This is a change roughly equivalent to the C standards committee deciding that the reserved word "for" will be replaced with "of". Could it be done? Yes. Would it be a good idea? You decide on your own answer to that one.
Difference being that your project won't crash if you accidentally type Drosophila.
The split follows a core principle of nomenclature: when you have to fork the project, do it in a way that means the fewest number of species are affected. Keeping Drosophila melanogaster as a species would mean changing over a thousand species. Moving D. melanogaster and it's relatives to a new species affects a smaller number.
It will be called "Drosophila" until the last of the old geezers who worked with it in college dies off... that means you. And, another principle of nomenclature is that you don't reuse species names when a species is moved out of the genus. There will never be a melanogaster in the new Drosophila group to muck up the journals and databases.
This new name change will break thousands of studies which now references a fly does not exist.
It happens in microbiology a lot. Pastuerella pestis became Yersinia pestis... Bubonic Plague remained the same, and the old studies are still valid. How hard is it to set up a table of equivalents where Yersinia = Pasteurella
Botany has been systematically reclassifying plants by their genome, moving dozens of species, eliminating others.
Fat fiberoptic cable leads the light to a diffuser inside the building. The advantages are it's smaller than the tube on an ordinary skylight and can make sharper bends.
This is fabulous news for those earthquakes that occur during Bufo bufo species sex season that just happen to have a team of biologists observing them. When the males lose interest in sex, RUN!
But what about other seasons? And places that don't have Bufo bufo to rely upon? Will Bufo alvarius (Colorado River toad) work just as well? And can I claim it's an earthquake detector when I bet busted for toad-licking?
... a user who goes through three levels of menus, opens an advanced configuration window, checks three checkboxes, and hits the 'A' key gets a weird error message for his trouble
Is going to be one extremely unhappy user because they had a reason for going that deep into the sub-cellars of the software to get at that obscure feature... and it is likely that they are the sport of user who is a bit more tech-savvy and ready to bitch than Joe Average user.
The display models would come in real boxes with correct spellings, possibly with some disclaimer about the parts inside not being real.
Also the parts inside would probably be real ones that failed quality control so they would look a lot more realistic.
No, I've worked with Intel's display boxes. Intel's display boxes, such as are used for making stacks of product at trade shows or for ads and store displays, would be a real box (no typos and no hologram) with clearly fake parts inside only if necessary (anything that fails QC is supposed to be chopped in half!). For trade show decor, real boxes with a cardboard filler for strength is all they get, maybe a chunk of wood for weight.
That font and type quality on the box is NOT Intel... too fuzzy, like a cheap screen printer was used. When you are making thousands of boxes at a time, you can use better printers.
My guess is that someone in the supply chain made up a batch of these - enough for a case or two of them - and quickly switched the case for a case of genuine parts. Newegg is reporting 200 fakes, that's $80,000 which would be plenty to pay for cheap boxes and some filler bits.
Some of the studies were pretty simple, graphing autism rates compared to when the MMR vaccine was introduced. These should be easy to redo if the data is still available.
Yes, let's start by graphing the diagnosed cases of autism in the USA, where the MMR was introduced in 1971. See that rise in incidence... oh, wait, it's rising 10 years after the vaccine's introduction. What's happening? What changed just before the rise started?
It is common for a new diagnostic system, or a new discovery, to create a "new" disorder or radically change the reported incidence of an old one by changing the labels. Legionella's discovery, for example, moved a whole bunch of pneumonia cases from the bucket labeled "pneumonia of unknown origin" to the one labeled "Legionella pneumonia" and the total number of pneumonia cases stayed about the same. Way back in the early 1900s one southern USA state (I forget the name) was reporting thousands of cases of malaria a year. They changed the diagnostic criteria to require that a malaria parasite be seen in a blood smear of the patient.... the next year, there were no cases of malaria reported.
(from Wikipedia) Japan provided a natural experiment on the subject: combined MMR vaccine was introduced in 1989, but they stopped using it in 1993 and only single vaccines were used thereafter. In March 2005 a study of over 30,000 children (278 cases) born in one district of Yokohama concluded "The incidence of all autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), and of autism, continued to rise after MMR vaccine was discontinued. The incidence of autism was higher in children born after 1992 who were not vaccinated with MMR than in children born before 1992 who were vaccinated. The incidence of autism associated with regression was the same during the use of MMR and after it was discontinued." The authors concluded: "The significance of this finding is that MMR vaccination is most unlikely to be a main cause of ASD, that it cannot explain the rise over time in the incidence of ASD, and that withdrawal of MMR in countries where it is still being used cannot be expected to lead to a reduction in the incidence of ASD."
Developmental disorders become apparent when a child fails to reach expected milestones, or regresses... and in the first 3 years of life there are many milestones. Teething was previously blamed for causing "fits" and "idiocy". Vaccines have taken over the role of scapegoat, but the evidence is slowly mounting that the causes are genetic, probably combined with some external factor, because the brain structures that are different in autistic children are developed early in gestation (at 6-8 weeks AFAIR).
Can someone outline the flaws in the study? I know we here at/. are experts at things like that. But I also don't want to RTFA.
The worst flaw was that the supposed detection of measles virus was due to contamination. The technician who ran the tests told Wakefield that the positives were false positives and Wakefield published anyway.
So the point of this article is that physical tasks, like plumbing or carrying infected blood, can't be done electronically ?!?!
RTFA, dude. By using adding high-tech sensors and computer controlled routing to the pneumatic tubing system, they are shipping things around way faster than people could carry them... things that we could NOT ship in the 1980s.
Being able to have a straight tube delivering bags of blood between OR and blood bank is an amazing time saver for staff.
"I propose that every time anyone goes to the doctor/hospital, they have to sign a consent form acknowledging that their treatment was developed using animals." I'm all in favor of that.
And I'm going to pimp my article on how many common medical lab procedures absolutely require animal products. There are some critical tests that can't be done without them.
A company that runs its servers on Linux griping that free stuff will drive the big costly stuff out of business
I like Second life... it's graphical chat with some wildly creative visual artists. (not all the furries are perverts, and you don't get issued a freenis when you join.)
I examined the logs of the three "office discussions", and a total of thirty-five merchant avatars showed up. It was 3 hour-long discussions, held on a single day, that didn't even discuss all of the supposedly discussed changes.
There were no e-mails, although they claim to have twittered about the office hours.
If searching stimulates brain activity, then I ought to have found all the zeros to the Riemann zeta function, cured cancer and AIDS, and devised a way to travel to Mars for 50 cents.
Searching for pr0n doesn't count. However, your visual cortex has enlarged enough that your eyes are going to asplode.
Chilis are not native to Malaysia. They came from Mexico with the Spanish ships in the 1500s or 1600s.
Mexicans were cooking with chilis when Cortez & Co. arrived in the early 1500s, including cooking crabs with chilis.
Mexico has prior art and IP claims on the concept of cooking with chilis, chocolate, vanilla, avocados, tomatoes, turkeys, and corn. Peru has IP claims on cooking with potatoes. This means Europe has been stealing their cultural and culinary heritage for centuries. REPARATIONS ARE DUE!
That's full-color inside printing... even if 290 pages are only black and white, the printer is expensive to use to get the other 10 pages in color.
If you go to black and white inside pages, the price drops considerably: 1000 = Manufacturing cost: $20,500.00
Per unit cost: $20.50
And even a single copy run = Manufacturing cost: $22.50
This is going to mess up the content spinners and the paragraph swappers who are trying to either attract ads or build a link farm. Those who have well-build, informative, content-rich pages can sit back and watch the fun.
My nephew, age almost 4, had figured out the sequence of commands to start Sim City, enter the security code, and load a city. (he couldn't read, but he had excellent symbol-matching skills)
He had no strategy, he just bulldozed things until he ran out of money, then started a new game at random. I think he's working on managing Boston's Big Dig project now.
I can understand how this might allow med students to practice diagnosing something, but the OPs point about it being more valuable than resuscitating a dummy in real life seems way off. They will never be able to teach something that requires a specific physical action in a simulated world. For instance, you have to actually practice CPR on something that resembles a human in order to truly understand how to do CPR. You have to actually practice placing the defibrillator paddles on a human form, you can't just right click and select "defibrillate."
You are thinking like an organic mechanic. Very few doctors do a large amount of resuscitating and defibrillating patients. They need practice in interviewing skills to get diagnoses, which SL can give them. Getting a good patient history, and correctly interpreting it, means the difference between successfully treating the patient and not.
They need practice ordering lab tests and interpreting the results, ordering the right test, not pissing off the lab techs, not expecting TV medi-drama speed on the tests.
The hospitals can run the SL experience with ZERO investment into 3D equipment, and without taking up RL space in the hospital. I've participated in RL tyraining for interns and med students, and getting everyone into the same place at the same time is difficult. With SL, the "patient" can be in Cleveland and the med student in Detroit.
The avatars that are playing patients are responding in real time from a script (using voice chat), the test results come back in real time (minutes to days later) and the monitoring instruments are real time. If Dr. Disaster orders the wrong stuff, his patient may die on him in real time... and he can fill out the paperwork.
It's next-best thing to having the virtual reality simulators or actors playing patients.
Just slap some pink glitter on it and build in a makeup mirror into the screen and I'll buy it? Where did they get their consultants who advised them this would work? A time warp to the 1950s?
Slashdot Mirror
Difference being that your project won't crash if you accidentally type Drosophila.
The split follows a core principle of nomenclature: when you have to fork the project, do it in a way that means the fewest number of species are affected. Keeping Drosophila melanogaster as a species would mean changing over a thousand species. Moving D. melanogaster and it's relatives to a new species affects a smaller number.
It will be called "Drosophila" until the last of the old geezers who worked with it in college dies off ... that means you. And, another principle of nomenclature is that you don't reuse species names when a species is moved out of the genus. There will never be a melanogaster in the new Drosophila group to muck up the journals and databases.
It happens in microbiology a lot. Pastuerella pestis became Yersinia pestis ... Bubonic Plague remained the same, and the old studies are still valid. How hard is it to set up a table of equivalents where Yersinia = Pasteurella
Botany has been systematically reclassifying plants by their genome, moving dozens of species, eliminating others.
Why should zoology be immune to change?
http://huvco.com/products.php?product=parans
Fat fiberoptic cable leads the light to a diffuser inside the building. The advantages are it's smaller than the tube on an ordinary skylight and can make sharper bends.
But what about other seasons? And places that don't have Bufo bufo to rely upon? Will Bufo alvarius (Colorado River toad) work just as well? And can I claim it's an earthquake detector when I bet busted for toad-licking?
Is going to be one extremely unhappy user because they had a reason for going that deep into the sub-cellars of the software to get at that obscure feature ... and it is likely that they are the sport of user who is a bit more tech-savvy and ready to bitch than Joe Average user.
No, I've worked with Intel's display boxes. Intel's display boxes, such as are used for making stacks of product at trade shows or for ads and store displays, would be a real box (no typos and no hologram) with clearly fake parts inside only if necessary (anything that fails QC is supposed to be chopped in half!). For trade show decor, real boxes with a cardboard filler for strength is all they get, maybe a chunk of wood for weight.
That font and type quality on the box is NOT Intel ... too fuzzy, like a cheap screen printer was used. When you are making thousands of boxes at a time, you can use better printers.
My guess is that someone in the supply chain made up a batch of these - enough for a case or two of them - and quickly switched the case for a case of genuine parts. Newegg is reporting 200 fakes, that's $80,000 which would be plenty to pay for cheap boxes and some filler bits.
I'ts really very pointy-clicky.
Yes, let's start by graphing the diagnosed cases of autism in the USA, where the MMR was introduced in 1971. See that rise in incidence ... oh, wait, it's rising 10 years after the vaccine's introduction. What's happening? What changed just before the rise started?
What happened was the 1980 publication of new diagnostic criteria (the DSM-III) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders which caused diagnostic substitution. Many children who would previously have been called "mentally retarded" are now diagnosed as having autism.
It is common for a new diagnostic system, or a new discovery, to create a "new" disorder or radically change the reported incidence of an old one by changing the labels. Legionella's discovery, for example, moved a whole bunch of pneumonia cases from the bucket labeled "pneumonia of unknown origin" to the one labeled "Legionella pneumonia" and the total number of pneumonia cases stayed about the same. Way back in the early 1900s one southern USA state (I forget the name) was reporting thousands of cases of malaria a year. They changed the diagnostic criteria to require that a malaria parasite be seen in a blood smear of the patient .... the next year, there were no cases of malaria reported.
(from Wikipedia) Japan provided a natural experiment on the subject: combined MMR vaccine was introduced in 1989, but they stopped using it in 1993 and only single vaccines were used thereafter. In March 2005 a study of over 30,000 children (278 cases) born in one district of Yokohama concluded "The incidence of all autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), and of autism, continued to rise after MMR vaccine was discontinued. The incidence of autism was higher in children born after 1992 who were not vaccinated with MMR than in children born before 1992 who were vaccinated. The incidence of autism associated with regression was the same during the use of MMR and after it was discontinued." The authors concluded: "The significance of this finding is that MMR vaccination is most unlikely to be a main cause of ASD, that it cannot explain the rise over time in the incidence of ASD, and that withdrawal of MMR in countries where it is still being used cannot be expected to lead to a reduction in the incidence of ASD."
Developmental disorders become apparent when a child fails to reach expected milestones, or regresses ... and in the first 3 years of life there are many milestones. Teething was previously blamed for causing "fits" and "idiocy". Vaccines have taken over the role of scapegoat, but the evidence is slowly mounting that the causes are genetic, probably combined with some external factor, because the brain structures that are different in autistic children are developed early in gestation (at 6-8 weeks AFAIR).
The worst flaw was that the supposed detection of measles virus was due to contamination. The technician who ran the tests told Wakefield that the positives were false positives and Wakefield published anyway.
RTFA, dude. By using adding high-tech sensors and computer controlled routing to the pneumatic tubing system, they are shipping things around way faster than people could carry them ... things that we could NOT ship in the 1980s.
Being able to have a straight tube delivering bags of blood between OR and blood bank is an amazing time saver for staff.
And I'm going to pimp my article on how many common medical lab procedures absolutely require animal products. There are some critical tests that can't be done without them.
That's a codpiece? I thought you were just glad to see me.
I like Second life ... it's graphical chat with some wildly creative visual artists. (not all the furries are perverts, and you don't get issued a freenis when you join.)
There were no e-mails, although they claim to have twittered about the office hours.
Searching for pr0n doesn't count. However, your visual cortex has enlarged enough that your eyes are going to asplode.
Chilis are not native to Malaysia. They came from Mexico with the Spanish ships in the 1500s or 1600s.
Mexicans were cooking with chilis when Cortez & Co. arrived in the early 1500s, including cooking crabs with chilis.
Mexico has prior art and IP claims on the concept of cooking with chilis, chocolate, vanilla, avocados, tomatoes, turkeys, and corn. Peru has IP claims on cooking with potatoes. This means Europe has been stealing their cultural and culinary heritage for centuries. REPARATIONS ARE DUE!
Yes, but it's a new strain, so few people have antibodies. It's hitting young adults harder than the usual victims (elderly and babies). See http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/09/when_swine_flu_kills.php for a good discussion of why we should not take this lightly.
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/ Great flu blog
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/ Another flu blog.
Great! All we need now is the location of the torrent seed.
That's full-color inside printing ... even if 290 pages are only black and white, the printer is expensive to use to get the other 10 pages in color.
If you go to black and white inside pages, the price drops considerably:
1000 = Manufacturing cost: $20,500.00 Per unit cost: $20.50
And even a single copy run = Manufacturing cost: $22.50
This is going to mess up the content spinners and the paragraph swappers who are trying to either attract ads or build a link farm. Those who have well-build, informative, content-rich pages can sit back and watch the fun.
"Content Spinning" explained, kinda sorta
My nephew, age almost 4, had figured out the sequence of commands to start Sim City, enter the security code, and load a city. (he couldn't read, but he had excellent symbol-matching skills)
He had no strategy, he just bulldozed things until he ran out of money, then started a new game at random. I think he's working on managing Boston's Big Dig project now.
You are thinking like an organic mechanic. Very few doctors do a large amount of resuscitating and defibrillating patients. They need practice in interviewing skills to get diagnoses, which SL can give them. Getting a good patient history, and correctly interpreting it, means the difference between successfully treating the patient and not.
They need practice ordering lab tests and interpreting the results, ordering the right test, not pissing off the lab techs, not expecting TV medi-drama speed on the tests.
The hospitals can run the SL experience with ZERO investment into 3D equipment, and without taking up RL space in the hospital. I've participated in RL tyraining for interns and med students, and getting everyone into the same place at the same time is difficult. With SL, the "patient" can be in Cleveland and the med student in Detroit.
It's next-best thing to having the virtual reality simulators or actors playing patients.
Why doesn't he just buy New Orleans?
Just slap some pink glitter on it and build in a makeup mirror into the screen and I'll buy it? Where did they get their consultants who advised them this would work? A time warp to the 1950s?