I was under the impression thus far that they were taking more from the Ultimate line of books for the majority of licensing/movie deals anymore then from the original 'universe'.
In Ultimate, Eddie isn't a huge lumbering guy....he's smaller like Peter (not as small, but still).
...once people KNEW the earth was the center of the universe....once people KNEW the earth was flat....once people KNEW we were the only life on ear...oh sorry, got carried away with the MIB reference.
Anyway, the entire point of science is to learn the 'truth' of the universe. There is no endpoint. You can't 'prove' anything with any finality because there's always a chance for an exception, a chance, etc.
Hell, they just made something go faster then light from what I've read. That invalidates quite a few papers.
There's a difference, IMHO, between flat out WRONG and an old idea being proven inferior because of new facts, etc. Which is what science is. If this wasn't true, we would already know everything. The constant replacement of what we know with updated, new, and more thoroughly examined ideas/theories is the entire point.
I can't remember where I got it from (an online place) but I have a Roots shirt with an Atari controller on it. Bit better then the NES one and I'm fairly certain the NES one was a copy of the Atari shirt (I saw the NES one a few months after seeing the Atari one, but have never seen the atari shirt in stores.)
Ok, a quick demonstration of the numbers (
John Doe has a bunch of his CDs he just transfered to his really nifty new HTPC. Well, his girlfriend Jane likes a bunch of the stuff. So he copies the MP3/etc. files on to a CD/DVD and then gives this to Jane.
Instead of just copying one tape, one cd, etc., he may have just copied 20-30. And, yes, it's a heck of a lot easier to just get whatever you want that friends have this way then via P2P. Why download what someone already has and can burn in a few minutes?
So, overall, were back to where we were before P2P just that we can do the copying more efficiently.
I have a friend that used to work at the USPTO and one that just got his PhD and tried to get a job there.
The guy that used to work there told me that the USPTO recently changed their benefits and no longer pay for their workers to get a law degree, etc., if they stay with the USPTO for a certain amount of time after getting it. This is the main reason he left - he did part time schooling for awhile but now decided to just leave and get it done asap to get his law degree faster.
The other was told, even with a contact inside the USPTO (this was right as the guy above was getting ready to leave), that the USPTO was not hiring and that they received over 5000 applications for the 10 slots they were trying to fill. This was for the biotech/life sciences division of the USPTO.
So, essentially, from what I've observed, there cutting some of their best benefits and getting more then enough applications for new people. I'm assuming this entire thing is primarily a budget issue - as almost everything is down here in D.C.
The physical underpinnings are discussed in any undergraduate level Genetics course. The physical changes that actually occur are because of (simply put) the different strands of DNA mixing in both the father and mother during gamete (sex cell - a.k.a. egg and sperm) generation.
The two gametes that come together then are further 'combined' by what are called 'dominant' and 'recessive' alleles - or versions - of genes. Genes cause proteins to be made as and end product, most of the time, and some of these genes cause things to happen and are 'dominant'. For isntance, making pigment makes your hair black. Not making pigment makes you blonde. So if you have a black hair gene (makes pigment), and a blonde gene (no pigment), then you can get either black hair - OR a mix (brown hair) (Note, thats not scientifically sound at all, just an example. There are multiple genes for hair color.).
For more information, either take a Genetics course, or simply obtain one from your local library. There's more then enough physical evidence which can be observed using molecular biology and biochemistry techniques also if this explanation isn't good enough.
Is it just me, or has the ESRB just ensured that it can no longer argue its way out of mandatory goverment ratings - since it changes its own ratings and can't rate things properly the first time?
Well, you'd better tell your immunologist friend to go work at a few of the companies, talk to some of the project managers, or hell - attend the BIO http://www.bio.com/ conference.
It's disconcerting to me that an immunologist doesn't realize that treating symptoms are easy, and a HELL of a lot easier to get past the FDA, then something that causes issues in a persons system but cures them.
Seriously, it's the biggest problem right now that has companies redefining what to make. People can't deal with a 1 in 20,000 chance they may have a higher chance of a heart attack if they take drug X, even though without drug X they are in constant pain every day all day.
The american public refuses to accept any danger/risk at all from there medications - and because of this it takes a HELL of a lot longer to develop anything then it did before.
The first vaccines available got people sick left and right - but people took them anyway, even with the 1 in 10000 or 1 in 1000 risk because once you actually got the disease, you had a MUCH lower chance of surviving.
Moral of the story? Get educated before you make comments - even if someone who's an 'expert' tells you something.
Hahahaha...oh...god...that's funny. No, seriously...you REALLY think it's the PhD's that are making the money?
You are aware that the majority of PhD's don't get there first job until the age of 37, right? And that until then they are being paid (on average) $40,000 a year or less?
Let me break it down for you, with bachelor's and getting a PhD you make approximately 20-25k a year. With a PhD doing a postdoc so someone will hire you in a research lab or so a company will hire you to actually RUN a lab (and then make the big bucks) your making on average $40k, $60k in the high end.
Yup, that's ULTRA mega big bucks for 4 years of college, then 5-7 years to get the PhD/masters. The REAL cost is the marketing and the fact that tons of crap doesn't pan out. Those are the facts.
Sorry, I'm not meaning to snip at you, as the rest of your post is good, but I really get annoyed when these kinds of falsehoods come up again and again even though the majority of scientists who are trying to help people and not just themselves are getting bent over and reamed constantly.
One thing I've noticed in getting my PhD that while the foreign students do spend TONS of time in the lab, many I've seen don't actually get much done. The way I normally put it is that you CAN spend 20 hours a day in the lab, but if for 10 of those hours your waiting for an experiment to finish so you can do the next step, what the heck is the point? While the American student would leave and go out with friends/family/etc., many foreign students don't have that base there and simply stay in the lab.
I'm not trying to make a blanket statement, but it seems that way for many. I wonder how it would be with an American student in a foreign country with no real friends/family structure where all they really had was work and if something similar would occur.
Yup, to record it yourself you have to press between 2-10 buttons on your VCR/DVR.
To download it you need to install a Bittorrent client, understand how to have it clear your firewall (Or windows firewall), set it up, search for a torrent site that has it with a live torrent, and download it...or have someone who knows how to do it set it up for you.
The real issue with Battlestar is that they released it earlier in another market to 'test' it and really didn't expect it to get released globally before they released it in the US.
The Catechism (the 'rules' for catholics basically), essentially says that any thing science discovers goes along with Catholic teaching because God is so far beyond human understanding we can't comprehend what he things or why everything is the way it is. It just is.
God made it that way. Anything science can discover, God was and is capable of creating since he's infinitely more complex then us and supreme, etc. etc.
This basically comes down to people who insist that a literally reading of the Bible is the only way Christianity can be understood and rules can be obtained from. That and the arrogance that people have thinking they can know what God thinks...
Telomerase is not only in cancer cells, it's in a bunch of other kind of cells - generally ones long lasting. That's what gave the idea in the first place to do research along these lines.
The Wikipedia isn't totally off, would be a good thing to read for correct information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomerase
I work in a lab and can get 100% Ethanol whenever I want. Many of the protocols I do call for 100% and given that the bottles aren't sealed in any special way (plastic screw cap), I highly doubt the ethanol is adsorbing anything major.
Also, we have to sign to say we aren't going to drink it when we get it from the stock room because otherwise they would have to tax us on it.:)
Well, totally non-techie related...this could finally make the 'perfect' aquarium material since the main drawback of plastic is how easily it scratches (for smaller sized tanks). Could make a material that's light, strong, and won't scratch.
On top of this is just the properties of the plastic. The coating over glass might be good, but from the plastic I've shattered/seen shattered it tends to shatter into sharp, knife like projections that would simply impale people...
That and while using a brillo pad and a marker is one thing, a rock moving 60+mph might be a different story. The 'shatterproof' glass deals with it by NOT shattering with one small impact (like your windows in your house or a regular piece of glass would). Who the heck knows what would happen with the plastic.
Most likely, they do know and there's a reason they use the glass. (Price being the most likely).
I know graduate school sucks, and I know that I'm never getting out of here. That's about all I 'know' from 4 years of grad school. Yippee!
(Oh and your results never mean anything.)
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I was under the impression thus far that they were taking more from the Ultimate line of books for the majority of licensing/movie deals anymore then from the original 'universe'. In Ultimate, Eddie isn't a huge lumbering guy....he's smaller like Peter (not as small, but still).
Remember, it's only a free-market economy until you do something the people in charge don't like or makes them look bad.
...once people KNEW the earth was the center of the universe. ...once people KNEW the earth was flat. ...once people KNEW we were the only life on ear...oh sorry, got carried away with the MIB reference.
Anyway, the entire point of science is to learn the 'truth' of the universe. There is no endpoint. You can't 'prove' anything with any finality because there's always a chance for an exception, a chance, etc.
Hell, they just made something go faster then light from what I've read. That invalidates quite a few papers.
There's a difference, IMHO, between flat out WRONG and an old idea being proven inferior because of new facts, etc. Which is what science is. If this wasn't true, we would already know everything. The constant replacement of what we know with updated, new, and more thoroughly examined ideas/theories is the entire point.
I can't remember where I got it from (an online place) but I have a Roots shirt with an Atari controller on it. Bit better then the NES one and I'm fairly certain the NES one was a copy of the Atari shirt (I saw the NES one a few months after seeing the Atari one, but have never seen the atari shirt in stores.)
Ok, a quick demonstration of the numbers ( John Doe has a bunch of his CDs he just transfered to his really nifty new HTPC. Well, his girlfriend Jane likes a bunch of the stuff. So he copies the MP3/etc. files on to a CD/DVD and then gives this to Jane. Instead of just copying one tape, one cd, etc., he may have just copied 20-30. And, yes, it's a heck of a lot easier to just get whatever you want that friends have this way then via P2P. Why download what someone already has and can burn in a few minutes? So, overall, were back to where we were before P2P just that we can do the copying more efficiently.
I have a friend that used to work at the USPTO and one that just got his PhD and tried to get a job there.
The guy that used to work there told me that the USPTO recently changed their benefits and no longer pay for their workers to get a law degree, etc., if they stay with the USPTO for a certain amount of time after getting it. This is the main reason he left - he did part time schooling for awhile but now decided to just leave and get it done asap to get his law degree faster.
The other was told, even with a contact inside the USPTO (this was right as the guy above was getting ready to leave), that the USPTO was not hiring and that they received over 5000 applications for the 10 slots they were trying to fill. This was for the biotech/life sciences division of the USPTO.
So, essentially, from what I've observed, there cutting some of their best benefits and getting more then enough applications for new people. I'm assuming this entire thing is primarily a budget issue - as almost everything is down here in D.C.
The physical underpinnings are discussed in any undergraduate level Genetics course. The physical changes that actually occur are because of (simply put) the different strands of DNA mixing in both the father and mother during gamete (sex cell - a.k.a. egg and sperm) generation.
The two gametes that come together then are further 'combined' by what are called 'dominant' and 'recessive' alleles - or versions - of genes. Genes cause proteins to be made as and end product, most of the time, and some of these genes cause things to happen and are 'dominant'. For isntance, making pigment makes your hair black. Not making pigment makes you blonde. So if you have a black hair gene (makes pigment), and a blonde gene (no pigment), then you can get either black hair - OR a mix (brown hair) (Note, thats not scientifically sound at all, just an example. There are multiple genes for hair color.).
For more information, either take a Genetics course, or simply obtain one from your local library. There's more then enough physical evidence which can be observed using molecular biology and biochemistry techniques also if this explanation isn't good enough.
Is it just me, or has the ESRB just ensured that it can no longer argue its way out of mandatory goverment ratings - since it changes its own ratings and can't rate things properly the first time?
Well, you'd better tell your immunologist friend to go work at a few of the companies, talk to some of the project managers, or hell - attend the BIO http://www.bio.com/ conference.
It's disconcerting to me that an immunologist doesn't realize that treating symptoms are easy, and a HELL of a lot easier to get past the FDA, then something that causes issues in a persons system but cures them.
Seriously, it's the biggest problem right now that has companies redefining what to make. People can't deal with a 1 in 20,000 chance they may have a higher chance of a heart attack if they take drug X, even though without drug X they are in constant pain every day all day.
The american public refuses to accept any danger/risk at all from there medications - and because of this it takes a HELL of a lot longer to develop anything then it did before.
The first vaccines available got people sick left and right - but people took them anyway, even with the 1 in 10000 or 1 in 1000 risk because once you actually got the disease, you had a MUCH lower chance of surviving.
Moral of the story? Get educated before you make comments - even if someone who's an 'expert' tells you something.
Is it just me or does this sound similar to the begining of the Crichton book Prey?
(Could be that I just read it yesterday...)
This will be a travesty if Leeroy Jenkins isn't included on one of the panels.
The Phantom...Lives? No. No it doesn't. Next article please.
You are aware that the majority of PhD's don't get there first job until the age of 37, right? And that until then they are being paid (on average) $40,000 a year or less?
Let me break it down for you, with bachelor's and getting a PhD you make approximately 20-25k a year. With a PhD doing a postdoc so someone will hire you in a research lab or so a company will hire you to actually RUN a lab (and then make the big bucks) your making on average $40k, $60k in the high end.
Yup, that's ULTRA mega big bucks for 4 years of college, then 5-7 years to get the PhD/masters. The REAL cost is the marketing and the fact that tons of crap doesn't pan out. Those are the facts.
Sorry, I'm not meaning to snip at you, as the rest of your post is good, but I really get annoyed when these kinds of falsehoods come up again and again even though the majority of scientists who are trying to help people and not just themselves are getting bent over and reamed constantly.
One thing I've noticed in getting my PhD that while the foreign students do spend TONS of time in the lab, many I've seen don't actually get much done. The way I normally put it is that you CAN spend 20 hours a day in the lab, but if for 10 of those hours your waiting for an experiment to finish so you can do the next step, what the heck is the point? While the American student would leave and go out with friends/family/etc., many foreign students don't have that base there and simply stay in the lab. I'm not trying to make a blanket statement, but it seems that way for many. I wonder how it would be with an American student in a foreign country with no real friends/family structure where all they really had was work and if something similar would occur.
Yup, to record it yourself you have to press between 2-10 buttons on your VCR/DVR. To download it you need to install a Bittorrent client, understand how to have it clear your firewall (Or windows firewall), set it up, search for a torrent site that has it with a live torrent, and download it...or have someone who knows how to do it set it up for you. The real issue with Battlestar is that they released it earlier in another market to 'test' it and really didn't expect it to get released globally before they released it in the US.
The Catechism (the 'rules' for catholics basically), essentially says that any thing science discovers goes along with Catholic teaching because God is so far beyond human understanding we can't comprehend what he things or why everything is the way it is. It just is. God made it that way. Anything science can discover, God was and is capable of creating since he's infinitely more complex then us and supreme, etc. etc. This basically comes down to people who insist that a literally reading of the Bible is the only way Christianity can be understood and rules can be obtained from. That and the arrogance that people have thinking they can know what God thinks...
Telomerase is not only in cancer cells, it's in a bunch of other kind of cells - generally ones long lasting. That's what gave the idea in the first place to do research along these lines. The Wikipedia isn't totally off, would be a good thing to read for correct information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomerase
I was about to post a response, but then what I learned getting my Ph.D. made me stop. I have learned the meaning of futility.
So basically this is this exact post : http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/06/194 5210&tid=126&tid=218
Just that the guides on a new server...right?
It should have read:
...and the Radeon 9200 graphics card won't even run this fall's hot Mac game.
Also, we have to sign to say we aren't going to drink it when we get it from the stock room because otherwise they would have to tax us on it. :)
Have they?
:/
Well, totally non-techie related...this could finally make the 'perfect' aquarium material since the main drawback of plastic is how easily it scratches (for smaller sized tanks). Could make a material that's light, strong, and won't scratch.
On top of this is just the properties of the plastic. The coating over glass might be good, but from the plastic I've shattered/seen shattered it tends to shatter into sharp, knife like projections that would simply impale people... That and while using a brillo pad and a marker is one thing, a rock moving 60+mph might be a different story. The 'shatterproof' glass deals with it by NOT shattering with one small impact (like your windows in your house or a regular piece of glass would). Who the heck knows what would happen with the plastic. Most likely, they do know and there's a reason they use the glass. (Price being the most likely).
I know graduate school sucks, and I know that I'm never getting out of here. That's about all I 'know' from 4 years of grad school. Yippee! (Oh and your results never mean anything.)