I read the original article and find the press release from MIT hypes the research too much.
The original article just indicates that different cells inside a tumor have different tumorigenic behavior. As mentioned above, getting cancer cells into culture and multiplying them is nothing new, it's what researches do every day since cancerous cells grow indefinitely and are therefore a very convenient tool for cellular studies of all sorts, not only cancer.
The authors don't even use the term "stem cell" in their article. I guess MIT just wanted to jazz it up a little bit by using buzz words.
We have the same in Switzerland. You pay a small fee on all electronic devices and in turn get the right to bring your e-waste to ANY SHOP selling electronics. Very convenient.
And since normal garbage is also taxed (by overpricing waste disposal bags), people actually have an incentive to bring back electronics.
Very good system IMHO. Don't see why all countries seem to want to reinvent the wheel.
We have a similar system in Switzerland. You pay a small fee at the moment of purchase (included in the price) and in turn receive the right to bring back your e-waste to ANY shop for proper recycling/disposal.
This also works for old equipment which you bought without the tax. Simple system and it works.
I have to agree completely. RNAi is an amazing tool. We are using it every day in our lab. Before you had to generate knock-out animals to suppress the action of a gene. A very expensive and slow method. Now you can just add either RNAi directly to cells (a bit expensive), transfect cells with DNA which expresses RNAi (cheap) or even integrate a gene expressing RNAi into the genome of cells (laborious but very handy).
'Natural selection' sure sounds very nice but in the end there is no difference between introducing genes in the lab and selecting plants in the fields. No method is more natural than the other. Either you count human intervention as unnatural or as part of nature for both processes (I prefer the latter).
Besides, the methods of the so called 'classical breeding' has included irradiation of plants in nuclear power plants and treatment with DNA-damaging agents for the last 50 years. There goes the romantic view of natural selection.
I'm usually tolerant towards news stories with weak relation to the "news for nerds. stuff that matters" slogan but this story takes it too far. The link to 419 scams looks desperate.
I don't think that's specific for the US. Here in Europe you will often find very exotic units as soon as you look a bit closer at very special commodities and markets.
Research already showed that those guys are quite temperature-sensitive. It is rather unlikely that they will be able to leave the artic water and reach as far as Gibraltar.
It's simple. At 99c a song I would only download a single song if i like it a lot and if i'm sure that i'll listen to it for several weeks.
With allofmp3 however, if i find a song i like, i always download the whole album without prelistening it first. It's cheap and it helps appreciate the whole work of the artist.
So in the end, for the single song i was interested in, the artist gets more from me if i buy from allofmp3 compared to other services.
Also i don't see why i should pay the same price for an online album as for a physical CD. After all it's me who has all the work with downloading, burning etc.
But people who buy DVDs today might download MORE movies if prices were lower.
I only buy movies of which i'm sure that i'll watch them more than once. If prices were lower, i would also take the risk and download an unknown movie.
hrshgn
I'm sure that caller identification also works in germany, at least with ISDN on the receiver's side. The emergency service knows your number and probably has some electronic phone book look up the address automatically for them.
At least that's how it works for the local pizza delivery shop (Switzerland).
How much is this "Deposit" though? Does it add significant cost to the product?
I don't know about Scandinavia but we have the same system in Switzerland. Here you pay about $5 for a $1000-$2000 computer. Items below $200 are recycled for free.
Switzerland is also "world champion" in the recycling of aluminium and glass. I don't want to show off but a return rate of 93.8% for glass is quite impressive in my opinion.
The organisers of the LinuxTag are reporting an enormous growth of this year's LinuxTag. Two hours before the end of the fair they are giving preliminary results of LinuxTag 2003: more than 19'500 visitors were counted, an increase of 40% compared to last year.
Numerous international guests like John 'Maddog' Hall from the USA and Yutaka Niibe of the Free Software Initiative Japan generated full auditories. Also in terms of content, the talks were mostly high class.
Almost all exhibitors were positively surprised and satisfied. "An extreme number of business contacts" was registered. Many exhibitors saw their expectations fulfilled. Whoever saw LinuxTag as a community event with relatively few business customers was disabused(?).
Oliver Zendel, head of the LinuxTag e.V., sees the LinuxTag as a big success which proofs that Linux and free software can also persist in the area of professional business. LinuxTag is the biggest Linux fair in Europe and according to his words a "worldwide leading fair in free software".
Highly visible was the announcement effect of Munich's decision in favor of Linux. According to informarion from Pro-Linux, the number of accredited journalists has doubled compared to last year.
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I read the original article and find the press release from MIT hypes the research too much.
The original article just indicates that different cells inside a tumor have different tumorigenic behavior. As mentioned above, getting cancer cells into culture and multiplying them is nothing new, it's what researches do every day since cancerous cells grow indefinitely and are therefore a very convenient tool for cellular studies of all sorts, not only cancer.
The authors don't even use the term "stem cell" in their article. I guess MIT just wanted to jazz it up a little bit by using buzz words.
Are you really that naive? I hope you're being sarcastic.
We have the same in Switzerland. You pay a small fee on all electronic devices and in turn get the right to bring your e-waste to ANY SHOP selling electronics. Very convenient.
And since normal garbage is also taxed (by overpricing waste disposal bags), people actually have an incentive to bring back electronics.
Very good system IMHO. Don't see why all countries seem to want to reinvent the wheel.
We have a similar system in Switzerland. You pay a small fee at the moment of purchase (included in the price) and in turn receive the right to bring back your e-waste to ANY shop for proper recycling/disposal.
This also works for old equipment which you bought without the tax. Simple system and it works.
Hrshgn
Switzerland has 7.6%. But then one might argue that Switzerland is not really part of Europe.
I have to agree completely. RNAi is an amazing tool. We are using it every day in our lab. Before you had to generate knock-out animals to suppress the action of a gene. A very expensive and slow method.
Now you can just add either RNAi directly to cells (a bit expensive), transfect cells with DNA which expresses RNAi (cheap) or even integrate a gene expressing RNAi into the genome of cells (laborious but very handy).
Hrshgn
'Natural selection' sure sounds very nice but in the end there is no difference between introducing genes in the lab and selecting plants in the fields. No method is more natural than the other. Either you count human intervention as unnatural or as part of nature for both processes (I prefer the latter).
Besides, the methods of the so called 'classical breeding' has included irradiation of plants in nuclear power plants and treatment with DNA-damaging agents for the last 50 years. There goes the romantic view of natural selection.
Hrshgn
I'm usually tolerant towards news stories with weak relation to the "news for nerds. stuff that matters" slogan but this story takes it too far. The link to 419 scams looks desperate.
I don't think that's specific for the US. Here in Europe you will often find very exotic units as soon as you look a bit closer at very special commodities and markets.
Research already showed that those guys are quite temperature-sensitive. It is rather unlikely that they will be able to leave the artic water and reach as far as Gibraltar.
OLEDs are organic light emitting diodes. They are great but have nothing to do with e-ink technology.
Too bad there is no PDF of the list. Otherwise we could just copy-paste it to notepad to see the secret top 500 list.
Hrshgn
Don't see why i should trust a russian company less than a US one for example.
I DO think that 99c is too much.
It's simple. At 99c a song I would only download a single song if i like it a lot and if i'm sure that i'll listen to it for several weeks.
With allofmp3 however, if i find a song i like, i always download the whole album without prelistening it first. It's cheap and it helps appreciate the whole work of the artist.
So in the end, for the single song i was interested in, the artist gets more from me if i buy from allofmp3 compared to other services.
Also i don't see why i should pay the same price for an online album as for a physical CD. After all it's me who has all the work with downloading, burning etc.
Greetings,
Hrshgn
Oh yeah, just compare something bad to something even badder. This makes everybody feel SOOOOO good.
But people who buy DVDs today might download MORE movies if prices were lower. I only buy movies of which i'm sure that i'll watch them more than once. If prices were lower, i would also take the risk and download an unknown movie. hrshgn
It's Rafale, not Rafael.
>in Switzerland, you're allowed to drink beer and other drinks with low alcoholic content from your 16th birthday on.
Are you sure this limit isn't just for buying beer?
And MTV Germany has: Pimp my bicycle (no joke!).
Here's the link to the original article for those who have access: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/fu ll/nature04186.html
There's also a commentary in the same issue:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/fu ll/438750b.html
Greetings,
Hrshgn
And Switzerland is in the UN since 2002.
I'm sure that caller identification also works in germany, at least with ISDN on the receiver's side.
The emergency service knows your number and probably has some electronic phone book look up the address automatically for them.
At least that's how it works for the local pizza delivery shop (Switzerland).
Greetings,
Hrshgn
>Le Temps Detruit Tout
"Time destroys everything"
How much is this "Deposit" though? Does it add significant cost to the product?
I don't know about Scandinavia but we have the same system in Switzerland. Here you pay about $5 for a $1000-$2000 computer. Items below $200 are recycled for free.
Switzerland is also "world champion" in the recycling of aluminium and glass. I don't want to show off but a return rate of 93.8% for glass is quite impressive in my opinion.
Greetings,
Hrshgn
Translation of the original article:
The organisers of the LinuxTag are reporting an enormous growth of this year's LinuxTag. Two hours before the end of the fair they are giving preliminary results of LinuxTag 2003: more than 19'500 visitors were counted, an increase of 40% compared to last year.
Numerous international guests like John 'Maddog' Hall from the USA and Yutaka Niibe of the Free Software Initiative Japan generated full auditories. Also in terms of content, the talks were mostly high class.
Almost all exhibitors were positively surprised and satisfied. "An extreme number of business contacts" was registered. Many exhibitors saw their expectations fulfilled. Whoever saw LinuxTag as a community event with relatively few business customers was disabused(?).
Oliver Zendel, head of the LinuxTag e.V., sees the LinuxTag as a big success which proofs that Linux and free software can also persist in the area of professional business. LinuxTag is the biggest Linux fair in Europe and according to his words a "worldwide leading fair in free software".
Highly visible was the announcement effect of Munich's decision in favor of Linux. According to informarion from Pro-Linux, the number of accredited journalists has doubled compared to last year.