The cancer cells are mutated dog cells, only that they originated in another dog maybe 1000 years ago. The new discovery is that the cancer cells can infect other dogs. Usually, cells from another individual (even cancerous cells), are recognized as foreign and destroyed by the immune system.
Actually, we are just as closely related to the bonobos as to the common chimpanzee. The two chimpanzees are each other's closest relatives, and humans are the closest relative to the chimps.
Consider this phylogenetic tree:
|----------------- Gorilla | | |----------- Human ---------| | |--- Common chimpanzee |-------| |--- Bonobo
The situation with Copy-Control CD is much worse in Sweden (and in the rest of Europe) than in the USA. Most major label CDs by scandinavian artists, as well as many international releases are protected/crippled.
I only have a few old crippled CDs, and I don't buy any new ones, so I can't tell if the rootkit is on anyone of them.
However, the Swedish Sony exec is blatantly lying in the article when he claims that Sony won't release any copy-controlled CDs until the protection works well for both the customers and the record labels.
I have used Clustal for multiple sequence alignments. There is a gui (ClustalX) and a scriptalbel command line version (ClustalW). Available for all platforms and source included with the download.
Also keep an eye on POY that does direct optimization on sequences. Also available for all platforms with BSD style licence.
For just viewing and manual editing of alignments there is BioEdit. Free, but not open source. Windows only.
For a general sequence assembly/analysis/kitchen sink approach try the Staden Project. Open source and available for Windows, Linux and OSX.
Hope this is useful. I have never worked with protein sequences, but I have done a lot of DNA sequenceing and alignment!
I collect insect specimens for my research, and work with international insect collections. Knowning the locality is even more important than knowing the species of the insect.
What if Google added the ability to search for GPS coordinates, or would give you the coordinates for your map.
Im a systematic biologist and do research using cladistics. Cladistics is about finding the phylogenetic tree (or pedigree) that requires the minimum amount of evoultionary events.
A rose with a gene replaced would still be a rose, as it continues to share so many charcteristics of the unmanipulated rose such as flower morphology, chromosome number, leaf symmetry etc.
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I remember that story too! I dont remember the title, but Im pretty sure it was written by Robert Sheckley
WinEDT is 30$ shareware for students. A good freeware editor for windows users is Crimson Editor. It has a built in function for highlihting commands in LaTeX documents, and many other types of code.
Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX81 and Spectrum line of computers did not believe disc drives had a future. He invented the microdrive. Cheap, fast and with low power demands.
The microdrive had small cartridges with a tape loop running inside. The Spectrum version held ~100 k or so of data. They were built into the Sinclair Ql, and was available as periphals for Spectrum (Timex in the US).
It was very soon forgotten except by us old Spectrum afficionados!
How can they tell that these mandibles are from a winged insect when there are no wings fossilized?
Winged insects and silverfish (the closest realtice of the winged insects) share several advanced traits. One is how the mandible attaches to the head capsule. This type of mandible attaches by two point and is called 'dicondylic'.
The fossil mandibles are clearly dicondylic, and are also of a type not known from silverfish at all. They are of a broad chewing type more associated with 'higher' insects such as grasshoppers or cockroaches. Since there are no wings, they can't be abolutely sure if this was a winged insect or an unknown wingless insect more closely related to winged insects that to silverfish.
The second bid auction, or in this case, the reverse second bid acution is a brillian idea. I wonder why it isn't used more in real life.
Everyone gets to leave a bid for something. The person giving the highest bid gets to buy for the second highest bid.
This forces the bidders to bid the highest price they would be willing to pay. It's impossible to cheat, as bidding 1 billion for a 100$ object would leave you in a lot of trouble is someone else had the same idea but bid 1 million!
Would people get this if it was an option on ebay?
This is apparently nothing new.In "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson is this passage on Ronald Reagan pretending to report live from ballgames in the 30s!
When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call baseball games by reading the terse descriptions that trickled in over the telegraph wire and were printed out on a paper tape. He would sit there, all by himself in a padded room with a microphone, and the paper tape would eke out of the machine and crawl over the palm of his hand printed with cryptic abbreviations. If the count went to three and two, Reagan would describe the scene as he saw it in his mind's eye: "The brawny left-hander steps out of the batter's box to wipe the sweat from his brow. The umpire steps forward to sweep the dirt from home plate." and so on. When the cryptogram on the paper tape announced a base hit, he would whack the edge of the table with a pencil, creating a little sound effect, and describe the arc of the ball as if he could actually see it. His listeners, many of whom presumably thought that Reagan was actually at the ballpark watching the game, would reconstruct the scene in their minds according to his descriptions.
A protein based glue that sticks to everything but is biodegradable, or a polymer based one that doesn't stick as good and lasts until the sun goes nova.
For those who want to play the original versions, all the KOF games are perfectly emulated in MAME and several other emulators such as Nebula or Kawaks.
Really sad that these games will be censored. Especially about Mai Shiranui's bouncing!
Remember that DooM is still being developed. The newer source ports adds a lot to the DooM experience, like higher resolutions, mouselook and even 3d models.
Check out ZDooM available for Windows and Linux. It's a very stable port that adds a lot of playability compared to running iD's original DooM under Win32.
Also JDooM, a fun port that adds a lot of eyecandy under OpenGL.
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The cancer cells are mutated dog cells, only that they originated in another dog maybe 1000 years ago. The new discovery is that the cancer cells can infect other dogs. Usually, cells from another individual (even cancerous cells), are recognized as foreign and destroyed by the immune system.
Actually, we are just as closely related to the bonobos as to the common chimpanzee. The two chimpanzees are each other's closest relatives, and humans are the closest relative to the chimps.
Consider this phylogenetic tree:
|----------------- Gorilla
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| |----------- Human
---------|
| |--- Common chimpanzee
|-------|
|--- Bonobo
On the DVD audio commentary to "Where no fan has gone befoer" the production theme talks about how the voices were recorder.
Everyone records their lines separately, the only exception was Leonard Nimoy and Willam Shatner in that specific episode!
For those who want to see what Dragon's Lair is like, but prefer stick-figures to cels, there's the excellent flash game Dungeon Escape!.
Anyone beat that one yet?
South Park is done completely in Maya. According to the Wikipedia article, it was likened to building a sandcastle with a bulldozer.
Well, nothing could possible beat owning a Bartender-in-a-box.
Too bad beer goggles are hard to come by and bartender skulls are illegal to own in most places.
Good thing they are almost mandatory to own in the Kingdom of Loathing.
The situation with Copy-Control CD is much worse in Sweden (and in the rest of Europe) than in the USA. Most major label CDs by scandinavian artists, as well as many international releases are protected/crippled.
I only have a few old crippled CDs, and I don't buy any new ones, so I can't tell if the rootkit is on anyone of them.
However, the Swedish Sony exec is blatantly lying in the article when he claims that Sony won't release any copy-controlled CDs until the protection works well for both the customers and the record labels.
With friends like these...
I have used Clustal for multiple sequence alignments. There is a gui (ClustalX) and a scriptalbel command line version (ClustalW). Available for all platforms and source included with the download.
Also keep an eye on POY that does direct optimization on sequences. Also available for all platforms with BSD style licence.
For just viewing and manual editing of alignments there is BioEdit. Free, but not open source. Windows only.
For a general sequence assembly/analysis/kitchen sink approach try the Staden Project. Open source and available for Windows, Linux and OSX.
Hope this is useful. I have never worked with protein sequences, but I have done a lot of DNA sequenceing and alignment!
I collect insect specimens for my research, and work with international insect collections. Knowning the locality is even more important than knowing the species of the insect.
What if Google added the ability to search for GPS coordinates, or would give you the coordinates for your map.
So what if that spoils your Geocaching!
Im a systematic biologist and do research using cladistics. Cladistics is about finding the phylogenetic tree (or pedigree) that requires the minimum amount of evoultionary events.
Obligatory Wikipedia article
A rose with a gene replaced would still be a rose, as it continues to share so many charcteristics of the unmanipulated rose such as flower morphology, chromosome number, leaf symmetry etc.
I remember that story too! I dont remember the title, but Im pretty sure it was written by Robert Sheckley
Great satirist and pre-cyberpunk writer!
WinEDT is 30$ shareware for students. A good freeware editor for windows users is Crimson Editor. It has a built in function for highlihting commands in LaTeX documents, and many other types of code.
Japanese Seizure Robots!
(Don't click if you really get seizures!)
Anyone remember the Sinclair Microdrive?
Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX81 and Spectrum line of computers did not believe disc drives had a future. He invented the microdrive. Cheap, fast and with low power demands.
The microdrive had small cartridges with a tape loop running inside. The Spectrum version held ~100 k or so of data. They were built into the Sinclair Ql, and was available as periphals for Spectrum (Timex in the US).
It was very soon forgotten except by us old Spectrum afficionados!
How can they tell that these mandibles are from a winged insect when there are no wings fossilized?
Winged insects and silverfish (the closest realtice of the winged insects) share several advanced traits. One is how the mandible attaches to the head capsule. This type of mandible attaches by two point and is called 'dicondylic'.
The fossil mandibles are clearly dicondylic, and are also of a type not known from silverfish at all. They are of a broad chewing type more associated with 'higher' insects such as grasshoppers or cockroaches. Since there are no wings, they can't be abolutely sure if this was a winged insect or an unknown wingless insect more closely related to winged insects that to silverfish.
The second bid auction, or in this case, the reverse second bid acution is a brillian idea. I wonder why it isn't used more in real life.
Everyone gets to leave a bid for something. The person giving the highest bid gets to buy for the second highest bid.
This forces the bidders to bid the highest price they would be willing to pay. It's impossible to cheat, as bidding 1 billion for a 100$ object would leave you in a lot of trouble is someone else had the same idea but bid 1 million!
Would people get this if it was an option on ebay?
Hey...I really wish I could mod this up as +1 Flambait!
You have to consider what you mean by permanent:
A protein based glue that sticks to everything but is biodegradable, or a polymer based one that doesn't stick as good and lasts until the sun goes nova.
It's from 'Holiday in Wakiki' by the Kinks!
:)
So what's my Prize?
For those who want to play the original versions, all the KOF games are perfectly emulated in MAME and several other emulators such as Nebula or Kawaks.
Really sad that these games will be censored. Especially about Mai Shiranui's bouncing!
Remember that DooM is still being developed. The newer source ports adds a lot to the DooM experience, like higher resolutions, mouselook and even 3d models.
Check out ZDooM available for Windows and Linux. It's a very stable port that adds a lot of playability compared to running iD's original DooM under Win32.
Also JDooM, a fun port that adds a lot of eyecandy under OpenGL.
This post is pretty much a rerun of one of my earlier!
Swahili is a language , not a country!
If you can't find them in the arcade, all of the KOF games are perfectly emulated under MAME. My favourites are KOF 96, '99 and 2K1.
The PSX ports just don't have the timing of the original, the DC ports are somewhat better.