the key to making these safe is to make sure they can't breed
This could lead to more problems than it solves, there are many examples:
non-100% genetic neutering, where if the organism is introduced into nature the gene could become spread as a recessive one and lower the overall fitness of a species.
how does the genetic neutering affect other aspects of an organism, such as its food value for predators
how will this affect micro-organisms depending on a certain property of the organism's original makeup.
There are a host of other questions and problems with GE in general. If we cannot answer some of the questions surrounding genetic engineering, and our solution to this is genetic neutering, how can we have any faith in genetic neutering at all as a viable solution?
If the genetic community says on one hand that biotech is viable and safe and on the other that they have prevented possible problems through genetic neutering, how does the first statement have any validity?
I'm not knocking anything but its size/look and physical interface, which are the two items I deal with most frequently. I want a phone I can place in any pocket and use without looking at the buttons or re-learning the key layout.
You made some great points, the expandable storage is great.
Apparently there have been enough complaints about the 3650's terrible physical layout that they're releasing a model without the imitation rotary keypad. I can't remember what model, something like 3652.
They may be missing the point, but it looks like you are too. The 3650 is only slightly trumped by the N-Gage in uglitude. What with its giant gaudy (and incorrect) imitation of a rotary dial.
But in all seriousness, this is good news since the 7650 (same series 60 symbian OS) is a really cool looking and small phone and would benefit from this as well.
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I wonder when businesses will realize they are losing productivity through giving everyone internet connectivity and computers. I've worked at many jobs with direct control and monitoring capabilities of computers and noticed a large increase in the usage of online software and email for purely entertainment purposes. Internet access isn't the only culprit as at one job I remember a lady who would play solitaire for hours on end instead of doing her job. Most of the time what happens is in a crunch, the job gets done late and the company hires more people to fill the 'void'.
Lack of a decent work ethic is a major problem today.
finally we know the real use for segways. i never bought all of that propaganda for them in the first place since the pogo-ball was imo way cooler.
wait.. looks like this idea has its backround at MIT, I guess thats what IT was all about, they just forgot the M.
Or, if you want a quality low-memory usage, fast response time, innovative (gesture support and tabs long before Mozilla) browser that runs on almost everything [Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2, Solaris, FreeBSD, QNX, several Cell Phones (Nokia 3650/7650 N-Gage 6600 7700 9210i, Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P800 and P900, Sendo X, Motorola A920, BenQ P30), and some PDAs (Sharp Zaurus SL5500, Psion Revo+)] I'd suggest Opera.
I've gone through several browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, Galeon, Dillo, K, several versions of IE, Netscape, MyIE2, Arcane, Lynx, Links, Mosaic) looking for one that is FAST and uses very little memory (meaning I can use it on my P133 laptop) and Opera has come out on top. On slow machines I use the awesome Dillo browser (but it doesn't support very much yet so I often have to load up my full-fledged browser). The only other browsers that even came close as far as features to Opera were MyIE2 (free, based on IE, which supports gestures, ad blocking, and a whole lot more) and to a lesser degree firebird.
There are many 'Open Source/Free Software is always better' types out there who believe with blind faith the cause >> quality, and for those I cannot help.
If I take a photograph of a tree and encode it into bits, those bits will always represent the content of an image, even if some stupid Baudio-like program presents those bits as though they were some other sort of media.... If you honestly intend to listen to my image file... then maybe we can talk about it's merits as music/line noise.
How do you explain artists such as Aphex Twin (who purposely encoded his face into a song for his listener's enjoyment)? As one who enjoys Richard D. James' music, I have to argue that listening to images as audio is a reality. And honestly in many of his songs you can't even tell the difference between his homebrewed instruments and his face.
Granted his face isn't generally the most beautiful thing about his music.
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This could lead to more problems than it solves, there are many examples:
non-100% genetic neutering, where if the organism is introduced into nature the gene could become spread as a recessive one and lower the overall fitness of a species.
how does the genetic neutering affect other aspects of an organism, such as its food value for predators
how will this affect micro-organisms depending on a certain property of the organism's original makeup.
There are a host of other questions and problems with GE in general. If we cannot answer some of the questions surrounding genetic engineering, and our solution to this is genetic neutering, how can we have any faith in genetic neutering at all as a viable solution?
If the genetic community says on one hand that biotech is viable and safe and on the other that they have prevented possible problems through genetic neutering, how does the first statement have any validity?
You made some great points, the expandable storage is great.
Apparently there have been enough complaints about the 3650's terrible physical layout that they're releasing a model without the imitation rotary keypad. I can't remember what model, something like 3652.
But in all seriousness, this is good news since the 7650 (same series 60 symbian OS) is a really cool looking and small phone and would benefit from this as well.
Check the dictionary sometime, treble is a synonym for triple. Also, look at the law-specific lingo.
Yea! Thank God they thought of the poor telemarketers!
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...then you might have a case. This is meant to protect big business.
PHP db hook and you're home free
then how do you explain this pic I have of the new prototype?
I believe new progress in transparent transistor technology could bring many new display types to reality.
Check out the research done at OSU. I spoke with several of the research students regarding this technology and it looks promising.
One of their goals is to make transparent displays like in minority report a reality.
I wonder when businesses will realize they are losing productivity through giving everyone internet connectivity and computers. I've worked at many jobs with direct control and monitoring capabilities of computers and noticed a large increase in the usage of online software and email for purely entertainment purposes. Internet access isn't the only culprit as at one job I remember a lady who would play solitaire for hours on end instead of doing her job. Most of the time what happens is in a crunch, the job gets done late and the company hires more people to fill the 'void'. Lack of a decent work ethic is a major problem today.
finally we know the real use for segways. i never bought all of that propaganda for them in the first place since the pogo-ball was imo way cooler. wait.. looks like this idea has its backround at MIT, I guess thats what IT was all about, they just forgot the M.
Now don't even think about bypassing the BIOS's security measures... using the cmos clear jumper is now a violation of the DMCA.
Or, if you want a quality low-memory usage, fast response time, innovative (gesture support and tabs long before Mozilla) browser that runs on almost everything [Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/2, Solaris, FreeBSD, QNX, several Cell Phones (Nokia 3650/7650 N-Gage 6600 7700 9210i, Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P800 and P900, Sendo X, Motorola A920, BenQ P30), and some PDAs (Sharp Zaurus SL5500, Psion Revo+)] I'd suggest Opera.
I've gone through several browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, Galeon, Dillo, K, several versions of IE, Netscape, MyIE2, Arcane, Lynx, Links, Mosaic) looking for one that is FAST and uses very little memory (meaning I can use it on my P133 laptop) and Opera has come out on top. On slow machines I use the awesome Dillo browser (but it doesn't support very much yet so I often have to load up my full-fledged browser). The only other browsers that even came close as far as features to Opera were MyIE2 (free, based on IE, which supports gestures, ad blocking, and a whole lot more) and to a lesser degree firebird.
There are many 'Open Source/Free Software is always better' types out there who believe with blind faith the cause >> quality, and for those I cannot help.
How do you explain artists such as Aphex Twin (who purposely encoded his face into a song for his listener's enjoyment)? As one who enjoys Richard D. James' music, I have to argue that listening to images as audio is a reality. And honestly in many of his songs you can't even tell the difference between his homebrewed instruments and his face. Granted his face isn't generally the most beautiful thing about his music.