The simple answer: lots of dikes are built to guide the rivers to the sea. In some places the land is several meters lower than the riverbed. This usually doesn't go wrong, but if it does (during very hot summers) the dikes may break and flood parts of the land. This is what actually happened in Wilnis in 2003. The dike gave away to the water and the canal poured into the surrounding land. The canal was quickly sealed and the water pumped away.
Luckily most of the land is divided into separate sections, so that only small parts flood. Basically, when the dikes break, we need to pump like crazy.
the country I live in, the Netherlands, has one fourth of the land below sealevel by as much as 48 feet already. I guess we can handle a few additional feet of water. More water spurs great engineering, and has done so since medieval times. That doesn't mean you can't leave your SUV at home and take your bicycle to work today, though.
That is not exactly right.
There actually are reports about larger studies using cord blood transplantation in leukemia. In the UK people are working on standard treatment protocols for cord blood transplantations.
First of all, disclaimer: I am a molecular biologist working on gene therapy of the blood system.
Cord blood banking has been around for quite a while. In the early days, storing cord blood wasn't a very viable option, mainly because we didn't know how to grow a sufficient number of blood stem cells from the tiny amount of cells in a cord blood sample. This question seem to have been solved and cord blood transplants are used in leukemia cases
What makes cord blood banking even more interesting IMHO, is all the research going on in the reprogramming fieldPeople try to 'reset' a cell to a 'embryonic' state and guide its development to the desired tissue (liver and pancreatic tissues are currently under investigation)
For these kinds of approaches, cord blood cells might be very suitable, since it essentially is 'newborn' tissue.
In the end, it would be really good to have some cord blood saved if you need it for treatment 10-20 years from now. The chances of needing it might, however, be quite slim.
No it doesn't take 4 hours:
(Disclaimer: IAAMB)
New PCR technologies (faster cyclers and faster enzymes http://www1.qiagen.com/HB/QIAGENFastCyclingPCRKit_EN.pdf) now allow PCR in as little as 10-20 minutes, instead of the usual ~90 minutes. Gel electrophoresis is also quite a bit faster than 45 minutes, so all this is definitely possible for specific optimized reactions as described here.
As a long time OpenOffice user, I have to say that the nice list above does sound rather okay, but: which of these functions are actually used by the parents and highschool kids?
1) No more freaking menus and dialog boxes 2) Better looking documents in less time Well, that sound good. No comments here.
8) Bulit-in APA/MLA styles I don't even know what this is, call me stupid, but I've never used that.
9) Track Changes 10) Mail Merge I remember those being present in earlier versions of Word
11) XML format Is that the MS XML format of which it was uncertain that it would be unencumbered by patents?
12) Sharing with others (SharePoint, Groove, etc) I am wondering in how far this will work with other wordprocessors.
13) Live Grammar and Spell Check 14) AutoCorrect New, improved, better? Or just that which was already there?
15) Visual Basic Which doesn't seem to be al that cross platform to me.
16) DRM (the kind that corporations need to keep their docs secret) If I was in a firm that needed to keep their docs secret, the last thing I would do is use this. Given all the trouble with version to version compatibility of the previous Word incarnations, using DRM from Word would be the last thing coming to my mind to protect my documents. The protection might be alright, but what happens if I need to open the doc myself in maybe 4 years?
I am currently working at a university that put lots of emphasis on the fact that most of our money comes from charities, which means that we should be as cost effective as possible. I cannot really figure out why that same university does not force us to get rid of the proprietary software that is as good as or even marginally better than what is available for free. I find the argument of compatibility an odd one: why would we communicate our work in a format that can only be opened properly by people that own a license for the same software in the first place?
Can somebody please explain to me why they decided to use jpeg for these sheets? I think they can easily save some bandwidth _and_ jpeg artifacts if they use gif instead. Learn to choose your graphics format, plx.
How many of you thought this was about getting the Fedora 6 font 'visible' to blind people by using assistive technology?
Ow, just me.
I need to get myself a life somewhere...
I object to the statement1 million monkeys randomly typing typewriters = 1 shakespeare manuscript createdMy keyboard has 103 keys. Placing a 1e6 monkeys behind 1e6 of these computer would generate a 1/103 = 0.009 chance for hitting the exact right key. The chance of generating for example Titus Andronicus (140.187 characters, including spaces) is therefore (1/103)^140187. Nearly infinite I would say. Even generating Sonnet XVIII, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (614 characters including spaces) would need 103^614 monkeys, again infinite. One million monkeys, using 1e6 computers with my keyboard can only generate only a sequence of 3 required characters.
The main message is thus: 1 million is not nearly infinite.
I would really like to have a _much_ better alternative to the pink 'n' purple graphs that are standard in MS office (and gnumeric). Who ever thought that putting purple and pink on a grey background get nice looking figures. Please, please, please, I am begging someone with a better understanding of layout to get a better set of standard colors.
From what I've heard, the use of certain acetylated opium derivatives induce a state where one needs less sleep (2hrs/day). The use has quite some side effects, one of them, in my city at least, seems to be a strong preference for car hifi equipment.
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Obviously, in a country that cannot pay for 'regular' drugs like AZT, these kinds of procedures are way too expensive. But, getting to a point were a vaccine can be produced that holds more general features, so that it doesn't need patient cells might be very useful.
Current research does seem to focus on very specific methods to lower virus loads, but the goal will be a vaccination program, because this will be the only solution that is both effective and affordable.
The industries, however, can make more money of a normal drug, because that would require regular administration. A vaccine would cure the patient for a much longer time with only one treatment. A Hepatitis B virus vaccination, for example, gives protection for at least 10 years.
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The simple answer: lots of dikes are built to guide the rivers to the sea. In some places the land is several meters lower than the riverbed. This usually doesn't go wrong, but if it does (during very hot summers) the dikes may break and flood parts of the land. This is what actually happened in Wilnis in 2003. The dike gave away to the water and the canal poured into the surrounding land. The canal was quickly sealed and the water pumped away. Luckily most of the land is divided into separate sections, so that only small parts flood. Basically, when the dikes break, we need to pump like crazy.
the country I live in, the Netherlands, has one fourth of the land below sealevel by as much as 48 feet already. I guess we can handle a few additional feet of water. More water spurs great engineering, and has done so since medieval times. That doesn't mean you can't leave your SUV at home and take your bicycle to work today, though.
Make them largelier!. Ow wait, that might not be the point of a netbook.
That is not exactly right. There actually are reports about larger studies using cord blood transplantation in leukemia. In the UK people are working on standard treatment protocols for cord blood transplantations.
First of all, disclaimer: I am a molecular biologist working on gene therapy of the blood system. Cord blood banking has been around for quite a while. In the early days, storing cord blood wasn't a very viable option, mainly because we didn't know how to grow a sufficient number of blood stem cells from the tiny amount of cells in a cord blood sample. This question seem to have been solved and cord blood transplants are used in leukemia cases What makes cord blood banking even more interesting IMHO, is all the research going on in the reprogramming fieldPeople try to 'reset' a cell to a 'embryonic' state and guide its development to the desired tissue (liver and pancreatic tissues are currently under investigation) For these kinds of approaches, cord blood cells might be very suitable, since it essentially is 'newborn' tissue. In the end, it would be really good to have some cord blood saved if you need it for treatment 10-20 years from now. The chances of needing it might, however, be quite slim.
No it doesn't take 4 hours: (Disclaimer: IAAMB) New PCR technologies (faster cyclers and faster enzymes http://www1.qiagen.com/HB/QIAGENFastCyclingPCRKit_EN.pdf) now allow PCR in as little as 10-20 minutes, instead of the usual ~90 minutes. Gel electrophoresis is also quite a bit faster than 45 minutes, so all this is definitely possible for specific optimized reactions as described here.
So actually, users get to choose what operating system they use. That's an outrage!
2) Better looking documents in less time Well, that sound good. No comments here. 8) Bulit-in APA/MLA styles I don't even know what this is, call me stupid, but I've never used that. 9) Track Changes
10) Mail Merge I remember those being present in earlier versions of Word 11) XML format Is that the MS XML format of which it was uncertain that it would be unencumbered by patents? 12) Sharing with others (SharePoint, Groove, etc) I am wondering in how far this will work with other wordprocessors. 13) Live Grammar and Spell Check
14) AutoCorrect New, improved, better? Or just that which was already there? 15) Visual Basic Which doesn't seem to be al that cross platform to me. 16) DRM (the kind that corporations need to keep their docs secret) If I was in a firm that needed to keep their docs secret, the last thing I would do is use this. Given all the trouble with version to version compatibility of the previous Word incarnations, using DRM from Word would be the last thing coming to my mind to protect my documents. The protection might be alright, but what happens if I need to open the doc myself in maybe 4 years?
I am currently working at a university that put lots of emphasis on the fact that most of our money comes from charities, which means that we should be as cost effective as possible. I cannot really figure out why that same university does not force us to get rid of the proprietary software that is as good as or even marginally better than what is available for free. I find the argument of compatibility an odd one: why would we communicate our work in a format that can only be opened properly by people that own a license for the same software in the first place?
My thoughts exactly! Isn't it nice how tech-talk can sometimes sound plain dirty to people who don't know _what_ you're talking about. ;)
I thought the internet is crippled by torrents, not by quake, nowadays.
I know I am old. Stop reminding me. /me goes and updates his brain.
Can somebody please explain to me why they decided to use jpeg for these sheets? I think they can easily save some bandwidth _and_ jpeg artifacts if they use gif instead. Learn to choose your graphics format, plx.
How many of you thought this was about getting the Fedora 6 font 'visible' to blind people by using assistive technology? Ow, just me. I need to get myself a life somewhere...
I object to the statement1 million monkeys randomly typing typewriters = 1 shakespeare manuscript createdMy keyboard has 103 keys. Placing a 1e6 monkeys behind 1e6 of these computer would generate a 1/103 = 0.009 chance for hitting the exact right key. The chance of generating for example Titus Andronicus (140.187 characters, including spaces) is therefore (1/103)^140187. Nearly infinite I would say. Even generating Sonnet XVIII, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (614 characters including spaces) would need 103^614 monkeys, again infinite. One million monkeys, using 1e6 computers with my keyboard can only generate only a sequence of 3 required characters. The main message is thus: 1 million is not nearly infinite.
I would really like to have a _much_ better alternative to the pink 'n' purple graphs that are standard in MS office (and gnumeric). Who ever thought that putting purple and pink on a grey background get nice looking figures. Please, please, please, I am begging someone with a better understanding of layout to get a better set of standard colors.
Skynet. And then see what happens...
From what I've heard, the use of certain acetylated opium derivatives induce a state where one needs less sleep (2hrs/day).
The use has quite some side effects, one of them, in my city at least, seems to be a strong preference for car hifi equipment.
Obviously, in a country that cannot pay for 'regular' drugs like AZT, these kinds of procedures are way too expensive. But, getting to a point were a vaccine can be produced that holds more general features, so that it doesn't need patient cells might be very useful.
Current research does seem to focus on very specific methods to lower virus loads, but the goal will be a vaccination program, because this will be the only solution that is both effective and affordable. The industries, however, can make more money of a normal drug, because that would require regular administration. A vaccine would cure the patient for a much longer time with only one treatment.
A Hepatitis B virus vaccination, for example, gives protection for at least 10 years.