You say "um", but science has barely scratched the surface with what can be done with bacteria.
Also, I didn't say the cause was no bacteria, just lazy ones. what if we could make them better? I don't have the answers, but this research doesn't seem pointless to me.
I picked somethings off the top of my head, and I am not a biologist at all. What about using it to encourage or discourage bacteria when breeding it in the lab for a certain purposes (biological engineering) Let us say we are breeding bacteria for some medial use, but that takes time, every hour in culture costs an extra 100$ to pay someone with technical skills to watch it. What if some protein could halve that time? Now this drug can cost less money to bring to market.
If you can't think of uses for research that influences bacteria using the signaling of bacteria with external stimuli, then you just haven't thought hard enough.
Why are you so quick to criticize? Ever researcher wants more money, otherwise they can't continue doing research. duh.
"Bacteria are the oldest organisms on the planet", Oh Really? I guess "Archaea" are just called that for fun.
Classification changes though, when I took biology we didn't have a 3 domain system, and Archaea were considered a sub section of Bacteria. I know this is based on newer theories of their evolutionary history, but really, this history had nothing to her research.
Forget about Antibiotics. As she said, your body needs bacteria to live, so better understanding how to control and perhaps even help bacteria do their job inside you is important.
Wouldn't it be nice to reduce malnourishment problems if you could give impoverished people really efficient bacteria?
Wouldn't it be easier than a tummy tuck if you just gave someone lazy bacteria ?
I think it is interesting, but it is a free country and you are welcome to spit on what she cares about.
There may be other ways to convert sugars into alcohol, but if you are using yeast, then the ratio is biochemically fixed. 1 glucose -> 2 alcohol + 2 carbon dioxide
It isn't a political comic. I think you miss the point of XKCD. It is to make people smile or even laugh, not to make a difference in the financial markets.
There's a sort of chicken-and-egg argument out there, that since Windows is what is used in 'real business', that kids should be educated on Windows
No.
Education should not ever be a singular streamlined production line of teaching children how to work in the business world. This applies to every level of education, from Grade K->12->PhD.
I've seen jarred fetus at every stage from 9 weeks to full term, and it changed nothing. I assume your point applies to persons who have had their own premature baby?
While a good point, wanting/having a baby brings a completely emotional tie to the argument that preempts and logical. You might as well say, "but I want it so."
If you take that argument farther, a mother will be upset at every point in the pregnancy that fails (assuming she wants the child). Even if the miscarriage occurs far before any point of viability, she will consider that mass of cells, her child and be upset at anyone who says otherwise.
So where is your line? and why? Every women has one; most men hope they are never asked by their mate.
-I'm not sure what part of hulu you arn't getting. They provide a service but are at the mercy of the content providers. They have no business without them, but they do have one without boxee. So when content providers say "don't let boxee use hulu", hulu listenes, whether they want to or not.
There is still this "laser" weapon that allows you to rocket jump at a small sacrifice to your own health. But that is usually only useful for navigating the level, or maybe I'm just not that good.
And you know, as I am sitting here at my home PC in the family room with my kids running around behind me, it might be possible that I don't want them seeing the names and URLs some of the more Adult oriented sites that Mommy and Daddy surf together after they go to bed.
I believe you can begin the patent process WAY before actually receiving a patent, and thereby protect yourself from people copying your product (in USA atlease) if/when you are given your notice of allow-ability.
Then if someone has decided to copy your product you can force them to stop, or license it to them and sit back and make money off of their work (because they are making money off of yours).
There definitely are standards for executables; otherwise, how would a processor know what the program wanted it to do? As in, the folks at gcc, don't reverse engineer a pentium chip to figure out how how to get it two add two numbers together. They look up the binary standard for "x86" or the like.
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You say "um", but science has barely scratched the surface with what can be done with bacteria.
Also, I didn't say the cause was no bacteria, just lazy ones. what if we could make them better? I don't have the answers, but this research doesn't seem pointless to me.
I picked somethings off the top of my head, and I am not a biologist at all. What about using it to encourage or discourage bacteria when breeding it in the lab for a certain purposes (biological engineering) Let us say we are breeding bacteria for some medial use, but that takes time, every hour in culture costs an extra 100$ to pay someone with technical skills to watch it. What if some protein could halve that time? Now this drug can cost less money to bring to market.
If you can't think of uses for research that influences bacteria using the signaling of bacteria with external stimuli, then you just haven't thought hard enough.
Why are you so quick to criticize? Ever researcher wants more money, otherwise they can't continue doing research. duh.
"Bacteria are the oldest organisms on the planet", Oh Really? I guess "Archaea" are just called that for fun.
Classification changes though, when I took biology we didn't have a 3 domain system, and Archaea were considered a sub section of Bacteria. I know this is based on newer theories of their evolutionary history, but really, this history had nothing to her research.
Forget about Antibiotics. As she said, your body needs bacteria to live, so better understanding how to control and perhaps even help bacteria do their job inside you is important.
Wouldn't it be nice to reduce malnourishment problems if you could give impoverished people really efficient bacteria?
Wouldn't it be easier than a tummy tuck if you just gave someone lazy bacteria ?
I think it is interesting, but it is a free country and you are welcome to spit on what she cares about.
Then, thank goodness for google cache.
The Nexuiz team didn't actually do any coding now did they?
This is untrue, you do not know what you are talking about.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oWqlY5vEafIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=On+Food+and+Cooking&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA532,M1
There may be other ways to convert sugars into alcohol, but if you are using yeast, then the ratio is biochemically fixed.
1 glucose -> 2 alcohol + 2 carbon dioxide
Harold McGee, "On Food and Cooking," 2004 p532.
...Things like "hate speech" laws, holocaust denial laws...
If the hate speech isn't true, is it slanderous? And if it is slander is it protected by the 1st amendment?
When will Outkast learn:
"Do not shake or bend developing pictures."
http://www.polaroid.com/service/userguides/photographic/one600classic_ug.pdf
or
http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:TMzxjpjAo28J:www.polaroid.com/service/userguides/photographic/one600classic_ug.pdf+do+not+shake+site:polaroid.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
That is a great way to put it. Asimov was a genius.
The problem exists because public schools require science classes but not religion.
Slavery could not have happened without the individual right to bear arms.
Slavery has existed in many many previous societies before the invention of firearms.
It isn't a political comic. I think you miss the point of XKCD. It is to make people smile or even laugh, not to make a difference in the financial markets.
There's a sort of chicken-and-egg argument out there, that since Windows is what is used in 'real business', that kids should be educated on Windows
No.
Education should not ever be a singular streamlined production line of teaching children how to work in the business world. This applies to every level of education, from Grade K->12->PhD.
Apparently, not everyone is as obsessed with anime/manga as you think they are.
Perhaps you should drink less coffee.
I've seen jarred fetus at every stage from 9 weeks to full term, and it changed nothing. I assume your point applies to persons who have had their own premature baby?
While a good point, wanting/having a baby brings a completely emotional tie to the argument that preempts and logical. You might as well say, "but I want it so."
If you take that argument farther, a mother will be upset at every point in the pregnancy that fails (assuming she wants the child). Even if the miscarriage occurs far before any point of viability, she will consider that mass of cells, her child and be upset at anyone who says otherwise.
So where is your line? and why? Every women has one; most men hope they are never asked by their mate.
-Did the Parent say that?! no. It is an analogy.
-I'm not sure what part of hulu you arn't getting. They provide a service but are at the mercy of the content providers. They have no business without them, but they do have one without boxee. So when content providers say "don't let boxee use hulu", hulu listenes, whether they want to or not.
Then did they just add it to single player? Because I don't remember it being in the campaign for 2.4.2.
Ohhhhhh, now I remember. No, they don't have that in nexuiz.
What is "translocator"?
There is still this "laser" weapon that allows you to rocket jump at a small sacrifice to your own health. But that is usually only useful for navigating the level, or maybe I'm just not that good.
Nexuiz (2.4.2) plays like UT, a fast paced FPS. It is my favorite free linux game (not that anyone elses favorite is worse, but this one is mine).
The new version (svn) adds many features like teams and CTF, a better scoreboard, and is also much prettier (updated textures).
So you've only been using unix for 7 years? Noob!
[Bourne Identity - 2002]
And you know, as I am sitting here at my home PC in the family room with my kids running around behind me, it might be possible that I don't want them seeing the names and URLs some of the more Adult oriented sites that Mommy and Daddy surf together after they go to bed.
This might help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1306
And I like the bar because I frequently click the star on pages I want to be prioritized in the search, but don't need to be bookmarking.
How do you determine which parts of a proposed standard are and are not important?
As in, I find that programmers good and bad are vexed when they follow an API/standard to the letter and it doesn't work as advertised.
The reason these new rendering things are important is that flash/silverlight/ will live on forever until HTML/CSS/ closes the gap.
And as far as "not being a standard yet," it has to start somewhere right? I mean, you can't code to CSS3 until a major browser supports it.
You should look into what an "invention disclosure is"
http://www.patentapplications.net/disclosure/index.html
I believe you can begin the patent process WAY before actually receiving a patent, and thereby protect yourself from people copying your product (in USA atlease) if/when you are given your notice of allow-ability.
Then if someone has decided to copy your product you can force them to stop, or license it to them and sit back and make money off of their work (because they are making money off of yours).
There definitely are standards for executables; otherwise, how would a processor know what the program wanted it to do?
As in, the folks at gcc, don't reverse engineer a pentium chip to figure out how how to get it two add two numbers together. They look up the binary standard for "x86" or the like.