What kind of an argument is this?
Some of the other guys aren't playing nice so we won't either?
Let's keep things in perspective, China and India, while both becoming economically strong, are still to some degree developing countries. India's yearly budget for health spending is $4 per person, just to give an example.
You are saying that if an impoverished country like them doesn't put in an equal amount of effort then you shouldn't either...
I think people don't realize how big the gap is between developed and developing countries.
I personally believe that since we got so lucky on where we were born, we also have a moral obligation to work towards better chances for future generations to enjoy the same prosperity as we do. And yes, that includes taking initiative ourselves, showing that we are above silly fights like that.
We need to stop seeing this as a competition but as a collective effort to improve this world.
Completely different issue: Anyone with an understanding of genetics can tell you that assessing family trees and ancestry history is hard.
Using these services for ancestry research is fairly useless.
Calling these companies a scam is utterly narrowminded and doesnt show much understanding. The genetic results they come up with are correct and most are focused on these results, not on ancestry testing (which is a side-product).
Please do your own research and don't rely on bad journalism.
As a matter of fact you can check yourself for abnormal genes (specifically SNPs) quite simply using these companies. The DNA chip they are using tests over 200,000 SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms - single changes in just one base at specific locations) and you can look at the raw data easily.
The SNPs being completely valueless without the functional data, that is just plainly wrong. They are using the exact same principles as medical genetic tests.
I think you have gotten enough responses encouraging to indeed study a foreign language but I would like to urge you to do it now.
Your brain is still young enough to absorb the natural rules of the language and you will actually be able to speak it fluently in the future. There are big differences in how "natural" a person speaks a language and you often see people who learned a language later in life that never fully succeeded in becoming 100% natural sounding.
Cardiac issues and taking blood pressures are not the only areas where stethoscopes are used. Auscultations to listen to breath sounds for instance, how about that? Saying its not useful because its not perfect is silly - lets say you are examining a patient and have suspicions of a respiratory disease / cardiac issue /... - if you get a clear sound you will both have a higher sensitivity and a higher specificity. Yes, a more accurate procedure will confirm that but an initial diagnosis is valuable too because it leads to further examinations.
While it is a great idea to have the non-emergency number ready, in the case of a real emergency please DO CALL 911 first! The reason for this is simple: Who do you think the officer will have to tell where he is going? He will talk to exactly the same people at dispatch and request additional resources. I agree that sometimes 911 service is lacking in parts of this country, but it's still your best bet at getting fast service. The dispatchers actually do know very well what you will need and are the only ones that can coordinate a joint response by police, medical and fire.
It's amusing to see that there are still people who believe in the old "more lines of code means better performance". Seriously, the performance of these cars is amazing, a huge step from just a few years ago. The hard part of this project was certainly not the programming, but the concepts behind the obstacle detection and such. This is not an implementation exercise, but more of an academic experiment to test out new ideas.
(Nice work on mentioning Haskell to guarantee an upmod btw.)
For most people having the ground be not 100% even might not be a problem, but what about handicapped people?
Not just them, also the elderly have a hard time walking as it is. Creating additional problems for them (especially around a mass transit system) is just cruel.
Also, making public transit less comfortable (if just slightly) will be a great excuse to take the car instead.
Mankind spent thousands of years to move away from having to produce our own power - that would be a significant step back. There are many other sources of cheap energy (the sun or wind anyone) that they can use if they have the $.
So your comment that genetics is just a promising technology for years to come is, at least somewhat wrong. It's here already, in many other forms as well. (Think genetically engineered foods for instance) I will agree however, that there is huge potential and on the large scale, we are probably still in the dark ages of genetics at the moment...
While this project might be interesting to some, this is hardly a new approach to biology. Computational Biology has been around for quite a while now and simulation is actually one of its strongest points so far. There used to only be two main settings for conducting experiments: in vitro (outside of living organisms, literally within a glass) and in vivo (done in living tissue/organisms). With the advent of comp. bio., a new and comparatively incredibly inexpensive way of experimenting has become available: in silico (experiments are simulated) This is pretty much what the article was talking about and has been a massive success in biology, for quite some time now! Since this term has been used since the 1990s, this is not exactly new.
I won't even go into talking about the misleading/. summary, but it does not really give the reader a good idea of the current state of the HUGE field of computational biology!
It actually is fairly popular in some parts of Europe, at least a lot of people are _still_ using it. Does anyone have any more accurate statistics on this?
A lot of people have personally experienced the dangers of nuclear power and know what it can do.
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Exactly. Actually newer CPR guidelines, such as from the European Resuscitation Council (www.erc.edu) already recommend keeping the body of a patient slightly hypothermic during and even after CPR. This is a major change compared to previous teachings where fighting shock (also by keeping the patient warm) was considered quintessential.
Hi Dr. Nick! Moderators: Please read the article about the MIT dean of admissions that got fired for stating false credentials before upmodding some Dr.Nick with only a single comment ever, talking about how the medical profession should step away from the "chemical bandwagon"... What kind of results would you, as a physician see in preventing cancer anyways?
The secret of keeping helicopters in action for years is that due to very frequent checks and tests, almost every part gets regularly replaced. I talked to a air-rescue helicopter pilot once and he told me they have helicopters in service that are 35+ years old, but the only original parts in them are their skids.
I remember when I used StarOffice and it opened its wonderful complete desktop-solution for each file I wanted to edit... The idea itself sounds great, but why add yet another layer of abstraction? It's the OS's job to provide the desktop and be able to run smaller subprograms to do all your tasks.
Please so some research before ranting about things you dont understand. You are obviously thinking of the numerous people who are complaining of "depression" because they simply feel down once in a while. Once you however are at a level where you can be clinically diagnoses with depression (by a psychiatrist, not your local general practitioner) you often are at a stage where only drugs will help you. Of course back in the days they tried to use pure counselling, but now the medical community understands a lot more about the molecular pathology of psychological diseases. What people need to start understanding is that psychological diseases are mostly of genetic origin and should be treated like a general illness. It's easy for us to say "just get your act together", but in reality its the same idea as saying that to someone who is suffering from cancer.
This is actually what a large part of bio/medical-informatics is about: simulation. Lab experiments are extremely expensive and by using "in-silico"-experiments one can dramatically cut down, for example, drug development costs. Of course this is not the only area where Bioinformatics is being used, a good starting point for reading about this is the wikipedia on "Bioinformatics".
It's all about what your priorities are... Getting an education that is actually interesting might just be worth more than ripping off people with virtual junk. Some people just want to do something with their life, rather than just make money.
The UN was in Iraq on a humanitarian and diplomatic mission, not to keep control and order! What you are thinking of is the UN involvment in other countries, such as in the Kosovo, where there is an actual MILITARY presence that keeps control and order.
So you say the UN loses all credibility when a bunch of people who hand out food and do logistics leave the country when their lives start being in danger? Remember: the UN was AGAINST an invasion. I think it's a shame that you complain about people who put their lives at danger in order to help others.
As a response to the numerous posts that basically all say that you can socialize your kids outside of school as well: I agree that you can teach them some social skills, but how will they be able to form lasting friendships and relationships? I'm sure some will be able to, but it took me 8 years in school with my friends to get really close to them. Friendships don't just happen on a trip to the zoo for some. If I'd try to homeschool a child, I'd be afraid it'd turn into either a socially reclusive or an overly social person. (you know, the type that is friends to everybody and yet nobody)
Friends are one of the most important aspects of life and you should give your child every opportunity to find real friends you can!
Have you read every single EULA you agreed to? What if you're the first to be affected by unfair business tactics, will you still say that all is well since the market will punish the company?
The parent comment demonstrates Sony's real problem: If even such dedicated gamers like the author of the post are not willing to pay for the new PS then they are in real trouble. To us much more casual gamers the high price and low expected features will be even more of a deterrent! To be honest I don't mind Sony getting negative press since we should all still remember their CD-rootkits. (which is yet another reason to not buy anything they make!)
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What kind of an argument is this? Some of the other guys aren't playing nice so we won't either? Let's keep things in perspective, China and India, while both becoming economically strong, are still to some degree developing countries. India's yearly budget for health spending is $4 per person, just to give an example. You are saying that if an impoverished country like them doesn't put in an equal amount of effort then you shouldn't either... I think people don't realize how big the gap is between developed and developing countries. I personally believe that since we got so lucky on where we were born, we also have a moral obligation to work towards better chances for future generations to enjoy the same prosperity as we do. And yes, that includes taking initiative ourselves, showing that we are above silly fights like that. We need to stop seeing this as a competition but as a collective effort to improve this world.
Completely different issue: Anyone with an understanding of genetics can tell you that assessing family trees and ancestry history is hard. Using these services for ancestry research is fairly useless. Calling these companies a scam is utterly narrowminded and doesnt show much understanding. The genetic results they come up with are correct and most are focused on these results, not on ancestry testing (which is a side-product). Please do your own research and don't rely on bad journalism.
As a matter of fact you can check yourself for abnormal genes (specifically SNPs) quite simply using these companies. The DNA chip they are using tests over 200,000 SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms - single changes in just one base at specific locations) and you can look at the raw data easily. The SNPs being completely valueless without the functional data, that is just plainly wrong. They are using the exact same principles as medical genetic tests.
I think you have gotten enough responses encouraging to indeed study a foreign language but I would like to urge you to do it now. Your brain is still young enough to absorb the natural rules of the language and you will actually be able to speak it fluently in the future. There are big differences in how "natural" a person speaks a language and you often see people who learned a language later in life that never fully succeeded in becoming 100% natural sounding.
Cardiac issues and taking blood pressures are not the only areas where stethoscopes are used. ... - if you get a clear sound you will both have a higher sensitivity and a higher specificity. Yes, a more accurate procedure will confirm that but an initial diagnosis is valuable too because it leads to further examinations.
Auscultations to listen to breath sounds for instance, how about that? Saying its not useful because its not perfect is silly - lets say you are examining a patient and have suspicions of a respiratory disease / cardiac issue /
While it is a great idea to have the non-emergency number ready, in the case of a real emergency please DO CALL 911 first!
The reason for this is simple: Who do you think the officer will have to tell where he is going?
He will talk to exactly the same people at dispatch and request additional resources.
I agree that sometimes 911 service is lacking in parts of this country, but it's still your best bet at getting fast service.
The dispatchers actually do know very well what you will need and are the only ones that can coordinate a joint response by police, medical and fire.
It's amusing to see that there are still people who believe in the old "more lines of code means better performance".
Seriously, the performance of these cars is amazing, a huge step from just a few years ago. The hard part of this project was certainly not the programming, but the concepts behind the obstacle detection and such. This is not an implementation exercise, but more of an academic experiment to test out new ideas.
(Nice work on mentioning Haskell to guarantee an upmod btw.)
For most people having the ground be not 100% even might not be a problem, but what about handicapped people? Not just them, also the elderly have a hard time walking as it is. Creating additional problems for them (especially around a mass transit system) is just cruel. Also, making public transit less comfortable (if just slightly) will be a great excuse to take the car instead. Mankind spent thousands of years to move away from having to produce our own power - that would be a significant step back. There are many other sources of cheap energy (the sun or wind anyone) that they can use if they have the $.
What many people fail to realize is that genetic testing is already being done, routinely, all over the world. (Yes, also in the US)
b orn/NGS-student%20packet.pdf
Typically termed Genetic Newborn Screening, a newborn is tested against a number of diseases before being discharged from the hospital.
See the following for some information:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/teachers/units/new
So your comment that genetics is just a promising technology for years to come is, at least somewhat wrong. It's here already, in many other forms as well. (Think genetically engineered foods for instance)
I will agree however, that there is huge potential and on the large scale, we are probably still in the dark ages of genetics at the moment...
While this project might be interesting to some, this is hardly a new approach to biology.
/. summary, but it does not really give the reader a good idea of the current state of the HUGE field of computational biology!
Computational Biology has been around for quite a while now and simulation is actually one of its strongest points so far.
There used to only be two main settings for conducting experiments: in vitro (outside of living organisms, literally within a glass) and in vivo (done in living tissue/organisms).
With the advent of comp. bio., a new and comparatively incredibly inexpensive way of experimenting has become available: in silico (experiments are simulated) This is pretty much what the article was talking about and has been a massive success in biology, for quite some time now!
Since this term has been used since the 1990s, this is not exactly new.
I won't even go into talking about the misleading
It actually is fairly popular in some parts of Europe, at least a lot of people are _still_ using it.
Does anyone have any more accurate statistics on this?
...not if you are in Australia.
Those silly hippies, thinking that nuclear power was unsafe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
A lot of people have personally experienced the dangers of nuclear power and know what it can do.
Exactly. Actually newer CPR guidelines, such as from the European Resuscitation Council (www.erc.edu) already recommend keeping the body of a patient slightly hypothermic during and even after CPR. This is a major change compared to previous teachings where fighting shock (also by keeping the patient warm) was considered quintessential.
Hi Dr. Nick!
Moderators: Please read the article about the MIT dean of admissions that got fired for stating false credentials before upmodding some Dr.Nick with only a single comment ever, talking about how the medical profession should step away from the "chemical bandwagon"...
What kind of results would you, as a physician see in preventing cancer anyways?
The secret of keeping helicopters in action for years is that due to very frequent checks and tests, almost every part gets regularly replaced.
I talked to a air-rescue helicopter pilot once and he told me they have helicopters in service that are 35+ years old, but the only original parts in them are their skids.
I remember when I used StarOffice and it opened its wonderful complete desktop-solution for each file I wanted to edit...
The idea itself sounds great, but why add yet another layer of abstraction? It's the OS's job to provide the desktop and be able to run smaller subprograms to do all your tasks.
Please so some research before ranting about things you dont understand.
You are obviously thinking of the numerous people who are complaining of "depression" because they simply feel down once in a while.
Once you however are at a level where you can be clinically diagnoses with depression (by a psychiatrist, not your local general practitioner) you often are at a stage where only drugs will help you.
Of course back in the days they tried to use pure counselling, but now the medical community understands a lot more about the molecular pathology of psychological diseases.
What people need to start understanding is that psychological diseases are mostly of genetic origin and should be treated like a general illness. It's easy for us to say "just get your act together", but in reality its the same idea as saying that to someone who is suffering from cancer.
This is actually what a large part of bio/medical-informatics is about: simulation.
Lab experiments are extremely expensive and by using "in-silico"-experiments one can dramatically cut down, for example, drug development costs.
Of course this is not the only area where Bioinformatics is being used, a good starting point for reading about this is the wikipedia on "Bioinformatics".
It's all about what your priorities are...
Getting an education that is actually interesting might just be worth more than ripping off people with virtual junk. Some people just want to do something with their life, rather than just make money.
Such as the one that installed Genuine advantage?
Wow, how did that post got moderated up?
The UN was in Iraq on a humanitarian and diplomatic mission, not to keep control and order! What you are thinking of is the UN involvment in other countries, such as in the Kosovo, where there is an actual MILITARY presence that keeps control and order.
So you say the UN loses all credibility when a bunch of people who hand out food and do logistics leave the country when their lives start being in danger? Remember: the UN was AGAINST an invasion.
I think it's a shame that you complain about people who put their lives at danger in order to help others.
As a response to the numerous posts that basically all say that you can socialize your kids outside of school as well:
I agree that you can teach them some social skills, but how will they be able to form lasting friendships and relationships? I'm sure some will be able to, but it took me 8 years in school with my friends to get really close to them. Friendships don't just happen on a trip to the zoo for some. If I'd try to homeschool a child, I'd be afraid it'd turn into either a socially reclusive or an overly social person. (you know, the type that is friends to everybody and yet nobody)
Friends are one of the most important aspects of life and you should give your child every opportunity to find real friends you can!
Have you read every single EULA you agreed to?
What if you're the first to be affected by unfair business tactics, will you still say that all is well since the market will punish the company?
The parent comment demonstrates Sony's real problem:
If even such dedicated gamers like the author of the post are not willing to pay for the new PS then they are in real trouble.
To us much more casual gamers the high price and low expected features will be even more of a deterrent!
To be honest I don't mind Sony getting negative press since we should all still remember their CD-rootkits. (which is yet another reason to not buy anything they make!)