I think it's reasonable to imagine their shock that the entire article wasn't devoted to breast size analysis -- I have faith that future humanity will finally have their priorities straightened out.
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that all the "rapid development" frameworks that are all the rage lately may be harmful to the current crop of new developers? There should always be a balance between development speed and flexibility, and I fear that crutches like rapid web development frameworks trade ease of use for the ability to do something novel. Of course, one can say "if you don't like it, don't use it", but the fact is that people new to the field will use it regardless, simply because it's the path of least resistance. True, some clever ones will extend the range of what was thought possible, but most will end up with the same cookie-cutter projects for which these frameworks are always tailored (look to scaffolding in Ruby on Rails for an example of the omnipresent "database browser").
I suppose this is just the next step in the constant progression toward appeasing laziness; no matter how easy an interface becomes, there will always be demand for something or someone to fill the gap of applying actual effort to learn it.
This is just going off of high school biology, but isn't it already widely accepted that messenger RNA transcripted off the DNA in the nucleus provides the information for ribosomes to create proteins? Not quite sure what all this is about a "secret world of RNA" that they speak of in the article summary.
Also, the link to the PDF is borked, so I can't RTFA:(
So, wouldn't be trivial to extract a list of registered screennames using this interface? I'm sure this'll be a paradise for IM-spamming scripts, as it'll take all the work out of finding valid (used/popular, even) screennames.
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This is a particularly pervasive myth. Of course, the folklore is incorrect: according to basic thermodynamics, a quantity of warm water will invariably take longer to freeze than an equal quantity of cold water.
Note that key phrase, "an equal quantity" -- in an experiment with two uncovered containers of hot and cold water, you'll find that the resultant mass of water in each of the containers is anything but: a good deal of water from the hot water container is lost to evaporation. So, with a decreased mass, it's easy for the originally hot water to cool more quickly than a significantly larger mass of cold water.
Essentially, hot water does cool faster than cold water in an uncovered container, but you end up with significantly less ice than if it were originally cold.
From what I can glean from the article, this isn't really a breakthrough in reviving dead creatures more than it is another attempt at hibernation.
It seems a little misleading to title the post "U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs" when the treatment requires that they perform a process on the dogs (clinically killing them, I suppose), then restore them to a state that's equivalent (not sure, the article was vague about this) to before they were suspended.
Regardless, this doesn't seem very useful, especially considering the exotic application they suggested in the article. Seriously, are you really going to be able to perform a full blood transfusion on an already wounded person in the middle of a battlefield?
Or with a chicken. Whichever you prefer, really.
Does anyone else find the fact that they applied this stroking to chickens (as in potentially male chickens, cocks) a little telling?
Didn't slashdot report on this last year? Japanese researchers, check; using blood for energy, check...seems like a dupe, yeah.
In any case, 0.2 milliwatts isn't exactly that much power: the AbiCor artificial heart documentation mentions that it consumes several watts from its external battery pack, a far cry from what this provides.
Though, I can imagine a beowulf cluster of these.;)
Mod parent up; I totally agree with this. Too often people try to get at the "pure" intention behind language, without realizing that language formalizes and refines abstract thought, similar to how mathematics and physics formalize and refine intuitive, but sometimes faulty concepts about how numbers and objects work.
Yet another ridiculous attempt to make something rightfully (and only modestly) complex into something mind-numbingly lacking in anything but (arbitrary) comparison value. What am I supposed to do when I ask someone how much RAM they have and they reply "oh, I don't know, I have a level 4"?
Let's stop catering to the idea that consumers can't wrap their brains around the concept of multiple components in a computer.
"For example, he noted that in Japan, a consumer scouting for, say, a new boyfriend can program her interests and preferences into a cell phone that uses Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. If there is another Bluetooth user looking for someone with a similar profile, their cell phones will alert them both that they're in each other's range. "
The fact that this guy can compare relationships to "consuming" is scary enough, disregarding the spyware-esque wall ads. The day that human beings consider one of their most meaningful, driving impulses a base act of consumption is the day that life in general ceases to have any meaning at all *end rampant generalization*.
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I think it's reasonable to imagine their shock that the entire article wasn't devoted to breast size analysis -- I have faith that future humanity will finally have their priorities straightened out.
Well, it's relatively solid, compared to its gaseous form (and hydrogen is a gas at normal room temperature/pressure).
But were they having sex scenes?
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that all the "rapid development" frameworks that are all the rage lately may be harmful to the current crop of new developers? There should always be a balance between development speed and flexibility, and I fear that crutches like rapid web development frameworks trade ease of use for the ability to do something novel. Of course, one can say "if you don't like it, don't use it", but the fact is that people new to the field will use it regardless, simply because it's the path of least resistance. True, some clever ones will extend the range of what was thought possible, but most will end up with the same cookie-cutter projects for which these frameworks are always tailored (look to scaffolding in Ruby on Rails for an example of the omnipresent "database browser").
I suppose this is just the next step in the constant progression toward appeasing laziness; no matter how easy an interface becomes, there will always be demand for something or someone to fill the gap of applying actual effort to learn it.
This is just going off of high school biology, but isn't it already widely accepted that messenger RNA transcripted off the DNA in the nucleus provides the information for ribosomes to create proteins? Not quite sure what all this is about a "secret world of RNA" that they speak of in the article summary.
:(
Also, the link to the PDF is borked, so I can't RTFA
So, wouldn't be trivial to extract a list of registered screennames using this interface? I'm sure this'll be a paradise for IM-spamming scripts, as it'll take all the work out of finding valid (used/popular, even) screennames.
This is a particularly pervasive myth. Of course, the folklore is incorrect: according to basic thermodynamics, a quantity of warm water will invariably take longer to freeze than an equal quantity of cold water.
Note that key phrase, "an equal quantity" -- in an experiment with two uncovered containers of hot and cold water, you'll find that the resultant mass of water in each of the containers is anything but: a good deal of water from the hot water container is lost to evaporation. So, with a decreased mass, it's easy for the originally hot water to cool more quickly than a significantly larger mass of cold water.
Essentially, hot water does cool faster than cold water in an uncovered container, but you end up with significantly less ice than if it were originally cold.
From what I can glean from the article, this isn't really a breakthrough in reviving dead creatures more than it is another attempt at hibernation. It seems a little misleading to title the post "U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs" when the treatment requires that they perform a process on the dogs (clinically killing them, I suppose), then restore them to a state that's equivalent (not sure, the article was vague about this) to before they were suspended. Regardless, this doesn't seem very useful, especially considering the exotic application they suggested in the article. Seriously, are you really going to be able to perform a full blood transfusion on an already wounded person in the middle of a battlefield?
Imagine a beowulf cluster...oh, wait, that's just a computer.
Or with a chicken. Whichever you prefer, really. Does anyone else find the fact that they applied this stroking to chickens (as in potentially male chickens, cocks) a little telling?
Didn't slashdot report on this last year? Japanese researchers, check; using blood for energy, check...seems like a dupe, yeah.
;)
In any case, 0.2 milliwatts isn't exactly that much power: the AbiCor artificial heart documentation mentions that it consumes several watts from its external battery pack, a far cry from what this provides.
Though, I can imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
Mod parent up; I totally agree with this. Too often people try to get at the "pure" intention behind language, without realizing that language formalizes and refines abstract thought, similar to how mathematics and physics formalize and refine intuitive, but sometimes faulty concepts about how numbers and objects work.
Huh, I wonder if it has a snooze button. There's nothing more irritating than being awakened in the middle of a restful nap behind the wheel.
Yet another ridiculous attempt to make something rightfully (and only modestly) complex into something mind-numbingly lacking in anything but (arbitrary) comparison value. What am I supposed to do when I ask someone how much RAM they have and they reply "oh, I don't know, I have a level 4"?
Let's stop catering to the idea that consumers can't wrap their brains around the concept of multiple components in a computer.
"For example, he noted that in Japan, a consumer scouting for, say, a new boyfriend can program her interests and preferences into a cell phone that uses Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. If there is another Bluetooth user looking for someone with a similar profile, their cell phones will alert them both that they're in each other's range. "
The fact that this guy can compare relationships to "consuming" is scary enough, disregarding the spyware-esque wall ads. The day that human beings consider one of their most meaningful, driving impulses a base act of consumption is the day that life in general ceases to have any meaning at all *end rampant generalization*.
But, of course, anything's possible...in Japan!
I, for one, welcome our space-age, bubble-track-housed overlords. Jawhol!
uselessjunk.net falls as another victiom of the /. effect, and it wasn't even from a front-page post.
Ouch.