This isn't intended for "the farm", nor for the butcher or human consumption. You must have missed these paragraphs:
The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig's genetic material is green, it is easy to spot.
So if, for instance, some of its stem cells are injected into another animal, scientists can track how they develop without the need for a biopsy or invasive test.
This was my first thought exactly. Allow the link back to the user's Slashdot page if the submitter wishes it and let them have a link to their chosen website there for people who are curious.
This would help cut back on the accusations of spamming, link-whoring, and finessing of Google's page ranking system in order to get a website listed higher there. And it would allow the editors to not have to reject good stories just because of the submitter's name recognition.
My other thought was, why not just use the "someone sent in this interesting link" type of post for the submitters whose names generate backlash which takes the focus off the real story.
In regards to NBC including commercials, SciFiWire says:
"NBC's commercial-free deal with DirecTV will cover not only NBC shows such as the Law & Order series, but also a few shows on its cable networks, including USA Network."
(That includes NBC Universal-owned SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica.)
Also note that it says commercial-free in there, as it does in the originally posted article.
And on that page it is important to note the word "Beta". They are just testing the waters with this program. Will people sort pictures for $.03 each? Can we (Amazon) make/save money on this? etc.
Maybe that's why this is on GoDaddy... If Amazon doesn't like the way the beta testing is going, they can just yank the whole thing.
According to this article I read last Monday, Honda is already on its fifth iteration of FCX's. It's considered to be the most advanced hydrogen-fueled vehicle developed thus far by any motor company.
Some other tidbits in this article:
- the car has an ultra capacitor -- a non-chemical ''battery" that injects electrical power when demand is high. The ultra capacitor sets Honda apart from rivals.
- the hydrogen fueling plant in Pomona uses solar energy to produce hydrogen
- the car in the above story is not "the first fuel-cell car on the road anywhere in the world", just the first leased to a family for everyday use.
I live in the Phoenix area which is served by the Arizona Republic. Their excellent online version carries all the same stories that the print one does.
I just set my Yahoo RSS reader to list their news, business, community, and offbeat sections and it gives me the top ten stories for each main section of the paper (at least, the ones that I'm interested in). I can scan the headlines and brief intro to see if I would like to read more in depth and I find much more relevant local news that way. I never waste my time on television news unless there is some national breaking news story being covered by the news channels.
If there is breaking local news, the RSS is updated, and I usually read about it long before it makes it to the print version. We get the paper every day, but it's a complete waste for me because I get much more news from the online version.
I don't mind when extra footage is available. I liked seeing the extra footage in "Lord of the Rings" extended version, for example. One of my favorite things to do is to watch the outtakes in the bonus material on a DVD. Some extra clips are good, some you can see why it was left out of the finished movie. A lot of times, I wish that I could play the movie with the option of adding back in those outtakes.
I feel they should leave it to the viewer as to whether or not they want to see the original version or the revised version. With digital technology, couldn't they have two versions on a DVD: one version with all the chapters, including the revisions, and one version that leaves out the extra chapters? It seems like that would be fairly simple to do (though I don't really know the technology behind that). That way, the consumer gets what they want, and the studios could sell to both camps, possibly increasing their sales in the process.
Unfortunately, I know that is a naive wish, because Directors are Artists (with a capital A), and they want to have the final say on their Grand Vision.
The engine burns, each scheduled to run 11 minutes and 40 seconds, were slated for 5:09 p.m. EDT (2109 GMT) and 6:33 p.m. EDT (2233 GMT), and were expected to raise the ISS into an orbit that hits 224 statute miles (360 kilometers) at its highest point, a bit higher that the station's current orbital peak of 220 statute miles (354 kilometers), NASA officials said Tuesday.
But the Progress engines switched off less than two minutes into the first burn, NASA officials said, adding that there appeared to be a communications problem between the spacecraft's thrusters and Russian navigation computers, which shut down the engines as designed due to the data dropout.
The brief engine burn did accelerate the ISS by about 1.04 feet per second (0.31 meters per second) and raised the lowest point of the station's orbit - 211 miles (339 kilometers) - by about 0.7 miles (1.1 kilometers), according to NASA officials.
Other engines could be used to boost the space station's orbit, but Russian space officials are still evaluating the glitch, the Federal Space Agency said.
The "agenda" may belong to Russell Davies who admits, "Yes, I'm a gay writer," and goes on to say, "...to get hung up on it [the fact that Jack's bisexual] is almost too sad for words, frankly."
The problem is that people are going to get hung up on that very fact. I predict that this spin-off wouldn't do well here in the U.S.
I was reading this article just before this story was posted to Slashdot, and found it to be very informative (though one could say that it has too much information, thankyouverymuch).
Its going to be difficult for this show to reach its target audience, which I would assume is 19 - 35 males. Most would rather see more Lexx and Seven-of-Nine in their 'Adult' sci-fi, by my estimation.
Yes, there is definitely something wrong with the education in the U.S. I just finished reading this very saddening article about teaching science in middle schools in my hometown. Some of the lowlights:
"But in light of the increasing focus on science at the state and national level, and Mesa's lack of science emphasis in junior highs, changes appear inevitable. 'With the science requirements so important, we need to look at scheduling and how we can pull that off,' said board President Mike Hughes. 'We're just trying to find ways to increase the science.'
"Last year, [only] 3 percent of Mesa junior high students completed the "advanced track," which requires a full year of science in all three grades."
"Mesa ninth-graders are required to take English, math and world history and can choose among any number of elective courses to fill out their schedule."
Notice, science is missing from that list. Add to this the fact that parents have a hissy fit if you take away any of the electives.
"The prospect of taking away an elective offering and adding science sounds simple enough, but at the retreat, board members were clearly aware of the potential backlash. They cited Kyrene's School Board president, who became the subject of an ongoing recall effort after the board approved cutting back on some middle school electives..."
And a real world example of the lack of qualified teachers:
"The district will need six qualified instructors to teach science to all Mesa's ninth-graders beginning next year, but would need an extra 20 science teachers to extend the program to the eighth-grade level. Those numbers concern Mesa administrators because of the dearth of new qualified science teachers. There are more than 100 student teachers working in the Mesa district this year, and fewer than 10 are qualified to teach math or science at the junior high level."
I know plenty of people who have various religious beliefs regarding the origins of life on this planet, and it doesn't hinder them from doing their vocations. Some of them are science teachers, computer engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, physicists, doctors, chemists, biologists, to name a few.
The sciences related to the field of evolutionary studies is actually very small compared to the whole picture of science. I don't see where a quibble about whether or not God created the world in seven days has anything to do with the majority of fields of science. What does a quark care if man were descended from apes? Can only athiests go to the Moon or Mars?
I think there are much more practical and fundamental reasons why the U.S. is starting to lag behind and that is what this science advisory group is trying to point to: a lack of qualified teachers; "brain-drain" in that foreign students who receive doctorates in the sciences take all the knowledge of what they learned out of the country because they are discouraged from staying in the U.S.; and the lack of incentives and money for research in the sciences.
I think that China, Brazil, Iran, etc. are worried about the potential for what they see as "abuse of power" in their eyes. They don't want the U. S. to be able to dictate to them about their use of the internet in any way, shape, or form.
From what I can see though, according to TFA, the UN doesn't want to take over or strip away Icann's role as a regulator of web traffic. Rather, they wish for Icann to become independent as it was supposed to in September of 2006. When the U. S. said no, it wasn't gonna give it up, that's when the ruckus started.
If Icann could truly become an independent body, not bending to the political agendas of various countries (including the U. S.), how could that be a bad thing?
Well according to rottentomatoes.com, only 5 critics out of 105 panned the movie.
With such a short list it should be easy to nab the one who felt "felt that Wallace and Grommet are really that evil and must be destroyed at all costs."
The Armadillo Aerospace style has been based on it's "better to build 10 vehicles even if you destroy them" credo. It's a way to learn a lot on the way, Carmack noted, "rather than to spend years and millions of dollars just studying something."
For rocketeers and those hungering to enter the personal spaceflight enterprise, Carmack offered a bit of advice.
"It's good to try and make things real as soon as possible. You don't want to leave things theoretical and plan it...it's better to step in and do something immediately. If you've got a lofty goal you want to start taking steps all the time. We try to set things up so that everyday there's something that you take a little step further. It's too easy to have huge goals that are so far off. You have to tie it to what can you do today," Carmack said.
This attitude is kind of refreshing after the apparent stagnation of NASA and ISS. It's better to get out there and do it. Start somewhere, big or small. Just... start!
"ECONOMICS: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday."
"PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years."
and
"FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
I wonder about this too. Even the "Venue concepts" in their photo gallery on their official website doesn't enlighten me too much.
They have four "artist conception" pictures of the planes taking off and three showing the planes zooming near what look like grandstands, but it gives no idea as to what the course would look like.
As someone else mentioned, it reminds me of the pod races of Star Wars.
You should note that the video referred to there is from Dec. 18, 2001.
It does not work with Firefox, but then I couldn't get it to work on Explorer either. All I got was the message "The video you requested is not available." Possibly because the link was 4 years old?
"Edgar Jr... outraged the industry by proposing that theaters charge higher prices for more expensive movies. Why, he asked, should you pay the same amount to see a $2 million movie as you would to see a $200 million one? Analysts and movie types hooted with derision--that's "like charging for a piece of art based on how much bronze or paint was used," sneered one.
Edgar Jr. wants to treat movies like any other product: If a movie costs more to produce, you should charge more for it.
That was seven years ago!
And now, talking about music:
"To have only one price point is not fair to our artists, and I dare say not appropriate to consumers. The market should decide, not a single retailer... Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more."
Might as well ask, "Why do people go to Renaissance Fairs?" or "Why do people go to see the Rolling Stones in concert?" or even, "Why go look at all those old paintings and stuff in the museum?"
They think its fun... they like the nostalgia of it... they have money and time to waste for a hobby they enjoy... they think that maybe they can learn something from it...
Don't knock going back to something old, because sometimes if you go back to the past, you can gain new insight into the here and now.
Slashdot Mirror
This was my first thought exactly. Allow the link back to the user's Slashdot page if the submitter wishes it and let them have a link to their chosen website there for people who are curious.
This would help cut back on the accusations of spamming, link-whoring, and finessing of Google's page ranking system in order to get a website listed higher there. And it would allow the editors to not have to reject good stories just because of the submitter's name recognition.
My other thought was, why not just use the "someone sent in this interesting link" type of post for the submitters whose names generate backlash which takes the focus off the real story.
In regards to NBC including commercials, SciFiWire says:
"NBC's commercial-free deal with DirecTV will cover not only NBC shows such as the Law & Order series, but also a few shows on its cable networks, including USA Network."
(That includes NBC Universal-owned SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica.)
Also note that it says commercial-free in there, as it does in the originally posted article.
And on that page it is important to note the word "Beta". They are just testing the waters with this program. Will people sort pictures for $.03 each? Can we (Amazon) make/save money on this? etc.
Maybe that's why this is on GoDaddy... If Amazon doesn't like the way the beta testing is going, they can just yank the whole thing.
According to this article I read last Monday, Honda is already on its fifth iteration of FCX's. It's considered to be the most advanced hydrogen-fueled vehicle developed thus far by any motor company.
Some other tidbits in this article:
- the car has an ultra capacitor -- a non-chemical ''battery" that injects electrical power when demand is high. The ultra capacitor sets Honda apart from rivals.
- the hydrogen fueling plant in Pomona uses solar energy to produce hydrogen
- the car in the above story is not "the first fuel-cell car on the road anywhere in the world", just the first leased to a family for everyday use.
- the car weighs two tons(!)
I live in the Phoenix area which is served by the Arizona Republic. Their excellent online version carries all the same stories that the print one does.
I just set my Yahoo RSS reader to list their news, business, community, and offbeat sections and it gives me the top ten stories for each main section of the paper (at least, the ones that I'm interested in). I can scan the headlines and brief intro to see if I would like to read more in depth and I find much more relevant local news that way. I never waste my time on television news unless there is some national breaking news story being covered by the news channels.
If there is breaking local news, the RSS is updated, and I usually read about it long before it makes it to the print version. We get the paper every day, but it's a complete waste for me because I get much more news from the online version.
I don't mind when extra footage is available. I liked seeing the extra footage in "Lord of the Rings" extended version, for example. One of my favorite things to do is to watch the outtakes in the bonus material on a DVD. Some extra clips are good, some you can see why it was left out of the finished movie. A lot of times, I wish that I could play the movie with the option of adding back in those outtakes.
I feel they should leave it to the viewer as to whether or not they want to see the original version or the revised version. With digital technology, couldn't they have two versions on a DVD: one version with all the chapters, including the revisions, and one version that leaves out the extra chapters? It seems like that would be fairly simple to do (though I don't really know the technology behind that). That way, the consumer gets what they want, and the studios could sell to both camps, possibly increasing their sales in the process.
Unfortunately, I know that is a naive wish, because Directors are Artists (with a capital A), and they want to have the final say on their Grand Vision.
Er...
What is it that The Simpsons are doing in your underwear, exactly?
Sorry, couldn't resist...
So you're saying that they are the original founders of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity, then, hmmm?
Or...
Maybe they are doing it legitimately at Game Trading Zone, where people can trade their used video games.
The "agenda" may belong to Russell Davies who admits, "Yes, I'm a gay writer," and goes on to say, "...to get hung up on it [the fact that Jack's bisexual] is almost too sad for words, frankly."
The problem is that people are going to get hung up on that very fact. I predict that this spin-off wouldn't do well here in the U.S.
I was reading this article just before this story was posted to Slashdot, and found it to be very informative (though one could say that it has too much information, thankyouverymuch).
Its going to be difficult for this show to reach its target audience, which I would assume is 19 - 35 males. Most would rather see more Lexx and Seven-of-Nine in their 'Adult' sci-fi, by my estimation.
Yes, there is definitely something wrong with the education in the U.S. I just finished reading this very saddening article about teaching science in middle schools in my hometown. Some of the lowlights:
"But in light of the increasing focus on science at the state and national level, and Mesa's lack of science emphasis in junior highs, changes appear inevitable. 'With the science requirements so important, we need to look at scheduling and how we can pull that off,' said board President Mike Hughes. 'We're just trying to find ways to increase the science.'
"Last year, [only] 3 percent of Mesa junior high students completed the "advanced track," which requires a full year of science in all three grades."
"Mesa ninth-graders are required to take English, math and world history and can choose among any number of elective courses to fill out their schedule."
Notice, science is missing from that list. Add to this the fact that parents have a hissy fit if you take away any of the electives.
"The prospect of taking away an elective offering and adding science sounds simple enough, but at the retreat, board members were clearly aware of the potential backlash. They cited Kyrene's School Board president, who became the subject of an ongoing recall effort after the board approved cutting back on some middle school electives..."
And a real world example of the lack of qualified teachers:
"The district will need six qualified instructors to teach science to all Mesa's ninth-graders beginning next year, but would need an extra 20 science teachers to extend the program to the eighth-grade level. Those numbers concern Mesa administrators because of the dearth of new qualified science teachers. There are more than 100 student teachers working in the Mesa district this year, and fewer than 10 are qualified to teach math or science at the junior high level."
Demented and sad, but social.
You quoted from the wrong movie. We're talking "The Princess Bride" here. Prepare to die.
I know plenty of people who have various religious beliefs regarding the origins of life on this planet, and it doesn't hinder them from doing their vocations. Some of them are science teachers, computer engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, physicists, doctors, chemists, biologists, to name a few.
The sciences related to the field of evolutionary studies is actually very small compared to the whole picture of science. I don't see where a quibble about whether or not God created the world in seven days has anything to do with the majority of fields of science. What does a quark care if man were descended from apes? Can only athiests go to the Moon or Mars?
I think there are much more practical and fundamental reasons why the U.S. is starting to lag behind and that is what this science advisory group is trying to point to: a lack of qualified teachers; "brain-drain" in that foreign students who receive doctorates in the sciences take all the knowledge of what they learned out of the country because they are discouraged from staying in the U.S.; and the lack of incentives and money for research in the sciences.
I think that China, Brazil, Iran, etc. are worried about the potential for what they see as "abuse of power" in their eyes. They don't want the U. S. to be able to dictate to them about their use of the internet in any way, shape, or form.
From what I can see though, according to TFA, the UN doesn't want to take over or strip away Icann's role as a regulator of web traffic. Rather, they wish for Icann to become independent as it was supposed to in September of 2006. When the U. S. said no, it wasn't gonna give it up, that's when the ruckus started.
If Icann could truly become an independent body, not bending to the political agendas of various countries (including the U. S.), how could that be a bad thing?
Well according to rottentomatoes.com, only 5 critics out of 105 panned the movie.
With such a short list it should be easy to nab the one who felt "felt that Wallace and Grommet are really that evil and must be destroyed at all costs."
One of my favorites:
previously covered at here at slashdot.
Some other funny ones:
and
I wonder about this too. Even the "Venue concepts" in their photo gallery on their official website doesn't enlighten me too much.
They have four "artist conception" pictures of the planes taking off and three showing the planes zooming near what look like grandstands, but it gives no idea as to what the course would look like.
As someone else mentioned, it reminds me of the pod races of Star Wars.
It does not work with Firefox, but then I couldn't get it to work on Explorer either. All I got was the message "The video you requested is not available." Possibly because the link was 4 years old?
And now, talking about music: Sounds eerily familiar in that context.
Might as well ask, "Why do people go to Renaissance Fairs?" or "Why do people go to see the Rolling Stones in concert?" or even, "Why go look at all those old paintings and stuff in the museum?"
They think its fun... they like the nostalgia of it... they have money and time to waste for a hobby they enjoy... they think that maybe they can learn something from it...
Don't knock going back to something old, because sometimes if you go back to the past, you can gain new insight into the here and now.