I think you mean stapes, as it falls in the same category as the others being an inner ear bone. If you did mean the small muscle in the inner ear, the correct spelling is stapedius.
Perhaps the female workers are being honest. It could be completely possible that the difference in the numbers is b/c male co-workers are kissing each other and females just don't sleep on the job as often.
That is a very close minded comment. By the same token I guess everybody working on computer science is wasting their time as they should be studying cancer research and trying to find a cure (and just running folding@home doesn't count).
The fact is, different people are good at different fields. Just because someone is a biologist or scientist in general does not mean that they studying all fields of biology. It is a highly specialized field with many different niches. Sure, the niches that some fill may not *seem* to be cutting edge high profile making the headlines ground breaking research. However, every bit of info that is documented may be useful someday.
And by the way... I think being able to build something from scratch is a pretty damn good way of learning out something works and how to help it.
So they're making about $450 per person??? That's crazy. These chips are cheap (I use similar ones in reptile and amphibian research). When bought in small quantities they cost about $7 each (which is still high IMO). I had a fellow researcher once question how much they bother the animals and how much pain is involved so I remarked that if he wanted to give me the chip I'd show him on myself that it isn't a horrible painful procedure, and he took me up on it. Long story short it isn't that painful, they don't seem to bother the animals, and there are some good uses for RFID... But it still bothers me to see someone making so much off of so little.
I don't... I work around enough machinery that wearing a watch/ring/etc is a good way to lose a finger or other body part that it is attached to. One of my hobbies is the captive husbandry of venomous snakes. While working with snakes, a lot of times they tend to wrap their tail around your wrist etc while "hooking and tailing" them safely to a different enclosure. When a 6+ ft mamba wraps its tail around your wrist watch it can be quite a trick to not die. For this reason I never wear a watch as I don't want to forget to take my watch off one day and end up dead.
Sleep basically saves the machine state and leaves the RAM powered up... which uses very little energy (but can be important like on a laptop where you don't want to keep your RAM powered if you aren't going to be using your computer for say 12-24 hours...
Hibernate writes the RAM contents to disk, then when it starts back up it writes back from the disk to the RAM, and brings up similar to sleep mode.
Sleep is faster, hibernate takes it down farther and shuts power off completely.
Whether or not they are vestigial depends on your definition. Personally I think that the appendix was originally used for one purpose, underwent an evolutionary shift and then developed more of the secondary function of being the "tonsils of the gut". From doing histology on many mammals it seems that the region of the gut has more lymphatic cells than other portions, so possibly the appendix atrophied, and kept it's peyer's patches, or maybe it evolved a function not previously performed by the original organ... If you take it from that stance it is an argument of "retrogressive evolution" (I hate that term as it assumes evolution has a direction), or if evolving a new function makes the previous character state vestigial in the new organ etc.
Long story short, I do believe that the appendix serves a DIFFERENT function than it originally did, but whether or not that makes it vestigial is up to who interprets the data, what background they have, what phase of the moon it is and whether or not they change the oil in their vehicle every 3,000 miles.
If you read about what CO2 does, it sounds horrible for euthanasia, but if you ever saw it in action you'd see there isn't any struggle involved and no *apparent* pain. I've used CO2 to kill literally thousands and thousands of rats for mine and other people's snake collections (I processed 4,000 or so adults in two afternoons for a few months feed for a few large collections of snakes).
The animals literally slow down, lay down, and pass out and don't wake up. There isn't any vocalization or any struggle etc. You might get leg twitches etc as they finally die, but you get those nervous reflexes regardless of method of killing.
What I don't kill by this method I used the good ole whap them on the head method... hold firmly onto the tail, hit them HARD on a metal/concrete/etc surface (especially the edge of something such as the edge of a table) and it kills them very quickly. If you don't hit the animal hard enough you don't kill it and just make it suffer. Sounds brutal, but much better than death due to some of the very painful envenomations from animals in my collection, and a lot better than being squeezed to death.
From your post, I can see that you are basing this off of fear, not rationality. You *think* an alligator is a big scary predator that is just waiting to sink its teeth into your soft flesh... This is hardly the case. I do lots of field work (actually how I make my living) involving reptiles. In some areas it has not been uncommon for me to work with these "large scary man eating predators" in the wild (I also work with them daily in captivity). Alligators *can* be dangerous, but you'd be surprised how easily they can be managed with just a little common sense. I've NEVER had an alligator come at me with any bit of malice without me first provoking it.
As odd is it may sound, I've actually worked with some snakes that I would consider border-line "socialized." I work with venomous snakes for a living and many people assume that venomous = vicious. While most Bothrops species (since you mentioned the fer-de-lance) are more than a handful to work with, I have a few specimens that aren't all that bad (comparatively speaking). I even have a few venomous snakes in my collection that don't have a feeding response, and actually have "learned" cage cleaning routine (although I still don't let my guard down with them). I've seen snakes on the venom lines that get habituated to the routine of getting milked and then know it is time to eat and don't get defensive towards their keeper. I've even seen some larger elapids that will follow curiously, and some that will mimic what they see.
I really don't see this whole chipping thing working... I keep a large collection of venomous snakes, some of which are too small to microchip. I don't consider my animals "dangerous" to the general public, as the general public has no access to them. I put myself and only myself at risk by keeping these animals, and as long as I do it responsibly I see no reason for a government that knows so little about what they're trying to regulate to tell me what to do with my animals.
This is a much bigger problem for the console gaming industry as the majority of their money is made on software (Xbox is a good example), as they sell the hardware at a loss to encourage sales and undercut the competition.
But if I can buy the hardware at their loss, mod it and make the device more useful, why shouldn't I? Seems to me that they didn't protect themselves enough before putting a product they lose money on. If they want to take the risk of losing money selling hardware, they'll just have to tolerate this.
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I think you mean stapes, as it falls in the same category as the others being an inner ear bone. If you did mean the small muscle in the inner ear, the correct spelling is stapedius.
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Perhaps the female workers are being honest. It could be completely possible that the difference in the numbers is b/c male co-workers are kissing each other and females just don't sleep on the job as often.
That is a very close minded comment. By the same token I guess everybody working on computer science is wasting their time as they should be studying cancer research and trying to find a cure (and just running folding@home doesn't count).
The fact is, different people are good at different fields. Just because someone is a biologist or scientist in general does not mean that they studying all fields of biology. It is a highly specialized field with many different niches. Sure, the niches that some fill may not *seem* to be cutting edge high profile making the headlines ground breaking research. However, every bit of info that is documented may be useful someday.
And by the way... I think being able to build something from scratch is a pretty damn good way of learning out something works and how to help it.
The same thing that happens if you play any song by Coldplay. Everyone realizes that you are gay.
So they're making about $450 per person??? That's crazy. These chips are cheap (I use similar ones in reptile and amphibian research). When bought in small quantities they cost about $7 each (which is still high IMO). I had a fellow researcher once question how much they bother the animals and how much pain is involved so I remarked that if he wanted to give me the chip I'd show him on myself that it isn't a horrible painful procedure, and he took me up on it. Long story short it isn't that painful, they don't seem to bother the animals, and there are some good uses for RFID... But it still bothers me to see someone making so much off of so little.
I don't... I work around enough machinery that wearing a watch/ring/etc is a good way to lose a finger or other body part that it is attached to. One of my hobbies is the captive husbandry of venomous snakes. While working with snakes, a lot of times they tend to wrap their tail around your wrist etc while "hooking and tailing" them safely to a different enclosure. When a 6+ ft mamba wraps its tail around your wrist watch it can be quite a trick to not die. For this reason I never wear a watch as I don't want to forget to take my watch off one day and end up dead.
Sleep basically saves the machine state and leaves the RAM powered up... which uses very little energy (but can be important like on a laptop where you don't want to keep your RAM powered if you aren't going to be using your computer for say 12-24 hours...
Hibernate writes the RAM contents to disk, then when it starts back up it writes back from the disk to the RAM, and brings up similar to sleep mode.
Sleep is faster, hibernate takes it down farther and shuts power off completely.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!
Whether or not they are vestigial depends on your definition. Personally I think that the appendix was originally used for one purpose, underwent an evolutionary shift and then developed more of the secondary function of being the "tonsils of the gut". From doing histology on many mammals it seems that the region of the gut has more lymphatic cells than other portions, so possibly the appendix atrophied, and kept it's peyer's patches, or maybe it evolved a function not previously performed by the original organ... If you take it from that stance it is an argument of "retrogressive evolution" (I hate that term as it assumes evolution has a direction), or if evolving a new function makes the previous character state vestigial in the new organ etc.
Long story short, I do believe that the appendix serves a DIFFERENT function than it originally did, but whether or not that makes it vestigial is up to who interprets the data, what background they have, what phase of the moon it is and whether or not they change the oil in their vehicle every 3,000 miles.
If you read about what CO2 does, it sounds horrible for euthanasia, but if you ever saw it in action you'd see there isn't any struggle involved and no *apparent* pain. I've used CO2 to kill literally thousands and thousands of rats for mine and other people's snake collections (I processed 4,000 or so adults in two afternoons for a few months feed for a few large collections of snakes).
The animals literally slow down, lay down, and pass out and don't wake up. There isn't any vocalization or any struggle etc. You might get leg twitches etc as they finally die, but you get those nervous reflexes regardless of method of killing.
What I don't kill by this method I used the good ole whap them on the head method... hold firmly onto the tail, hit them HARD on a metal/concrete/etc surface (especially the edge of something such as the edge of a table) and it kills them very quickly. If you don't hit the animal hard enough you don't kill it and just make it suffer. Sounds brutal, but much better than death due to some of the very painful envenomations from animals in my collection, and a lot better than being squeezed to death.
Yes, because we all know that common sense and reason is so rampant amongst humans...
From your post, I can see that you are basing this off of fear, not rationality. You *think* an alligator is a big scary predator that is just waiting to sink its teeth into your soft flesh... This is hardly the case. I do lots of field work (actually how I make my living) involving reptiles. In some areas it has not been uncommon for me to work with these "large scary man eating predators" in the wild (I also work with them daily in captivity). Alligators *can* be dangerous, but you'd be surprised how easily they can be managed with just a little common sense. I've NEVER had an alligator come at me with any bit of malice without me first provoking it.
As odd is it may sound, I've actually worked with some snakes that I would consider border-line "socialized." I work with venomous snakes for a living and many people assume that venomous = vicious. While most Bothrops species (since you mentioned the fer-de-lance) are more than a handful to work with, I have a few specimens that aren't all that bad (comparatively speaking). I even have a few venomous snakes in my collection that don't have a feeding response, and actually have "learned" cage cleaning routine (although I still don't let my guard down with them). I've seen snakes on the venom lines that get habituated to the routine of getting milked and then know it is time to eat and don't get defensive towards their keeper. I've even seen some larger elapids that will follow curiously, and some that will mimic what they see.
I really don't see this whole chipping thing working... I keep a large collection of venomous snakes, some of which are too small to microchip. I don't consider my animals "dangerous" to the general public, as the general public has no access to them. I put myself and only myself at risk by keeping these animals, and as long as I do it responsibly I see no reason for a government that knows so little about what they're trying to regulate to tell me what to do with my animals.
I totally agree!!! This has to be the best slashdot article EVER.
Actually, wouldn't massing their ingredients be a better choice?
the story is brought to us by the "magic-market-don't-cut-it-no-more dept"
Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be from the "magic-marker-don't-cut-it-no-more dept"?
I mean, how often do you see a linear NN?
About as often as I dye a hamster purple.
So he thinks that backporting is a good idea??? Pffft. I bet this guy also thinks that giving software away is also good!!! Oh... wait a second.......
Actually it used to be called "Wal-Mart" and after the death of Sam Walton they changed the hyphen to a star, making it "Wal*Mart" in honor of him.
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*knock* *knock* *knock*
"Who is it?"
"It's the plumber."
<voice = "sexy female">
"Plumber??? I didn't call a plumber."
</voice>
[cue porn music]
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This is a much bigger problem for the console gaming industry as the majority of their money is made on software (Xbox is a good example), as they sell the hardware at a loss to encourage sales and undercut the competition.
But if I can buy the hardware at their loss, mod it and make the device more useful, why shouldn't I? Seems to me that they didn't protect themselves enough before putting a product they lose money on. If they want to take the risk of losing money selling hardware, they'll just have to tolerate this.