Yeah, 7 and 10 are tablets - they're using the number for both size and version (for the phone at least), it's kinda weird.
Don't really know what to tell you regarding the Old Man Rant - that's the hardware that phones have nowadays, and yes, they do more than your old computer.
What you typically see in humans - monogamy with some-to-a-fair-amount-of cheating - is still much closer to monogamy than to polygamy, not to mention the promiscuity you see with most animals.
It's the only one that still gets a rise out of (most) people. Most of the other ones have pretty much been hand-waved away, because National Security.
Cloning is a difficult procedure to create an organism that's (mostly) genetically identical to a different organism. It will no doubt become easier in the future, but will always require more effort than the regular means of procreation.
Why do you think this lends itself to the creation of "slave classes"? There is currently no shortage of stupid people. In fact, the lower your requirements, the wider the selection.
If you're talking about "below-normal" intelligence - if we ever find ourselves in a society where it's legal to create slaves of purposefully sub-human intelligence, then we'll have much bigger problems to worry about.
You're an even shittier person than you though: you didn't think at all about the families and friends of the millions of other people currently dying of cancer and other illnesses.
Heh, that's interesting - one of my favorite things about The Culture is that Banks isn't given to aggrandizing "the human spirit" or any other such malarkey.
Without daily worries, the vast majority of Culture citizens dedicate their lives to finding new and interesting ways to get high and stimulate their genitals. It's a very, very few that have exotic adventures, which is actually pretty hard to get into, since you either have to be invited to SC or convince a Mind to take you along.
I just finished Excession a few weeks ago and, for example, the picture it paints of Phage Rock "high society" sounds very far from the ultimate expression of human potential.
You're not getting it. It's likely that the 5 copies were characteristic of the cancer cells when she died - as the parent said, cancer cells are all sorts of fucked up.
That's entirely besides the point, though. These cell lines are not used as a model of cancer they're used as a model of human cells. Those working with them understand the limitations of the model (most of the time, at least); it's well known that cell lines are not the same thing as cells in a live organism, no one was assuming otherwise.
There is no new information here. This is a little like looking at humans and mice, noticing that they are different, and announcing that this "Invalidates all research done on mice!"
Please don't assume that all researchers are idiots all of the time.
Oh, calm down. All this means is that you have to export your stuff, and import into a different, nearlyidenticalservice.
What do you want them to do, anyway? Swear a blood-oath that once they start up a service, they will continue with it forever?
If they don't think it makes sense to commit the resources to maintain it, then it's certainly not going to make sense to maintain a paid version - not everything is about revenue.
You act like this is some kind of galling defect in Google's collective moral fibre - some things don't stick, it happens.
Not to mention when he says that Venus' upper atmosphere is "room temperature" - duh! rooms on Venus would have a very different temperature from Earth's rooms! What and idiot.
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It just plain cheats. Or did you mean it cheats in a highly technical manner?
Heh, "barely 6 year old computer" is somehow both adorable, and also really sad.
Yeah, 7 and 10 are tablets - they're using the number for both size and version (for the phone at least), it's kinda weird.
Don't really know what to tell you regarding the Old Man Rant - that's the hardware that phones have nowadays, and yes, they do more than your old computer.
You're so clever!
What you typically see in humans - monogamy with some-to-a-fair-amount-of cheating - is still much closer to monogamy than to polygamy, not to mention the promiscuity you see with most animals.
Why First Instead of Fourth?
It's the only one that still gets a rise out of (most) people. Most of the other ones have pretty much been hand-waved away, because National Security.
Although SpaceX's Falcon 9 is, in fact, carried by nine falcons.
The ramifications of what's implied are numerous and cover every aspect of our future.
Only if your understanding of cloning is based entirely on sci-fi movies and TV shows.
Cloning is a difficult procedure to create an organism that's (mostly) genetically identical to a different organism. It will no doubt become easier in the future, but will always require more effort than the regular means of procreation.
Why do you think this lends itself to the creation of "slave classes"? There is currently no shortage of stupid people. In fact, the lower your requirements, the wider the selection.
If you're talking about "below-normal" intelligence - if we ever find ourselves in a society where it's legal to create slaves of purposefully sub-human intelligence, then we'll have much bigger problems to worry about.
Unfortunately, that's not what the decision means: cDNA isn't "synthetic DNA", it's derived from mRNA and is a widely used tool in genetic research.
Most "commercially useful products" actually involve RNA, not DNA.
have about 100k lines of VBA code in Access that would be downright painful to rewrite in .NET, and completely unwritable on any *Nix platform.
Bet you could do it in, like, 17 lines of Perl.
Who's rising up? People just got sick of the hype quicker than usual, because there was more of it.
Hype. Image. Bullshit.
Sure, sure... most real currencies don't go through that every two weeks, though.
Or to peaceably assemble them, I guess.
TV computer systems and "viruses" have very little in common with real-world computer systems and viruses.
A young, single male is an automatic 'brogrammer' now?
Leaping to faulty conclusions from spotty data is basically my day job, but it seems these people take it to a new level.
30% of breaches will be from SQL injections, because that's the percent they found to be vulnerable?
A certain type of attack will increase because they googled some shit?
What the actual fuck is this?
How nice of the BitCoin people to provide examples of that, again and again.
You're an even shittier person than you though: you didn't think at all about the families and friends of the millions of other people currently dying of cancer and other illnesses.
Heh, that's interesting - one of my favorite things about The Culture is that Banks isn't given to aggrandizing "the human spirit" or any other such malarkey.
Without daily worries, the vast majority of Culture citizens dedicate their lives to finding new and interesting ways to get high and stimulate their genitals. It's a very, very few that have exotic adventures, which is actually pretty hard to get into, since you either have to be invited to SC or convince a Mind to take you along.
I just finished Excession a few weeks ago and, for example, the picture it paints of Phage Rock "high society" sounds very far from the ultimate expression of human potential.
You're not getting it. It's likely that the 5 copies were characteristic of the cancer cells when she died - as the parent said, cancer cells are all sorts of fucked up.
That's entirely besides the point, though. These cell lines are not used as a model of cancer they're used as a model of human cells. Those working with them understand the limitations of the model (most of the time, at least); it's well known that cell lines are not the same thing as cells in a live organism, no one was assuming otherwise.
There is no new information here. This is a little like looking at humans and mice, noticing that they are different, and announcing that this "Invalidates all research done on mice!"
Please don't assume that all researchers are idiots all of the time.
Oh, calm down. All this means is that you have to export your stuff, and import into a different, nearly identical service.
What do you want them to do, anyway? Swear a blood-oath that once they start up a service, they will continue with it forever?
If they don't think it makes sense to commit the resources to maintain it, then it's certainly not going to make sense to maintain a paid version - not everything is about revenue.
You act like this is some kind of galling defect in Google's collective moral fibre - some things don't stick, it happens.
Not to mention when he says that Venus' upper atmosphere is "room temperature" - duh! rooms on Venus would have a very different temperature from Earth's rooms! What and idiot.
Kind of an odd example since that's definitely more of a "value" brand. (wouldn't go as far as 'piece of shit'...)