ITYM "reduce heath care costs once the patent expires". Time and again, a breakthrough at a tax-supported university that's supposed to improve healthcare for all mankind becomes a privately-held patent that is used to gouge those who can afford it. Considering Stanford is a private school which accepts very little money from public sources and only for specific projects, there's even less reason for the public to even expect this will be freely available technology.
"Nova" and "no va" mean two entirely different things in Spanish. Try both in your favorite translation software to see.
With so many confirmed international naming issues, it's odd that what must have started out as a joke is the one most people cite. "Nova" in Spanish, BTW, translates in English to... "nova".
Now, go to Snopes and check out Coca-Cola, Sting, the Rolls Royce Silver Mist, the slogan "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux"...
Well, theoretically you could make ethanol out of cellulose as well as from the sugars. The thing is, you can make biodiesel out of much the same stuff with less processing.
I think the main drive behind ethanol is that there are few diesel passenger vehicles right now, and it's easier to convert a gasoline vehicle to ethanol than to diesel. However, since we're talking plugin pure electrics, plugin hybrids, grease cars, propane, NG, LNG, LP, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen combustion (again, more of a stop gap than a solution), and others I think moving to petro/bio diesel mix with ore bio over the years is a good way to look toward if we're going to be replacing and retrofitting a bunch of vehicles anyway.
Well, we do want it to be a revocable license. We don't want it to be revoked for piddly shit like a line here and a couple of code comments there accidentally making it into an Apache-licensed module rather than a GPL-licensed module. It needs to be revocable for intentional violations that are not being corrected when brought to light. Otherwise, if it could not be revoked, then people would have the right to continue to violate it and continue shipping code in violation of it. What should be necessary to use the license is to be a good licensee is good faith and correcting accidental violations when they are found.
That's pretty much how the disputes I've seen go, too. You can follow the license perfectly, and everybody thinks you're great. You can try but screw up sometimes, and they notify you and you can correct it. If you're just out to take GPL'ed code and lock the changes away, then you need to not be allowed to ship that derived code. Use the BSD, MIT, or Apache licenses if you aren't comfortable with sharing your improvements. If you're using a license which requires providing your altered sources, make a best effort to provide them to at least the letter of the license.
The real tricks with the hydrogen fuel cells are getting a reliable source of hydrogen with a low energy input (it's almost always found in compound with other elements) and storing it at high enough volumes to be really useful without using high pressures or exotic, expensive materials.
I rather prefer the cellulose to biodiesel bacteria, algae, and fungi that are being researched. It seems to be a more useful fuel, and cellulose seems a lot more readily available than loose hydrogen. Biobutanol from cellulose is being researched in Japan, and butanol is a fairly straightforward replacement for at least part of a diesel's fuel. There's a fungus found in a rainforest that converts sugar or cellulose into a number of hydrocarbons and can be urged to make more based on exposure to antibiotic compounds. There's talk of work to genetically engineer something to do this, which likely would be a bacterium like e. coli engineered to produce the same compounds from the same feedstocks. In fact, e. coli is already being used in research to convert cellulose into diesel and kerosene.
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Thankfully there's no injection of HIV. The summary was wrong. TFA says that a modified, harmless HIV was used to genetically engineer blood cells. The blood cells were what was injected. Also, what made the HIV harmless was that it only causes what the genetic engineers want to be transcribed. It doesn't replicate itself at all.
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A much better head line that that would be "Three patients in trial cured of leukemia by genetically modified T-cells".
It's not just modified and harmless. It's also not injected into the patient. It is not as HIV itself, anyway.
"In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients."
The HIV is used to engineer the white blood cells. The white blood cells, which the article doesn't say do or don't contain the modified, harmless HIV virus after the engineering, are what's injected into the patient.
Sure, some fragment of the engineered virus is probably in the engineered blood cell. But HIV is a complex and fragile virus, so my layman's understanding is that there's decent odds no actual complete, viable virus is within those cells when they are injected.
Sending people to Mars does not imply large-scale long-term colonization.Serious business wouldn't be built to keep a handful of researchers connected to the homeworld. If there was sufficient demand for content, though, sure you could expect both caching much of Earth's content on Mars as well as a large cache on Earth of content from Mars.
You just need to make sure the juice is worth the squeeze. If you have a valid lawsuit but it's going to limit your other career options then you need to make sure the payoff from the suit precludes needing to work.
Of course you're joking, but it's not an all-around impossible idea.
Bandwidth? Check. Ping? Not so much. Or rather, too much. Or something. The bandwidth being high doesn't lower the latency any of course.
"The communications delay between Earth and Mars can vary between five and twenty minutes depending upon the relative positions of the two planets. As a consequence of this, if a robot on the surface of Mars were to encounter a problem, its human controllers would not be aware of it until at least five minutes, and possibly up to twenty minutes, later; it would then take a further five to twenty minutes for instructions to travel from Earth to Mars." from this Wikipedia article on the speed of light might be useful for someone.
So chess between Mars and Earth? Sure. Fantasy football? Sure. Half-life or Supreme Commander? Not so much.
YouTube? Well, queue up a bunch of them to stream and start streaming each one five to twenty minutes before it needs to start playing. The initial wait will be a bit inconvenient, but there's no reason with that much bandwidth you couldn't stream multiple videos simultaneously while waiting.
Robert Morris was well after Stew Nelson and John Draper. 1987 is a long time after 1971 in terms of computers. Draper's interview with Esquire was published when RTFM was about six years old. Draper was serving nights in jail when he wrote Easy Writer for the Apple II in 1979. Morris wasn't convicted until 1991.
See the difference? When words like "original" or "first" come into play, timelines matter.
Interesting tidbit: some theater stage surfaces are black linoleum. You can nail things into the floor to secure them, and the nail holes will heal completely (for small nails) or almost completely for larger ones (except for quite large nails, which still leave a neat hole). A screw will tear the shit out of the surface. I learned that from a professional tech director when I was helping build some sets.
Evolution is about survival of the fittest. It is not necessarily survival of the most complex or the most "advanced". Sometimes the fittest in a niche isn't the most complex item in that niche. Sometimes simple, robust, and quick to reproduce accurately makes a more competitive offering. If they can actually get a reliable $20 device out that plays decent games, it should reproduce pretty quickly.
You are breaking the law if it's not for medical purposes. That's why it's called medical marijuana. The fact that certain people abusing the system is overlooked does not mean it's actually legal to get a medical marijuana card for recreational reasons. That's why it's not a great course to take if the real goal is true legalization for all competent adults.
Don't forget alcohol. Or that the wood pulp paper industry was going strong by the time marijuana was banned. People weren't still depending on rags for paper.
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ITYM "reduce heath care costs once the patent expires". Time and again, a breakthrough at a tax-supported university that's supposed to improve healthcare for all mankind becomes a privately-held patent that is used to gouge those who can afford it. Considering Stanford is a private school which accepts very little money from public sources and only for specific projects, there's even less reason for the public to even expect this will be freely available technology.
AKA the urban legend effect?
"Nova" and "no va" mean two entirely different things in Spanish. Try both in your favorite translation software to see.
With so many confirmed international naming issues, it's odd that what must have started out as a joke is the one most people cite. "Nova" in Spanish, BTW, translates in English to... "nova".
Now, go to Snopes and check out Coca-Cola, Sting, the Rolls Royce Silver Mist, the slogan "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux"...
A Pentium MMX and a Voodoo2 will not fit in your pocket and didn't cost $25 at launch. There is more than one axis for improvement.
Well, theoretically you could make ethanol out of cellulose as well as from the sugars. The thing is, you can make biodiesel out of much the same stuff with less processing.
I think the main drive behind ethanol is that there are few diesel passenger vehicles right now, and it's easier to convert a gasoline vehicle to ethanol than to diesel. However, since we're talking plugin pure electrics, plugin hybrids, grease cars, propane, NG, LNG, LP, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen combustion (again, more of a stop gap than a solution), and others I think moving to petro/bio diesel mix with ore bio over the years is a good way to look toward if we're going to be replacing and retrofitting a bunch of vehicles anyway.
Well, we do want it to be a revocable license. We don't want it to be revoked for piddly shit like a line here and a couple of code comments there accidentally making it into an Apache-licensed module rather than a GPL-licensed module. It needs to be revocable for intentional violations that are not being corrected when brought to light. Otherwise, if it could not be revoked, then people would have the right to continue to violate it and continue shipping code in violation of it. What should be necessary to use the license is to be a good licensee is good faith and correcting accidental violations when they are found.
That's pretty much how the disputes I've seen go, too. You can follow the license perfectly, and everybody thinks you're great. You can try but screw up sometimes, and they notify you and you can correct it. If you're just out to take GPL'ed code and lock the changes away, then you need to not be allowed to ship that derived code. Use the BSD, MIT, or Apache licenses if you aren't comfortable with sharing your improvements. If you're using a license which requires providing your altered sources, make a best effort to provide them to at least the letter of the license.
The real tricks with the hydrogen fuel cells are getting a reliable source of hydrogen with a low energy input (it's almost always found in compound with other elements) and storing it at high enough volumes to be really useful without using high pressures or exotic, expensive materials.
I rather prefer the cellulose to biodiesel bacteria, algae, and fungi that are being researched. It seems to be a more useful fuel, and cellulose seems a lot more readily available than loose hydrogen. Biobutanol from cellulose is being researched in Japan, and butanol is a fairly straightforward replacement for at least part of a diesel's fuel. There's a fungus found in a rainforest that converts sugar or cellulose into a number of hydrocarbons and can be urged to make more based on exposure to antibiotic compounds. There's talk of work to genetically engineer something to do this, which likely would be a bacterium like e. coli engineered to produce the same compounds from the same feedstocks. In fact, e. coli is already being used in research to convert cellulose into diesel and kerosene.
Thankfully there's no injection of HIV. The summary was wrong. TFA says that a modified, harmless HIV was used to genetically engineer blood cells. The blood cells were what was injected. Also, what made the HIV harmless was that it only causes what the genetic engineers want to be transcribed. It doesn't replicate itself at all.
A much better head line that that would be "Three patients in trial cured of leukemia by genetically modified T-cells".
It's not just modified and harmless. It's also not injected into the patient. It is not as HIV itself, anyway.
"In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients."
The HIV is used to engineer the white blood cells. The white blood cells, which the article doesn't say do or don't contain the modified, harmless HIV virus after the engineering, are what's injected into the patient.
Sure, some fragment of the engineered virus is probably in the engineered blood cell. But HIV is a complex and fragile virus, so my layman's understanding is that there's decent odds no actual complete, viable virus is within those cells when they are injected.
IIRC it was providing patches rather than complete altered sources.
Sending people to Mars does not imply large-scale long-term colonization.Serious business wouldn't be built to keep a handful of researchers connected to the homeworld. If there was sufficient demand for content, though, sure you could expect both caching much of Earth's content on Mars as well as a large cache on Earth of content from Mars.
You just need to make sure the juice is worth the squeeze. If you have a valid lawsuit but it's going to limit your other career options then you need to make sure the payoff from the suit precludes needing to work.
Of course you're joking, but it's not an all-around impossible idea.
Bandwidth? Check. Ping? Not so much. Or rather, too much. Or something. The bandwidth being high doesn't lower the latency any of course.
"The communications delay between Earth and Mars can vary between five and twenty minutes depending upon the relative positions of the two planets. As a consequence of this, if a robot on the surface of Mars were to encounter a problem, its human controllers would not be aware of it until at least five minutes, and possibly up to twenty minutes, later; it would then take a further five to twenty minutes for instructions to travel from Earth to Mars." from this Wikipedia article on the speed of light might be useful for someone.
So chess between Mars and Earth? Sure. Fantasy football? Sure. Half-life or Supreme Commander? Not so much.
YouTube? Well, queue up a bunch of them to stream and start streaming each one five to twenty minutes before it needs to start playing. The initial wait will be a bit inconvenient, but there's no reason with that much bandwidth you couldn't stream multiple videos simultaneously while waiting.
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Robert Morris was well after Stew Nelson and John Draper. 1987 is a long time after 1971 in terms of computers. Draper's interview with Esquire was published when RTFM was about six years old. Draper was serving nights in jail when he wrote Easy Writer for the Apple II in 1979. Morris wasn't convicted until 1991.
See the difference? When words like "original" or "first" come into play, timelines matter.
tl;dr: Glad to school you, n00b. HTH. HAND. ;-)
Maybe they're putting him at the head of some tiger team?
What's criminal is defrauding people by taking away functionality they purchased.
Stew Nelson might have a claim, too. But he's not named after a breakfast mascot.
bah. loadlin. ;-)
Interesting tidbit: some theater stage surfaces are black linoleum. You can nail things into the floor to secure them, and the nail holes will heal completely (for small nails) or almost completely for larger ones (except for quite large nails, which still leave a neat hole). A screw will tear the shit out of the surface. I learned that from a professional tech director when I was helping build some sets.
Sarah or Bristol? Can I get a sportsman's double?
So the tau that can be named is not the true tau?
Evolution is about survival of the fittest. It is not necessarily survival of the most complex or the most "advanced". Sometimes the fittest in a niche isn't the most complex item in that niche. Sometimes simple, robust, and quick to reproduce accurately makes a more competitive offering. If they can actually get a reliable $20 device out that plays decent games, it should reproduce pretty quickly.
You are breaking the law if it's not for medical purposes. That's why it's called medical marijuana. The fact that certain people abusing the system is overlooked does not mean it's actually legal to get a medical marijuana card for recreational reasons. That's why it's not a great course to take if the real goal is true legalization for all competent adults.
Don't forget alcohol. Or that the wood pulp paper industry was going strong by the time marijuana was banned. People weren't still depending on rags for paper.