They are already doing this in humans for over a year in China. The results are not encouraging. However this kind of research is still in its infancy. There are many issues to overcome like the problems of preexistant scaring in wounds which can prevent tissues from returning to normal function. But don't be suprised to see major advances in this field in the next few years.
In the meanwhile these experiments will continue to be done on people in some part of the world or other, and lets face it thats the only way we are going to get these cures quickly
Here is the link to the story, Horizon generally does ok scientific documentaries:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon /doctor.shtml
How do you know that god didn't create life to make money for himself?
You just assume he wouldn't right!
"Intentionality" is no different from joining random points points with straight lines and finding that you can make shapes. Purpose is in this sense is an illusion created by those with an overwhelming need to join random dots
"I would rather be concerned for countries which do execute people and do drag people to camps without judge or trail "for national security" and do invade foreign nations to expand their sphere of influence, all covered with a thick layer of propaganda and national pride. *That* is I call tending towards Fascistic nature"
Yep sound like a good description of the way many modern democracies are trending and that really the problem with this kind of a database.
These things are fine, although I would question if they are truly useful, while you have a benign government. However if and when the government decides to become more controlling, say in the case of pandemic or oil shortage. Then they may not take to criticism too kindly and may start using these databases to suppress the dissent.
Fully interlinked databases covering every aspect of people interaction with government can be very powerful. But the power comes mainly form the ability to track the individual and prove when the individual is no abiding by a limited subset of laws. This subset tends to exclude social interactions and so is pretty useless at preventing crime and is only as good as the people that feed it the information in terms of spotting abuse.
A point which it is worth bearing in mind is that a certain level of abuse/death/crime is tolerated by society in exchange for freedom. For sure you can reduce these by creating further laws etc but only really at the loss of freedom. So if these things are important to you you have to ask how much freedom do you want to lose in exchange for reducing any of these banes.
Well seems to me that this is simply direct evidence from the courts that proprietory formats cannot claim to have interoperability. Hence all government users should now be moved to open source alternative.
This is a pretty strong case to use to lobby governement about the problem with non open source programs.
Seems quite coincidental that this is all happening at the time that MS is pushing their WGA. It would appear that MS sees that their is suficient market volume in pirated windows to try and covert some of those to pirated versions into sales.
If this is true then it would make sense for a competitor to try and deny them those sales maybe by leeking their own OS version onto the market and making it run on the most generic software.
Afterall if we are talking about 20% of all OS installs as being pirated that represents a huge potential market worth a huge amount of money even if you can convert a fraction of those people.
This makes me think about languages. I only seem to be able to keep two to three languages in my head at any one time...whenever I learn a new one I do so at the expense of an old one.
Even learning bits of a new language seriously degrades the use of the old language.
Maybe the problem is that the stored information does not just describe the information itself but also describes part of a larger picture. Removing some of the bits eventually degrades that picture beyond recognition. You may still have some of the information but it's overall menaing has been lost...a bit like this post really
Have you even read a real book on genetics? Do you comprehend that most human dna can be traced directly to virii.
Please take time to study how virus work and indeed some bacteria work before trying to convince people that all gene pools are isolated and immutable.
Really your comment just show a complete lack of grasp of the world
You oversimplify. You are presuming that the evolutionary pressure that shaped us and allowed us to live what is now considered a normal life. The reality is that over the period that evolution has shaped us life has on average been brutal and comparitively very short. This would strongly favour spreading your seed around.
Stability is important but the degree of stability is relative and where lifespan is short it probably becomes less important. However in some circumstances stability would be highly favourable.
The upshot of this is that what you would expect to see is a variety of different behaviours to fulfill different niches. Sure enough you will find that the degree of testosterone expression in both males and females variers hugely creating people who are comparitivly promiscuios and people who are aren't.
Sadly many people think that everybody else is the same as them and should be able to see thing in the same way and behave in the same way as they do. They just totally miss the point that a large proportion of the population just have a different dominant forces in their brain chemisrty and that these difference are there for evolutionary reasons.
Just what is it that they intend to patent. Pure speculation but it would have to be something like "a gated switch created by the passing of a charge from one molecule to another in a contolled way"
I believe nature has come up with this already.... it's like happening in every cell of your body... Just a good job that nature hasn't tried to enforce it copyright yet
IT skills are basically becoming a commodity, hence they are going to go to the areas that will provide the best product for the lowest price.
America need to wake up if they feel that they can defend their future based on IP alone. This will not support an entire nation.
For those that believe that everything is invented in America IP laws may be some kind of warm blanket with which they can lull themselves into some sense of security.
Sure the number of patents lodged is high, but that just shows that patents are easy to get and useful to control the american market.
The truth is many of the US patents will be owned by overseas companies who just see the US as a market. Hence your own laws are preventing you from competing in you own market against forign companies.
It is an interesting question to ask how do you stay at the top of the tree economically. You have to innovate, as one industry dies or becomes a commodity you have to create a new one.
Nanotech and Biotech are two rapidly advancing fields world wide. But Biotech is one area you could really lose thanks to right wing christian leadership. While Nanotech is really a manufacturing technology so the main money will come from its implementation not from controlling the process (think about that)
More likely than not it will be the people who are using these technologies that are more likely to come up with the innovation to advance them.
The fact that they choose to patent them in the US and prevent you from using the ideas there should come as no suprise to you.
But I wouldn't base your future on the number of patents being registered in the US, or on some concept that the US is more innovative than the rest of the world.
The combination of tight IP laws and free trade create a real problem for this American IP future
Only if you buy it in Holland not if you pop down the road to Germany or Belgium or buy the thing mail order. Cross boarder movement of these kinds of goods within the EU is difficult to track, just witness the problems they have with tabaco coming into the UK.
Knowing this is the case the Dutch may have made a wise compromise which allows them to keep their down loads and usage legal at the expense of a small increase in trade deficit with neighbouring countries.
If music download and sharing is legal. Then the governments stance on taxing media (like ipod) may actually be a happy compromise. After all it's one thing to tap your network connection and show you downloaded stuff, but how are they going to prove that you didn't pay tax on your Ipod. In this respect the law would weaken the music industry ability for enforcement as the government can say "There we have done something about it now it is down to customs and excise to enforce......oh but sorry we don't have the resources". The only thing the RIAA (or their equivalent) could do is lobby the government every few years for a hike in taxes
The first six of the South East EU representative main email addresses. Those ending in "europarl.eu.int" all bounced. I have had a reply from James Elles secretary asking for a postal address which suggest that one of the earlier posts may be correct in saying we would do better sending snail mail
I think an article on Furries might have been more useful than the pile of alarmist crap written in the article.
Really where do these people think their medical research comes from?
What amuses me is that they even quote someone saying you don't need to do these kind of experiments as you could simulate them in a computer..
Hands up how many/. readers believe this is true. In fact hands up how many of you believe we really understand biology... The truth is we are only just starting to comprehend what is happening, especially at the cellular level.
The big question in this article is "should we toy with nature" First I would question well what is natural about the way you live your life.. everything around you comes from completly screwing with nature or dominating/ exploting some other species.
There are risks in creating new strains of life yes.. but probably more risk from the chemicals in your household cleaners which have scarsely been tested.
Should we ethically toy with genetics. Personally I don't have a problem with it. Furries have a right to live too you know
InterCellular Communication. Is a more likely mechanism. As cells mature and differentiate they change their messaging between cells. We still do not understand most of the cellular messaging paths. Hence I would not be surprised if the current cell messaging state is simply reflected by that of its neighbouring cells or the surrounding helper cell. Hence even if the cell was destroyed a new cell would be able to establish itself into the same state.
This is something that could easily be tested in the lab.
"In a nutshell, if the Visby was 100km from an enemy vessel it could see the enemy on its radar but not vice versa. It could get within 30km of the enemy before being spotted"..Er surely that means that the Visby is using active radar. So whats the point of making it non radar reflective then sticking a huge beacon on the top. Besides it still creates a wake visible to satellite, so I would think it's main advantage is a lower profile to surface to surface missiles.
Can remember if this was for SAP or peoplesoft...one of the two bought out the company. Anyway you might find some useful information if you google for TopTier. Another way of looking at this is just to look at what middleware adapters you can put together with Peoplesoft that will allow you to link in a web server. Both of these approaches reach straight back to the db Layer but with a bit of hacking can be made to work well.
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"(this research is only likely to be seen in an university)." Or of course in people if you live in China http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon /doctor.shtml
They are already doing this in humans for over a year in China. The results are not encouraging. However this kind of research is still in its infancy. There are many issues to overcome like the problems of preexistant scaring in wounds which can prevent tissues from returning to normal function. But don't be suprised to see major advances in this field in the next few years. In the meanwhile these experiments will continue to be done on people in some part of the world or other, and lets face it thats the only way we are going to get these cures quickly Here is the link to the story, Horizon generally does ok scientific documentaries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon /doctor.shtml
How do you know that god didn't create life to make money for himself? You just assume he wouldn't right! "Intentionality" is no different from joining random points points with straight lines and finding that you can make shapes. Purpose is in this sense is an illusion created by those with an overwhelming need to join random dots
"I would rather be concerned for countries which do execute people and do drag people to camps without judge or trail "for national security" and do invade foreign nations to expand their sphere of influence, all covered with a thick layer of propaganda and national pride. *That* is I call tending towards Fascistic nature" Yep sound like a good description of the way many modern democracies are trending and that really the problem with this kind of a database. These things are fine, although I would question if they are truly useful, while you have a benign government. However if and when the government decides to become more controlling, say in the case of pandemic or oil shortage. Then they may not take to criticism too kindly and may start using these databases to suppress the dissent. Fully interlinked databases covering every aspect of people interaction with government can be very powerful. But the power comes mainly form the ability to track the individual and prove when the individual is no abiding by a limited subset of laws. This subset tends to exclude social interactions and so is pretty useless at preventing crime and is only as good as the people that feed it the information in terms of spotting abuse. A point which it is worth bearing in mind is that a certain level of abuse/death/crime is tolerated by society in exchange for freedom. For sure you can reduce these by creating further laws etc but only really at the loss of freedom. So if these things are important to you you have to ask how much freedom do you want to lose in exchange for reducing any of these banes.
Well seems to me that this is simply direct evidence from the courts that proprietory formats cannot claim to have interoperability. Hence all government users should now be moved to open source alternative. This is a pretty strong case to use to lobby governement about the problem with non open source programs.
Seems quite coincidental that this is all happening at the time that MS is pushing their WGA. It would appear that MS sees that their is suficient market volume in pirated windows to try and covert some of those to pirated versions into sales. If this is true then it would make sense for a competitor to try and deny them those sales maybe by leeking their own OS version onto the market and making it run on the most generic software. Afterall if we are talking about 20% of all OS installs as being pirated that represents a huge potential market worth a huge amount of money even if you can convert a fraction of those people.
This makes me think about languages. I only seem to be able to keep two to three languages in my head at any one time...whenever I learn a new one I do so at the expense of an old one. Even learning bits of a new language seriously degrades the use of the old language. Maybe the problem is that the stored information does not just describe the information itself but also describes part of a larger picture. Removing some of the bits eventually degrades that picture beyond recognition. You may still have some of the information but it's overall menaing has been lost...a bit like this post really
Have you even read a real book on genetics? Do you comprehend that most human dna can be traced directly to virii. Please take time to study how virus work and indeed some bacteria work before trying to convince people that all gene pools are isolated and immutable. Really your comment just show a complete lack of grasp of the world
You oversimplify. You are presuming that the evolutionary pressure that shaped us and allowed us to live what is now considered a normal life. The reality is that over the period that evolution has shaped us life has on average been brutal and comparitively very short. This would strongly favour spreading your seed around. Stability is important but the degree of stability is relative and where lifespan is short it probably becomes less important. However in some circumstances stability would be highly favourable. The upshot of this is that what you would expect to see is a variety of different behaviours to fulfill different niches. Sure enough you will find that the degree of testosterone expression in both males and females variers hugely creating people who are comparitivly promiscuios and people who are aren't. Sadly many people think that everybody else is the same as them and should be able to see thing in the same way and behave in the same way as they do. They just totally miss the point that a large proportion of the population just have a different dominant forces in their brain chemisrty and that these difference are there for evolutionary reasons.
Anyone know if there is a service that covers more than one supplier in the UK i.e. not just Dominos but a range of restaurants and deli's?
Just what is it that they intend to patent. Pure speculation but it would have to be something like "a gated switch created by the passing of a charge from one molecule to another in a contolled way" I believe nature has come up with this already.... it's like happening in every cell of your body... Just a good job that nature hasn't tried to enforce it copyright yet
IT skills are basically becoming a commodity, hence they are going to go to the areas that will provide the best product for the lowest price. America need to wake up if they feel that they can defend their future based on IP alone. This will not support an entire nation. For those that believe that everything is invented in America IP laws may be some kind of warm blanket with which they can lull themselves into some sense of security. Sure the number of patents lodged is high, but that just shows that patents are easy to get and useful to control the american market. The truth is many of the US patents will be owned by overseas companies who just see the US as a market. Hence your own laws are preventing you from competing in you own market against forign companies. It is an interesting question to ask how do you stay at the top of the tree economically. You have to innovate, as one industry dies or becomes a commodity you have to create a new one. Nanotech and Biotech are two rapidly advancing fields world wide. But Biotech is one area you could really lose thanks to right wing christian leadership. While Nanotech is really a manufacturing technology so the main money will come from its implementation not from controlling the process (think about that) More likely than not it will be the people who are using these technologies that are more likely to come up with the innovation to advance them. The fact that they choose to patent them in the US and prevent you from using the ideas there should come as no suprise to you. But I wouldn't base your future on the number of patents being registered in the US, or on some concept that the US is more innovative than the rest of the world. The combination of tight IP laws and free trade create a real problem for this American IP future
Only if you buy it in Holland not if you pop down the road to Germany or Belgium or buy the thing mail order. Cross boarder movement of these kinds of goods within the EU is difficult to track, just witness the problems they have with tabaco coming into the UK. Knowing this is the case the Dutch may have made a wise compromise which allows them to keep their down loads and usage legal at the expense of a small increase in trade deficit with neighbouring countries.
If music download and sharing is legal. Then the governments stance on taxing media (like ipod) may actually be a happy compromise. After all it's one thing to tap your network connection and show you downloaded stuff, but how are they going to prove that you didn't pay tax on your Ipod. ...oh but sorry we don't have the resources". The only thing the RIAA (or their equivalent) could do is lobby the government every few years for a hike in taxes
In this respect the law would weaken the music industry ability for enforcement as the government can say "There we have done something about it now it is down to customs and excise to enforce...
That in all this furture gazing there has been no mention of Duke Nukem
This sounds familiar....Pass me the crowbar
Sean any chance you can find a list of snail mail addresses. The people can just cut and paste them in.
The first six of the South East EU representative main email addresses. Those ending in "europarl.eu.int" all bounced. I have had a reply from James Elles secretary asking for a postal address which suggest that one of the earlier posts may be correct in saying we would do better sending snail mail
Please note the email addresses need to be checked in this list as most of the emails i sent were bounced.
I think an article on Furries might have been more useful than the pile of alarmist crap written in the article. Really where do these people think their medical research comes from? What amuses me is that they even quote someone saying you don't need to do these kind of experiments as you could simulate them in a computer.. Hands up how many /. readers believe this is true. In fact hands up how many of you believe we really understand biology... The truth is we are only just starting to comprehend what is happening, especially at the cellular level.
The big question in this article is "should we toy with nature" First I would question well what is natural about the way you live your life.. everything around you comes from completly screwing with nature or dominating/ exploting some other species.
There are risks in creating new strains of life yes.. but probably more risk from the chemicals in your household cleaners which have scarsely been tested.
Should we ethically toy with genetics. Personally I don't have a problem with it. Furries have a right to live too you know
InterCellular Communication. Is a more likely mechanism. As cells mature and differentiate they change their messaging between cells. We still do not understand most of the cellular messaging paths. Hence I would not be surprised if the current cell messaging state is simply reflected by that of its neighbouring cells or the surrounding helper cell. Hence even if the cell was destroyed a new cell would be able to establish itself into the same state.
:-)
This is something that could easily be tested in the lab.
But remember you heard it here first
Neo bender was the best version i saw... but i guess that ain't on the disks
"In a nutshell, if the Visby was 100km from an enemy vessel it could see the enemy on its radar but not vice versa. It could get within 30km of the enemy before being spotted" ..Er surely that means that the Visby is using active radar. So whats the point of making it non radar reflective then sticking a huge beacon on the top. Besides it still creates a wake visible to satellite, so I would think it's main advantage is a lower profile to surface to surface missiles.
Can remember if this was for SAP or peoplesoft...one of the two bought out the company. Anyway you might find some useful information if you google for TopTier. Another way of looking at this is just to look at what middleware adapters you can put together with Peoplesoft that will allow you to link in a web server. Both of these approaches reach straight back to the db Layer but with a bit of hacking can be made to work well.
most people have all the info there stuck on the side of the screen