In the movie's best and early creepy moments, Foster puts her kid to bed, then gets up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Glancing at her video monitors she becomes aware that people are in her house. She grabs her daughter and hauls her into their retreat just a step ahead of the onrushing bad guys.
I didn't see the movie, but did she get a chance to pee before going into the panic room? If not, I sure hope there was a toilet (or at least a pickle jar) in there.
All right, I'll bite - and please correct me if I'm wrong. Basically I think that the gist of the Poincaré's Conjecture is that in a given dimension all surfaces of a certain class are equivalent. In other words, you could (virtually) remold a solid cube into a solid sphere - but if you have a cube with a hole running through it, you can't remold the cube into a solid sphere without closing the hole, but you could remold it into a donut. So my simple-minded way of looking at this is that all non-holed objects are equivalent, all one-holed objects are equivalent, all two holed objects are equivalent, etc., and represent distinct classes of objects.
An advertisement for a game called "Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing" boasted about the game's sophisticated "facial damage engine," calling it "brutal beyond belief."
Until the engine inflicts actual damage on the player, I'd be hard pressed to call any game brutal or realistic, no matter how good the graphics are.
The Superpan, an image product from the Pathfinder lander camera, is a multispectral panorama of the Pathfinder landing site acquired in 15 wavelengths in the spectral range 440 - 1100 nm. We have performed an automated search of the Superpan image cubes for the spectral signature associated with chlorophyll. First, images were calibrated to radiance values and then the multispectral images were co-registered to subpixel accuracy. An automated pixel-to-pixel search was performed on a 3-filter set of images (530 nm, 670 nm, 980 nm) to identify pixels where the following condition was met: 530 nm > 670 nm, and 980nm > 670 nm. Thus, we searched for the spectral signature associated with red light absorption by chlorophyll. When this case was met by the search routine, we plotted a full spectrum for the involved pixels and carefully examined the images. The condition was met for small areas in six image cases. All of these cases occur in near field images, where resolution is highest. Four of the cases occur on the spacecraft and appear to be associated with spacecraft structure. Two intriguing cases occur in small areas on the ground near the spacecraft.
So it was an abstract, not a press release. And partially cmpleted studis are certainly fair game for a scientific meeting. But, if it is not ready for publicaton in a scientific journal, than why is it ready for the popular press? Obviously Dr. Stoker's call... granted, getting BBC-caliber press is tough to turn down.
Given the controversial nature of their findings and the early stage of the research, the scientists want to hold back any claims about what they may have found until they have done more work and prepared a detailed paper for submission in a scientific journal.
But they are happy to use a non-peer reviewed press release to publicize their findings. The potential of plant life on Mars is amazing, but the way this news was released is pretty irresponsible.
This form of SCID is due to a total gene deletion - so that gene replacement was feasible. A lot of genetic diseases are due to genes expressing proteins that are mutated, but still produced. These mutant proteins can frequently have a dominant negative effect, that is, they mess up normal copies of the protein or other proteins in the cell. In this case, adding more good copies of the gene in question will not help.
Being able to treat stem cells in isolation is a big advantage, since you don't have to target cells in the context of the whole body (needle in haystack problem). In culture, the virus to cell ratio can be really high, increasing the probability of successful infection. Also, stem cells successfully expressing the gene of interest can be selected and preferentially propagated in culture before re-introducing into the patient.
Another big advantage in being able to treat isolated cells is that you avoid the potential problem of an immune response to the virus itself. This was a big problem recently with a different class of viruses. In some ways SCID, being an immune deficiency, is the ideal disease for viral gene therapy, since these patients are less likely to react to the virus itself.
Instead of a DNC list, I'd rather see some sort of "Yes, call me" list - with "Do not call" as default. That way, if you like having telemarketers call you - fine, go ahead and sign up.
Maybe this is the first time that a German discovered these things. For all we know, the Nambians have known about them for 1000 years and already have a name for them...
At 9:40 a.m., as workers went about their business in the Catholic War Relief Office on the 79th floor, the B-25 crashed into that office at 322 kilometers per hour. The impact reportedly tore off the bomber's wings, leaving a five meter by six meter hole in the building. One engine was catapulted through the Empire State Building, emerging on the opposite side and crashing through the roof of a neighboring building. The second engine and part of the bomber's landing gear fell through an elevator shaft. When the plane hit, its fuel tanks were reported to have exploded, engulfing the 79th floor in flames.
In the wake of Sept. 11, figuring out how the average color of the cosmos would appear to people on Earth during daylight is a ''beautiful idea that promised peace and harmony,'' Brill said. ''We sorely need a balm such as the color of the universe, whether it be a tranquil green or even a noncommittal beige.'' Or, as it now seems, the simple and sweet color of salmon.
until they change the color again... and then I'll start fretting about Sept. 11th all over again...
"At any time, and for any reason, participants will be able to terminate the session by pressing a button, or simply by asking the medical monitor to stop the session," Cohen noted.
A laptop computer with electronic games, questionnaires and behavioral tests loaded onto its hard drive also will be on board.
"Your use of this computer will be completely at your discretion," Cohen tells candidates.
A petition filed by Live365 outlines their position that the royalty structure of the CARP cannot work for alternate audio streams:
At one end of the spectrum are a small group of webcasters such as Yahoo! and AOL well-established Internet companies, with numerous successful revenue streams, tens of millions of subscribers or users, and well-defined infrastructures already in place.... In stark contrast are most webcasters (such as Live365), which currently operate at the opposite end of the spectrum. These webcasters are in the early stages of development, are constantly experimenting with different business models, revenue sources, and methods of developing their customer base, and have not yet established substantial revenue streams....
In determining the royalty rate and methodology that willing buyers in the marketplace would accept, the CARP focused on a single license agreement which was negotiated between Yahoo! and the RIAA.... the CARP's emphasis on a single agreement which was negotiated by an atypical webcaster was arbitrary and erroneous.
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I'd rather hook up with Eve Andersson in Guatemala.
I didn't see the movie, but did she get a chance to pee before going into the panic room? If not, I sure hope there was a toilet (or at least a pickle jar) in there.
Still, by the Poincaré Conjecture - Gumby is equivalent to Pokey.
How'd I do math-jocks?
make that everyone had to do it
then (a + b - c) = 0
so 5*0 = 4*0
someone had to do it ....
The story was unveiled on September 10, 2001 ... that would have been a great day to have a working time machine.
Until the engine inflicts actual damage on the player, I'd be hard pressed to call any game brutal or realistic, no matter how good the graphics are.
all that - and I can't for the life of me figure out which end is the head from the photo.
I'll bet that they thought there would be one of these in a bubble by the 21st century...
The Superpan, an image product from the Pathfinder lander camera, is a multispectral panorama of the Pathfinder landing site acquired in 15 wavelengths in the spectral range 440 - 1100 nm. We have performed an automated search of the Superpan image cubes for the spectral signature associated with chlorophyll. First, images were calibrated to radiance values and then the multispectral images were co-registered to subpixel accuracy. An automated pixel-to-pixel search was performed on a 3-filter set of images (530 nm, 670 nm, 980 nm) to identify pixels where the following condition was met: 530 nm > 670 nm, and 980nm > 670 nm. Thus, we searched for the spectral signature associated with red light absorption by chlorophyll. When this case was met by the search routine, we plotted a full spectrum for the involved pixels and carefully examined the images. The condition was met for small areas in six image cases. All of these cases occur in near field images, where resolution is highest. Four of the cases occur on the spacecraft and appear to be associated with spacecraft structure. Two intriguing cases occur in small areas on the ground near the spacecraft.
So it was an abstract, not a press release. And partially cmpleted studis are certainly fair game for a scientific meeting. But, if it is not ready for publicaton in a scientific journal, than why is it ready for the popular press? Obviously Dr. Stoker's call ... granted, getting BBC-caliber press is tough to turn down.
But they are happy to use a non-peer reviewed press release to publicize their findings. The potential of plant life on Mars is amazing, but the way this news was released is pretty irresponsible.
I always wondered what Beer Goggles were made out of.
but now everyone sounds like Stephen Hawking.
Instead of a DNC list, I'd rather see some sort of "Yes, call me" list - with "Do not call" as default. That way, if you like having telemarketers call you - fine, go ahead and sign up.
so I guess this would be The (Hopefully) Mini Slashdot Blackout Apr 1-1 ?
Maybe this is the first time that a German discovered these things. For all we know, the Nambians have known about them for 1000 years and already have a name for them ...
At 9:40 a.m., as workers went about their business in the Catholic War Relief Office on the 79th floor, the B-25 crashed into that office at 322 kilometers per hour. The impact reportedly tore off the bomber's wings, leaving a five meter by six meter hole in the building. One engine was catapulted through the Empire State Building, emerging on the opposite side and crashing through the roof of a neighboring building. The second engine and part of the bomber's landing gear fell through an elevator shaft. When the plane hit, its fuel tanks were reported to have exploded, engulfing the 79th floor in flames.
You must be listening to Howard Stern ....
Great idea ... you could also add cell capability and have real time downloads as you take the photos.
until they change the color again ... and then I'll start fretting about Sept. 11th all over again ...
Do you feel like puking now?
How about now?
How about now?
...
At one end of the spectrum are a small group of webcasters such as Yahoo! and AOL well-established Internet companies, with numerous successful revenue streams, tens of millions of subscribers or users, and well-defined infrastructures already in place. ... In stark contrast are most webcasters (such as Live365), which currently operate at the opposite end of the spectrum. These webcasters are in the early stages of development, are constantly experimenting with different business models, revenue sources, and methods of developing their customer base, and have not yet established substantial revenue streams. ...
In determining the royalty rate and methodology that willing buyers in the marketplace would accept, the CARP focused on a single license agreement which was negotiated between Yahoo! and the RIAA. ... the CARP's emphasis on a single agreement which was negotiated by an atypical webcaster was arbitrary and erroneous.
There have also been directives to fund bioterrorism defense grants as a direct result of 9/11 and the anthrax attack.