Intresting, but the technique described sounds pretty unworkable for any kind of industrial production-- it takes a week to grow the harvested tissue 14% and it sounds like you'd end up using a good amount of FBS (which can run as high as $1/ml). Plus FBS is an extremely rich medium which bacteria just love, in order to grow tissue cultures in it it has to be absolutely sterile. Everything used to manipulate the tissue, measure and dispense the FBS, and the container you are going to do the growing in has to be sterile. And then all of your work has to be done in an "clean" workspace (usually a laminar flow hood). You're talking some big $$$ for not much return
It won't be long before it becomes fairly trivial, so far is production goes, to grow meat in the lab as is being suggested, but it will be a long time before it's cheaper to produce in the lab than it is to just grow it on a cow. Maybe there will be a market for $2000 grown-in-the-lab steaks, but I don't see it being a very large market.
To pick a nit, she doesn't have a Ph.D., she has a D.Sc., and it's in Public Health. But she does have a point-- what would happen if THE CHILDREN began to eat power-ups and attack ghosts in real life?
I wonder how this will all shake out...I mean the game's EULA apparently allows this sort of thing, but seeing as how whatever the hell it was he stole does have an actual real cash value, might law enforcement get interested? $130K isn't chump change, and you can't use a EULA to circumvent the law.
Care to explain how, exactly, that church funded social services are "part of the problem"?
Sure you get plenty of moralizing on both sides of the issue, but the stereotypes you've resorted to are pretty damned far from the truth of the situation. Demonizing people on one or the other side of a particular issue isn't particularly helpful. I'm not against any of the remedies you've suggested, but church funded groups can and do provide decent solutions for people that want them. Private charities are not the be-all end-all, and I'm certainly not suggesting that, but they do tend to spend their money a bit better than the government has EVER managed to do.
Nice rhetoric, but the truth is, most of the people that are anti-abortion do support groups (with their $$$ and time) that aide young unwed mothers, providing health care and adoption services if needed. They get almost no press for it because, surprise surprise, the good that people do almost never gets covered-- the press prefers mean and nasty to helpful and compasionet.
I'm agnostic and pro-choice, but I have friends that are christian and pro-life, and they, more than anyone else I've seen in the issue, put their money where there mouth is and actually try to help people. And adopting unwanted children that would otherwise grow up in foster care, is far from a small thing. And tell me, have you done anything as selfless as that?
Yeah, that's a fine idea. That way I have the convenience of having AOL's crap-suite, Yahoo's toolbar, a Word Perfect Demo, and Macaffee's PITA-to-remove "security suite" pre-installed on my new computers.
Really, it's not that the "younger generation" wants their iPod to work with Linux, because it does that now. What they want is iTunes + iPod, and they want it to either come with the OS or install with a single click. They want it to be easy and they want it to be familiar, and the only entity that can do that is Apple.
Nothing wrong with a crank for power-- there are probably quite a few Dell laptop owners wishing that they had such sophisticated and reliable technology.
And the next step is going to be five year olds cruising down the sidewalk, chating away on their cell phone, and driving far too fast/slow, unable to hold their lane, and swerving at random moments. BMW might as well start producing tricycles and go-carts for these kids now...
"Jumpyness" is more natural! When you flip pages in a book, you go from one page straight to the next. It doesn't "slide", you flip it and that's it. How is page up/down any different?
It's not more natural, it's what you're used to. Realize that pages in books are a format that was dictated by technology, not what was the best solution-- the older way of written works were continous scrolls, which the reader could unroll at the top and roll out at the bottom for a continous reading experience, like much information is provided on the web. Sheets of paper were just a cheaper way of providing a writing surface, and later a much cheaper way (with the advent of the printing press) of producing information. Constraints of technology and price, and a familiarity with the format, do not make something more natural, it just makes it easier for you to use because it's what you expect.
Evolution tends to come up with Rube Goldberg solutions, not well engineered ones. Look up the recurrent laryngeal nerve for an example. Or take the testicals for example-- wouldn't you really prefer that they be tucked up safely out of the way or perhaps had a tough padded cover?
Those sabre tooth tigers are always going to be eating us so its time we just face facts.
Well, those sabre tooth tigers didn't quit eating us because some people decided that it would be better if we got along with them, and decided to make nice nice with the good kittys. Somehow, I expect some nice sharp spears had something to do with the outcome of that conflict....
Evolution is neither good nor bad, it is a description of what happens. It's kind of like calling gravity or relativity good or bad.
There also is no such thing as "de-evolution." Evolution is the change of allele frequencies within a population over time due to differential reproductive success. If this results in a "simpler" form of organism or the extinction of the species all together, it's still evolution. Of the five great extinctions to hit the earth, none of them caused any "de-evolution," they just killed off a good portion of extant species and left a lot a niches open for the survivors to exploit. We might be at the begining of the next great extinction event (though I doubt it'll get to that point, as I think we'll clean up our act before it happens).
The answer (put forth by a MS guy at a seminar I attended), is that many enterprise users bought software assurance contracts with the understanding that they'd get Vista as part of the contract, and a good portion of those contracts will be ending this December. No Vista this year would mean some bad PR at the enterprise level.
Which goes to show that they are compairing apples and organges here-- the Q1 is NOT a PDA, it's a small mobile PC. The purpose of each is entirely different. This comparison makes as much sense as comparing a Digital SLR and a cell phone with a camera built in, and then giving the cell phone the win because it can store more pictures on a 1 gig card and because you can send the pictures to your friends with the phone.
No, in plants, mitochondria do the same thing as the do in the cells of all other eukaryotes. Chloroplasts convert the energy in sunlight into stored energy. Two very different functions.
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Intresting, but the technique described sounds pretty unworkable for any kind of industrial production-- it takes a week to grow the harvested tissue 14% and it sounds like you'd end up using a good amount of FBS (which can run as high as $1/ml). Plus FBS is an extremely rich medium which bacteria just love, in order to grow tissue cultures in it it has to be absolutely sterile. Everything used to manipulate the tissue, measure and dispense the FBS, and the container you are going to do the growing in has to be sterile. And then all of your work has to be done in an "clean" workspace (usually a laminar flow hood). You're talking some big $$$ for not much return
It won't be long before it becomes fairly trivial, so far is production goes, to grow meat in the lab as is being suggested, but it will be a long time before it's cheaper to produce in the lab than it is to just grow it on a cow. Maybe there will be a market for $2000 grown-in-the-lab steaks, but I don't see it being a very large market.
So now we have to worry about the lockpicker's equivalent of a script kiddy.
To pick a nit, she doesn't have a Ph.D., she has a D.Sc., and it's in Public Health. But she does have a point-- what would happen if THE CHILDREN began to eat power-ups and attack ghosts in real life?
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Windows versions have been around for about 6 years, so there is a chance that someone just MIGHT have tried it already.
I wonder how this will all shake out...I mean the game's EULA apparently allows this sort of thing, but seeing as how whatever the hell it was he stole does have an actual real cash value, might law enforcement get interested? $130K isn't chump change, and you can't use a EULA to circumvent the law.
Care to explain how, exactly, that church funded social services are "part of the problem"?
Sure you get plenty of moralizing on both sides of the issue, but the stereotypes you've resorted to are pretty damned far from the truth of the situation. Demonizing people on one or the other side of a particular issue isn't particularly helpful. I'm not against any of the remedies you've suggested, but church funded groups can and do provide decent solutions for people that want them. Private charities are not the be-all end-all, and I'm certainly not suggesting that, but they do tend to spend their money a bit better than the government has EVER managed to do.
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Nice rhetoric, but the truth is, most of the people that are anti-abortion do support groups (with their $$$ and time) that aide young unwed mothers, providing health care and adoption services if needed. They get almost no press for it because, surprise surprise, the good that people do almost never gets covered-- the press prefers mean and nasty to helpful and compasionet.
I'm agnostic and pro-choice, but I have friends that are christian and pro-life, and they, more than anyone else I've seen in the issue, put their money where there mouth is and actually try to help people. And adopting unwanted children that would otherwise grow up in foster care, is far from a small thing. And tell me, have you done anything as selfless as that?
Yeah, that's a fine idea. That way I have the convenience of having AOL's crap-suite, Yahoo's toolbar, a Word Perfect Demo, and Macaffee's PITA-to-remove "security suite" pre-installed on my new computers.
I'd wager that most of the non-yiddish population outside of the US hasn't heard of a "tchotchke" or a "tshatshke".
Of course we have...He was that guy on Happy Days that was dating Joanie. Duh.
Really, it's not that the "younger generation" wants their iPod to work with Linux, because it does that now. What they want is iTunes + iPod, and they want it to either come with the OS or install with a single click. They want it to be easy and they want it to be familiar, and the only entity that can do that is Apple.
Nothing wrong with a crank for power-- there are probably quite a few Dell laptop owners wishing that they had such sophisticated and reliable technology.
And the next step is going to be five year olds cruising down the sidewalk, chating away on their cell phone, and driving far too fast/slow, unable to hold their lane, and swerving at random moments. BMW might as well start producing tricycles and go-carts for these kids now...
"Jumpyness" is more natural! When you flip pages in a book, you go from one page straight to the next. It doesn't "slide", you flip it and that's it. How is page up/down any different?
It's not more natural, it's what you're used to. Realize that pages in books are a format that was dictated by technology, not what was the best solution-- the older way of written works were continous scrolls, which the reader could unroll at the top and roll out at the bottom for a continous reading experience, like much information is provided on the web. Sheets of paper were just a cheaper way of providing a writing surface, and later a much cheaper way (with the advent of the printing press) of producing information. Constraints of technology and price, and a familiarity with the format, do not make something more natural, it just makes it easier for you to use because it's what you expect.
On the plus side, it'll have much better battery life than the Nokia 770. That is if the Sony battery doesn't burst in to flames at random moments.
Evolution tends to come up with Rube Goldberg solutions, not well engineered ones. Look up the recurrent laryngeal nerve for an example. Or take the testicals for example-- wouldn't you really prefer that they be tucked up safely out of the way or perhaps had a tough padded cover?
Those sabre tooth tigers are always going to be eating us so its time we just face facts.
Well, those sabre tooth tigers didn't quit eating us because some people decided that it would be better if we got along with them, and decided to make nice nice with the good kittys. Somehow, I expect some nice sharp spears had something to do with the outcome of that conflict....
Mud eating penis worms, and we don't have better jokes? Slashdot has really gone down hill....
...no "real" person would've spent the time to make something so dumb.
You must not frequent youtube.
Evolution is neither good nor bad, it is a description of what happens. It's kind of like calling gravity or relativity good or bad. There also is no such thing as "de-evolution." Evolution is the change of allele frequencies within a population over time due to differential reproductive success. If this results in a "simpler" form of organism or the extinction of the species all together, it's still evolution. Of the five great extinctions to hit the earth, none of them caused any "de-evolution," they just killed off a good portion of extant species and left a lot a niches open for the survivors to exploit. We might be at the begining of the next great extinction event (though I doubt it'll get to that point, as I think we'll clean up our act before it happens).
The answer (put forth by a MS guy at a seminar I attended), is that many enterprise users bought software assurance contracts with the understanding that they'd get Vista as part of the contract, and a good portion of those contracts will be ending this December. No Vista this year would mean some bad PR at the enterprise level.
And yes, this is entirely hearsay.
He's an American-- he was born in New York and moved to Austrailia when he was 12.
Which goes to show that they are compairing apples and organges here-- the Q1 is NOT a PDA, it's a small mobile PC. The purpose of each is entirely different. This comparison makes as much sense as comparing a Digital SLR and a cell phone with a camera built in, and then giving the cell phone the win because it can store more pictures on a 1 gig card and because you can send the pictures to your friends with the phone.
Heinlein wrote about such a scenerio. It was mentioned in passing in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as "the wet firecracker war."
In plants, chloroplasts fill a similar role.
No, in plants, mitochondria do the same thing as the do in the cells of all other eukaryotes. Chloroplasts convert the energy in sunlight into stored energy. Two very different functions.