Having CloneCD installed (the current version as of this posting) is one of the biggest issues people are having. Simply changing the Reg Entry for CloneCD allows you to run the Sims no problem - of course, you have to change it back for CloneCD to work correctly.
Basically, it's checking for a registry entry. That's it. Very effective.:/
So, let's say USA sends 500 athletes. And 100 get doping allegations.
Korea sends 50, and ten of their athletes getsdoping charges against them.
Oh wow, america has so many more. Not really, same number of athletes 'cheating' in the olympic teams sent. No real difference. Both have 1 in 5 people they send using illegal doping agents.
Then again, you can test positive for 'doping' simply by training at high altitudes...so it's not all that accurate for all things.
Trying to put together a new system but I can't see dropping thousands and thousands on it. A similar combo was also recommended by Anandtech in their recent mid-level system guide.
Ok, I can get HBO - like 8-10 stations of it - 14$ or less a month with my digital cable or satellite.
I can tape shows, or TiVO them, and watch them over and over as much as I want.
AND I don't have to pay 50$ startup to initiate the channel. (Ok, cable installation, but you can get around that with promos all over...I've yet to see a big MMO give the game away for free).
It's just too pricey.
I put a teeny little 'my view' of the movie on my site - nothing to submit to slashdot, but the BIGGEST problem I have with the new movie is that Spidey isn't a smart ass...at ALL...during fights. If you've ever read the comics, that's one of his biggest things.
No matter the situation, Spidey always has a one liner to toss out. THere might have been 1-2 in the entire movie...even with the lower volume of action scenes, it was a big let down.
Ok, something is seriously wrong when I've read about a good number of recent articles in mass media/associated press articles before I see them on Slashdot. Losing a bit of an edge?
Seriously though, I come here for cutting edge news...not stuff rehashed from the USA Today blurbs from 2 days ago (literally on this story. It was in Washington Posts 'Express' mini-paper on tuesday).
Yes, and I've seen undergraduates jam a 5 1/4" floppy (folded up) into a 3 1/2" drive slot. And someone jam a CD into a 5 1/4" drive.
People are stupid. PhD's have nothing to do with it. Also, out of that room of people I bet at least 3-4 of them knew what to do but were grad students and too friggin shy to say/do anything. I've seen it a hundred times...then again I sometimes take shit for going up and showing the presenter how to use his own computer.
In biotech/scientific research, a Ph.D. is a MUST if you want to run a lab or a major project. No company is going to hand a large project over to a BS or a MS. It's not going to happen unless it's some kind of insane circumstances (that I have yet to encounter...though I am getting my Ph.D.).
The real 'thing' of it is that a Ph.D. ends up being a requirement you need when you can no longer get it easily. A MS and a PhD can get the same starting job, but after ten years working in the field the PhD (given they did decent jobs) can advance to a higher position easier and will have more paths open to him then an MS.
Some things I've read basically put a PhD as 5 years of work experience, a MS as 2 years, and a BS as 0.
Then again, you ask most science Ph.D.'s and they'll (as well as many liberal arts PhD owners/students) tell you flat out that a liberal arts PhD is completely pointless unless you want to be a liberal arts prof. Which, in short, is hard as hell to get a job at which pays you decently...(considering how much schooling you've done).
Civilization was a boardgame first (not exactly like the video game). Then S.M. made the game based on it, then they made the next board game. Convoluted, no?
Here's an example of why calling everything that's modified 'bad' - even with the very good concerned that have been listed:
Gene X is present in peas. It makes peas resistant to Pea Killing Disease. Unfortunately, the peas grow smaller when gene X is 'turned on' - so it has been bred out BY FARMERS over the years so they get bigger peas.
Evil Corporation Y changes the genome of peas so that Gene X is always turned on. It takes them 1 year to do the changes, 1 year to test the plant. They own the patent.
A university/gov. agency (no one else is EVER going to do research which can get them no patent) does smart breeding of peas. Say it takes a pea plant 4 months to grow to maturity. They know Gene X is what they need to have turned on. One-two labs get a grant for it (meaning they get paid to work on this. No grant = no research on the topic). They set up crossbreeding and allow the plants to grow to a testable age (4 months). Anyone with basic genetics background knows this will take 4-5 generations to get a 100% pure breeding strain. This strain will still revert to non-espressing (non turned on Gene X) if there are ANY of the non-gene X plants still in the population utilized to grow peas. After 4-10 years, they come out with a plant. It's non-GM. It may work as well as the corp. one, it might not. It's 'free' - as free as you can get since universities patent things as well now.
Difference: 4-5 years. Millions starved in third world country.
The point?: Unless your in a third world country and know what it's like to starve...don't push your feelings onto someone else. Let them grow food that will feed their people - or send them ALL of your food and starve yourself.
If one FORCED these genes on without the years of breeding the above takes, it's considered GM. Yes, even if the genes are already present in the genome...it's still evil evil GM food.
So...time saved? Years to decades. Outcome? Essentially the same. But it's not evil evil 'GM Food'. The main difference is one is most likely going to be corp. patented and one will be done at a University.
Lastly, the 'network of researchers around the world' isn't something that's easily achieved. As much as scientists want to simply help the world they are all fighting for grants just to feed themselves and keep their labs going. Until the world as a whole realizes they need to invest in science and allow scientists to not have to do 'hot/popular' science, everyone's just going to have to deal with corporations.
Sorry....but as a graduate student I get tired of hearing people bitch about the science that corporations pump out, but then not want to pay tax dollars to NIH or other similar gov. agencies that would have the research be released no-patent/etc.
As soon as I go to a conference and my animated PowerPoint slides aren't screwed to all hell I'll believe that MS has gotten one of THEIR programs to work the way THEY expect.
Parthenogenesis (straight from the Wikipedia Link): Parthenogenesis (Greek , "virgin", + , "birth") means the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male.
In other words, an embryo/seed develops without receiving a second set of chromosomes from a 'father'. It doesn't matter if that second set came from a female or a male.
When NPR covered this story, one of the scientists interviewed actually SAID this was different from parthenogensis, which had been demonstrated previously in many species.
Christians are not bound by Old Testament laws, so no stoning is required
What's great about this is how people ignore the things they WANT to in the Old Testament (since Jesus directed them that the old rules no longer applied in his new kingdom, etc.) - but they STILL use the ones they want to argue about homosexuality (via Sodom, etc.) and things of the like.
It's just scared people that can't accept anything different then what they've been raised with. Everything different MUST be wrong - otherwise it would be the same.
They are using these on primarily residential streets in Washington DC to slow traffic on these roads down. It's just a light - no intersection - in the middle of a road. It's annoying as hell since the speed limit on the road is 25 (when was the last time you actually DID 25 aside from when you are accelerating?)
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So, what your trying to say is it's a VGA display?
Basically, it's checking for a registry entry. That's it. Very effective. :/
Korea sends 50, and ten of their athletes getsdoping charges against them.
Oh wow, america has so many more. Not really, same number of athletes 'cheating' in the olympic teams sent. No real difference. Both have 1 in 5 people they send using illegal doping agents.
Then again, you can test positive for 'doping' simply by training at high altitudes...so it's not all that accurate for all things.
You know, I'm getting really tired of this calling Graduate Students monkeys thing. It has to stop.
Yeah and at Krispy Kreme from the look of those pictures.
If you haven't read the Register article, you should still head over to the Amazon.com page for the book and make sure you vote up the comments telling this story and why not to buy the book & vote down the others. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452 282535/qid=1091544986/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-735100 1-1544757?v=glance&s=books
While being molested is a horrible horrible thing, using it for your own personal greed and to hurt others is horrible as well.
And it's a 64! :)
Ok, I can get HBO - like 8-10 stations of it - 14$ or less a month with my digital cable or satellite. I can tape shows, or TiVO them, and watch them over and over as much as I want. AND I don't have to pay 50$ startup to initiate the channel. (Ok, cable installation, but you can get around that with promos all over...I've yet to see a big MMO give the game away for free). It's just too pricey.
No matter the situation, Spidey always has a one liner to toss out. THere might have been 1-2 in the entire movie...even with the lower volume of action scenes, it was a big let down.
Movie's still great though.
THen again, some people like that...but she's stick thin. She looks sort of like a bobble head doll.
All your files are belong to us.
Since it seems a company won't be held liable if I don't read their policy, why should this be any different?
Seriously though, I come here for cutting edge news...not stuff rehashed from the USA Today blurbs from 2 days ago (literally on this story. It was in Washington Posts 'Express' mini-paper on tuesday).
People are stupid. PhD's have nothing to do with it. Also, out of that room of people I bet at least 3-4 of them knew what to do but were grad students and too friggin shy to say/do anything. I've seen it a hundred times...then again I sometimes take shit for going up and showing the presenter how to use his own computer.
The real 'thing' of it is that a Ph.D. ends up being a requirement you need when you can no longer get it easily. A MS and a PhD can get the same starting job, but after ten years working in the field the PhD (given they did decent jobs) can advance to a higher position easier and will have more paths open to him then an MS.
Some things I've read basically put a PhD as 5 years of work experience, a MS as 2 years, and a BS as 0.
Then again, you ask most science Ph.D.'s and they'll (as well as many liberal arts PhD owners/students) tell you flat out that a liberal arts PhD is completely pointless unless you want to be a liberal arts prof. Which, in short, is hard as hell to get a job at which pays you decently...(considering how much schooling you've done).
Civilization was a boardgame first (not exactly like the video game). Then S.M. made the game based on it, then they made the next board game. Convoluted, no?
Gene X is present in peas. It makes peas resistant to Pea Killing Disease. Unfortunately, the peas grow smaller when gene X is 'turned on' - so it has been bred out BY FARMERS over the years so they get bigger peas.
Evil Corporation Y changes the genome of peas so that Gene X is always turned on. It takes them 1 year to do the changes, 1 year to test the plant. They own the patent.
A university/gov. agency (no one else is EVER going to do research which can get them no patent) does smart breeding of peas. Say it takes a pea plant 4 months to grow to maturity. They know Gene X is what they need to have turned on. One-two labs get a grant for it (meaning they get paid to work on this. No grant = no research on the topic). They set up crossbreeding and allow the plants to grow to a testable age (4 months). Anyone with basic genetics background knows this will take 4-5 generations to get a 100% pure breeding strain. This strain will still revert to non-espressing (non turned on Gene X) if there are ANY of the non-gene X plants still in the population utilized to grow peas. After 4-10 years, they come out with a plant. It's non-GM. It may work as well as the corp. one, it might not. It's 'free' - as free as you can get since universities patent things as well now.
Difference: 4-5 years. Millions starved in third world country.
The point?: Unless your in a third world country and know what it's like to starve...don't push your feelings onto someone else. Let them grow food that will feed their people - or send them ALL of your food and starve yourself.
If one FORCED these genes on without the years of breeding the above takes, it's considered GM. Yes, even if the genes are already present in the genome...it's still evil evil GM food.
So...time saved? Years to decades. Outcome? Essentially the same. But it's not evil evil 'GM Food'. The main difference is one is most likely going to be corp. patented and one will be done at a University.
Lastly, the 'network of researchers around the world' isn't something that's easily achieved. As much as scientists want to simply help the world they are all fighting for grants just to feed themselves and keep their labs going. Until the world as a whole realizes they need to invest in science and allow scientists to not have to do 'hot/popular' science, everyone's just going to have to deal with corporations.
Sorry....but as a graduate student I get tired of hearing people bitch about the science that corporations pump out, but then not want to pay tax dollars to NIH or other similar gov. agencies that would have the research be released no-patent/etc.
As soon as I go to a conference and my animated PowerPoint slides aren't screwed to all hell I'll believe that MS has gotten one of THEIR programs to work the way THEY expect.
Wrap a string around it and pull real fast every once and awhile. That'll keep it stabilized. :)
Hey, HERE'S A THOUGHT..the guy was ALREADY SEEING SOMEONE...possibly.
Parthenogenesis (straight from the Wikipedia Link): Parthenogenesis (Greek , "virgin", + , "birth") means the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male. In other words, an embryo/seed develops without receiving a second set of chromosomes from a 'father'. It doesn't matter if that second set came from a female or a male. When NPR covered this story, one of the scientists interviewed actually SAID this was different from parthenogensis, which had been demonstrated previously in many species.
It's just scared people that can't accept anything different then what they've been raised with. Everything different MUST be wrong - otherwise it would be the same.
They are using these on primarily residential streets in Washington DC to slow traffic on these roads down. It's just a light - no intersection - in the middle of a road. It's annoying as hell since the speed limit on the road is 25 (when was the last time you actually DID 25 aside from when you are accelerating?)
Sadly, my first thoughts on this weren't "Oh that's a good thing...", it was "What's the catch?"