We already share diseases with animals.
Influenza, parrot fever, anthrax, shigella, etc. plus a mess 'O' parasites. Sincre the Chimera is made up of genetically distinct components, say an Ostrich with chicken feet, it might well work the other way. Take an animal that has a good immune response to a common (human-animal) disease. Mix in some human organs, say those that are severely affected by this same disease. At the leaset, one would learn if the severly affected organ is directly affected by the disease or if there is something else happening in the human that exacerbates that organs response when in a human. Many other experiments come to mind. Perhaps an animal with a mix of human and animal organs would produce antigens that would be useful in treating the disease in humans.
Now, totally off the wall, consider cosmetics. Human female breast enhancement, these days, is done with synthetics. Imagine being able to grow custom '100% natural' hootage, right there on the farm!
Anestheologist, "Doc, what's she in for?" Doc, "She's a two for one special, knockers and knees."
On the topic of Too Human, lets flip things around. In/. comments to previous 'news' on the topic of chimera, posters have opined that lesser animals endowed with greater intelligence might become 'victims' of man. Consider instead, a bevy of lucious blonds replete with rabbit brains. While not much of a step down in intelligence, said blondes could well become...
911 is state of locally funded. The cell phone 911 problem is mainly a result of people not knowing where thay are. Net thing you know, there will be a lobby group to requre funding for 911 cell phones for dogs and cats. Hell, they can't tell us where they are either but there is some remote possibility that you might wreck your car or fall off a mountain and your dog or cat could push the panic button for you.
There needs to be some sort of cost benefit analysis applied to this stuff. IMO, it's WRONG to 'tax' (fee) everyone in order to deal with people who are too stupid to know where they are. As for those situation where you may be able to push the panic button but not talk, there are commercial services available for those who desire this much coddling.
VOIP over 2.5G or 3G phones will not steal monies from this 'tax' structure. The fee is a pass through from your phone company. They will still have to pay it and they will, generally, continue to pass it through. Interestingly, the only phone company owner I know says that there is no real accounting of these fees, even though the companies are required to pass through no more than they charge.
I know that universaL access is charged on my IDSL line so no loss there if I go VOIP. Is it also charged to cable TV companies? If so, then VOIP is a red herring for more 'tax'.
10*^3/10^10=10^7 DAMN! No idea it was
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so lucrative.
If only Swami didn't want the hassle so much $ brings he'd be offshore and phishing tomorrow.
Hell, as it is, he can't manage the checking account, never mind $10^7!
I said, "Of course it would literally have to hop as wings are useless on the moon. Low gravity may make the concept practical and gas could be 'waste' from the He3 extraction."
You might also run a fusion reactor on the moon using some of the He3 you've mined and use the heat to vaporize and accelerate other byproducts of mining such as metals.
Links. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_0006 30.html, http://exosci.com/news/129.html (He3 found with concentrations of TiO2), I like the Populrar Science RAIL GUN approach to getting the stuff back to Earth. Another nice thing about proximity of TiO2 and He3 is O2 is handy for miners of the made of meat variety. Perhaps some OPossums or Coons with human like brains (search/. or google for the articles on chimera).
Not a fair fight, the OSI is bigger and has a keyboard rather than hex pad! I'm NARP, merely dilettante. However, I've just started studying up on threads. Still at the naieve Omygosh, you can do that what if you did this stage. Getting old when 10 year old stuff seems exciting and new:-)
more than a month using its solar cells to refuel and recharge its batteries before it could take off again."
This may well be a feature. Conventional wisdom, when fishing or hunting, is it pays not to move around too much.
Easily tested on earth too.
A really big one might help with moon mining as proposed here. Of course it would literally have to hop as wings are useless on the moon. Low gravity may make the concept practical and gas could be 'waste' from the He3 extraction.
Imagine a whole mining-processing plant hopping about the moon.
Desktop fabrication in a specific area, say software, is still pretty uncommon. Nevermind that program generators for cobal have been around for ages. A buddy who has been in IT since the only computers around were made of vacuum tubes has coupled his cobol generators with some program conversion utilities he wrote and now generates java programs based by specifying what they are supposed to do, rather than coding in java. One would think this sort of thing would be much more common in software.
An earlier/. article World's First Ultra-Thin Multilayer Circuit Board talked about 'printing' multi-layer circuit baords. Coupling this with a little bit of hardware and the actual circuits might be printed. Some/. respondents cought on right away. 1, 2, go read for more.
There have also been articles on hydroforming, foam in place construction, etc.
As for rapid prototype '3-D' printers, the articles author seems to miss two major uses of this technology. Form and fit prototypes, and most common, rapid pattern making for casting.
Yes, it's happening within specific industries, big time, but the general purpose desktop fab is far in the future.
No. Pay parity doesn't make sense. If one is willing to work for the same wage as an equally qualified local, reciprocity of work visa's makes sense. I'm not saying borders should be open, but if a guy from Hong Kong can get a job in USA cooking Hong Kong style, some bubba who might want to cook BBQ in HK should be able to apply for a reciprocal work visa slot. Hell, a good BBQ restaurant in HK might pay better than one in rural USA.
Finding a good doc is like finding a sysadmin (or car mechanic, or plumber, or electronics engineer) who actually knows how things work as opposed to being adept at the 'good practices' dance.
About 15 years back a friend had psittacosis that was so bad they had him on IV antibiotics for a year. It's pretty rare in humans and usually not so severe.
It took him forever to find a doc who recognized what he had.
I'm no doc, but common sense would suggest that if symptoms suggest an infectious agent, sampling and investigation of the site of infection would be in order.
As for docs, I had one who looked at an x-ray of my hand in which three bones were clearly broken with a good 3/8 inch between the broken ends and tell me that my hand was fine! Even the x-ray tech didn't see the breaks. It was a surreal experience. Ditto for my moms fractured pelvis (she fell through a rotten section of floor in a building we we're thinking of buying). X-ray tech and doctor did not see the fracture until I pointed it out on the film. They were going to send her home with some pain killers!
Last example was bicep torn completely off the bone in my forearm. Pretty obvious something was wrong. Bicep all bunched up near my shoulder. It was the THIRD doctor who looked at it that finally agreed something was wrong (although he still misdiagnosed). Finally found a good orthpedist who had seen the condition (pretty unusual) before.
This attitude re:copying TV is akin to that of the fat ugly broad who bitches you out and calls you a pervert because you happened to glance at her in her string bikini.
Driving a hybrid is rather unnerving the first few months because the engine starts and stops on it's own.
EPA figures are a little off from reality. A friend has a geo and consistabtly gets 50+ mpg on the freeway. Also the Subaru Justy does much better than EPA numbers.
Even if 'the company' is supposed to take care of your visa, it pays to follow up on your own. This advice courtesy the guy who left Ecuador at the unpleasant end of a gun because the company he was working for FUCKED UP!.
In addition to Ecuador, I've worked in China, Japan, Phillipines, Fiji, Tonga, Hong Kong, and Singapore. I hired on outside the USA. Most friends who are working or have worked expat. have hired on outside their home country.
Want an overseas job, take a vacation, get to know the place, visit the company you want to work for. Hang out in the right bars.
I've sugested on/. before that international trade agreements might benefit from some sort of reciprocity in work visas. For example if 20,000 Indian workers are allowed into to USA then an equal number of USA citizens should be allowed to work in India.
I for one could go for a summerhouse in Kashmir.
As the article points out, raw salary isn't everything.
Consistancy is the KEY and has been since the early days of cobol when report and screen generators were designed with consistancy in mind. IMO Apple does a pretty good job with this. It's a big part of what makes an intuitive system intuitive and needs to be approached from the lowest levels (naming and structure within the source) through presentation and the UI.
It's not too difficult to make corrections in firmware after assembly. As for the injection molding, follow on steps could make the prism faces really flat. Lapping comes to mind. Lapping works well for glass too. Pouring prismatic glass sheets is not difficult. In manufacturing think in terms of cycle time for each step. Production is limited by the longest step. Glass prisms can be poured as a contimuous process, sheared, and lapped. This works for polycarbonate as well.
So, no, I don't see any manufatruing problems with this technology.
Who says the turbine has to be powered by fossil fuel? It could be a hydro turbine with penstock attached to your dick. Or perhaps methane powered with a hose stuffed in your ass. Vegans are known for producing copious quantities of methane.
First thing that came to mind was the film Brazil and the tiny CRTs with big lenses.
Pretty clever.
One way to acheive is mirror array at 'base' ala DLP. DOn't know if this is the approach, but if so, corrections for each pixel would be pretty easy to handle in firmware.
It's too good a bargain and the learning curve isn't that much steeper than WinDohs.
What I want to know is what Apple has in min for China and Asia markets. Are they addressing culture based aesthetics as they do in the USA? Do they even realize how many people in the USA buy Apple for aesthetic reasons?
I used to work in offshore oil exploration. I worked 12 hours/day, 7 days/week. This was math (geodetic datum conversions), precision navigation, operating various geophysical instruments, maintaining computer and electronic hardware, and sometimes climbing the masts to work on the navigation antennas, working on deck with the cable, etc. Stressful, yes. But the schedule made a big difference. 12 hour watches = good, 6 hour watches = hullicinations after 3 weeks.
I thought the goal with programming was to always work half as much time as you billed. I mean your still working when you're asleep and dreaming about a schema.
to Mac for my mom. I use Unix (Solaris and Linux) and OSX is closer to what I'm used to. She has an easier time with the user interface. Mac is less susceptible to exploits.
I know other middle aged guys like myself who are moving their parents to OSX because it's easier to maintain. Growth of LInux benefits Apple. Seems so. How much, anyones guess.
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Just curious, having never run into the problem.
We already share diseases with animals.
/. comments to previous 'news' on the topic of chimera, posters have opined that lesser animals endowed with greater intelligence might become 'victims' of man. Consider instead, a bevy of lucious blonds replete with rabbit brains. While not much of a step down in intelligence, said blondes could well become ...
Influenza, parrot fever, anthrax, shigella, etc. plus a mess 'O' parasites.
Sincre the Chimera is made up of genetically distinct components, say an Ostrich with chicken feet, it might well work the other way. Take an animal that has a good immune response to a common (human-animal) disease. Mix in some human organs, say those that are severely affected by this same disease. At the leaset, one would learn if the severly affected organ is directly affected by the disease or if there is something else happening in the human that exacerbates that organs response when in a human. Many other experiments come to mind. Perhaps an animal with a mix of human and animal organs would produce antigens that would be useful in treating the disease in humans.
Now, totally off the wall, consider cosmetics. Human female breast enhancement, these days, is done with synthetics. Imagine being able to grow custom '100% natural' hootage, right there on the farm!
Anestheologist, "Doc, what's she in for?"
Doc, "She's a two for one special, knockers and knees."
On the topic of Too Human, lets flip things around. In
Universal service fee.
911 is state of locally funded. The cell phone 911 problem is mainly a result of people not knowing where thay are. Net thing you know, there will be a lobby group to requre funding for 911 cell phones for dogs and cats. Hell, they can't tell us where they are either but there is some remote possibility that you might wreck your car or fall off a mountain and your dog or cat could push the panic button for you.
There needs to be some sort of cost benefit analysis applied to this stuff. IMO, it's WRONG to 'tax' (fee) everyone in order to deal with people who are too stupid to know where they are. As for those situation where you may be able to push the panic button but not talk, there are commercial services available for those who desire this much coddling.
VOIP over 2.5G or 3G phones will not steal monies from this 'tax' structure. The fee is a pass through from your phone company. They will still have to pay it and they will, generally, continue to pass it through. Interestingly, the only phone company owner I know says that there is no real accounting of these fees, even though the companies are required to pass through no more than they charge.
I know that universaL access is charged on my IDSL line so no loss there if I go VOIP. Is it also charged to cable TV companies? If so, then VOIP is a red herring for more 'tax'.
so lucrative.
If only Swami didn't want the hassle so much $ brings he'd be offshore and phishing tomorrow.
Hell, as it is, he can't manage the checking account, never mind $10^7!
Whoa there Bubba!
I said, "Of course it would literally have to hop as wings are useless on the moon. Low gravity may make the concept practical and gas could be 'waste' from the He3 extraction."
You might also run a fusion reactor on the moon using some of the He3 you've mined and use the heat to vaporize and accelerate other byproducts of mining such as metals.
Links. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000
Gotta think outside the bathtub
Not a fair fight, the OSI is bigger and has a keyboard rather than hex pad! I'm NARP, merely dilettante. However, I've just started studying up on threads. Still at the naieve Omygosh, you can do that what if you did this stage. Getting old when 10 year old stuff seems exciting and new :-)
more than a month using its solar cells to refuel and recharge its batteries before it could take off again."
This may well be a feature. Conventional wisdom, when fishing or hunting, is it pays not to move around too much.
Easily tested on earth too.
A really big one might help with moon mining as proposed here. Of course it would literally have to hop as wings are useless on the moon. Low gravity may make the concept practical and gas could be 'waste' from the He3 extraction.
Imagine a whole mining-processing plant hopping about the moon.
Here is photo of Jeri in homage to first love processor of many of the middle aged /.ers.
Many more of Jeri at amiga.org site.
Desktop fabrication in a specific area, say software, is still pretty uncommon. Nevermind that program generators for cobal have been around for ages. A buddy who has been in IT since the only computers around were made of vacuum tubes has coupled his cobol generators with some program conversion utilities he wrote and now generates java programs based by specifying what they are supposed to do, rather than coding in java. One would think this sort of thing would be much more common in software.
An earlier
There have also been articles on hydroforming, foam in place construction, etc.
As for rapid prototype '3-D' printers, the articles author seems to miss two major uses of this technology. Form and fit prototypes, and most common, rapid pattern making for casting.
Yes, it's happening within specific industries, big time, but the general purpose desktop fab is far in the future.
surely you've a database with address-config info.
No. Pay parity doesn't make sense. If one is willing to work for the same wage as an equally qualified local, reciprocity of work visa's makes sense. I'm not saying borders should be open, but if a guy from Hong Kong can get a job in USA cooking Hong Kong style, some bubba who might want to cook BBQ in HK should be able to apply for a reciprocal work visa slot. Hell, a good BBQ restaurant in HK might pay better than one in rural USA.
Finding a good doc is like finding a sysadmin (or car mechanic, or plumber, or electronics engineer) who actually knows how things work as opposed to being adept at the 'good practices' dance.
About 15 years back a friend had psittacosis that was so bad they had him on IV antibiotics for a year. It's pretty rare in humans and usually not so severe.
It took him forever to find a doc who recognized what he had.
I'm no doc, but common sense would suggest that if symptoms suggest an infectious agent, sampling and investigation of the site of infection would be in order.
As for docs, I had one who looked at an x-ray of my hand in which three bones were clearly broken with a good 3/8 inch between the broken ends and tell me that my hand was fine! Even the x-ray tech didn't see the breaks. It was a surreal experience. Ditto for my moms fractured pelvis (she fell through a rotten section of floor in a building we we're thinking of buying). X-ray tech and doctor did not see the fracture until I pointed it out on the film. They were going to send her home with some pain killers!
Last example was bicep torn completely off the bone in my forearm. Pretty obvious something was wrong. Bicep all bunched up near my shoulder. It was the THIRD doctor who looked at it that finally agreed something was wrong (although he still misdiagnosed). Finally found a good orthpedist who had seen the condition (pretty unusual) before.
This attitude re:copying TV is akin to that of the fat ugly broad who bitches you out and calls you a pervert because you happened to glance at her in her string bikini.
get 60mpg. IMO both look good. 145kph no problem
US EPA has a web site where one may compare cars.
Driving a hybrid is rather unnerving the first few months because the engine starts and stops on it's own.
EPA figures are a little off from reality. A friend has a geo and consistabtly gets 50+ mpg on the freeway. Also the Subaru Justy does much better than EPA numbers.
Another friends civic hybrid (honda) averages 47mpg with, conservative, mostly freeway driving.
Even if 'the company' is supposed to take care of your visa, it pays to follow up on your own. This advice courtesy the guy who left Ecuador at the unpleasant end of a gun because the company he was working for FUCKED UP!.
In addition to Ecuador, I've worked in China, Japan, Phillipines, Fiji, Tonga, Hong Kong, and Singapore. I hired on outside the USA. Most friends who are working or have worked expat. have hired on outside their home country.
Want an overseas job, take a vacation, get to know the place, visit the company you want to work for. Hang out in the right bars.
I've sugested on
I for one could go for a summerhouse in Kashmir.
As the article points out, raw salary isn't everything.
Consistancy is the KEY and has been since the early days of cobol when report and screen generators were designed with consistancy in mind. IMO Apple does a pretty good job with this. It's a big part of what makes an intuitive system intuitive and needs to be approached from the lowest levels (naming and structure within the source) through presentation and the UI.
It's not too difficult to make corrections in firmware after assembly. As for the injection molding, follow on steps could make the prism faces really flat. Lapping comes to mind. Lapping works well for glass too. Pouring prismatic glass sheets is not difficult. In manufacturing think in terms of cycle time for each step. Production is limited by the longest step. Glass prisms can be poured as a contimuous process, sheared, and lapped. This works for polycarbonate as well.
So, no, I don't see any manufatruing problems with this technology.
Who says the turbine has to be powered by fossil fuel? It could be a hydro turbine with penstock attached to your dick. Or perhaps methane powered with a hose stuffed in your ass. Vegans are known for producing copious quantities of methane.
.Other methane sources include your composting latrine, port to cows stomach, and even composting of dead cats
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First thing that came to mind was the film Brazil and the tiny CRTs with big lenses.
Pretty clever.
One way to acheive is mirror array at 'base' ala DLP. DOn't know if this is the approach, but if so, corrections for each pixel would be pretty easy to handle in firmware.
a 10 year old Buick.
The stereotype fits for my family and friends.
Here's a bit of ethnic humor.
Yes, I can see LInux easily 'winning' in China.
It's too good a bargain and the learning curve isn't that much steeper than WinDohs.
What I want to know is what Apple has in min for China and Asia markets. Are they addressing culture based aesthetics as they do in the USA? Do they even realize how many people in the USA buy Apple for aesthetic reasons?
You guys really need to read the referenced URL! It's some really interesting history on WW2 atomic bomb chemistry and Sodium Borohydride
Where the hell are my mod points. Karma says I should have some. Please mod parent UP!
Sodium Borohydride was used by the signal corps during WW2 for filling antenna lofting balloons.
I used to work in offshore oil exploration. I worked 12 hours/day, 7 days/week. This was math (geodetic datum conversions), precision navigation, operating various geophysical instruments, maintaining computer and electronic hardware, and sometimes climbing the masts to work on the navigation antennas, working on deck with the cable, etc. Stressful, yes. But the schedule made a big difference. 12 hour watches = good, 6 hour watches = hullicinations after 3 weeks.
I thought the goal with programming was to always work half as much time as you billed. I mean your still working when you're asleep and dreaming about a schema.
to Mac for my mom. I use Unix (Solaris and Linux) and OSX is closer to what I'm used to. She has an easier time with the user interface. Mac is less susceptible to exploits.
I know other middle aged guys like myself who are moving their parents to OSX because it's easier to maintain. Growth of LInux benefits Apple. Seems so. How much, anyones guess.