Apologies, since this is extremely extremely offtopic and I deserve to be downmodded for it...... but I noticed in another thread you said you had a laptop with an i7 920. I am trying to decide whether to buy a laptop with an i7 920 (720, actually) or a high-end Core2Duo like T9600. The key for me will be battery life.
If you're feeling really generous, can you give me some basic specs on your i7 machine and offer a sense of what the battery life has been like while web surfing, etc? I have read many reviews, but none that I trust so much as another Slashdot user (sounds ridiculous, I know, but I'm not a manufacturer paying you for this review). I would be very grateful!
I didn't say, "This won't happen because we passed GINA." Instead, I pointed out that there is legislation that intends to deal with this problem. That is, I stated that the legislation was passed to address this problem, not that I felt that the legislation would 100% effective, which would be a different point entirely.
Certainly, I share your concern that insurance companies will always attempt to find loopholes so long as there is a profit motive to do so.
Anonymous coward is correct. This is genotyping, which is orders of magnitude less resource-intensive than gene sequencing.
Genotyping | sequencing || driving down the highway | Lewis and Clark's journey
Sequencing is pathfinding (they are not doing this). Genotyping is exploring the path that you already know is there (this is what they are doing). On the sequencing front, there is currently a 1000 genomes project - a massive collaboration of worldwide importance due to its difficulty and expense. On the other hand, genotyping 100,000 people is done all the time (heart attack GWAS, etc). The two concepts are enormously different.
The question of whether we can do "just about everything with adult stem cells" is still quite open.
Could we get more funding dedicated to stem cells if we required that it all be used for adult stem cell research? Yes. Would that accelerate the overall pace of advances in stem cell research? Quite possibly not. There are two different games right now: the first is to see what we can do with stem cells (this is largely being done with embryonic stem cells). The second is to see how we can make adult stem cells behave like embryonic stem cells. The second game feeds back into the first. Indeed, if we get good enough at the second, we will no longer need embryonic stem cells, and we can then focus all of our energies on seeing what we can do.
If and when we get really good at extracting or reprogramming adult cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, we will also have the side benefit of not having to worry about alloimunity (tissue rejection). For example, in the particular case being discussed here, the fear of alloimmunity was probably a key reason for making the effort to use the patient's own cells. In the meantime, from a scientific perspective, it is prudent to continue to invest in both embryonic stem cells and in research towards no longer needing embryos from which to harvest these cells.
Although funding for Yucca mountain will continue for at least 2009-2010 (per a congressional vote this past week), the site is still not licensed by federal regulators. Additionally, Obama is on the record as opposing the Yucca site.
So, while some may agree that Yucca is a fine place to store waste, the political winds make it unlikely that we will actually store waste there.
Hmm. I just did it again to make sure, and it still worked for me with latest iTunes and iPhone 3G S.
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Assuming you're using windows:
Open iTunes.
Edit ---> Preferences
General Tab
Change your Import Settings to AAC Encoder.
Right click on the song that will become your future ringtone and go to Options.
Make it start and end at the desired times (around 30 seconds between start and end).
Now right click on the song (it will appear in iTunes) and show the file in Explorer.
Rename it from.m4a to.m4r.
Drag it into iTunes. If you didn't have any ringtones before, a new Ringtones folder will be created (icon looks like a bell).
A hassle, yes, but certainly possible.
Within the medical world, we routinely talk about HIV/AIDS. The former is the sine qua non for the latter. Preventing the former leads to prevention of the latter. Thus, a successful vaccine will prevent HIV/AIDS.
Yes, definitely kidding; everyone deserves care, and in fact everyone deserves the care that Congresspeople are offered. It's simply a matter of finding a way to be able to offer it to everyone (and I recognize that there's nothing 'simple' about that search).
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Hate speech occupies the middle ground in terms of protection, it seems.
This just felt like one of those cracked.com articles all over digg, instead of a slashdot-worthy article. Sorry.
Or grab a torrent! http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
That's the most detail I've heard yet - thanks for the reply and the link.
Apologies, since this is extremely extremely offtopic and I deserve to be downmodded for it... ... but I noticed in another thread you said you had a laptop with an i7 920. I am trying to decide whether to buy a laptop with an i7 920 (720, actually) or a high-end Core2Duo like T9600. The key for me will be battery life.
If you're feeling really generous, can you give me some basic specs on your i7 machine and offer a sense of what the battery life has been like while web surfing, etc? I have read many reviews, but none that I trust so much as another Slashdot user (sounds ridiculous, I know, but I'm not a manufacturer paying you for this review). I would be very grateful!
I didn't say, "This won't happen because we passed GINA." Instead, I pointed out that there is legislation that intends to deal with this problem. That is, I stated that the legislation was passed to address this problem, not that I felt that the legislation would 100% effective, which would be a different point entirely.
Certainly, I share your concern that insurance companies will always attempt to find loopholes so long as there is a profit motive to do so.
Anonymous coward is correct. This is genotyping, which is orders of magnitude less resource-intensive than gene sequencing.
Genotyping | sequencing || driving down the highway | Lewis and Clark's journey
Sequencing is pathfinding (they are not doing this). Genotyping is exploring the path that you already know is there (this is what they are doing). On the sequencing front, there is currently a 1000 genomes project - a massive collaboration of worldwide importance due to its difficulty and expense. On the other hand, genotyping 100,000 people is done all the time (heart attack GWAS, etc). The two concepts are enormously different.
This is why we passed GINA: http://www.genome.gov/24519851
Why, thank you, that's the justification we've been looking for. Invoke Article III!
The question of whether we can do "just about everything with adult stem cells" is still quite open.
Could we get more funding dedicated to stem cells if we required that it all be used for adult stem cell research? Yes. Would that accelerate the overall pace of advances in stem cell research? Quite possibly not. There are two different games right now: the first is to see what we can do with stem cells (this is largely being done with embryonic stem cells). The second is to see how we can make adult stem cells behave like embryonic stem cells. The second game feeds back into the first. Indeed, if we get good enough at the second, we will no longer need embryonic stem cells, and we can then focus all of our energies on seeing what we can do.
If and when we get really good at extracting or reprogramming adult cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, we will also have the side benefit of not having to worry about alloimunity (tissue rejection). For example, in the particular case being discussed here, the fear of alloimmunity was probably a key reason for making the effort to use the patient's own cells. In the meantime, from a scientific perspective, it is prudent to continue to invest in both embryonic stem cells and in research towards no longer needing embryos from which to harvest these cells.
iPhone + Jailbreak = iPwn
At least, iPwn cellphone towers.
Although funding for Yucca mountain will continue for at least 2009-2010 (per a congressional vote this past week), the site is still not licensed by federal regulators. Additionally, Obama is on the record as opposing the Yucca site.
So, while some may agree that Yucca is a fine place to store waste, the political winds make it unlikely that we will actually store waste there.
It was sufficiently wrong and hyperbolic that many reasonable people were convinced that it was flamebait.
At any rate, I agree with you that differences of opinion should not cause one to be modded down.
Plus, since the feds own the vast majority of Nevada (>85%), it was already illegal to inhabit those areas, anyways. I'm not bitter; I'm just Nevadan.
This is really the correct response. As an aside, your username is rather apropos for this discussion.
cDNA comes from mRNA.
... 2.5 hours later ( http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/0531215/Traditional-News-Media-Lead-Blogs-By-25-Hours?from=rss )
The lyrics suck, and the sounds are often atrocious, but the beats are unfailingly catchy. Indie bands tend to eschew that.
Hmm. I just did it again to make sure, and it still worked for me with latest iTunes and iPhone 3G S.
Assuming you're using windows: Open iTunes. Edit ---> Preferences General Tab Change your Import Settings to AAC Encoder. Right click on the song that will become your future ringtone and go to Options. Make it start and end at the desired times (around 30 seconds between start and end). Now right click on the song (it will appear in iTunes) and show the file in Explorer. Rename it from .m4a to .m4r.
Drag it into iTunes. If you didn't have any ringtones before, a new Ringtones folder will be created (icon looks like a bell).
A hassle, yes, but certainly possible.
I know, right? What a disgusting waste of perfectly good food that has been on the ground for only 10 seconds!
Within the medical world, we routinely talk about HIV/AIDS. The former is the sine qua non for the latter. Preventing the former leads to prevention of the latter. Thus, a successful vaccine will prevent HIV/AIDS.
Actually, that is true.
Yes, you may, until 1==0.
Yes, definitely kidding; everyone deserves care, and in fact everyone deserves the care that Congresspeople are offered. It's simply a matter of finding a way to be able to offer it to everyone (and I recognize that there's nothing 'simple' about that search).