materials to make a car.
It is easy to make a car out of the raw materials but its nearly impossible to create a cadillac out of an Kia.
Everyday I discard more human cells than exist in these embryos that are destroyed. I work in a hospital and the bronchoscopy lavage fluid that I handle contains millions of cells that are going to be cultured then destroyed.
If you go to the doctors you will have millions and millions of cells disposed of for the purpose of preventing you from getting ill (Drawing blood).
These cells that are bing destroyed everyday are no diffferent than the cells in an embryo. It does not hurt for these individual cells to die, If it did your skin would be crying in pain as you shed thousands of cells each day.
What tend to forget is that a cell is a cell is a cell. A sperm uniting with a egg does not make the newly formed unit into something miraculous, it just reforms into a cell.
The article instantly delcares that IPv4 was short sighted because it didn't allow for enough IP address but is IPv6 any better? The articles states that it will allow every person in the world to have close to 10 IPs but with the expanding products that carry addresses could this be short sighted as well? Think about the products that people are getting or are supposed to have within the next 20 years.
Phone (Voip)
Cell
Computer (could be many)
TV (could potentially need IP)
Webcams
then we have the possible use that people keep proclaiming will happen
Fridges, and other appliances. This list could continue to grow and I could potentially see 100 being the closer value for many folks in many years. This being said of course not every person in the world is going to need lost of IP addy's since many people dont even need to use one now.
But just think how fast the growth of Ip-Address need has grown in the past 30 years and use that to predict the growth for the next 30. As soon as there are available addresses people will use them. The only reason they aren't being used as liberally now is because they are not available.
We might look back in 10 years and think how short sighted IPv6 was and why another 2 byes weren't just added to the protocol to make its growth laster for many, many,.... years.
The is great news. If the JAMA can do it then so should everyone else. In addition to the NIH proclaiming that they are hoping to force Researches to publish to public domain, research and reporting of research is moving in a positive direction.
Here is a few that I found at http://www.sf.net/ and I searched for lawyer.
http://etude.sourceforge.net/
http://www.yoma.com.au/products/cmfpractice
I hope these help.
I cannot validate how useful these will be for you since I myself have no idea about what it takes to run a law office or be a laywer but theseshould be a good start for you.
Why have the candidates not been asked for a slashdot style interview? Someone high up on the slashdot chain should invite both the candidates to do an email interview like what has been done in the past with interesting people. I am sure with the millions of hit that are here they might be interested.
Why couldnt they have created a little pad at the bottom of the stand and had everything plug in there. It doesnt make sense to have everythign plug into the sense to have a bundle of wires poking out like that if you desk faces out. Apple reputes itself to be aesthetically pleasing but they fall to the same trap that all computer makers have, they forget about those damn ugly cords.
Never-the-less I still thinks its a beautiful design.
Its beautiful but I bet when you plug everything in those cords are going to make that impressive floating screen look more like squid with a ton of tennacles.
What happens if you have to begin charging for the product itself because it is no longer feasible to offer it for free. I know I am instantly turned off by a product that was once free and has grown so large or its market share increased that they turn to charging a price, even if it is essentially the same price.
This should become interesting as Free software matures and becomes viable products for the common man (please dont flame on "there already viable")
As if StarBucks wasnt addictive enough.
What if Microsoft bundles a DVD/CD - burning program with LongHorn? Then this might not be such a bad idea for Roxio. The software is great but if microsoft is playing the browser-war with burning software then its potentially a good thing for the ROxio company.
Also to consider are new DRM rules. Roxio could have to do major upgrading to the software to enable proper DRM and even then Microsoft/MPAA could decide its not good enough.
What is a great product now does not mean that it will always be the best. You have to admit that CD/DVD burning software is kind of a one-trick-pony-kind-of software that does not have great potential for growth. Sooner or later Microsoft will start to integrate burning capabilities like Apple.
Also another thing to consider is with growing HD sizes CD burning I am assuming is decreasing. also with MP3 players, which I am assuming will lead to MP3 car players, CDr's could potentially.. gasp.. die. Leaving ROxio with a sinking ship.
Just some thoughts as to why they would do this drastic move
Thats why I thought that compiling should be wrapped with a Gui. The emphasis on GUI installation has been primarily been on binary package systems. I am fairly new to Linux but why isnt there a gui based config-make-install that would show you which flags could be set, allow the flag to be set via a check box, and tell it where to install.
Why not have a universal flag for configuration that would spit out a XML file of flags that could be set and how they should be presented to a user for this above mentioned gui-ed config-make-install program.
Hopefully I am making sense.
Everyone complains about having to compile software for Linux and that because of this "need" to compile linux is not ready for the desktop.
./configure , make, make install. This GreatInstall would be the envy ;) of every Windows' User for its ease of installation.
Why do we have to tell the masses they are compiling. Create an application(or shell script) called GreatInstall which does the
A little defensive are we.
I was playing on the stereotype of nerds, which I think falls in line with the many Beowulf cluster, Insensitive clod, Soviet Russia comments that are dropped here every day/Article.
Now, most of us lie daily (does this dress make me look fat?)
/. people, check that,men have wives/girlfriends.
Come on, did you really just insinuate that
Player pleeuz
I'l bite as well for one. I feel as if I'm the last geek/nerd to get one.
I'm feeling left out of this geeky circle damn it.
hubs99@hotmail,com
I saw my first Masquerade at Penguicon 1.0, in April 2003. I decided that that looked like fun, and I wanted to do something like it. I'd idly pondered a TRON costume in the past, and this seemed like the perfect venue for it, being a cross between a Linux and SF con.
I saw lots of TRON costumes on the net, and wasn't satisfied with any of them. The biggest deficiency was that none of them attempted to capture the green tint of the characters' outfits in the computer world. Yes, I know that was added in the digital animation process, but, still, a white costume just doesn't look right. Many of them also used black for the circuit patterns, one more step away from the costumes the viewer saw in the movie.
I decided I could do better, at least to my own way of thinking. This is not a slam on those who have gone before by any means, just an observation that I could resolve what I saw as deficiencies.
Does openoffice or Staroffice have a grammar checker yet? I personally like this feature of Office and I have yet to see in an open source competitor.
I would love to go into this sort of thing and was wondering if people knew of any graduate programs in this field working with the interaction of cells and electronics. Any advice or the such on the field would be much appreciated.
Thanks