trust me, we're far better off with animal testing...
without the genetics work done with Mice we would know far less about genetics than we do now. Almost every human gene identified was discovered after a homolog was found in a model animal first. There is no way to perform the conrolled breeding experiments we can do with model organisms in humans...
I live in Maine and some towers have been coming from Canada (but through the Jackman crossing), even some parts destined for the northeast part of Maine. I think those towers were made in Canada. I'm sure companies wouldn't be shipping parts into Searsport if they could do it cheaper some other way (like ship to Quebec City or Montreal and come through Jackman or Coburn Gore).
America has more research universities than any other country, most of that research is government funded (along with some privately funded research). We have national labs. Even private non-profit research labs that compete with universities for research grants. I work at a 1400 employee private non-profit biomedical research laboratory. Much of our funding comes from National Institute of Health grants (we also sell genetically defined laboratory mice as well as research services to help subsidize our research programs).
The original poster is obviously an idiot. Just because a private company is investing in research TO GET A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE does not mean the government is not investing in research. I'm sure most of the basic research that lead up to GM's own applied battery research was done at University and government labs.
not once you cancel your plan. When you cancel your plan you are giving up the phone number. You can transfer your phone number to a different carrier, but to do that you have to have the original account active when you initiate the number transfer. The process of transferring the number closes the original account.
Doing a MS degree can give you a couple years to specialize in a specific area of computer science like graphics, HPC, AI, compilers, etc. This can open doors for you when you get out in to the real world.
Its like having a couple years experience, and you can focus on an area, so you aren't stuck looking for entry level jobs.
I suspect this clause appears in the OS X eula (i never read it), but I used to work for a project funded by the US Army to develop HPC technology to support one hypersonic missile researcher. He was a Mac guy, and eventually we became Mac people.
Anyway, now I'm working at a cancer research laboratory, and still using OS X (although all my computationally intensive stuff runs on my Linux cluster - I use OS X for my workstation where I prototype/develop and then move over to the cluster when I need to run big computations (hundreds/thousands of CPU/hours)
Most countries are shunning private banks where everyone must keep their cord blood with public banks where people in participating hospitals donate the cord blood to the bank. The goal is to have enough cord blood donated to have matches for almost everyone that would need it. In fact, it is probably better to have a match from a non-relative. For example, most doctors do not want to use a child's own cord blood to treat leukemia since the reestablished immune system would probably also be susceptible to leukemia. Also treatment for genetic diseases should be done with cord blood from someone else's cord blood (ideally a non-relative).
http://www.nationalcordbloodprogram.org/donation/public_vs_private_donation.html
a Tesla comes in two form factors, a pci express card or a rack mount 1U system that contains 4 of the tesla cards and connects to a server or cluster node with two pci e cards. Not sure how you could confuse that with a PC.
Also, I was just ad a conference with the gentleman in charge of Tsubame, and if I recall correctly they had some of the 1U tesla systems in the cluster, although they may have used high end graphics cards too - they may have only had a limited number of the rack mount tesla systems for testing
I was on a flight recently and there was trouble with the in flight entertainment. They tried rebooting it twice, and we all got to watch our seatback screens booting linux complete with a penguin in the upper left of the screen during the boot.
It certainly helped me. As a grad student I worked on a high performance computing research project for the U.S. Army. It gave me the equivalent of several years experience in the area of High Performance computing. After graduation, the research project hired me on full time. I did that for a year and took a mid-level SE job doing HPC programming at a large biotech and was promoted to a senior level SE within a year (so senior level after being done grad school for 2 years).
You can use a M.S. as a way to get experience in a specific area of computer science (A.I., algorithms, graphics, operating systems, etc) and then look for a non-entry level position that requires specific experience.
They said the online sales were a different company that the retail store.
Maine fought it and they (Cabellas) eventually moved 4 or 5 staff from their online and phone orders into Maine so they would collect sales tax on internet and phone orders placed in Maine and the case wouldn't go to court, since if it was ruled that subsidiaries counted as a presence in the state it would affect many other states as well
probably from behavioral studies.
Once they find a mouse with a particular genetic defect they want to study they will breed that mouse with something like a "Black 6" mouse (the standard laboratory mouse). Then they take the offspring, find out which ones inherited the problem, and then start inbreeding them. After mating siblings with the genetic defect for 20 generations you end up with homozygous mice - all future mice in this new "inbred line" are now all genetically identical except for sex and spontaneous mutations.
Now someone studying these drugs calls up The Jackson Laboratory and says I'm studying drugs to cure autism, what mouse model would you recommend? Or they might know what model they want from reading publications, so they just say I want mouse X5B6/J (I made that strain ID up, but thats what they look like), and they are guaranteed to get mice with the specific genetic defect they are studying.
Or if they know they gene they want to turn off they can get a "knock out" mouse, which has been genetically modified to have a specific gene turned off.
I work as a software engineer at a 1400 employee genetics research laboratory. At our organization IT provides several standard hardware configurations for personal computers (15 or 17 inch Mac BookPros, two Lenovo laptop choices, and several desktop choices like an iMac or MacPro, or similar windows PCs). Non standard hardware configurations can be approved, but may have to come out of your departmental budget and unless its a server or something that isn't supported by the helpdesk folks then it is a huge pain in the ass. Servers are a different story.
We have 400-500 Macs on campus and a slightly higher number of PCs. I have an Apple laptop w/cinema display for my primary computer and a windows desktop that I rarely use. I have full admin on both, but both were initially configured by the helpdesk. I usually install my own software that isn't included in a standard configuration.
anyway, it is up to the deparment or group manager to determine if a user should have admin on his or her computer. In my group of SEs we all have admin. I also have root on a few linux VMs running on a sun blade system that we use for development or for hosting apps that our small group uses like subversion and bugzilla, even though primary sysadmin is handled by our IT department.
I'm a programmer and I use a Mac every day. Most of my code is number crunching scientific software than runs on a linux cluster in house, but my Mac has everything I need to do development
My state, Maine, has similar auto emissions regulations as California (we adopted the California emissions standard in 2000). You could not buy a new VW diesel car here in the state because they do not meet the emissions standards (new 2004, 2005, and 2006 TDIs were banned for sale by dealers in the state). VW decided to hold out until 2007 when the low sulfer diesel formulation was available which would allow them to pass the emissions tests without redesigning the engine. For the record, the TDI VWs passed all the tests except the nitrogen oxide test. I think the 2007 TDIs were available in Maine, bu I"m not positive
command line parsing may not be a bottlenect, but if you have to call your program a few thousand times in a script or something this can add up after a while.
I mean we could be talking about one or two minutes saved!!
you are Wrong, wrong WRONG!
Darwin, the kernel behind OS X, is a Mach-BSD hybrid. It has plenty of BSD code in the kernel and as such it is not a microkernel.
Mach handles low level things like processes, threads, preemptive multitasking, message passing, virtual memory management, etc
The BSD components of Xnu provide a POSIX interface, the Unix process model (build upon Mach tasks), user/groups/premissions, vfs, networking, mutexes,... This stuff is not userland.
I live in Maine and make about 75k, so I am pretty lucky. However, my wife has had a hard time finding a job that pays well. She has a BS in a science dicipline and is getting a masters degree in business and has settled for a 23k/yr job while she finishins her degree part time. Who knows what her employment situtation will be when she finishes.
with our income, which is above average for our area, we still don't have a lot of extra money. Our house was about 190k but it needs work (just finished a 6-7k DIY bathroom remodel) and since we are young (I'm 27) we didn't have a lot of cash for a down payment so we are stuck with PMI. Looking back i wish we had waited a couple years so we could put 20% down, but home prices had been increasing rapidly in the area and we didn't want to get left behind. They are still increasing but not nearly as much as they had been so i think we would have been OK waiting...
Every once in a while we think about packing up and moving out of state.
the climb to the summit only takes a couple days but it takes a month for a westerner to acclimatize. First they hike in to base camp and then hang out. then they do acclimatization trips up the mountaint, each time going higher, then back down to lower altitude to sleep. They would then return to advaced base camp or even base camp and rest, then make a summit push. Spending 30 days on the mountain and being in ABC isn't out of the ordinary. anyone making the summit has surely climed higher and back down to ABC during training. There are sherpas that could start from base camp and hit the summit in half a day provided they had spent a little time at elevation earlier in the season
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We have one hanging in one of the hallways here at work (I work at the laboratory founded by C.C. Little, who was mentioned in this article...)
trust me, we're far better off with animal testing... without the genetics work done with Mice we would know far less about genetics than we do now. Almost every human gene identified was discovered after a homolog was found in a model animal first. There is no way to perform the conrolled breeding experiments we can do with model organisms in humans...
I live in Maine and some towers have been coming from Canada (but through the Jackman crossing), even some parts destined for the northeast part of Maine. I think those towers were made in Canada. I'm sure companies wouldn't be shipping parts into Searsport if they could do it cheaper some other way (like ship to Quebec City or Montreal and come through Jackman or Coburn Gore).
America has more research universities than any other country, most of that research is government funded (along with some privately funded research). We have national labs. Even private non-profit research labs that compete with universities for research grants. I work at a 1400 employee private non-profit biomedical research laboratory. Much of our funding comes from National Institute of Health grants (we also sell genetically defined laboratory mice as well as research services to help subsidize our research programs).
The original poster is obviously an idiot. Just because a private company is investing in research TO GET A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE does not mean the government is not investing in research. I'm sure most of the basic research that lead up to GM's own applied battery research was done at University and government labs.
not once you cancel your plan. When you cancel your plan you are giving up the phone number. You can transfer your phone number to a different carrier, but to do that you have to have the original account active when you initiate the number transfer. The process of transferring the number closes the original account.
Doing a MS degree can give you a couple years to specialize in a specific area of computer science like graphics, HPC, AI, compilers, etc. This can open doors for you when you get out in to the real world. Its like having a couple years experience, and you can focus on an area, so you aren't stuck looking for entry level jobs.
I suspect this clause appears in the OS X eula (i never read it), but I used to work for a project funded by the US Army to develop HPC technology to support one hypersonic missile researcher. He was a Mac guy, and eventually we became Mac people. Anyway, now I'm working at a cancer research laboratory, and still using OS X (although all my computationally intensive stuff runs on my Linux cluster - I use OS X for my workstation where I prototype/develop and then move over to the cluster when I need to run big computations (hundreds/thousands of CPU/hours)
Most countries are shunning private banks where everyone must keep their cord blood with public banks where people in participating hospitals donate the cord blood to the bank. The goal is to have enough cord blood donated to have matches for almost everyone that would need it. In fact, it is probably better to have a match from a non-relative. For example, most doctors do not want to use a child's own cord blood to treat leukemia since the reestablished immune system would probably also be susceptible to leukemia. Also treatment for genetic diseases should be done with cord blood from someone else's cord blood (ideally a non-relative). http://www.nationalcordbloodprogram.org/donation/public_vs_private_donation.html
a Tesla comes in two form factors, a pci express card or a rack mount 1U system that contains 4 of the tesla cards and connects to a server or cluster node with two pci e cards. Not sure how you could confuse that with a PC. Also, I was just ad a conference with the gentleman in charge of Tsubame, and if I recall correctly they had some of the 1U tesla systems in the cluster, although they may have used high end graphics cards too - they may have only had a limited number of the rack mount tesla systems for testing
I was on a flight recently and there was trouble with the in flight entertainment. They tried rebooting it twice, and we all got to watch our seatback screens booting linux complete with a penguin in the upper left of the screen during the boot.
It certainly helped me. As a grad student I worked on a high performance computing research project for the U.S. Army. It gave me the equivalent of several years experience in the area of High Performance computing. After graduation, the research project hired me on full time. I did that for a year and took a mid-level SE job doing HPC programming at a large biotech and was promoted to a senior level SE within a year (so senior level after being done grad school for 2 years). You can use a M.S. as a way to get experience in a specific area of computer science (A.I., algorithms, graphics, operating systems, etc) and then look for a non-entry level position that requires specific experience.
VM Ware Fusion 2 supports OS X server as a guest OS. Unfortunately VM Ware Fusion requires OS X for the host OS...
the XNU kernel is open source. where can I get the source for the windows kernel?
I have a Linksys router with 10/100 Ethernet and 804.11g and I've had to reboot it only once or twice since I've owned it
They said the online sales were a different company that the retail store. Maine fought it and they (Cabellas) eventually moved 4 or 5 staff from their online and phone orders into Maine so they would collect sales tax on internet and phone orders placed in Maine and the case wouldn't go to court, since if it was ruled that subsidiaries counted as a presence in the state it would affect many other states as well
probably from behavioral studies. Once they find a mouse with a particular genetic defect they want to study they will breed that mouse with something like a "Black 6" mouse (the standard laboratory mouse). Then they take the offspring, find out which ones inherited the problem, and then start inbreeding them. After mating siblings with the genetic defect for 20 generations you end up with homozygous mice - all future mice in this new "inbred line" are now all genetically identical except for sex and spontaneous mutations. Now someone studying these drugs calls up The Jackson Laboratory and says I'm studying drugs to cure autism, what mouse model would you recommend? Or they might know what model they want from reading publications, so they just say I want mouse X5B6/J (I made that strain ID up, but thats what they look like), and they are guaranteed to get mice with the specific genetic defect they are studying. Or if they know they gene they want to turn off they can get a "knock out" mouse, which has been genetically modified to have a specific gene turned off.
do you mean "try to"?
I work as a software engineer at a 1400 employee genetics research laboratory. At our organization IT provides several standard hardware configurations for personal computers (15 or 17 inch Mac BookPros, two Lenovo laptop choices, and several desktop choices like an iMac or MacPro, or similar windows PCs). Non standard hardware configurations can be approved, but may have to come out of your departmental budget and unless its a server or something that isn't supported by the helpdesk folks then it is a huge pain in the ass. Servers are a different story. We have 400-500 Macs on campus and a slightly higher number of PCs. I have an Apple laptop w/cinema display for my primary computer and a windows desktop that I rarely use. I have full admin on both, but both were initially configured by the helpdesk. I usually install my own software that isn't included in a standard configuration. anyway, it is up to the deparment or group manager to determine if a user should have admin on his or her computer. In my group of SEs we all have admin. I also have root on a few linux VMs running on a sun blade system that we use for development or for hosting apps that our small group uses like subversion and bugzilla, even though primary sysadmin is handled by our IT department.
I'm a programmer and I use a Mac every day. Most of my code is number crunching scientific software than runs on a linux cluster in house, but my Mac has everything I need to do development
My state, Maine, has similar auto emissions regulations as California (we adopted the California emissions standard in 2000). You could not buy a new VW diesel car here in the state because they do not meet the emissions standards (new 2004, 2005, and 2006 TDIs were banned for sale by dealers in the state). VW decided to hold out until 2007 when the low sulfer diesel formulation was available which would allow them to pass the emissions tests without redesigning the engine. For the record, the TDI VWs passed all the tests except the nitrogen oxide test. I think the 2007 TDIs were available in Maine, bu I"m not positive
now I just need to figure out how to turn my cat into a shark
command line parsing may not be a bottlenect, but if you have to call your program a few thousand times in a script or something this can add up after a while. I mean we could be talking about one or two minutes saved!!
you are Wrong, wrong WRONG! Darwin, the kernel behind OS X, is a Mach-BSD hybrid. It has plenty of BSD code in the kernel and as such it is not a microkernel. Mach handles low level things like processes, threads, preemptive multitasking, message passing, virtual memory management, etc The BSD components of Xnu provide a POSIX interface, the Unix process model (build upon Mach tasks), user/groups/premissions, vfs, networking, mutexes, ... This stuff is not userland.
I live in Maine and make about 75k, so I am pretty lucky. However, my wife has had a hard time finding a job that pays well. She has a BS in a science dicipline and is getting a masters degree in business and has settled for a 23k/yr job while she finishins her degree part time. Who knows what her employment situtation will be when she finishes.
with our income, which is above average for our area, we still don't have a lot of extra money. Our house was about 190k but it needs work (just finished a 6-7k DIY bathroom remodel) and since we are young (I'm 27) we didn't have a lot of cash for a down payment so we are stuck with PMI. Looking back i wish we had waited a couple years so we could put 20% down, but home prices had been increasing rapidly in the area and we didn't want to get left behind. They are still increasing but not nearly as much as they had been so i think we would have been OK waiting...
Every once in a while we think about packing up and moving out of state.
the climb to the summit only takes a couple days but it takes a month for a westerner to acclimatize. First they hike in to base camp and then hang out. then they do acclimatization trips up the mountaint, each time going higher, then back down to lower altitude to sleep. They would then return to advaced base camp or even base camp and rest, then make a summit push. Spending 30 days on the mountain and being in ABC isn't out of the ordinary. anyone making the summit has surely climed higher and back down to ABC during training. There are sherpas that could start from base camp and hit the summit in half a day provided they had spent a little time at elevation earlier in the season