So at what point do the actor's/actress' talents become obsolete? Could the break point be when it's less expensive to pay someone to clean up bad acting versus shelling out uber-bucks for a good actor? Maybe Pixar (et al) are the pioneers on what is to come, in which everything is essentially generated virtually.
The thing is, good acting isn't the exclusive province of the A list. You can see some fine acting in lots of places, stage and film. My plan is to form an agency that contracts actors and actresses who look so much like A listers that a little CGI blending will make them the same in the trailer and the movie poster. Your movie will look like it stars Clooney, Kidman, Depp, and Roberts. It will really be Hix, Dix, Trix, and Epstein.
Why don't you actually read the article? They tested the modulator in mice and found that it killed cancer cells in them with no ill effects. So the important part of the article is not that it kills cancer cells. It's that it kills cancer cells without major damage to other cells.
Way to go, captain obvious!
Read it. Why don't you read a thousand or so J Med Chem articles and browse PubMed for a decade or so and get back to me. Then you might know that a mouse is a Petri dish with whiskers. Killing cancer cells, even if it were true that you could put all the other types of primate-specific cells in the dish with them and they were not harmed, does not tell you how the chemical will interfere with the huge number of subtle intra- and extra-cellular messenger-receptor processes that keep your system humming.
For the love of RB Woodward's wine-guzzling ghost, I am sick of stories about compound X and how it is the next big thing and how it kills cancer cells stone dead in a Petri dish.
Every other compound you can order from Aldrich will kill cancer cells in vitro. So will a ball peen hammer. Drano, playground sand, double-acting baking powder. Pledge will kill them and leave a lemony-fresh scent.
When this compound gets to stage III clinical trials and does not leave a trail of bodies and does show some efficacy, then you can post the story.
Until then, Netcraft confirms it. These cancer cells are dying. In the Soviet Union, cancer cells kill new drugs. etc
I'm standing over Mr. Gonzales with a stick in one hand and a copy of the Constitution in the other. And I look at the document and say "Nothing in here says not to whack you, Al."
WHACK!
Then I look at the Constitution again. And I say "Nothing in here says not to whack you again, Al."
"The Johns Hopkins researchers cautioned that their double-punch molecule, described in the December issue of the journal Chemistry & Biology, has not yet been tested on animals or humans."
Relevant information: not yet tested on whole living systems. They pissed off some cancer cells in a Petri dish. Big deal. You know what kills cancer cells in Petri dishes? A sledgehammer. Cyanide. Dynamite. Driving over the Petri dish with a Buick. None of these therapies are likely to be useful, however.
Wait, you cry. Laetrile released cyanide in vivo, and that was an (alleged) therapy.
Yeah, systemic poison-giving is already at hand. It is called chemotherapy, and it sucks. It can work, but it is never pretty.
Infusing the patient with sialic acid, which will enevitably infiltrate by this method into every cell, cancerous or not, is twiddling with every biological pathway with which sialic acid interacts. Butyric acid (the essence of sour butter)? Rub it on. Hasn't harmed anyone yet - whats the LD50 for old butter?
Maybe there is promise here, and maybe there is just breathless scientific prose in a self-serving PR release.
My guess is that once whole animals come into the picture, these researchers, as many many before, will find out that biochemistry farts in your Petri dish's general direction.
Consider this, if you were to disrupt the particle behavior of an object so that its molecular bonds were permeable (since they are mostly made of space in the first place), you'd end up with the particle either collapsing on itself or blown to bits due to repulsive charges of neigbor particles. So Banzai wouldn't be able to fly through a mountain because the mountain would have collapsed upon itself. If he used the oscillator on himself and his ship, he wouldn't be able to recover from the damage.
Going through matter like that is not a question of altering material behaviour in our three or four dimensions but taking advantage of other dimensions, up to the eighth. Buckaroo just used the next fifth through eighth dimension to make him and his car orthoganol to the first three or four dimensions.
It seems that the technology is just a bigass filter. The smallest particles in the filter, crumb rubber, are 1 mm or so across. So what? That may give you clear water, but it won't filter out the bacteria, viruses, dissolved organic contaminants, etc.
They isolated a peptide which inhibits two enzymes that chew up enkephalins, the body's natural pain killers. Inhibiting these makes the naturally-released enkephalins hang around longer. The problem is that peptide drugs have a checkered history. See the article linked below.
First we had the bomb But that was good Because we love peace and motherhood Then Russia got the bomb But that's okay The balance of power Is preserved that way.
In the context of science, "theory" does not mean "unproven." It is very far from "guess." We have "the theory of gravity" and "the theory of evolution." When someone says "evolution is *just* a theory," remind them that gravity is just a theory too, but that seems to be working out okay.
I don't think that there is a theory of gravity. We know gravity exists. We can quantify it. We have a law of gravity based on those observations. But laws are not theories. A theory of gravity would explain how gravity works. So far we have only hypothetical gravitons. When these and gravity waves are someday detected and quantified, then we may have a theory of gravity.
No doubt some consultant will turn the Google model into a salable series of talks and books. Your management will crow about how they are going to adopt the Googleway, where all employees are happy and productive. What could go wrong?
But the PHBs will cherry-pick those aspects of Google's business that suits their preconceived comforts. Remember when we were all supposed to be like the Japanese? Show up for work, sing the company song, use just in time, statistical process control and all the other stuff? Yea, we were just like the Japanese, except for that pesky lifetime employment understanding. We'll just leave that one out - it really isn't important.
My local bank has a Diebold ATM. Both this one and the one it replaced play a tune when dispensing bills. It is a short tune as if played on a piccolo with a trill at the end. It has been bugging me for years. Why does the ATM need to play a tune?
Your number is a bit low. It's more likely Democracy ended when the people running the country stopped being called "Statesmen" and became "Politicians".
Actually, the history of American electoral politics is pretty interesting. After Washington's second term, the process rapidly went downhill. No "Statesman" appears in a true reading of the times. The slander, libel, ballot box stuffing, vote stealing, etc. were common and expected. We are probably in the most inclusive, cleanest period in American history, which should tell you how bad things were.
Doesn't Darl have a brother on the legal team? Isn't money going from SCO to the legal team? Does Darl have a cousin who can write code? Who will judge what the "best" application is?
If you look around the table and can't spot the mark, it's you.
I don't know where you come from, but around these parts we call a spade a spade.
Digging a trench with a shovel indeed, you've obviously never worked outdoors.
from HGTV.com:
Shovel vs. Spade Grow It! : Episode GRW-104 -- More Projects
Every gardener knows the importance of using the right tool for the right job. Without the proper tools, you could spend longer than needed on certain chores or you could suffer strained muscles from working at awkward angles. Let's take a look at the difference between a shovel and a spade, just to be sure you choose the right dirt-digging tool...
A shovel has what's called a lift, or "gooseneck," right behind the blade. The gooseneck is designed to lift the handle of the shovel at an angle so that when the blade is laid on the ground, the end of the handle hits somewhere between your knee and the top of your thigh.
Shovels are made for digging dirt and moving it to another place. When buying a shovel, take the time to find one whose lift and handle length are comfortable for you.
Unlike a shovel, a spade has no lift. Instead, when the tool is laid on the ground, the handle lies flat rather than rising to mid-thigh. Spades are meant for working the soil--prying and loosening dirt--not moving it.
Telcos: Can we examine packets and charge according to content? Government: Sure.
Time passes.
Government: Since you are already inspecting for content, here's a list of keywords. Send us the name of anyone transmitting these. Oh, by the way, block all the packets containing pictures of naughty bits. To protect the children.
All good things are due to slackers
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One day a gang of energetic citizens was diggin a trench with their hands, but a slacker said "That's too much work" and went off and invented the shovel.
Time passes. Hard-working men are digging a canal with shovels. A slacker stayed home one day and invented the backhoe.
Etc.
Eli Whitney? Slacker. Too lazy to lift a flail. Fulton? Too slack to row. Edison? A slacker with good a good PR department.
Just as generals are always fighting the last war, the police are always solving the last crime. Terrorists are crazy but not stupid. High-tech methods are much less valuable than old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground mole-in-their- midst human intelligence.
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You do not report five significant figures derived from data with only two.
Come on, who cares?
Maybe we care because these people have political control over 10,000 nuclear warheads.
trying not to be an apologist, but fer Christ's sake, I would thing that most Yale graduates can grasp the concept of a space station.
I can understand if you dislike the man, but he's likely "at least" as intelligent as you are, based on your comment history.
Still, one wonders if he would have even gotten into Yale minus the money and father.
So at what point do the actor's/actress' talents become obsolete? Could the break point be when it's less expensive to pay someone to clean up bad acting versus shelling out uber-bucks for a good actor? Maybe Pixar (et al) are the pioneers on what is to come, in which everything is essentially generated virtually.
The thing is, good acting isn't the exclusive province of the A list. You can see some fine acting in lots of places, stage and film. My plan is to form an agency that contracts actors and actresses who look so much like A listers that a little CGI blending will make them the same in the trailer and the movie poster. Your movie will look like it stars Clooney, Kidman, Depp, and Roberts. It will really be Hix, Dix, Trix, and Epstein.
Why don't you actually read the article? They tested the modulator in mice and found that it killed cancer cells in them with no ill effects. So the important part of the article is not that it kills cancer cells. It's that it kills cancer cells without major damage to other cells.
Way to go, captain obvious!
Read it. Why don't you read a thousand or so J Med Chem articles and browse PubMed for a decade or so and get back to me. Then you might know that a mouse is a Petri dish with whiskers. Killing cancer cells, even if it were true that you could put all the other types of primate-specific cells in the dish with them and they were not harmed, does not tell you how the chemical will interfere with the huge number of subtle intra- and extra-cellular messenger-receptor processes that keep your system humming.
And it's Dr. captain obvious to you.
For the love of RB Woodward's wine-guzzling ghost, I am sick of stories about compound X and how it is the next big thing and how it kills cancer cells stone dead in a Petri dish.
Every other compound you can order from Aldrich will kill cancer cells in vitro. So will a ball peen hammer. Drano, playground sand, double-acting baking powder. Pledge will kill them and leave a lemony-fresh scent.
When this compound gets to stage III clinical trials and does not leave a trail of bodies and does show some efficacy, then you can post the story.
Until then, Netcraft confirms it. These cancer cells are dying.
In the Soviet Union, cancer cells kill new drugs.
etc
Trying to fight a "major war"? We are not at war and have not been since 1945.
I'm standing over Mr. Gonzales with a stick in one hand and a copy of the Constitution in the other. And I look at the document and say "Nothing in here says not to whack you, Al."
WHACK!
Then I look at the Constitution again. And I say "Nothing in here says not to whack you again, Al."
WHACK!
This repeats until I wake up.
"The Johns Hopkins researchers cautioned that their double-punch molecule, described in the December issue of the journal Chemistry & Biology, has not yet been tested on animals or humans."
Relevant information: not yet tested on whole living systems. They pissed off some cancer cells in a Petri dish. Big deal. You know what kills cancer cells in Petri dishes? A sledgehammer. Cyanide. Dynamite. Driving over the Petri dish with a Buick. None of these therapies are likely to be useful, however.
Wait, you cry. Laetrile released cyanide in vivo, and that was an (alleged) therapy.
Yeah, systemic poison-giving is already at hand. It is called chemotherapy, and it sucks. It can work, but it is never pretty.
Infusing the patient with sialic acid, which will enevitably infiltrate by this method into every cell, cancerous or not, is twiddling with every biological pathway with which sialic acid interacts. Butyric acid (the essence of sour butter)? Rub it on. Hasn't harmed anyone yet - whats the LD50 for old butter?
Maybe there is promise here, and maybe there is just breathless scientific prose in a self-serving PR release.
My guess is that once whole animals come into the picture, these researchers, as many many before, will find out that biochemistry farts in your Petri dish's general direction.
Consider this, if you were to disrupt the particle behavior of an object so that its molecular bonds were permeable (since they are mostly made of space in the first place), you'd end up with the particle either collapsing on itself or blown to bits due to repulsive charges of neigbor particles. So Banzai wouldn't be able to fly through a mountain because the mountain would have collapsed upon itself. If he used the oscillator on himself and his ship, he wouldn't be able to recover from the damage.
Going through matter like that is not a question of altering material behaviour in our three or four dimensions but taking advantage of other dimensions, up to the eighth. Buckaroo just used the next fifth through eighth dimension to make him and his car orthoganol to the first three or four dimensions.
It seems that the technology is just a bigass filter. The smallest particles in the filter, crumb rubber, are 1 mm or so across. So what? That may give you clear water, but it won't filter out the bacteria, viruses, dissolved organic contaminants, etc.
You are fooling with the fabric of time and space, you stupid-------
ignorieren Sie das oben genannte, alle ist gut, vielen Dank mein Führer!
They isolated a peptide which inhibits two enzymes that chew up enkephalins, the body's natural pain killers. Inhibiting these makes the naturally-released enkephalins hang around longer. The problem is that peptide drugs have a checkered history. See the article linked below.
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http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/06058651
First we had the bomb
But that was good
Because we love peace and motherhood
Then Russia got the bomb
But that's okay
The balance of power
Is preserved that way.
Six work posts: here they come!
In the context of science, "theory" does not mean "unproven." It is very far from "guess." We have "the theory of gravity" and "the theory of evolution." When someone says "evolution is *just* a theory," remind them that gravity is just a theory too, but that seems to be working out okay.
I don't think that there is a theory of gravity. We know gravity exists. We can quantify it. We have a law of gravity based on those observations. But laws are not theories. A theory of gravity would explain how gravity works. So far we have only hypothetical gravitons. When these and gravity waves are someday detected and quantified, then we may have a theory of gravity.
No doubt some consultant will turn the Google model into a salable series of talks and books. Your management will crow about how they are going to adopt the Googleway, where all employees are happy and productive. What could go wrong?
But the PHBs will cherry-pick those aspects of Google's business that suits their preconceived comforts. Remember when we were all supposed to be like the Japanese? Show up for work, sing the company song, use just in time, statistical process control and all the other stuff? Yea, we were just like the Japanese, except for that pesky lifetime employment understanding. We'll just leave that one out - it really isn't important.
My local bank has a Diebold ATM. Both this one and the one it replaced play a tune when dispensing bills. It is a short tune as if played on a piccolo with a trill at the end. It has been bugging me for years. Why does the ATM need to play a tune?
Your number is a bit low. It's more likely Democracy ended when the people running the country stopped being called "Statesmen" and became "Politicians".
Actually, the history of American electoral politics is pretty interesting. After Washington's second term, the process rapidly went downhill. No "Statesman" appears in a true reading of the times. The slander, libel, ballot box stuffing, vote stealing, etc. were common and expected. We are probably in the most inclusive, cleanest period in American history, which should tell you how bad things were.
Doesn't Darl have a brother on the legal team? Isn't money going from SCO to the legal team? Does Darl have a cousin who can write code? Who will judge what the "best" application is?
If you look around the table and can't spot the mark, it's you.
I don't know where you come from, but around these parts we call a spade a spade.
Digging a trench with a shovel indeed, you've obviously never worked outdoors.
from HGTV.com:
Shovel vs. Spade
Grow It! : Episode GRW-104 -- More Projects
Every gardener knows the importance of using the right tool for the right job. Without the proper tools, you could spend longer than needed on certain chores or you could suffer strained muscles from working at awkward angles. Let's take a look at the difference between a shovel and a spade, just to be sure you choose the right dirt-digging tool...
A shovel has what's called a lift, or "gooseneck," right behind the blade. The gooseneck is designed to lift the handle of the shovel at an angle so that when the blade is laid on the ground, the end of the handle hits somewhere between your knee and the top of your thigh.
Shovels are made for digging dirt and moving it to another place. When buying a shovel, take the time to find one whose lift and handle length are comfortable for you.
Unlike a shovel, a spade has no lift. Instead, when the tool is laid on the ground, the handle lies flat rather than rising to mid-thigh. Spades are meant for working the soil--prying and loosening dirt--not moving it.
Telcos: Can we examine packets and charge according to content?
Government: Sure.
Time passes.
Government: Since you are already inspecting for content, here's a list of keywords. Send us the name of anyone transmitting these. Oh, by the way, block all the packets containing pictures of naughty bits. To protect the children.
One day a gang of energetic citizens was diggin a trench with their hands, but a slacker said "That's too much work" and went off and invented the shovel.
Time passes. Hard-working men are digging a canal with shovels. A slacker stayed home one day and invented the backhoe.
Etc.
Eli Whitney? Slacker. Too lazy to lift a flail.
Fulton? Too slack to row.
Edison? A slacker with good a good PR department.
Just as generals are always fighting the last war, the police are always solving the last crime. Terrorists are crazy but not stupid. High-tech methods are much less valuable than old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground mole-in-their- midst human intelligence.
I'll grant you the unsquaring of the corners, but the chosen font is still unreadable. It is giving me a headache.