Fortunately/Unfortunately there are two possible outcomes... either they
a) clone animals that are suited to free-range lifestyles, which produce more and better meat which they can then sell for a marketable price while enjoying a higher profit margin due to lower costs
or
b) clone animals that are suited for cramped animal factories, various anti-biotics, etc. and still produce more and better meat at lower costs
We hope for a) but chances are that some will do b) as that's what they know... and of course they'll think that they are saving the most money of all and getting the highest profit.
Only time will tell which version is the most successful from a business POV... then we'll have to decide whether we need to regulate more heavily
My big question about cloning is what they will do to maintain the gene pool? If everyone is raising cloned animals, who's going to raise the non-cloned bio-diverse animals...
Sounds like there's a business opportunity for some agrarian minded individual out there who's got lots of land and doesn't want to raise animals for slaughter.
And do you own your own home, car, electronics, etc? or is the service fee/shipping/handling you pay for all these conveniences eating away all your potential savings?
Most people would rather keep their hard earned money in their interest bearing accounts, especially seeing as how they are only getting paid for the hours that get recorded by their employer (in case you wanted to pull out the I make $XXXX per hour and my time is worth more than those people I pay to provide the service argument).
I suppose if you have enough money that you can pay for all the standard life expenses out of the interest you accrue on a monthly basis, THEN it's not a big deal - but most people don't, so any additional expense to acquire those things reduces their standard of living - not too smart. It's like paying 5% tax on every purchase made on top of all the other taxes you pay.
Enjoy your convenience. I'll enjoy the appreciation of my home and the big tax refund every year if you don't mind.
TransferJet? What a horrible name. It's got none of the glamour or cool of BluRay.... Hasn't Sony learned that you can't win without a cool name... Beta was doomed from the get go cause of the name... then there's all those Acronymns... consumer hate that crap (with few exceptions... USB being one - but it sort of rolls so they gave it a pass).
Now a cool name is no guarantee (FireWire?)... but it helps a whole lot.
Maybe it's better suited to be a co-processor.... not all technology is meant to be the main component, sometimes it's better to let it specialize, as long as the bus between the CPU and the Co-PU is fast enough all is good. GPUs are this way and have been a great success.
And suddenly it doesn't look that unsafe, the mileage is comparable to a big hog 2 seater but it seats 4 and is all weather.
For $2500 I think it's a deal. They don't even list it's top speed though so we don't know if it's freeway rated. Can it even get to 50 MPH with 4 people in it?
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Nelson makes fun of the little car and the huge guy steps out: "Everyone deserves an automobile..." then pants him and makes him walk down the street while everyone laughs... hehehehe... good times.
Actually the guy asked about running Matlab data sets (large ones) and cited Vista and Linux, probably ignorant to the fact that there is an option with a high quality hardware supplier which also has excellent software for what he's doing (unless he left out a requirement of some other software that only runs on Vista and Linux;-p)
If the guy is willing to use Vista, he's probably open to using OS X (both non-free OSes)
Maybe he's looking for an inexpensive upgrade to his current hardware, in which case you're half correct... not likely though, as the RAM itself is going to cost him several thousand dollars... but since he's looking I thought I'd mention these facts so that he and others like him could know that Apple has a solution at a decent price point (considering how much your going to spend on the RAM anyways).
Thanks for the comment though... it's nice to hear how the other half thinks.
You only get a set amount of points to work with. This may actually be a different already formulated voting system but I'll attempt to illustrate it anyways.
So you get 2 points for each candidate, to keep the numbers low but allow for unlimited candidates (as opposed to getting 10 points regardless of the number of candidates).
Say for instance there are 3 candidates (a b c), so each person gets 6 points to assign to their candidate choices.
Rob assigns all 6 to candidate (a)
Jill assigns 4 to candidate (a) and 2 to (b)
Steve assigns 3 to (a) 2 to (c) and 1 to (b) - for no apparent reason
Susan assigns 5 to (c) and 1 to (b)
Joe assigns 4 to (c) and 2 to (b)
a) 6 + 4 + 3 = 13
b) 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 6
c) 2 + 5 + 4 = 11
Candidate (a) wins, (b) comes in 2nd and (c) is third
Everyone gets to assign a majority of their points to their first choice and can optionally pick a second choice or even a third, fourth or fifth though the more choices you give support to the less your vote will count compared to someone who gives all their support to 1 option. OTOH if you give all your support to 1 candidate and he/she loses as well as the candidate you liked second best, well you had the option of using some of your points to get your second favorite elected but chose not to.
Before you go off looking to alter the biology before you understand the evolutionary reason for it, first ask the question "why do many people block their own MGlu receptors?"...you may discover that there is one if not many advantages to doing so.
Personally I don't learn from repetition, at least not of the type described. I learn by applying knowledge, aka experimentation... which is repeatedly using a concept in a variety of ways until enough of it's aspects are internalized that I can make a mental model of it. Then I get creative. When I can teach someone else what the concept is and how it works... that's when I know I've learned it.
OTOH ask me to tell you someone's name that I've known for years and used repeatedly and it may take me a few seconds to dig for it. Even if they are standing right in front of me. Names, labels, facts just don't stick with me - the upside is that I can tell you all about the concept of viscosity at a moments notice, just wait a sec while I recall the correct terminology;-p
SO maybe blocking mGlu receptors allows people to keep things flexible in the brain until a deeper more complex pattern of understanding is achieved.
Even so, as long as there's no long term effect I'd be happy to drink a PowerMem(TM) right before sitting down to read the Python API, YUI script API, etc - I could finally get rid of all the cheat sheets that litter my desk.
Not if you're using it with a Active Directory system with automatic login to an intranet ala Sharepoint...
I agree with your logic but MS doesn't do logic... they do licenses and IP... so all of their technology is set up on the premise that they need you to buy lots of licenses to do 'anything'...
though when you do cough up enough money, their integrated suites of software are pretty useful, as long as you need to do exactly what the software is capable of and nothing else.
As soon as you need to do something else, you'll either have to hire an extremely over-priced development firm, a team of developers and all the overhead of a new department - or wait until MS decides that enough of your peers want to buy the thing you need for it to be profitable to them.
Those would be fine choices for private installations or proof of concept on a small scale. What I would like to see is a big public works project (contracted out in part of course) to the tune of billions of investment over say 10 years.
This is the type of thing that once a proof of concept has been delivered and the on-going costs have been derived from a 5 year testbed... it gets rolled out in a massive way as a long term integrated project.
See I'm thinking of millions of miles of piping laid down as prefabbed grids wherein everytime a major roadway is due for renovation, this stuff gets laid down under it and a power station is hooked up for each predetermined volume of throughput. It would be integrated into state and city transportation and energy dept. plans w/ support from appropriate private agencies. I'd like to see gigawatts generated for each city.
I'd love to see it on the freeways as well but I suspect that tearing up the concrete on most would void the benefits (and they are designed to last much longer so any errors or bad components would cost a bundle to replace) even though they are the best locations in terms of contiguous surface area.
If they let me remove results from my personal ranking profile.... maybe with an option to show me how many total hits and a way to retrieve those alternate results if I need them.... then I'll be using it.
What I want is to get rid of things outside my daily context. I work in web development so when I do a search for "CSS 3 column hack" I don't want to get results related to some sport team abbreviated CSS where they have a coach whose a hack but likes to use a 3 column lineup.... stretching a but but you get the idea. More simply put I'd like to filter out results for anything that also ranks high in a variety of categories that have nothing to do with my daily tasks (fishing, fashion, first graders, fanboys... ) and it's not enough to let me use a -fishing in my search...
Also can I please remove a website from the results listing... ie: there are often high ranking sites that I've already bookmarked and read daily... I don't need to see them in my 'search' results, if i need to search them I'll use their own search or use website:www.domain.com 'keywords' (given that I'm using google for this one).
This article doesn't mention the facts I'm interested in.
How hot does the water in the pipes get? Is it hot enough that if you swapped out alcohol for the water, the alcohol would turn to steam? (78.3 degrees C) Obviously the surface gets pretty damn hot but does that get through the asphalt into the pipes efficiently enough....
If so has anyone thought of running a nearby stirling engine to generate actual electricity?
My thoughts on this were that in a place like California or Nevada, where there are hundreds of thousands of miles of roadway and at least half a year of near cloudless skies, quite a bit of energy could be generated with little or no additional impact on the environment.
If enough energy was generated you could conceivably even run some public transportation on these roads using an exposed contact system such as a recessed rail... or just run a system parallel to the roads. The cost of transporting the energy to these locations for this use would have dropped to zero thereby making them much more economical.
And there are incredibly intelligent people who believe in intelligent design, refuse to believe in evolution.... discount global warming trends, refute scientific fact, etc, etc. because they are ignorant and uneducated.
Smart people don't necessarily make informed decisions. We can't change biology on a national or even local level, now or in the future... it's unethical and logistically expensive. You also can't tell smart people to have more children when they know that they will be dividing their standard of living by doing so.
The only option is to inform as many as possible, educate as many as possible and provide examples through leadership and influence.
This is a fallacy. There are no stupid people... just ignorant people. If the smart people want to ensure that future generations make reasonable decisions.. they have to provide education and opportunity for the children of ignorant people. Simple as that.
I'd say they're more like "You're momma's so fat" jokes... endless variations on a theme... good fun for all until some drunk guy gets offended and punches you in the face (especially when it's Chuck Norris, who must've been drunk when he filed this suit, so watch out Penguin, don't tell Chuck a fat momma joke during the discovery phase).
BTW, Did you know the world doesn't really spin? It's just Chuck Norris practicing for the globe trotters tryouts.
Uhh... actually it's corn syrup. Specifically the variety found in 64 oz Big gulps at the local 7/11. You don't get fat from just not exercising... you have to have some serious calorie intake as well. Most normal food makes your body work to get those calories (at least a little), whereas corn syrup does not.
Try out this site for some real javascript coolness... 99% of the site is html + javascript (they use prototype) although there are some flash based videos as well.... but flash is not used for any of the interface. okay, wait for it.....
Competent web developers know how to put your browser into standards mode. It is achieved by declaring the correct document type in the web page header. As a user of the browser you don't have to do anything.
Before anyone thinks that Acid 2 or CSS3 is the job of Firefox, recall that it is the Gecko rendering engine and it's team of developers, whom are responsible for those tasks... Firefox is the browser, Gecko is the rendering engine... two separate apps much like Safari and Webkit.
The browser is responsible for the UI; tabs, bookmarking, preferences, http/s handlers, security handlers, plugins and other features. The render engine is responsible for html, css, scripting, dom.
Not being a developer for either I may have mixed up the responsibilities.. but you get the idea and I know that css is clearly in the realm of the render engine.
I'm imagining a scenario wherein they use conventional jets to get to altitude or at least high enough and far enough that the sonic boom will be greatly diminished, as heard/felt from the ground, when it kicks in... maybe a small pop sound or something.
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Fortunately/Unfortunately there are two possible outcomes... either they
a) clone animals that are suited to free-range lifestyles, which produce more and better meat which they can then sell for a marketable price while enjoying a higher profit margin due to lower costs
or
b) clone animals that are suited for cramped animal factories, various anti-biotics, etc. and still produce more and better meat at lower costs
We hope for a) but chances are that some will do b) as that's what they know... and of course they'll think that they are saving the most money of all and getting the highest profit.
Only time will tell which version is the most successful from a business POV... then we'll have to decide whether we need to regulate more heavily
My big question about cloning is what they will do to maintain the gene pool? If everyone is raising cloned animals, who's going to raise the non-cloned bio-diverse animals...
Sounds like there's a business opportunity for some agrarian minded individual out there who's got lots of land and doesn't want to raise animals for slaughter.
And do you own your own home, car, electronics, etc? or is the service fee/shipping/handling you pay for all these conveniences eating away all your potential savings?
Most people would rather keep their hard earned money in their interest bearing accounts, especially seeing as how they are only getting paid for the hours that get recorded by their employer (in case you wanted to pull out the I make $XXXX per hour and my time is worth more than those people I pay to provide the service argument).
I suppose if you have enough money that you can pay for all the standard life expenses out of the interest you accrue on a monthly basis, THEN it's not a big deal - but most people don't, so any additional expense to acquire those things reduces their standard of living - not too smart. It's like paying 5% tax on every purchase made on top of all the other taxes you pay.
Enjoy your convenience. I'll enjoy the appreciation of my home and the big tax refund every year if you don't mind.
TransferJet? What a horrible name. It's got none of the glamour or cool of BluRay.... Hasn't Sony learned that you can't win without a cool name... Beta was doomed from the get go cause of the name... then there's all those Acronymns... consumer hate that crap (with few exceptions... USB being one - but it sort of rolls so they gave it a pass).
Now a cool name is no guarantee (FireWire?)... but it helps a whole lot.
Maybe it's better suited to be a co-processor.... not all technology is meant to be the main component, sometimes it's better to let it specialize, as long as the bus between the CPU and the Co-PU is fast enough all is good. GPUs are this way and have been a great success.
And PHP deserved it more at the time but look at it now.... RoR will continue to mature and improve and people will use it when it is appropriate
I don't use it cause I don't have time to learn it but if I hired a new developer who knew it well I'd definitely consider it for some projects.
And suddenly it doesn't look that unsafe, the mileage is comparable to a big hog 2 seater but it seats 4 and is all weather.
For $2500 I think it's a deal. They don't even list it's top speed though so we don't know if it's freeway rated. Can it even get to 50 MPH with 4 people in it?
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Nelson makes fun of the little car and the huge guy steps out: "Everyone deserves an automobile..." then pants him and makes him walk down the street while everyone laughs... hehehehe... good times.
Actually the guy asked about running Matlab data sets (large ones) and cited Vista and Linux, probably ignorant to the fact that there is an option with a high quality hardware supplier which also has excellent software for what he's doing (unless he left out a requirement of some other software that only runs on Vista and Linux ;-p)
If the guy is willing to use Vista, he's probably open to using OS X (both non-free OSes)
Maybe he's looking for an inexpensive upgrade to his current hardware, in which case you're half correct... not likely though, as the RAM itself is going to cost him several thousand dollars... but since he's looking I thought I'd mention these facts so that he and others like him could know that Apple has a solution at a decent price point (considering how much your going to spend on the RAM anyways).
Thanks for the comment though... it's nice to hear how the other half thinks.
You only get a set amount of points to work with. This may actually be a different already formulated voting system but I'll attempt to illustrate it anyways.
So you get 2 points for each candidate, to keep the numbers low but allow for unlimited candidates (as opposed to getting 10 points regardless of the number of candidates).
Say for instance there are 3 candidates (a b c), so each person gets 6 points to assign to their candidate choices.
Rob assigns all 6 to candidate (a)
Jill assigns 4 to candidate (a) and 2 to (b)
Steve assigns 3 to (a) 2 to (c) and 1 to (b) - for no apparent reason
Susan assigns 5 to (c) and 1 to (b)
Joe assigns 4 to (c) and 2 to (b)
a) 6 + 4 + 3 = 13
b) 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 6
c) 2 + 5 + 4 = 11
Candidate (a) wins, (b) comes in 2nd and (c) is third
Everyone gets to assign a majority of their points to their first choice and can optionally pick a second choice or even a third, fourth or fifth though the more choices you give support to the less your vote will count compared to someone who gives all their support to 1 option. OTOH if you give all your support to 1 candidate and he/she loses as well as the candidate you liked second best, well you had the option of using some of your points to get your second favorite elected but chose not to.
Before you go off looking to alter the biology before you understand the evolutionary reason for it, first ask the question "why do many people block their own MGlu receptors?"...you may discover that there is one if not many advantages to doing so.
;-p
Personally I don't learn from repetition, at least not of the type described. I learn by applying knowledge, aka experimentation... which is repeatedly using a concept in a variety of ways until enough of it's aspects are internalized that I can make a mental model of it. Then I get creative. When I can teach someone else what the concept is and how it works... that's when I know I've learned it.
OTOH ask me to tell you someone's name that I've known for years and used repeatedly and it may take me a few seconds to dig for it. Even if they are standing right in front of me. Names, labels, facts just don't stick with me - the upside is that I can tell you all about the concept of viscosity at a moments notice, just wait a sec while I recall the correct terminology
SO maybe blocking mGlu receptors allows people to keep things flexible in the brain until a deeper more complex pattern of understanding is achieved.
Even so, as long as there's no long term effect I'd be happy to drink a PowerMem(TM) right before sitting down to read the Python API, YUI script API, etc - I could finally get rid of all the cheat sheets that litter my desk.
Not if you're using it with a Active Directory system with automatic login to an intranet ala Sharepoint...
I agree with your logic but MS doesn't do logic... they do licenses and IP... so all of their technology is set up on the premise that they need you to buy lots of licenses to do 'anything'...
though when you do cough up enough money, their integrated suites of software are pretty useful, as long as you need to do exactly what the software is capable of and nothing else.
As soon as you need to do something else, you'll either have to hire an extremely over-priced development firm, a team of developers and all the overhead of a new department - or wait until MS decides that enough of your peers want to buy the thing you need for it to be profitable to them.
Those would be fine choices for private installations or proof of concept on a small scale. What I would like to see is a big public works project (contracted out in part of course) to the tune of billions of investment over say 10 years.
This is the type of thing that once a proof of concept has been delivered and the on-going costs have been derived from a 5 year testbed... it gets rolled out in a massive way as a long term integrated project.
See I'm thinking of millions of miles of piping laid down as prefabbed grids wherein everytime a major roadway is due for renovation, this stuff gets laid down under it and a power station is hooked up for each predetermined volume of throughput. It would be integrated into state and city transportation and energy dept. plans w/ support from appropriate private agencies. I'd like to see gigawatts generated for each city.
I'd love to see it on the freeways as well but I suspect that tearing up the concrete on most would void the benefits (and they are designed to last much longer so any errors or bad components would cost a bundle to replace) even though they are the best locations in terms of contiguous surface area.
If they let me remove results from my personal ranking profile.... maybe with an option to show me how many total hits and a way to retrieve those alternate results if I need them.... then I'll be using it.
What I want is to get rid of things outside my daily context. I work in web development so when I do a search for "CSS 3 column hack" I don't want to get results related to some sport team abbreviated CSS where they have a coach whose a hack but likes to use a 3 column lineup.... stretching a but but you get the idea. More simply put I'd like to filter out results for anything that also ranks high in a variety of categories that have nothing to do with my daily tasks (fishing, fashion, first graders, fanboys... ) and it's not enough to let me use a -fishing in my search...
Also can I please remove a website from the results listing... ie: there are often high ranking sites that I've already bookmarked and read daily... I don't need to see them in my 'search' results, if i need to search them I'll use their own search or use website:www.domain.com 'keywords' (given that I'm using google for this one).
This article doesn't mention the facts I'm interested in.
How hot does the water in the pipes get? Is it hot enough that if you swapped out alcohol for the water, the alcohol would turn to steam? (78.3 degrees C) Obviously the surface gets pretty damn hot but does that get through the asphalt into the pipes efficiently enough....
If so has anyone thought of running a nearby stirling engine to generate actual electricity?
My thoughts on this were that in a place like California or Nevada, where there are hundreds of thousands of miles of roadway and at least half a year of near cloudless skies, quite a bit of energy could be generated with little or no additional impact on the environment.
If enough energy was generated you could conceivably even run some public transportation on these roads using an exposed contact system such as a recessed rail... or just run a system parallel to the roads. The cost of transporting the energy to these locations for this use would have dropped to zero thereby making them much more economical.
The latest Mac Pro supports 16 GB of RAM and the latest XServe (a better option IMHO) supports 32GB of RAM.
Mac Pro Specs
XServe Specs
XServe is a quad-core XEON 64bit at 3GHz as is the Mac Pro
They will both run Matlab w/ stunning execution.
Here's a nice case study for the XServe w/ Matlab: Induquímica Laboratorios
I'm more interested in the PartyLikeIt's1999 setting... they seem hell bent on keeping that one around as long as possible.
And there are incredibly intelligent people who believe in intelligent design, refuse to believe in evolution.... discount global warming trends, refute scientific fact, etc, etc. because they are ignorant and uneducated.
Smart people don't necessarily make informed decisions. We can't change biology on a national or even local level, now or in the future... it's unethical and logistically expensive. You also can't tell smart people to have more children when they know that they will be dividing their standard of living by doing so.
The only option is to inform as many as possible, educate as many as possible and provide examples through leadership and influence.
This is a fallacy. There are no stupid people... just ignorant people. If the smart people want to ensure that future generations make reasonable decisions.. they have to provide education and opportunity for the children of ignorant people. Simple as that.
I'd say they're more like "You're momma's so fat" jokes... endless variations on a theme... good fun for all until some drunk guy gets offended and punches you in the face (especially when it's Chuck Norris, who must've been drunk when he filed this suit, so watch out Penguin, don't tell Chuck a fat momma joke during the discovery phase).
BTW, Did you know the world doesn't really spin? It's just Chuck Norris practicing for the globe trotters tryouts.
Uhh... actually it's corn syrup. Specifically the variety found in 64 oz Big gulps at the local 7/11. You don't get fat from just not exercising... you have to have some serious calorie intake as well. Most normal food makes your body work to get those calories (at least a little), whereas corn syrup does not.
Try out this site for some real javascript coolness... 99% of the site is html + javascript (they use prototype) although there are some flash based videos as well.... but flash is not used for any of the interface. okay, wait for it.....
GUCCI
even works in IE6... which is REALLY impressive
Competent web developers know how to put your browser into standards mode. It is achieved by declaring the correct document type in the web page header. As a user of the browser you don't have to do anything.
True... it's illegal to peddle in many countries.
Before anyone thinks that Acid 2 or CSS3 is the job of Firefox, recall that it is the Gecko rendering engine and it's team of developers, whom are responsible for those tasks... Firefox is the browser, Gecko is the rendering engine... two separate apps much like Safari and Webkit.
The browser is responsible for the UI; tabs, bookmarking, preferences, http/s handlers, security handlers, plugins and other features. The render engine is responsible for html, css, scripting, dom.
Not being a developer for either I may have mixed up the responsibilities.. but you get the idea and I know that css is clearly in the realm of the render engine.
I'm imagining a scenario wherein they use conventional jets to get to altitude or at least high enough and far enough that the sonic boom will be greatly diminished, as heard/felt from the ground, when it kicks in... maybe a small pop sound or something.
Yeah I was covering the likely age range of a /. reader.... not too many 14 year olds on here I suspect.... they're probably all over on digg