I've never had a problem like this with my computer, but a TV that I have would work and then suddenly turn off. The only way to turn it back on was to lift the cable line or wiggle it around. Obviously, some sort of connection inside was messed up.
Eventually, it stopped working so I opened it up and didn't see a problem, but it worked when I flexed the mainboard. So, I just left the screws off the back (holding the board to the case) and every few months had to shove another piece of cardboard inside to flex the board more and get the TV to work. Needless to say, eventually this process didn't work so a friend of mine and I opened the TV again and played with flexing the main board while the TV was powered (bad idea) until there was a small explosion on the board. We then saudered the connection where the explosion occurred and amazingly the TV has never given me trouble since.
So, when the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is only alightly above the surface of the Earth and I stand at that point, does that classify me as a planet with two moons?
A recent study (Hsiao et al., 2004) shows that, during progressive growth, secretion of TGF-b1 by CTVT acts as a potent local inhibitor of host immune responses, as does the downmodulation of DLA class I and II expression observed by us and others (Cohen et al., 1984).
DLA is basically the dog immune system method of identifying 'self'. These tumor cells are hiding the fact that they are not-'self' well enough that they easily overwhelm any immune response.
So how do you feel about tax differences in these areas? Any comments from people in Alaska (no income or sales tax) or New Hampshire (only tax on dividends/interest and no sales tax)?
Slower thickening of the cortext != slow starters. Actually, it's not even slower thickening...
Actually, the summary says "tend to have a slow start in the development of their cortex" which is true from the article. If you look at the only figure in the article you will see that the blue line (superiorly intelligent children) has a start of thickening and peak thickining significantly delayed from their peers.
it's that it gets thicker,
You will also note that the peak value for the blue line does not exceede the yellow line (high intelligence).
takes longer to thin...
Directly from the article: "It also thins faster during the late teens..."
Please note that Slashdot editors have the freedom to edit both the title submitted and the summary of the article (which they do).
First of all, why pick people from Utah? Well, what is the most important thing when searching for haplotypes in a population? You can't tell that it is a haplotype unless you have recent evidence of transfers together. Therefore, we want... inbreeding. Yes, it is very important in this study to have families with a recent genetic ancestor.
269 people should be fine when searching for common SNPs for haplotype mapping... These SNPs should show up around 50% of the time.
First of all, most SNPs are free information. dbSNP contains ~5 million validated SNPs and ~27 million reported SNPs in humans. Celera owns a lot of SNP finds, but most are junk (sequencing errors) and they will be giving them to the free databases soon.
However, the importance of this article has nothing to do with the number of SNPs available or the fact that the SNPs are common (because of the low sample size). The whole point is to have SNPs that exist in ~50% of the population so that the haplotype can be determined. The Haplotype shows which segments of the genome tend to be inherited together. This can be traced back for multiple generations of inheritance - essentially there are ancient haplotypes and more modern haplotypes. The importance of looking at haplotypes is that it allows researchers to see which region an important mutation relating to a disease may occur in. Note that just by knowing which haplotype the disease causing mutation occurs in does not let us know which SNP or insertion/deletion event causes the disease.
Well, there are 7.5 million millionaires in the US with $11 trillion in assets who need to spend their money on something. This looks like a very good option to me and I think our upperclass would flock to it much like luxury cruising in the 30s.
Another perfect example is from SBC 2004. MIT professors developed this "cutting edge" biological technology where students can build biological system using component parts. In a competition among 'top' schools (MIT, Princeton, Caltech, etc) UT Austin dominated. (And ended up with a really cool product.)
Computational Biology or Systems Biology is the way to go for current people interested in computers but also interested in experimental research. If you haven't heard, this is one of the fields with people in the highest demand. Get paid to go to graduate school for awhile.
I actually know Don Wetzel and his life would probably be very interesting to read about by both engineers and others. The other things he has done in life would amaze you (he didn't just invent the ATM). He is also very kind and generous. One interesting fact is that he has 40 grandchildren (actually I think it may be 41 now).
Now if he would only teach me the maintence code to the machine so I can make it think the $20's are $1's...
Do a little reading and you will find that DNA is very easily added to a species genome.
Now, I will provide some evidence to back this up:
Viral Transformation is a very common tool for genetic alterations of organisms. It is also a common occurance in non-intended genetic alterations, such as Cowpea mosaic comovirus which inserts its DNA into plants (please note that plants are considered higher organisms).
But wait! If plants are still not good enough for you, there is the GloFish which is a genetic alteration allowing it to fluoresce. Now, it would be highly unethical to do this to a human, but it is very possible.
In addition, there are many things in the human genome (LINEs, SINEs, etc) that frequently move. How do you think that everyone ends up with a different genome if nothing is able to change? Most changes and mutations don't do anything or cause harm, but with time good ones will arise. In fact, good mutations (at least in their terms) frequently occur in bacteria and viruses allowing them to become immune to antibiotics and to our specific T-cells (respectively).
The money wouldn't be better spent on NASA projects as it costs a lot more to do it NASA's way than a private company can do it for. The money might provide a sort of competitve spirit so that people have a goal. It seems that competiton is as important as money to some people.
Consider a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. The Print subtends an angle of 53 x 35.3 degrees, thus requiring 53*60/.3 = 10600 x 35*60/.3 = 7000 pixels, for a total of ~74 megapixels to show detail at the limits of human visual acuity.
Mass doesn't ever change because of temperature or pressure or stuff like that. The only way to change mass is to convert energy to mass or mass to energy. (ie. fission or fusion)
On the contrary, the phoebe probe will give us extremely valuable insight into the creation of our Solar System. In fact, it already has in that it is cratered (albeit, not seen as a major discovery to most people). Scientists have wondered for years how it managed to only reflect 6% of the light hitting it. In addition, since this may be a Kuiper object, it would be the only (relatively) stationary one within reasonable range from Earth to study.
From my experience (I currently work in the biotechnology sector) most information is already 'open source'. If you take into account all of the public universities and not-for-profit institutions (Mayo Clinc, TIGR, NIH, etc), you will find that most research is done in the public sector. All of the methodology and results are published (which can cost to get a copy, but you can always request one from the author for free - authors get hundreds of copies of their article) and are available to anyone who wishes to repeat or further the experimentation.
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I've never had a problem like this with my computer, but a TV that I have would work and then suddenly turn off. The only way to turn it back on was to lift the cable line or wiggle it around. Obviously, some sort of connection inside was messed up.
Eventually, it stopped working so I opened it up and didn't see a problem, but it worked when I flexed the mainboard. So, I just left the screws off the back (holding the board to the case) and every few months had to shove another piece of cardboard inside to flex the board more and get the TV to work. Needless to say, eventually this process didn't work so a friend of mine and I opened the TV again and played with flexing the main board while the TV was powered (bad idea) until there was a small explosion on the board. We then saudered the connection where the explosion occurred and amazingly the TV has never given me trouble since.
So, when the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is only alightly above the surface of the Earth and I stand at that point, does that classify me as a planet with two moons?
From the original article in Cell:
A recent study (Hsiao et al., 2004) shows that, during progressive growth, secretion of TGF-b1 by CTVT acts as a potent local inhibitor of host immune responses, as does the downmodulation of DLA class I and II expression observed by us and others (Cohen et al., 1984).
DLA is basically the dog immune system method of identifying 'self'. These tumor cells are hiding the fact that they are not-'self' well enough that they easily overwhelm any immune response.
So how do you feel about tax differences in these areas? Any comments from people in Alaska (no income or sales tax) or New Hampshire (only tax on dividends/interest and no sales tax)?
Books make people unhappy, they make them anti-social.
Slower thickening of the cortext != slow starters. Actually, it's not even slower thickening...
Actually, the summary says "tend to have a slow start in the development of their cortex" which is true from the article. If you look at the only figure in the article you will see that the blue line (superiorly intelligent children) has a start of thickening and peak thickining significantly delayed from their peers.
it's that it gets thicker,
You will also note that the peak value for the blue line does not exceede the yellow line (high intelligence).
takes longer to thin...
Directly from the article: "It also thins faster during the late teens..."
Please note that Slashdot editors have the freedom to edit both the title submitted and the summary of the article (which they do).
Hyperkore does some nice laser etchings for pretty cheap.
Can you stream HD over your home network (wired) w/ MythTV w/out quality loss?
Leading to the obvious conclusion... What else are the space shuttles going to be used for once NASA reverts to capsules?
A human geneticist, eh?
First of all, why pick people from Utah? Well, what is the most important thing when searching for haplotypes in a population? You can't tell that it is a haplotype unless you have recent evidence of transfers together. Therefore, we want... inbreeding. Yes, it is very important in this study to have families with a recent genetic ancestor.
269 people should be fine when searching for common SNPs for haplotype mapping... These SNPs should show up around 50% of the time.
First of all, most SNPs are free information. dbSNP contains ~5 million validated SNPs and ~27 million reported SNPs in humans. Celera owns a lot of SNP finds, but most are junk (sequencing errors) and they will be giving them to the free databases soon.
However, the importance of this article has nothing to do with the number of SNPs available or the fact that the SNPs are common (because of the low sample size). The whole point is to have SNPs that exist in ~50% of the population so that the haplotype can be determined. The Haplotype shows which segments of the genome tend to be inherited together. This can be traced back for multiple generations of inheritance - essentially there are ancient haplotypes and more modern haplotypes. The importance of looking at haplotypes is that it allows researchers to see which region an important mutation relating to a disease may occur in. Note that just by knowing which haplotype the disease causing mutation occurs in does not let us know which SNP or insertion/deletion event causes the disease.
Well, there are 7.5 million millionaires in the US with $11 trillion in assets who need to spend their money on something. This looks like a very good option to me and I think our upperclass would flock to it much like luxury cruising in the 30s.
I think that 200k is a fair price. They do bring up some interesting points. If 10% of American's want to go there should definitely be a market...
Another perfect example is from SBC 2004. MIT professors developed this "cutting edge" biological technology where students can build biological system using component parts. In a competition among 'top' schools (MIT, Princeton, Caltech, etc) UT Austin dominated.
(And ended up with a really cool product.)
Computational Biology or Systems Biology is the way to go for current people interested in computers but also interested in experimental research. If you haven't heard, this is one of the fields with people in the highest demand. Get paid to go to graduate school for awhile.
I actually know Don Wetzel and his life would probably be very interesting to read about by both engineers and others. The other things he has done in life would amaze you (he didn't just invent the ATM). He is also very kind and generous. One interesting fact is that he has 40 grandchildren (actually I think it may be 41 now).
Now if he would only teach me the maintence code to the machine so I can make it think the $20's are $1's...
Do a little reading and you will find that DNA is very easily added to a species genome.
Now, I will provide some evidence to back this up: Viral Transformation is a very common tool for genetic alterations of organisms. It is also a common occurance in non-intended genetic alterations, such as Cowpea mosaic comovirus which inserts its DNA into plants (please note that plants are considered higher organisms).
But wait! If plants are still not good enough for you, there is the GloFish which is a genetic alteration allowing it to fluoresce. Now, it would be highly unethical to do this to a human, but it is very possible.
In addition, there are many things in the human genome (LINEs, SINEs, etc) that frequently move. How do you think that everyone ends up with a different genome if nothing is able to change? Most changes and mutations don't do anything or cause harm, but with time good ones will arise. In fact, good mutations (at least in their terms) frequently occur in bacteria and viruses allowing them to become immune to antibiotics and to our specific T-cells (respectively).
The money wouldn't be better spent on NASA projects as it costs a lot more to do it NASA's way than a private company can do it for. The money might provide a sort of competitve spirit so that people have a goal. It seems that competiton is as important as money to some people.
According to this:
Consider a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. The Print subtends an angle of 53 x 35.3 degrees, thus requiring 53*60/.3 = 10600 x 35*60/.3 = 7000 pixels, for a total of ~74 megapixels to show detail at the limits of human visual acuity.
The Huygens probe will be recording the sounds of Titan (which has an atmosphere).
Mass doesn't ever change because of temperature or pressure or stuff like that. The only way to change mass is to convert energy to mass or mass to energy. (ie. fission or fusion)
Maybe he'll be luckier with this one.
At 83, I don't think he is really that interested in the monetary aspects of the invention process.
Actually, I get a whole lot of emails with the random words and nothing else. I haven't quite caught on to the advertising strategy in that.
On the contrary, the phoebe probe will give us extremely valuable insight into the creation of our Solar System. In fact, it already has in that it is cratered (albeit, not seen as a major discovery to most people). Scientists have wondered for years how it managed to only reflect 6% of the light hitting it. In addition, since this may be a Kuiper object, it would be the only (relatively) stationary one within reasonable range from Earth to study.
From my experience (I currently work in the biotechnology sector) most information is already 'open source'. If you take into account all of the public universities and not-for-profit institutions (Mayo Clinc, TIGR, NIH, etc), you will find that most research is done in the public sector. All of the methodology and results are published (which can cost to get a copy, but you can always request one from the author for free - authors get hundreds of copies of their article) and are available to anyone who wishes to repeat or further the experimentation.