This may just be a good thing for the space industry in general...
Didn't the really great advances in space travel come about because of the intellectual battle between the US and the Soviet Union?
If the ESA starts making inroads into space research and NASA wants to keep its top position, it will be forced to become really competitive, and this might mean that we will see missions which *succeed*!!!
Or we may just see more missions, with more cut corners...:-(
I thought "fair dealing" made provision for academic study of copyrighted material?
Yeah, but if the copyrighted material is only available at a large cost, then you can't study them.
The "fair dealing" provisions only allow you to copy some portions for the purposes of academic study, they don't guarantee the availability of the material.
To see what I mean, search for almost anything at scirus (the science search engine). Try reading any of the articles with the "ScienceDirect" links. Maybe you're a student, but they still want their money before you get to read their copyrighted materials.
There's this reference to successful treatment of under-60y.o. Parkinson's patients... The experiment was not a resounding success, but the treatment worked.
I'm not sure if this is the one I am thinking of, but the timing is about right...
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Actually my link is a direct quote from the FAQ I linked to... the full quote is:
Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ?
Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse proxy server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of the intermediate machine.
Actually I agree with you about the firewalls... I'm not sure how they report misleading signatures to HTTP requests.... There are HTTP load balancers, however, which can answer some HTTP requests, and forward others to back-end machines... A pretty obscure configuration, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it...
You're right (or at least to my knowledge) from a clinical perspective... There are no clinical-grade or even advanced research-grade treatments available... I didn't stress the "plausible but not proven" sense of the word "can" in my last post. My bad...
However, I seem to recall some successes in among the spectacular failures... The only thing I can turn up seems to be this rather cryptic link (scan down to point 3) which alludes to the successes I (think I) can remember... It was a while ago though, before I was following this... So my memory may be unclear, or I may be hyping this more than it deserves... I will be back in touch if I find a more concrete reference...
Also, there has been considerably less research on the embryonic stemcells than the adult variants, because of the moral difficulties, which may partly explain why there are more successes with the latter...
One opportunity to kill off this debate is listed in this New Scientist article someone else posted...
He says a more immediate use of the key gene would be to enable the medical profession to grow "millions and billions" of ESCs from existing samples. These could then more safely be used in humans, as they would not have been exposed to the "cocktail" of chemicals currently needed.
The article suggests that in the near term, this will actually boost the need for research on embryos, to figure out how this "nanog" stuff works...
However, it does mean that (hopefully) down the track, those things which can now only be cured with embryonic transplants will be curable with alternative techniques...
Happy to answer any other queries on the subject (have been following the subject *VERY* closely for a few years now... Also working in bioinformatics this month...)
If they have found the controller for the unlimited reproduction abilities of these cells, then we may be well on the way to curing many of these harmful diseases... True cures for Alzheimers and Parkinsons???
maybe even eliminate costly transplants...
Who knows, we could even save Michael J Fox's career... =)
Hopefully the people in charge realise that this is more than an attempt "to transcend embryo research... [because] it's wrong".
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But that just raises a less tractable question, how do you guess what to look for?
It's very likely that there is life out there which is not similar to ours... but where do we look?
Examining everything is impossible... there are just too many places to look, and too many things to look for. We are unlikely to find those (non-relationship-guide-human-females) Silicon-based Venusians unless they were broadcasting in English on FM frequencies. And even then, we'd probably not notice.
Looking for things like us gives us a target to work towards.
And every little while, there is something slightly off the main track which is interesting, and we find out more about our universe. Maybe even discover silicon-based life in an environment similar to ours somewhere. That could then open our eyes to what to look for to find silicon-based life elsewhere. Then we turn to Venus and see what was staring us in the face all along.
So we are not assuming that "all life is created in our image". We are just using all the models of life we currently know of to start our search.
IIRC, the Fuckup was that Lockheed HAD used metric measurements, but NASA "corrected" the metric coordinates into the imperial ones before sending them...
Slightly offtopic, as it refers to your analogy, but BMW research has produced a 1-pedal control system, which allows faster reaction times.
The basic principle is "lever-action" for acceleration, press the pedal for brake. (Can't find link... read it in an auto magazine about 6 months back)
IIRC, The research had to factor in increased learning time for the drivers, but I think it found the 1-pedal approach superior.
Actually, most people would be impressed if their networks guy(gal) called them the minute they noticed they had a problem, and did not have to wait until after they called him/her.
It makes for good customer relations if you can call as soon as they know they have a problem (or as soon as "that glowy thing you stuck on my desk started flashing strange light pattern things and I don't know what happened, but it made all my files on my 'Global' folder disappear, and the folder has an x on it and..." ).
However, if you're ever not monitoring the system, and their Orb stays red extendedly, you'll rapidly lose standing...
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This private venture is 40% owned by Boeing
Methinks there might be opportunities for British Aerospace and Concorde to start launching space missions...
All us techies can get together, launch in to outer space, and knock the "bad people" out with our open source rockets!!! ;-)
How about ... "Europe? Not willing to succumb to our lies? WAR!!! Oh, yeah, they're going into space, that's a good excuse..."
...after the shuttle is built/acquired...
Think of the building costs as well...Tens of billions, anyone???...
Availability of resources might cut into your ability to keep building expendable lifting devices...
Just a thought...
It might still be viable though... We'd need to do a cost/benefit analysis...
This may just be a good thing for the space industry in general...
:-(
Didn't the really great advances in space travel come about because of the intellectual battle between the US and the Soviet Union?
If the ESA starts making inroads into space research and NASA wants to keep its top position, it will be forced to become really competitive, and this might mean that we will see missions which *succeed*!!!
Or we may just see more missions, with more cut corners...
including micro$haft...! (think hotmail)
Yeah, but if the copyrighted material is only available at a large cost, then you can't study them.
The "fair dealing" provisions only allow you to copy some portions for the purposes of academic study, they don't guarantee the availability of the material.
To see what I mean, search for almost anything at scirus (the science search engine). Try reading any of the articles with the "ScienceDirect" links. Maybe you're a student, but they still want their money before you get to read their copyrighted materials.
You mean they aren't already???
AFAIK, the only times anyone recommends getting a bleeding-edge system, is to run "servers" or "games"...
Everyone else can use lower-spec machines...
I thought that meant that they are as slow, buggy and memory-intensive as each other...
(PS: I know that I left out DV editing...But it ruins the point...)
I may have to withdraw my previous statement... Not just yet, I still have a little confidence in my memory, but I may have to...
I'm not sure if this is the one I am thinking of, but the timing is about right...
Actually I agree with you about the firewalls... I'm not sure how they report misleading signatures to HTTP requests.... There are HTTP load balancers, however, which can answer some HTTP requests, and forward others to back-end machines... A pretty obscure configuration, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it...
The uptimes stuff is the next faq...
Otherwise I concur...
However, I seem to recall some successes in among the spectacular failures... The only thing I can turn up seems to be this rather cryptic link (scan down to point 3) which alludes to the successes I (think I) can remember... It was a while ago though, before I was following this... So my memory may be unclear, or I may be hyping this more than it deserves... I will be back in touch if I find a more concrete reference...
Also, there has been considerably less research on the embryonic stemcells than the adult variants, because of the moral difficulties, which may partly explain why there are more successes with the latter...
The article suggests that in the near term, this will actually boost the need for research on embryos, to figure out how this "nanog" stuff works...
However, it does mean that (hopefully) down the track, those things which can now only be cured with embryonic transplants will be curable with alternative techniques...
Happy to answer any other queries on the subject (have been following the subject *VERY* closely for a few years now... Also working in bioinformatics this month...)
If they have found the controller for the unlimited reproduction abilities of these cells, then we may be well on the way to curing many of these harmful diseases... True cures for Alzheimers and Parkinsons???
... [because] it's wrong".
maybe even eliminate costly transplants...
Who knows, we could even save Michael J Fox's career... =)
Hopefully the people in charge realise that this is more than an attempt "to transcend embryo research
or they have a caching system, load balancer, reverse proxy server or a firewall... try clicking the little FAQ link on the page you link to...!
Actually your "given name" or "Christian name" is your first name...
Your "family name" or "surname" is your last name...
Don't know why I'm correcting people on slashdot tho...
But that just raises a less tractable question, how do you guess what to look for?
It's very likely that there is life out there which is not similar to ours... but where do we look?
Examining everything is impossible... there are just too many places to look, and too many things to look for. We are unlikely to find those (non-relationship-guide-human-females) Silicon-based Venusians unless they were broadcasting in English on FM frequencies. And even then, we'd probably not notice.
Looking for things like us gives us a target to work towards.
And every little while, there is something slightly off the main track which is interesting, and we find out more about our universe. Maybe even discover silicon-based life in an environment similar to ours somewhere. That could then open our eyes to what to look for to find silicon-based life elsewhere. Then we turn to Venus and see what was staring us in the face all along.
So we are not assuming that "all life is created in our image". We are just using all the models of life we currently know of to start our search.
IIRC, the Fuckup was that Lockheed HAD used metric measurements, but NASA "corrected" the metric coordinates into the imperial ones before sending them...
So NASA bad, LM good... or something like that...
Slightly offtopic, as it refers to your analogy, but BMW research has produced a 1-pedal control system, which allows faster reaction times.
The basic principle is "lever-action" for acceleration, press the pedal for brake. (Can't find link... read it in an auto magazine about 6 months back)
IIRC, The research had to factor in increased learning time for the drivers, but I think it found the 1-pedal approach superior.
So there is a potential competitor.
does blocking an entire ISP (and a countries LARGEST ISP) count as blocking a large IP block?
I do know some...
I'm usually on the other end of the phone line at the time...
:-)
Actually, most people would be impressed if their networks guy(gal) called them the minute they noticed they had a problem, and did not have to wait until after they called him/her.
It makes for good customer relations if you can call as soon as they know they have a problem (or as soon as "that glowy thing you stuck on my desk started flashing strange light pattern things and I don't know what happened, but it made all my files on my 'Global' folder disappear, and the folder has an x on it and..." ).
However, if you're ever not monitoring the system, and their Orb stays red extendedly, you'll rapidly lose standing...