What if the prime reason for my big SUV with the big tires, and the skookum bush bar on the front is so I can say, go offroad?
If this is really what you bought it for (and actually do), Congratulations. You are one of the 0.5 % of SUV owners who actually should own an SUV. Unfortunately, 99.5 % of them are owened by soccer moms and men who need to overcompensate for something, and are just endangering us all on the roads, and burning very excessive amounts of gasoline.
Or he can be a Star Wars fan, and have had the sense to go to Starwars.com and seen that Lucas set up an area on his own website for Fan Films. Not only that, the area for the best of them is listed as "George Lucas selects & Audience Choice". No lawyers are needed. Lucas likes fan films.
Are you talking about SCID mice? I'd argue that those are very very far from 'normal' human immune systems, and might not have yielded much better safety data than the mice they used. It would be another nice model to test in, but it's still going to have a very different respnse to many agents than a fully human system/body.
I never understood the surprise of people at hostility to an obvious Troll.
The grandparent post was about Lucas' lawyers giving permission for fan films. You came back equating that to endorsing music pirating, or killing being fine. That, my friend, is a troll.
If you are too lazy to google for yourself, you could easily go to www.starwars.com and see for yourself. Notice the "Lucas Online" at the bottom? That site is owned by Lucas. Also, notice what is right above that notice at the bottom? "Star Wars Fan Films, 2006 finalists, vote now."
Shock. Horror, he actually is encouraging fan films. Not that you couldn't have quickly googled that yourself. No. It's much more fun to equate a reference to his allowing it as endorsing pirating or killing.
Umm, who said anything about pirating music? And where the hell does killing come in? What a troll.
Lucas has for years said fan movies of Star Wars are OK as long as they don't turn a profit. This doesn't imply any other autors/screenwriters/directors think it's ok to make rip-offs of their movies. It's something Lucas has specifically said he's OK with. That's why it's ok with Lucas' laywers.
This isn't saying it's OK to make any ripoffs of any Spielberg, Woody Allen, etc, etc, movies. Just Lucas, and Star Wars specifically. Get it?
Drugs often have different effects in humans than in test animals. There are a number of disease we can sucessfully treat in lab rats that we can't in humans because the biology is different. Sucessful tests in animal studies is merely an inidcator that a drug may work in humans, it's no guarantee. Likewise, some drug that may work well in treating a human disease may never make it to clinical trials, because the animals it was tested on had a bad reaction to it due to their different biology.
The big screwup in this trial was giving it to a number of patients, for the first time, only minutes apart. This is NEVER supposed to be done with a new drug. (There are clinical trials going on one floor above me right now. Everyone in the place shudders when they heard these idiots did that). You always test which you think is a very small dose (like these poeple did, thinking it was 500x less than what they thought would be a safe dose from the animal models), then you wait for a few days to make sure there are no major reactions to it. Injecting numerous people within minutes is crazy. If they'd merely wated an hour before trying to inject the 2nd person, they would have stopped, and there would only be one person with a toasted immune system right now.
There will always be occasional bad results in drug trials. This one was greatly exacerbated by the incompetence of those performing it.
What you don't seem to realize is that IE isn't embedded in 3rd party email clients like Thunderbird and Eudora, but the attachment will still hammer Firefix when you run it, just as it will in Outlook.
It's not just rich nutjobs trying to buy their way to the top who hire a couch. Plenty of people in this world who know they are never ever going to be a professional golfer, will buy a lesson or two off a local golf pro. Why? So that they become a little better, and can play a little more evenly with a group of friends that they go out with regularly. I wouldn't do it, but I can imagine someone might buy a computer game lesson or two somewhere so they could be a little more competitive with their group of friends when they get togeather for LAN parties, etc.
Let me get this straight. You thought the earth ships (fighters) were terrible, then rip on things that are 'completely fake looking'. The earth fighters were the most realistic ships I've ever seen on ANY Sci-fi series EVER. Why? The moved according to physics. They didn't 'fly' through some non-existant media in space. When they want to move in a different direction, they rotate, then accellerate, they don't make broad sweeping turns through the 'air' of space as it exists in most sci-fi shows.
You really should go back and watch more than the first season. In many series (TNG leaps to mind, though I'm not going to put that up as an example of 'good' acting) you see the first season has much worse acting than later seasons. It often takes actors a while to 'find' their character and really get into the role. That's even more true in the case of B5, because there was so much foreshadowing written into the script. The actors were required to stick to the script word-for-word with no ad-libing (sp?). That often makes it harder for the actors to put more of themselves into the role and leads to more wooden acting. After they've lived with the characters for a while, they can get much more into it while still sticking strictly to the script. The acting of most of the characters got much much better in later seasons compared to the first.
I have to agree about this being a maybe. We already know a lot about these characters, and we've seen the future end of many of them, so there aren't any big surprises coming. Rather than potentially 'ruining' those beloved characters, with unknown scripts with the actors a decade older, I'd rather see stories with new characters set in his detailed universe. I was sorry to see the past spinoffs ruined by studio interference or too short-lived of series to have a chance to develop. If they'd give him totally free-reign, I'd love to see what he could do with another 5 seasons-arc in another part of his universe.
Someone new to the field might not know what parts were missing that really should have been included. It's always better to have someone who knows the area do the review, in conjunction, if possible, with a newbie so that they can see what information transfers well, as well as what areas are lacking.
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Dear tin-foil-hat wearing nimrod,
The pharmacutical companies don't control all medical research. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) spent ~$28 BILLION last year funding medical research. That's your tax dollars at work. Most of the money went to University researchers or researchers at the NIH campus itself to do medical research for the public good.
Speaking as one of those researchers, we try to do the best reasearch possible, and then we publish our results in peer-reviewed journals, where anyone, anywhere on the planet who can get to a library, can get access to the results.
Every one of us would love to discover the cure to a disease. We'd instantly get much more visability in our field, and guaranteed funding for many more years of study.
So the 'big-nasty pharmacutical companies' aren't hiding the cure from every major disease from you. There are thousands of researchers working on these problems every day, with the experiments, protocols, and results published for everyone who cares to look, to see.
While I agree with all the rest of your post, I disagree with this bit:
What doesn't make sense is concealing this from the organization that obtained the certification to begin with, and presumably could save the Federal government much cost and inconvenience by addressing the problem. IN fact, it's terrible.
It makes sense to conceal it from the organization... temporarily. Until you get your machines switched over to some other secure system if you found a major security hole in theirs.
Although the protocol was certified, that doesn't mean that every person in the organization which made it has passed a 'top-secret' or whatever level background check, or sworn an oath about keeping the new hole secret from spouses, friends, colleagues, etc. They might fear someone 'bad' in the organization, or who knows someone in it, will find out about the hole before their machines are secured. I think that as long as they inform the organization within a reasonable timeframe (how long should it take to switch all their machines to a new system? A couple weeks?), that temporarily withholding the information from the organization might be prudent.
Of course, with the track record of the current administration, I'm skeptical that they will actually 'do-the-right-thing' in the end.
Yep. You are right. I'm out of date. I didnt' realize any vendors had 5100's availabe. And since I hadn't seen any of those chips on Pricewatch, I thought they were still shipping later.
In my defense, The Register had this article today about "Intel 'Tulsa' 65nm Xeon MPs to ship 27 August?". I thought those were the 5100's, and didn't realize they were 7100's.
The author is silly talking about current Xeon's vs new Duo anyhow. Conroe (Duo-tech) based Xeon chips will be coming out in September. Those will likely blow away any thoughts of using current Xeons just as the new Duo's will disuade anyone from wanting an old Pentium D series chip in their machine.
In a lot of the reviews, the E6300 was more in line with the X2 4200. And if AnandTech is right, those chips may very well end up being similarly priced. Since the chips won't be readily available until at least August 7th, I'd wait to see what AMD's cuts are like. I think they will keep the pricing competitive. They will have to, since they've now lost the performance edge.
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If this is really what you bought it for (and actually do), Congratulations. You are one of the 0.5 % of SUV owners who actually should own an SUV. Unfortunately, 99.5 % of them are owened by soccer moms and men who need to overcompensate for something, and are just endangering us all on the roads, and burning very excessive amounts of gasoline.
Or he can be a Star Wars fan, and have had the sense to go to Starwars.com and seen that Lucas set up an area on his own website for Fan Films. Not only that, the area for the best of them is listed as "George Lucas selects & Audience Choice". No lawyers are needed. Lucas likes fan films.
Are you talking about SCID mice? I'd argue that those are very very far from 'normal' human immune systems, and might not have yielded much better safety data than the mice they used. It would be another nice model to test in, but it's still going to have a very different respnse to many agents than a fully human system/body.
The grandparent post was about Lucas' lawyers giving permission for fan films. You came back equating that to endorsing music pirating, or killing being fine. That, my friend, is a troll.
If you are too lazy to google for yourself, you could easily go to www.starwars.com and see for yourself. Notice the "Lucas Online" at the bottom? That site is owned by Lucas. Also, notice what is right above that notice at the bottom? "Star Wars Fan Films, 2006 finalists, vote now."
Shock. Horror, he actually is encouraging fan films. Not that you couldn't have quickly googled that yourself. No. It's much more fun to equate a reference to his allowing it as endorsing pirating or killing.
So no, I don't get it.
You are a troll. Troll's never seem to get it.
Lucas has for years said fan movies of Star Wars are OK as long as they don't turn a profit. This doesn't imply any other autors/screenwriters/directors think it's ok to make rip-offs of their movies. It's something Lucas has specifically said he's OK with. That's why it's ok with Lucas' laywers.
This isn't saying it's OK to make any ripoffs of any Spielberg, Woody Allen, etc, etc, movies. Just Lucas, and Star Wars specifically. Get it?
Did you even read the paragraph, let alone the article? Where do you think the condition of 'no-profit' came from?
The drug was tested in mice. And in primates.
Drugs often have different effects in humans than in test animals. There are a number of disease we can sucessfully treat in lab rats that we can't in humans because the biology is different. Sucessful tests in animal studies is merely an inidcator that a drug may work in humans, it's no guarantee. Likewise, some drug that may work well in treating a human disease may never make it to clinical trials, because the animals it was tested on had a bad reaction to it due to their different biology.
The big screwup in this trial was giving it to a number of patients, for the first time, only minutes apart. This is NEVER supposed to be done with a new drug. (There are clinical trials going on one floor above me right now. Everyone in the place shudders when they heard these idiots did that). You always test which you think is a very small dose (like these poeple did, thinking it was 500x less than what they thought would be a safe dose from the animal models), then you wait for a few days to make sure there are no major reactions to it. Injecting numerous people within minutes is crazy. If they'd merely wated an hour before trying to inject the 2nd person, they would have stopped, and there would only be one person with a toasted immune system right now.
There will always be occasional bad results in drug trials. This one was greatly exacerbated by the incompetence of those performing it.
Really? Thunderbird does a pretty rotten job of sorting out spam on my machine. I think it's one of the worse filter's I've used.
What you don't seem to realize is that IE isn't embedded in 3rd party email clients like Thunderbird and Eudora, but the attachment will still hammer Firefix when you run it, just as it will in Outlook.
That's for marking your post that is pure FUD as FUD with the title.
The trojan is being distributed through spam emails. It has zero to do with Internet Explorer.
Someone please mod this troll to oblivion.
It's not just rich nutjobs trying to buy their way to the top who hire a couch. Plenty of people in this world who know they are never ever going to be a professional golfer, will buy a lesson or two off a local golf pro. Why? So that they become a little better, and can play a little more evenly with a group of friends that they go out with regularly. I wouldn't do it, but I can imagine someone might buy a computer game lesson or two somewhere so they could be a little more competitive with their group of friends when they get togeather for LAN parties, etc.
Let me get this straight. You thought the earth ships (fighters) were terrible, then rip on things that are 'completely fake looking'. The earth fighters were the most realistic ships I've ever seen on ANY Sci-fi series EVER. Why? The moved according to physics. They didn't 'fly' through some non-existant media in space. When they want to move in a different direction, they rotate, then accellerate, they don't make broad sweeping turns through the 'air' of space as it exists in most sci-fi shows.
You really should go back and watch more than the first season. In many series (TNG leaps to mind, though I'm not going to put that up as an example of 'good' acting) you see the first season has much worse acting than later seasons. It often takes actors a while to 'find' their character and really get into the role. That's even more true in the case of B5, because there was so much foreshadowing written into the script. The actors were required to stick to the script word-for-word with no ad-libing (sp?). That often makes it harder for the actors to put more of themselves into the role and leads to more wooden acting. After they've lived with the characters for a while, they can get much more into it while still sticking strictly to the script. The acting of most of the characters got much much better in later seasons compared to the first.
I have to agree about this being a maybe. We already know a lot about these characters, and we've seen the future end of many of them, so there aren't any big surprises coming. Rather than potentially 'ruining' those beloved characters, with unknown scripts with the actors a decade older, I'd rather see stories with new characters set in his detailed universe. I was sorry to see the past spinoffs ruined by studio interference or too short-lived of series to have a chance to develop. If they'd give him totally free-reign, I'd love to see what he could do with another 5 seasons-arc in another part of his universe.
Someone new to the field might not know what parts were missing that really should have been included. It's always better to have someone who knows the area do the review, in conjunction, if possible, with a newbie so that they can see what information transfers well, as well as what areas are lacking.
Dear tin-foil-hat wearing nimrod,
The pharmacutical companies don't control all medical research. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) spent ~$28 BILLION last year funding medical research. That's your tax dollars at work. Most of the money went to University researchers or researchers at the NIH campus itself to do medical research for the public good.
Speaking as one of those researchers, we try to do the best reasearch possible, and then we publish our results in peer-reviewed journals, where anyone, anywhere on the planet who can get to a library, can get access to the results.
Every one of us would love to discover the cure to a disease. We'd instantly get much more visability in our field, and guaranteed funding for many more years of study.
So the 'big-nasty pharmacutical companies' aren't hiding the cure from every major disease from you. There are thousands of researchers working on these problems every day, with the experiments, protocols, and results published for everyone who cares to look, to see.
What doesn't make sense is concealing this from the organization that obtained the certification to begin with, and presumably could save the Federal government much cost and inconvenience by addressing the problem. IN fact, it's terrible.
It makes sense to conceal it from the organization... temporarily. Until you get your machines switched over to some other secure system if you found a major security hole in theirs.
Although the protocol was certified, that doesn't mean that every person in the organization which made it has passed a 'top-secret' or whatever level background check, or sworn an oath about keeping the new hole secret from spouses, friends, colleagues, etc. They might fear someone 'bad' in the organization, or who knows someone in it, will find out about the hole before their machines are secured. I think that as long as they inform the organization within a reasonable timeframe (how long should it take to switch all their machines to a new system? A couple weeks?), that temporarily withholding the information from the organization might be prudent.
Of course, with the track record of the current administration, I'm skeptical that they will actually 'do-the-right-thing' in the end.
Really? I come to /. for the dupes.
In my defense, The Register had this article today about "Intel 'Tulsa' 65nm Xeon MPs to ship 27 August?". I thought those were the 5100's, and didn't realize they were 7100's.
Yep. Apparently some of the new articles I just read on the Duo had the old info, plus I hadn't seen them on pricewatch yet.
The author is silly talking about current Xeon's vs new Duo anyhow. Conroe (Duo-tech) based Xeon chips will be coming out in September. Those will likely blow away any thoughts of using current Xeons just as the new Duo's will disuade anyone from wanting an old Pentium D series chip in their machine.
In a lot of the reviews, the E6300 was more in line with the X2 4200. And if AnandTech is right, those chips may very well end up being similarly priced. Since the chips won't be readily available until at least August 7th, I'd wait to see what AMD's cuts are like. I think they will keep the pricing competitive. They will have to, since they've now lost the performance edge.
Yes it does. If it's labelled 'opteron 2x series dual core', it's marketed for servers. If it's labelled '4x4', it's marketed to enthusiasts.
My guess is it's far more likely just to be a re-branding of the 2x Opteron series... Marketed to enthusiests.
"Oh, the humanity."