Chances are that, in cancer cells, this behaviour is just a derivation of another process that serves a useful purpose in a healthy organism. Just like cell division is very useful and necessary but not in the cancer-like uncontrolled way. Fibronectin is involved in several processes such as cell adhesion, clotting and so on.
What is the reason this fragile glass sculpture lays shattered on the floor? The reason is that I hit it with a hammer.
That is a perfectly valid construct, and it is indeed a reason, without the need to get all phylosophical about the motivation or whatnot. "Reason" and "cause" can be synonyms.
You have no idea how true that is. Last weekend I grabbed Shadow the Hedgehog, and with some gripes and some good points I was overall satisfied. Then I checked the 2 player mode...
Deathmatch arena. In a fucking Sonic game. I couldn't belive my eyes. No time attack vs. mode (if you want versus), no coop (there're two characters available through the game if you choose the "hero" missions, one's computer controlled), nothing. I was very underwhelmed.
It totally depends on what you're watching, and on personal preference. I'm pretty sure you can get a PC specifically designed to be as silent as possible (throw in a watercooling system, or very big slow moving fans with a Pentium-M or somesuch), but getting a silent DVD player is extremely easy: pretty much all of them are. I like silent. I find the drone of fans when I'm watching something quite distracting.
>Also, what kind of DVD player "doesn't heat up at all"? I though the DVD laser generates a small bit of heat.:)
I'm not at home, but I can get the model for you if you want. I've put my hand on top of it after watching a few DVDs: Nothing. Not even warmish. Wasn't a feature I was looking for (I'm ok if it gets warm, not a big deal as long as it has no fans), but it just is. Maybe it uses the shelf as a heatsink, dunno. I haven't actually opened it (I do enough opening and fiddling with my PC case already...).
But yeah, maybe I should have worded it better;) My point was that a DVD player doesn't heat up as much as a PC. Airflow considerations and such are prctically moot with a regular DVD player.
>Why do you need to burn a DVD when you can hook up your PC/Mac to your TV/HDTV, or even better yet,
>watch them on your nice high res monitor?
Because I have a really nice, slim, silent DVD player hooked to my TV in the living room that works like a charm, with an excellent remote and all, which can be turned on/off at any point and do so in a fraction of a second, draws minimal power from the outlet, doesn't heat up at all, uses a total of 3 cables (power, TV and, because I'm fancy, audio cabe), needs just about zero maintenance, and is overall much much more convenient to use for watching DVDs or VCDs than my PC.
>Progress with adult stem cell research looks so promising and has actually
>produced much better results than embrionic stem cell research to date (this
>article is but one example). This somewhat weakens the argument for the necessity
>of continuing to pursue embryonic stem cell research. Perhaps that's why we don't
>hear about it much?
Given how many legal hurdles and barriers embryonic stem cell research keeps getting, it's hardly surprising it's not progressing really fast. You can't really draw many conclussions when the system is biased towards one.
> The article is about the future with full broadband, like here in Canada. Australia is the past.
This mysterious "future" also includes games that won't fit on a single DVD, at least according to those who criticize the 360. You have full broadband? Great! Games no longer weight 2 Gb in this full-broadband utopia, they weight at least 10 times more.
The post you replied to didn't mention that MS could be trusted, all he did was say he wasn't touching Sony with a 10 foot pole. Your own paranoia inferred the "MS can be trusted" part.
You fail at logic. Now fuck off and die, and stop wasting oxygen for everyone else.
> How can DRM be set back when it's never got off the ground in the first place?
It's been set back in the propaganda arena. All of the sudden there's a hefty amount of press about "DRM" being associated with "evil" or just "bad," after years trying to fudge it as a simple thing that is good for the artists and good for the users (remember "Trusted Computing"?). I say it's a good thing, and the funniest one is that it took way less effort that a deliberate campaign to achieve the same, it's always easier when your opposition does a massive screwup.
>Your ire should be 100 times larger over MS....yet you don't mention them - hmmm...MS troll smell?
Indeed, he doesn't mention Microsoft. Not at all. Yet you somehow manage to infer in his post that he thinks MS can be trusted? He didn't say anything! For all we know he may be throwing darts at a picture of Bill Gates every day.
Want to know where that troll smell is coming from? Check your post. (And you got modded up to boot, gotta love/.).
Well, according to some people who have had to exorcise the demon from their windows PC, what happened after installing the rootkit is that MP3 files ripped from other CDs came back worse to wear, with noise, loss of quality and whatnot.
If that is true, you can probably connect the dots easily and see what Sony was after:-)
>Your statement is just repeating the same error as the people that fear socialism.
I find that very unlikely, because I didn't say anything about what socialism is, rather where it came from. Socialism (very simplified) appeared from a cadre of unhappy "proletarians" that felt cheated with the turn of events when, after overthrowing feudalism, they basically found themselves in a similar situation where workers were exploited and few people reaped most of the benefits. And my point was that if someone says OSS is "IP Socialism" and thinks it's a bad thing, perhaps they should look at what made socialism appear to begin with, take a look in the mirror, and think about what they are doing themselves to help its popularity.
Well, in many ways you can see that socialism appeared as a reaction versus totalitarian and/or oppresive regimes (yeah, I know this oversimplifies things, don't chew me up for it). So if you see Open Source as "IP Socialism," perhaps you should reflect for a second on why we have gotten to this point.
>He's talking about the many cases where no amount of selection pressure will get
>from organism A to organism B (or from squat to Organism A), just as two or more
>small hops won't get you across a chasm.
You're talking about irreductible complexity I belive. This is pretty well covered in the Talkdesigns.org website. Anyway, what you may consider a "big step" in species evolution may not amount to actually much of a step: chromosomal rearrangements and alterations of development genes, for example, can be very small chemistry-wise, but still yield rather big alterations of the final organism system. As we deepen our knowledge of genetics, we know a lot more about how these systems came in place.
>Even if you could create as much land as you wanted, that wouldn't mean the land would lose it's value.
This is the virtual space after all, where does it say you have to be limited to the structured 3D of the real world? You can have your 10,000 acre paradise as a simple door off a building in the "very interesting virtual spot" for example, one click and bam! Your visitors are in paradise.
>Thanks for playing "speculations gone wild". To advance to "real science" you
>need to make the case that any of these things are possible at all using only
>natural selection.
"Possible at all"? Even with the flawed example of the 20^X odds against a particular protein sequence, it is accepted that it's possible but "extremely unlikely." So, if you can make certain organism by "design" (i.e., using whatever sequence you want), the case of it being possible at all is already given by the simplest "it was a coincidence of thousands of simultaneous mutations."
You fail at reading, thinking, and life in general. Nice try though.
>Intelligent Design is the claim that punctuated equilibrium is mathematically unlikely without a designer.
This is also false. The idea that the only way a "design" would appear is through intelligence because the chances of all those random mutations combined is very small is the same kind of mistake made when people claim that only intelligence could design a functional gene because the chances of certain protein sequence are 20^X (where X is the length).
That "design" wasn't the only possible solution to the natural selection pressure. Indeed, anything giving an advantage would have a good chance of survival given natural selection, but it happened to be the current (bird lung|upside down bat|blood clotting|whatever other ID example) instead of any other alternative that could have appeared and be selected if it was good enough.
The "mathematically unlikely" scenario is a no-go.
I think he's talking about the negative pressure of water in the internal xylem system of the plant. Basically, water in a capillary can actually support tensions that out of a capillary would make it boil (thanks to the wonders of dipolar molecules). Think of a syringe full of water (important: with no gas bubbles inside whatsoever), if you pull the plunger it'll start boiling at some point when the pressure is low enough; but if the syringe is a capillary you can actually pull way way harder without boiling until the actual pressure inside is negative (you're putting a tension trying to break the polar bounds between the water molecules). When you finally "break" the polar bounds somewhere, the water boils and you get a nice bubble.
This may be confusing since it's not my area of expertise (I'm a biochemist), but google for "negative pressure in liquids" and you'll probably find a lot more.
> if by convenient, you mean free, then I guess you're right.
Eh, iTunes shows that a lot of people are willing to pay fair and square just for convenience. You're never going to reel in the people who want free no matter what, but you can easily reel in the people who want convenience, ala GP post.
>The Axis of evil becomes the Triumvarate of unplanned good?
Actually this is a bit like if two warchest-patent companies tried to sue each other and brought out the big guns. M.A.D., and everyone else wins! So it could actually be a good thing and be effective while both remain your enemies;-)
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Chances are that, in cancer cells, this behaviour is just a derivation of another process that serves a useful purpose in a healthy organism. Just like cell division is very useful and necessary but not in the cancer-like uncontrolled way. Fibronectin is involved in several processes such as cell adhesion, clotting and so on.
What is the reason this fragile glass sculpture lays shattered on the floor? The reason is that I hit it with a hammer.
That is a perfectly valid construct, and it is indeed a reason, without the need to get all phylosophical about the motivation or whatnot. "Reason" and "cause" can be synonyms.
You have no idea how true that is. Last weekend I grabbed Shadow the Hedgehog, and with some gripes and some good points I was overall satisfied. Then I checked the 2 player mode...
Deathmatch arena. In a fucking Sonic game. I couldn't belive my eyes. No time attack vs. mode (if you want versus), no coop (there're two characters available through the game if you choose the "hero" missions, one's computer controlled), nothing. I was very underwhelmed.
> What's the deal with silent?
:)
;) My point was that a DVD player doesn't heat up as much as a PC. Airflow considerations and such are prctically moot with a regular DVD player.
It totally depends on what you're watching, and on personal preference. I'm pretty sure you can get a PC specifically designed to be as silent as possible (throw in a watercooling system, or very big slow moving fans with a Pentium-M or somesuch), but getting a silent DVD player is extremely easy: pretty much all of them are. I like silent. I find the drone of fans when I'm watching something quite distracting.
>Also, what kind of DVD player "doesn't heat up at all"? I though the DVD laser generates a small bit of heat.
I'm not at home, but I can get the model for you if you want. I've put my hand on top of it after watching a few DVDs: Nothing. Not even warmish. Wasn't a feature I was looking for (I'm ok if it gets warm, not a big deal as long as it has no fans), but it just is. Maybe it uses the shelf as a heatsink, dunno. I haven't actually opened it (I do enough opening and fiddling with my PC case already...).
But yeah, maybe I should have worded it better
>Why do you need to burn a DVD when you can hook up your PC/Mac to your TV/HDTV, or even better yet,
>watch them on your nice high res monitor?
Because I have a really nice, slim, silent DVD player hooked to my TV in the living room that works like a charm, with an excellent remote and all, which can be turned on/off at any point and do so in a fraction of a second, draws minimal power from the outlet, doesn't heat up at all, uses a total of 3 cables (power, TV and, because I'm fancy, audio cabe), needs just about zero maintenance, and is overall much much more convenient to use for watching DVDs or VCDs than my PC.
>If you remove the oxygen, won't you be left with Hydrogen anyway?
It was referring to the atmospheric oxygen (O2). This microbe is anaerobic.
>Progress with adult stem cell research looks so promising and has actually
>produced much better results than embrionic stem cell research to date (this
>article is but one example). This somewhat weakens the argument for the necessity
>of continuing to pursue embryonic stem cell research. Perhaps that's why we don't
>hear about it much?
Given how many legal hurdles and barriers embryonic stem cell research keeps getting, it's hardly surprising it's not progressing really fast. You can't really draw many conclussions when the system is biased towards one.
> The article is about the future with full broadband, like here in Canada. Australia is the past.
This mysterious "future" also includes games that won't fit on a single DVD, at least according to those who criticize the 360. You have full broadband? Great! Games no longer weight 2 Gb in this full-broadband utopia, they weight at least 10 times more.
Oops, there goes pick-and-play again.
...by the burst of kaleidoscopic light.
>They need to look for cross-brand synergies in order to deliver on their key objectives.
And don't forget to leverage their inhouse know-how in order to shift the paradigm to a solution focused market deployment.
And please, don't cross the streams!
Hello mr. retard.
The post you replied to didn't mention that MS could be trusted, all he did was say he wasn't touching Sony with a 10 foot pole. Your own paranoia inferred the "MS can be trusted" part.
You fail at logic. Now fuck off and die, and stop wasting oxygen for everyone else.
> How can DRM be set back when it's never got off the ground in the first place?
It's been set back in the propaganda arena. All of the sudden there's a hefty amount of press about "DRM" being associated with "evil" or just "bad," after years trying to fudge it as a simple thing that is good for the artists and good for the users (remember "Trusted Computing"?). I say it's a good thing, and the funniest one is that it took way less effort that a deliberate campaign to achieve the same, it's always easier when your opposition does a massive screwup.
>Your ire should be 100 times larger over MS....yet you don't mention them - hmmm...MS troll smell?
/.).
Indeed, he doesn't mention Microsoft. Not at all. Yet you somehow manage to infer in his post that he thinks MS can be trusted? He didn't say anything! For all we know he may be throwing darts at a picture of Bill Gates every day.
Want to know where that troll smell is coming from? Check your post. (And you got modded up to boot, gotta love
>I'm trying to remember the name of this movie with the cop prepping to go undercover.
Reservoir dogs.
>Anyone have any ideas?
:-)
Well, according to some people who have had to exorcise the demon from their windows PC, what happened after installing the rootkit is that MP3 files ripped from other CDs came back worse to wear, with noise, loss of quality and whatnot.
If that is true, you can probably connect the dots easily and see what Sony was after
>Your statement is just repeating the same error as the people that fear socialism.
I find that very unlikely, because I didn't say anything about what socialism is, rather where it came from. Socialism (very simplified) appeared from a cadre of unhappy "proletarians" that felt cheated with the turn of events when, after overthrowing feudalism, they basically found themselves in a similar situation where workers were exploited and few people reaped most of the benefits. And my point was that if someone says OSS is "IP Socialism" and thinks it's a bad thing, perhaps they should look at what made socialism appear to begin with, take a look in the mirror, and think about what they are doing themselves to help its popularity.
>'Intellectual property [IP] socialism.'
Well, in many ways you can see that socialism appeared as a reaction versus totalitarian and/or oppresive regimes (yeah, I know this oversimplifies things, don't chew me up for it). So if you see Open Source as "IP Socialism," perhaps you should reflect for a second on why we have gotten to this point.
>He's talking about the many cases where no amount of selection pressure will get
>from organism A to organism B (or from squat to Organism A), just as two or more
>small hops won't get you across a chasm.
You're talking about irreductible complexity I belive. This is pretty well covered in the Talkdesigns.org website. Anyway, what you may consider a "big step" in species evolution may not amount to actually much of a step: chromosomal rearrangements and alterations of development genes, for example, can be very small chemistry-wise, but still yield rather big alterations of the final organism system. As we deepen our knowledge of genetics, we know a lot more about how these systems came in place.
You look at it before for X seconds to try and memorize the position of everything, then blindfold and go!
>Even if you could create as much land as you wanted, that wouldn't mean the land would lose it's value.
This is the virtual space after all, where does it say you have to be limited to the structured 3D of the real world? You can have your 10,000 acre paradise as a simple door off a building in the "very interesting virtual spot" for example, one click and bam! Your visitors are in paradise.
>Thanks for playing "speculations gone wild". To advance to "real science" you
>need to make the case that any of these things are possible at all using only
>natural selection.
"Possible at all"? Even with the flawed example of the 20^X odds against a particular protein sequence, it is accepted that it's possible but "extremely unlikely." So, if you can make certain organism by "design" (i.e., using whatever sequence you want), the case of it being possible at all is already given by the simplest "it was a coincidence of thousands of simultaneous mutations."
You fail at reading, thinking, and life in general. Nice try though.
>Intelligent Design is the claim that punctuated equilibrium is mathematically unlikely without a designer.
This is also false. The idea that the only way a "design" would appear is through intelligence because the chances of all those random mutations combined is very small is the same kind of mistake made when people claim that only intelligence could design a functional gene because the chances of certain protein sequence are 20^X (where X is the length).
That "design" wasn't the only possible solution to the natural selection pressure. Indeed, anything giving an advantage would have a good chance of survival given natural selection, but it happened to be the current (bird lung|upside down bat|blood clotting|whatever other ID example) instead of any other alternative that could have appeared and be selected if it was good enough.
The "mathematically unlikely" scenario is a no-go.
I think he's talking about the negative pressure of water in the internal xylem system of the plant. Basically, water in a capillary can actually support tensions that out of a capillary would make it boil (thanks to the wonders of dipolar molecules). Think of a syringe full of water (important: with no gas bubbles inside whatsoever), if you pull the plunger it'll start boiling at some point when the pressure is low enough; but if the syringe is a capillary you can actually pull way way harder without boiling until the actual pressure inside is negative (you're putting a tension trying to break the polar bounds between the water molecules). When you finally "break" the polar bounds somewhere, the water boils and you get a nice bubble.
This may be confusing since it's not my area of expertise (I'm a biochemist), but google for "negative pressure in liquids" and you'll probably find a lot more.
> if by convenient, you mean free, then I guess you're right.
Eh, iTunes shows that a lot of people are willing to pay fair and square just for convenience. You're never going to reel in the people who want free no matter what, but you can easily reel in the people who want convenience, ala GP post.
>The Axis of evil becomes the Triumvarate of unplanned good?
;-)
Actually this is a bit like if two warchest-patent companies tried to sue each other and brought out the big guns. M.A.D., and everyone else wins! So it could actually be a good thing and be effective while both remain your enemies