Exactly. And why do you a think that the US plans actually work?
If the Chinese stole the entire plans for the F-35, do you think they could actually make it fly? What they could do is whack out the bad parts, make it simpler and cheaper.
I'm assuming you're talking about HCTZ - a common diuretic. Costs.10 a pill.
IgG levels cost about $200, not sure what hormones you would test, but in general you're talking about close to a thousand dollars worth of blood work with no clinical guarantee of utility.
Take two pills and call me in the morning.....
And your SSRI example doesn't make sense. You cannot measure synaptic serotonin without putting probes in your brain. You just try the damned pill. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, try the next one.
Yes, it's primitive. Yes, physicians 100 years from now will look aghast at those recommendations (if indeed they have something more complex than willow bark to work with). But for today, that's what we've got.
You're jumping ahead of the game. You're describing Panspermia (I always thought that term a tad chauvinistic). This is just splattering pre biotic chemicals around. Then the really interesting part occurs - somehow these precursor chemicals assemble / get transformed / major hand waving into life as we know it.
Yes, and that is how these molecules (including water) have traditionally thought to arise. TFA does some more modeling to suggest that cometary impact would produce the appropriate chemicals. I am unaware of any similar research done on volcanoes but 1) I'll bet it exists and 2) I'll bet that the results have significant similiarities.
This is really pretty handwavy - modeling conditions on theoretical impacts. But unless somebody is planning on moving a comet to a earth shattering kaboom orbit, it's the best we've got.
And which test would that be? You could test for sodium before you start taking the drug, but that doesn't really answer the question as to how your kidneys deal with the drug.
There are very few tests you can do a priori to determine if a drug will be safe and effective. We're getting a few and those tend to be, of course, expensive.
Unfortunately, it's pretty much "try this, watch for these side effects" at present. There is great hope that genomics / proteonomics / whateverthetrendynewfieldisomics will solve this problem. But like holographic storage, it's always five years away.
I doubt it. Maybe for the consumer space, but nobody in business land is heading towards OS X and only a few Really Big hitters are going Linux. Microsoft is going to be the core mid level business platform for a while yet.
I don't think Apple cares about edge case midtowers or workstations. Witness the cold shoulder they've given to MacPros over the years. They're targeting a specific demographic, a lucrative demographic. Not the average Slashdot reader. They even seem happy to cede pro graphics to Windows - most big graphics companies run either Win7 or, for the really heavy lifting, Linux based proprietary solutions.
Apple wants to stay in it's groove which is high volume consumer appliances.
I'm going to bet that this years mythical refresh of the MacPro will be one of the last. Put some Haswell based Xeons it them, sell it for a couple of years and then announce it's the end of the line.
Going to piss a number of people off, but that's the Apple Way.
The problem is that these sorts of things aren't cheap. Even if you can get the effects 'cheaply'. Have you ever watched the credits on a modern, CGI heavy movie? Several hundred people. All of whom would like to get paid. Actors, equipment. Even 'medium budget' movies are damned expensive. Which is one reason why Hollywood sticks to formulaic movies.
Potential sex and actual explosions sell. Everything else, not so much.
I ate some two years ago while visiting an Inuit village. The ONLY reason I kept it down is because I was trying to be polite. And that was fresh-off-the-carcass stuff. Supposedly the best.
OK you 3D printing addled technogeeks - here's a challenge:
Figure out how to spool Spam(TM) (the real thing, not the email counterfeit) in a 3D printer. Print out "tiger penises" and "gall bladders". Add some Viagra (TM) to the former and Capsaicin to the latter.
Profit ! And save the world while you're at it. Better than stupid zip guns.
If you're printing at 3 x 5 inches (at best) in grey scale at 170 lpi, or showing 500 x 300 pixels on the web, you don't need to do much 'editing'. There is hardly any information to edit.
The problem (for the photographers, anyway) is that newspaper photojournalism is, the majority of time, pretty staid and trite. A picture of a bunch of fire trucks and a smoky building. A picture of some dignitary doing some dignatorial function. An iPhone and someone minimally versed in photographic basics would do fine.
Yes, you're going to miss the Pulitzer Prize picture most of the time. That's what the stringers are for. The underlying issue is that the Pulitzer Prize and similar awards don't affect the bottom line all that much. Lots of salaries do. Hell, most news organizations don't even bother with a picture of the actual incident. If you are covering a plane crash, you wander over to a stock photo site, look for a picture of a plane crash, buy it for $25.00 and off you go.
Really annoys me, but then again so does a lot of other things.
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Donuts taste better with hot sauce....
Exactly. And why do you a think that the US plans actually work?
If the Chinese stole the entire plans for the F-35, do you think they could actually make it fly? What they could do is whack out the bad parts, make it simpler and cheaper.
And then we can buy it from them.
Win. Win.
That's a pinky bend. We've got some major hand waving to figure out.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big proponent of the RNA hypothesis. I think life DID evolve here de novo. We just don't know exactly how.
I'm assuming you're talking about HCTZ - a common diuretic. Costs .10 a pill.
IgG levels cost about $200, not sure what hormones you would test, but in general you're talking about close to a thousand dollars worth of blood work with no clinical guarantee of utility.
Take two pills and call me in the morning .....
And your SSRI example doesn't make sense. You cannot measure synaptic serotonin without putting probes in your brain. You just try the damned pill. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, try the next one.
Yes, it's primitive. Yes, physicians 100 years from now will look aghast at those recommendations (if indeed they have something more complex than willow bark to work with). But for today, that's what we've got.
Glad we finally solved that! Can we move on now?
Sure, now that we've solved the easy bits, we can try to figure out what women are really thinking.
You're jumping ahead of the game. You're describing Panspermia (I always thought that term a tad chauvinistic). This is just splattering pre biotic chemicals around. Then the really interesting part occurs - somehow these precursor chemicals assemble / get transformed / major hand waving into life as we know it.
Yes, and that is how these molecules (including water) have traditionally thought to arise. TFA does some more modeling to suggest that cometary impact would produce the appropriate chemicals. I am unaware of any similar research done on volcanoes but 1) I'll bet it exists and 2) I'll bet that the results have significant similiarities.
This is really pretty handwavy - modeling conditions on theoretical impacts. But unless somebody is planning on moving a comet to a earth shattering kaboom orbit, it's the best we've got.
And which test would that be? You could test for sodium before you start taking the drug, but that doesn't really answer the question as to how your kidneys deal with the drug.
There are very few tests you can do a priori to determine if a drug will be safe and effective. We're getting a few and those tend to be, of course, expensive.
Unfortunately, it's pretty much "try this, watch for these side effects" at present. There is great hope that genomics / proteonomics / whateverthetrendynewfieldisomics will solve this problem. But like holographic storage, it's always five years away.
Ill bet his universe has Unicorns in it.
And loose women.
Sigh, sucks to be us, I suppose.
I doubt it. Maybe for the consumer space, but nobody in business land is heading towards OS X and only a few Really Big hitters are going Linux. Microsoft is going to be the core mid level business platform for a while yet.
I don't think Apple cares about edge case midtowers or workstations. Witness the cold shoulder they've given to MacPros over the years. They're targeting a specific demographic, a lucrative demographic. Not the average Slashdot reader. They even seem happy to cede pro graphics to Windows - most big graphics companies run either Win7 or, for the really heavy lifting, Linux based proprietary solutions.
Apple wants to stay in it's groove which is high volume consumer appliances.
I'm going to bet that this years mythical refresh of the MacPro will be one of the last. Put some Haswell based Xeons it them, sell it for a couple of years and then announce it's the end of the line.
Going to piss a number of people off, but that's the Apple Way.
Add some money and you have the basis of a rather catchy tune.....
Other than the issue of what exactly the 3D printer uses to make more printers, you forgot Step 1a:
- figure out how to coax metal and functional electronics out of a 3D printer
as well as Step 3b:
Abort, Retry, Fail?
The problem is that these sorts of things aren't cheap. Even if you can get the effects 'cheaply'. Have you ever watched the credits on a modern, CGI heavy movie? Several hundred people. All of whom would like to get paid. Actors, equipment. Even 'medium budget' movies are damned expensive. Which is one reason why Hollywood sticks to formulaic movies.
Potential sex and actual explosions sell. Everything else, not so much.
But it had doors. Lots of doors. With big numbers.
(And Charlize Theron but that's another topic.)
(A)bort, (R)etry (F)lail
I ate some two years ago while visiting an Inuit village. The ONLY reason I kept it down is because I was trying to be polite. And that was fresh-off-the-carcass stuff. Supposedly the best.
Humans are weird.
Maybe we should sell McRib to the Japanese? A win-win situation for losers.
OK you 3D printing addled technogeeks - here's a challenge:
Figure out how to spool Spam(TM) (the real thing, not the email counterfeit) in a 3D printer. Print out "tiger penises" and "gall bladders". Add some Viagra (TM) to the former and Capsaicin to the latter.
Profit ! And save the world while you're at it. Better than stupid zip guns.
And you should apply for a job as a Slashdot editor. With your ability to twist logic into funny shapes, you would fit right in.
Start running. Or swimming as you desire...
No, you're missing the obvious inference here.
The only major difference between weekdays and weekends is that the administrative staff is gone by Friday at 1400. Thus, quid pro quo and all that;
Administrators are needed for safe surgery.
Who the hell knew?
Yeah, they're all on Facebook.
What is this, some sort of test?
If you're printing at 3 x 5 inches (at best) in grey scale at 170 lpi, or showing 500 x 300 pixels on the web, you don't need to do much 'editing'. There is hardly any information to edit.
The problem (for the photographers, anyway) is that newspaper photojournalism is, the majority of time, pretty staid and trite. A picture of a bunch of fire trucks and a smoky building. A picture of some dignitary doing some dignatorial function. An iPhone and someone minimally versed in photographic basics would do fine.
Yes, you're going to miss the Pulitzer Prize picture most of the time. That's what the stringers are for. The underlying issue is that the Pulitzer Prize and similar awards don't affect the bottom line all that much. Lots of salaries do. Hell, most news organizations don't even bother with a picture of the actual incident. If you are covering a plane crash, you wander over to a stock photo site, look for a picture of a plane crash, buy it for $25.00 and off you go.
Really annoys me, but then again so does a lot of other things.