I never figured out why people had difficulty telling two different bills apart at a glance. Just glance at the number and voila you can see what bill it is.
First you're 0.1% os a little low, but I get your point.
However, it seems like in a decade or so we could manufacure organisms without encountering the "folding problem" and "function problem"
All we need to do is take the genetic code for naturally occuring proteins that we are (pretty) sure we know the functions of, and combine them with other ones, cutting out ones we don't need or modifying them so they act different;y (i.e. removing a binding region, a kinase domain)
I admit, the concept still seems a little far-fetched in the time period the article specified since in the yeast lab I work in, we are finding possible new protein interactions on a weekly basis, and thats only focusing on the Anaphase Promoting Complex
i think the point is, why buy a dvd burner to pirate dvd's when you can just burn the DivX version on a CD and use that in this player to watch them on the TV
While the technology is cool and perhaps one day will be refined for home music consumption, its ability to be used as a non-lethal incapacitating weapon is scary.
What could a corrupt government do with these devices.
Would public protests against the government eliminated by these devices? (under the normal guise of controlling the crowd and responding to protesters crossing police barriers.)
"Generations is the best TNG movie so far"
You said Generations is the best TNG movie ever?
I must have gone through a wormhole into some other dimension where that movie is considered good.
because my options to sample movies before buying them still exist. Back during P2P's heyday (Napster, Morpheus, etc) I would discover new music and bands and then go out and buy all their cds. When my access to these were blocked at school, I no longer "discovered" music for myself and nothing on the little amount of radio I actually listened to actually interested me ("oddly" enough there seemed to be only 15 songs on that station.) I hsven't bought a CD in over a year (and haven't d/l an mp3 in that long too, so its not pirating that has caused my personal drop in music buying.) However, as my access to P2P programs declined, I gained access to DIVX movies and tv shows and anime. Now when I see a movie I really like, I go and buy the higher quality DVD. Yet I doubt the RIAA or the MPAA will ever realize this.
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wouldn't a terrorist, if they thought or knew they were on the list just use an assumed identity if they wanted to perform an act of terrorism?
I never figured out why people had difficulty telling two different bills apart at a glance. Just glance at the number and voila you can see what bill it is.
First you're 0.1% os a little low, but I get your point. However, it seems like in a decade or so we could manufacure organisms without encountering the "folding problem" and "function problem" All we need to do is take the genetic code for naturally occuring proteins that we are (pretty) sure we know the functions of, and combine them with other ones, cutting out ones we don't need or modifying them so they act different;y (i.e. removing a binding region, a kinase domain) I admit, the concept still seems a little far-fetched in the time period the article specified since in the yeast lab I work in, we are finding possible new protein interactions on a weekly basis, and thats only focusing on the Anaphase Promoting Complex
i think the point is, why buy a dvd burner to pirate dvd's when you can just burn the DivX version on a CD and use that in this player to watch them on the TV
While the technology is cool and perhaps one day will be refined for home music consumption, its ability to be used as a non-lethal incapacitating weapon is scary. What could a corrupt government do with these devices. Would public protests against the government eliminated by these devices? (under the normal guise of controlling the crowd and responding to protesters crossing police barriers.)
You still buy CD's?
"Generations is the best TNG movie so far" You said Generations is the best TNG movie ever? I must have gone through a wormhole into some other dimension where that movie is considered good.
Could you elaborate on what happened? It sounds like it might be an interesting story.
because my options to sample movies before buying them still exist. Back during P2P's heyday (Napster, Morpheus, etc) I would discover new music and bands and then go out and buy all their cds. When my access to these were blocked at school, I no longer "discovered" music for myself and nothing on the little amount of radio I actually listened to actually interested me ("oddly" enough there seemed to be only 15 songs on that station.) I hsven't bought a CD in over a year (and haven't d/l an mp3 in that long too, so its not pirating that has caused my personal drop in music buying.) However, as my access to P2P programs declined, I gained access to DIVX movies and tv shows and anime. Now when I see a movie I really like, I go and buy the higher quality DVD. Yet I doubt the RIAA or the MPAA will ever realize this.
Interplay, the game publisher, is being targeted (in a lawsuit) by Bioware (the game developer)-fare