Er, you're not in a relationship are you?
If I told my wife that I'm playing games all week & she can deal with it or somesuch my balls would be calling me interstate...
Yeah right, try that with 100% Cotton Jermyn Street shirts & see how far you get.
I'm not mad about looking good as anyone who's met me will attest:) but I have limits; and drip dry polyester has been way over that line since the eighties & I've been steadily upgrading my expectations with my salary since then.
I don't think the "robot" would even do a particularly acceptable job on shirts anyway. What about collar & cuffs?
If the seeds are sterile and Monsanto has a monopoly they would have a record of "lost" seeds if he had stolen them or of a sale to him. I would think that Schmeiser would have a good case for counter-suing his neighbours. Also I would have thought that the "right" as in morally rather than legally;) thing for monsanto to do would be to find out who distributed the seeds to Schmeisser and to sue them. It is not reasonable to expect a non-scientist to be able to identify GM seeds just by sight. Somebody was responsible for allowing unlicenced seeds to find their way into his crop but I'm sure it's not him.
If I was an organic farmer adjacent to a GM crop I'd sue the a$$ off of anyone who allowed GM seeds to get into my property as they would be destroying my livelihood.
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No chance of that, Howard's selling us down the river with the FTA.
Great move by the way - for the sake of 10-20% of our GDP (Farmers) he's exposing the rest of industry to virtually unrestricted shafting by larger & more competitive US companies.
I can remember being told when I was first being 'sold' the idea of CDs that it meant that I'd never have to buy another duplicate copy again as the format was indestructible.
Of course within a few years it became clear that CDs did degrade depending on the inks printed onto the label side etc. So in summary we were sold a bit of a bum steer. A new Vinyl record will sound superior to a CD so long as it's played through decent hardware (and I don't thing a 200UKP Rega Planar deck is particularly extravagent but it sounds a LOT better to me through my 18 year old budget Hi Fi amp & speakers) and if you really look after your records - proper cleaning, new needles etc it turns out they will last longer than CDs. Note that my basic Hi-fi is old; I'm not a Hi-Fi nut who buys the latest & greatest stuff every year - it's cheap budget Hi-fi equipment and the difference between LP & CD is noticable and I prefer LP.
Given the hype I described above which originated from the record companies I think it's the least they can do to those of us who bought CDs in the '80s before the problems became known.
What, same file, same router, same ISP, same computer (in two out of the three cases) only variables OS and the precise time I downloaded the file - I think that's a reasonable test...
Was it only 100 Pr0n movies out of the 1000 or only 100 non-Pr0n movies out of the 1000?
Oh, digressing slightly, with DVD pr0n movies are they taking advantage of the format? You know, multi camera angles, different soundtracks, making of documentaries?
I could publish the stats of my BG2 Paladin - but I won't. I played D&D when I was his age back in 198x but even in the depths/heights of nerdiness I would never have considered publishing the stats of my signature character would be a "good idea"
Mind you I was having the occasional relationship with real girls even then...
Good:-
"Gettin Square" - David Wenham in Leopard print budgie smugglers anyone? Maybe not but I'll happily watch Freya Stafford getting hot & sweaty any day of the week:)
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown" - like Buena vista social club with a better soundtrack
Bad:-
Kill Bill - easily the worst movie Quentin Tarantino has ever directed (because the other three are all 5* classics) and a huge disappointment
didn't pay to see the Matrix or the Hulk so I can't comment on their suckiness
Look, this is as frustrating as hell for me. I'm obviously not explaining myself here and the fact that we're getting scientifically incorrect stuff like this modded up doesn't help. Note to Mods unless you have a BSc in Molecular Biology or similar and UNDERSTAND what's being said, please don't mod up carp like the above post. Genetic engineering uses viruses to infect bacteria as part of the process.
These viruses insert the gene of interest.
As not all bacteria are transformed the virus is engineered to insert a marker as well as the gene of interest.
This marker is usually a bacterial AB resistance so that a transformed bacteria will not be killed on an AB laced plate.
You then select a bacterial plaque from the AB plate knowing that because the bacteria is AB resistant it also contains the gene of interest.
You then grow up the transformed bacteria in bulk, extract the DNA you added (including the complete functional AB resistance gene) and use this DNA to transform the actual host. So the GM host contains not only the gene of interest to make, say, tomatoes disease resistant, but it also includes the bacterial AB resistance gene that was used as a marker. This gene will not be expressed in a tomato plant but as it is bookmarked by cut points for naturally occurring DNA chopping enzymes (where do you think we get them from?) it can be assimilated by bacteria in the wild thus giving the bacteria AB resistance.
It's just the standard genetic engineering technique to identify whether or not the genes have been taken up into the cells. You can't just add DNA to a culture medium & grow it up. You have to inject it into the bacteria and identify the bacteria that have the change (transformed bacteria) when I was doing it the way we identified transformed bacteria was by adding AB resistance plus the gene of interest then if the cell was AB resistant it was transformed.
Yes but, if the functional genes are available they're capable of being transferred - how do you think genetic engineers get the genes grown in bulk in the first place? - yep, viruses containing the AB resistance genes which then transfer the gene of interest plus the AB resistance to the bacterial culture medium. The Transformed bacteria are then AB resistant and we grow them up on plates laced with AB to kill of any bacteria that aren't transformed
You are right about excessive AB usage, but having large quantities of functional AB resistance genes introduced into the wild as a side effect of genetic engineering is surely not helping matters. When were the first multiply resistant strains found & how well does that correspond to the commercialization of genetic modification...?
Great idea! Lets's inject people with functional bacterial antibiotic resistance genes...
When I did Genetic engineering back in the '80s we used antibiotic resistance genes as markers to show which organisms had taken up the gene we wanted to transfer - and antibiotic resistant bacteria are becoming a bit of an "issue" these days.
As a programmer this is a huge concern for me obviously. But in this case it's Australian government so they are interested in keeping as much of the money in Australia as possible.
There was a great article in Australian Developer a few months ago explaining the economics of open source for (non US) governments and the way that supporting FOSS keeps more money in your country and improves your balance of trade.
This is not the case in America for obvious reasons:)
I see your point but how many companies can provide a fix for an exploit in SQL Server? How about MySQL or Postgresql...
The open source movement needs to market itself better to the enterprise. That's why I support that proposal by the Debian guy to get certification & target vertical markets with tailored distros. If someone did that for the British NHS & sold them 1.6m seats @ (say) UKP20 + annual support @ UKP20/seat/year there'd be a reasonable amount of cash (64 Million Pounds) going into the system to enhance the distro
isn't the bit about "considering open source wherever practical" which is easy to weasel around. I like this bit:-
The bill, which goes before the ACT Legislative Assembly tonight, also specifies that public bodies should not use software that does not comply with open standards or standards recognised by the ISO or software for which support or maintenance is provided only by an entity that has the right to exercise exclusive control over its sale or distribution.
That'll be the bit that gives most trouble to the beast of Redmond...
Thank you, sometimes it's like throwing pearls before swine.
I got "Trolled" a couple of days ago for daring to suggest that the last three Hitchikers books weren't as good as the first two. I mean "Hello!?" this is not controversial stuff, it's a mere statement of fact.
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Er, you're not in a relationship are you? If I told my wife that I'm playing games all week & she can deal with it or somesuch my balls would be calling me interstate...
Yeah right, try that with 100% Cotton Jermyn Street shirts & see how far you get. I'm not mad about looking good as anyone who's met me will attest :) but I have limits; and drip dry polyester has been way over that line since the eighties & I've been steadily upgrading my expectations with my salary since then.
I don't think the "robot" would even do a particularly acceptable job on shirts anyway. What about collar & cuffs?
If the seeds are sterile and Monsanto has a monopoly they would have a record of "lost" seeds if he had stolen them or of a sale to him. I would think that Schmeiser would have a good case for counter-suing his neighbours. Also I would have thought that the "right" as in morally rather than legally ;) thing for monsanto to do would be to find out who distributed the seeds to Schmeisser and to sue them.
It is not reasonable to expect a non-scientist to be able to identify GM seeds just by sight. Somebody was responsible for allowing unlicenced seeds to find their way into his crop but I'm sure it's not him.
If I was an organic farmer adjacent to a GM crop I'd sue the a$$ off of anyone who allowed GM seeds to get into my property as they would be destroying my livelihood.
Almost as if I knew...
Year 2000 work reading through hundreds of pages of PL/SQL looking for non year 2000 compliant code - that sucked.
Other than that; the worst job I ever had was pulling lobsters out of Jayne Mansfields arse...
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No chance of that, Howard's selling us down the river with the FTA.
Great move by the way - for the sake of 10-20% of our GDP (Farmers) he's exposing the rest of industry to virtually unrestricted shafting by larger & more competitive US companies.
I can remember being told when I was first being 'sold' the idea of CDs that it meant that I'd never have to buy another duplicate copy again as the format was indestructible.
Of course within a few years it became clear that CDs did degrade depending on the inks printed onto the label side etc. So in summary we were sold a bit of a bum steer. A new Vinyl record will sound superior to a CD so long as it's played through decent hardware (and I don't thing a 200UKP Rega Planar deck is particularly extravagent but it sounds a LOT better to me through my 18 year old budget Hi Fi amp & speakers) and if you really look after your records - proper cleaning, new needles etc it turns out they will last longer than CDs. Note that my basic Hi-fi is old; I'm not a Hi-Fi nut who buys the latest & greatest stuff every year - it's cheap budget Hi-fi equipment and the difference between LP & CD is noticable and I prefer LP.
Given the hype I described above which originated from the record companies I think it's the least they can do to those of us who bought CDs in the '80s before the problems became known.
will all be chanting "sing, sing or show us your ring"
What, same file, same router, same ISP, same computer (in two out of the three cases) only variables OS and the precise time I downloaded the file - I think that's a reasonable test...
I already worked this out from black box experimentation on my DSL connection:-
XP Home average 43Kb/s
Red Hat 9 (same PC) 50Kb/s
Mac OS X.2 53Kb/s
Nope, no BSD code in the M$ IP Stack
Was it only 100 Pr0n movies out of the 1000 or only 100 non-Pr0n movies out of the 1000?
Oh, digressing slightly, with DVD pr0n movies are they taking advantage of the format? You know, multi camera angles, different soundtracks, making of documentaries?
I could publish the stats of my BG2 Paladin - but I won't. I played D&D when I was his age back in 198x but even in the depths/heights of nerdiness I would never have considered publishing the stats of my signature character would be a "good idea"
Mind you I was having the occasional relationship with real girls even then...
Anyone who includes the stats of their level 16 Ranger in the "About Me" section of their website needs help.
Good:- :)
"Gettin Square" - David Wenham in Leopard print budgie smugglers anyone? Maybe not but I'll happily watch Freya Stafford getting hot & sweaty any day of the week
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown" - like Buena vista social club with a better soundtrack
Bad:-
Kill Bill - easily the worst movie Quentin Tarantino has ever directed (because the other three are all 5* classics) and a huge disappointment didn't pay to see the Matrix or the Hulk so I can't comment on their suckiness
Look, this is as frustrating as hell for me. I'm obviously not explaining myself here and the fact that we're getting scientifically incorrect stuff like this modded up doesn't help. Note to Mods unless you have a BSc in Molecular Biology or similar and UNDERSTAND what's being said, please don't mod up carp like the above post. Genetic engineering uses viruses to infect bacteria as part of the process.
These viruses insert the gene of interest.
As not all bacteria are transformed the virus is engineered to insert a marker as well as the gene of interest.
This marker is usually a bacterial AB resistance so that a transformed bacteria will not be killed on an AB laced plate.
You then select a bacterial plaque from the AB plate knowing that because the bacteria is AB resistant it also contains the gene of interest.
You then grow up the transformed bacteria in bulk, extract the DNA you added (including the complete functional AB resistance gene) and use this DNA to transform the actual host. So the GM host contains not only the gene of interest to make, say, tomatoes disease resistant, but it also includes the bacterial AB resistance gene that was used as a marker. This gene will not be expressed in a tomato plant but as it is bookmarked by cut points for naturally occurring DNA chopping enzymes (where do you think we get them from?) it can be assimilated by bacteria in the wild thus giving the bacteria AB resistance.
This is not a good thing.
Did I make myself clear this time?
It's just the standard genetic engineering technique to identify whether or not the genes have been taken up into the cells. You can't just add DNA to a culture medium & grow it up. You have to inject it into the bacteria and identify the bacteria that have the change (transformed bacteria) when I was doing it the way we identified transformed bacteria was by adding AB resistance plus the gene of interest then if the cell was AB resistant it was transformed.
Yes but, if the functional genes are available they're capable of being transferred - how do you think genetic engineers get the genes grown in bulk in the first place? - yep, viruses containing the AB resistance genes which then transfer the gene of interest plus the AB resistance to the bacterial culture medium. The Transformed bacteria are then AB resistant and we grow them up on plates laced with AB to kill of any bacteria that aren't transformed
You are right about excessive AB usage, but having large quantities of functional AB resistance genes introduced into the wild as a side effect of genetic engineering is surely not helping matters. When were the first multiply resistant strains found & how well does that correspond to the commercialization of genetic modification...?
Great idea! Lets's inject people with functional bacterial antibiotic resistance genes...
When I did Genetic engineering back in the '80s we used antibiotic resistance genes as markers to show which organisms had taken up the gene we wanted to transfer - and antibiotic resistant bacteria are becoming a bit of an "issue" these days.
Could this be in some way related?
As a programmer this is a huge concern for me obviously. But in this case it's Australian government so they are interested in keeping as much of the money in Australia as possible.
:)
There was a great article in Australian Developer a few months ago explaining the economics of open source for (non US) governments and the way that supporting FOSS keeps more money in your country and improves your balance of trade.
This is not the case in America for obvious reasons
I see your point but how many companies can provide a fix for an exploit in SQL Server? How about MySQL or Postgresql...
The open source movement needs to market itself better to the enterprise. That's why I support that proposal by the Debian guy to get certification & target vertical markets with tailored distros. If someone did that for the British NHS & sold them 1.6m seats @ (say) UKP20 + annual support @ UKP20/seat/year there'd be a reasonable amount of cash (64 Million Pounds) going into the system to enhance the distro
isn't the bit about "considering open source wherever practical" which is easy to weasel around. I like this bit:-
The bill, which goes before the ACT Legislative Assembly tonight, also specifies that public bodies should not use software that does not comply with open standards or standards recognised by the ISO or software for which support or maintenance is provided only by an entity that has the right to exercise exclusive control over its sale or distribution.
That'll be the bit that gives most trouble to the beast of Redmond...
Thank you, sometimes it's like throwing pearls before swine.
I got "Trolled" a couple of days ago for daring to suggest that the last three Hitchikers books weren't as good as the first two. I mean "Hello!?" this is not controversial stuff, it's a mere statement of fact.
Was pulling lobsters out of Jane Mansfield's arse.