I'm no expert on AI, so for all I know, the technology could reach human intelligence by 2029. But nanobots that crawl through your brain? That I can comment on.
Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP) was discovered by Urist and Reddi in the 1970's, and it took 30 years just to make that product, a simple growth factor, go from bench top to human clinical product.
You're telling me that nanobots, a medical device never before seen by the FDA so far, can be approved and ready and in use in humans by then? Let me set the record straight. Even if artificial intelligence reached human level TODAY, there would be no nanobots crawling through our brains by 2029... maybe by 2039 or 2049. Possibly.
So whatever year AI reaches human intelligence level, add 30 to 40 years onto that and you'll have your year for a medical product of that magnitude. Remember, the FDA does not care what science and engineering can do, only that they can do it safely and effectively, which is a lot more difficult to show than a simple experiment proving a concept.
Hey, don't forget the efficient workings of the UN either!!:P
That's all the Internet needs.... a myriad of other countries with far ranging economic and social outlooks squabbling over how to run the Internet, and actually having power to enact their agendas.
I hope that if ICANN separates, it at least has people with American ideals running it... rather than, say, Russian, Chinese, or Middle Eastern ideals.
I've noticed that too: Blue wins alot more on most maps. I wonder if it has anything to do with which side of the map they start on? Perhaps it's not so much the class design but the terrain which gives them an edge? Compound that with the momentum you get from winning the first round almost every time?
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It's only a matter of time.
I agree with most of the posts on how this can't show much accuracy on lifespan, etc. However, the ancestry part is cool. I had my mtDNA and Y-Chromosome done on FamilyTreeDNA.com, and it gives some nifty information, but that's all it is.... nifty. "Ooh look at that, I TOLD you we were black, Grandpa!" etc....
I dunno, spam's not so bad. After all these years on email, my penis is longer, and never flacid because of these cool pills I'm taking, and this Nigerian guy gave me a few million bucks, which I subsequently donated to charity to save that poor little boy, even though all he wanted was teddy bears and flowers.
Bill, tell these people that there's no such thing as spam. Come on. Will ya?
One difference to note between the US and EU: A trademark is protected in the United States after it is first registered. (If two try to register it simultaneously, then it defaults to the one who used in first.)
In Europe a trademark is protected after it is first USED.
Crud, I hope they dont do this. It might actually work to bring people into their establishments and they would succeed in breeding more of their zombies.
A critical sized defect is when the gap of missing bone is so large that the two ends of the bone cannot grow back together. In a human or primate skull, this is about a 30-mm diameter hole. In a human long bone, it's about a 10-mm gap.
Generally, the thought is that we should stick something into the hole and let the bone grow into it, and that works to a point, but once the gap gets SO large that you're basically just putting a piece of plastic/collagen in to fully replace the bone, it simply won't work anymore. The bone will not grow through the whole thing. It will just grow into the ends of the scaffold and stop after a while.
So, I don't think this article was trying to say that, even though the media might be trying to hype it that way. Bone healing simply doesn't do this. You will never see a fake femur made of some kind of spongy plastic or collagen material that simply gets stuck in place of a bone.
Bone won't heal if A) The gap in the bone is too large, B) The person has some kind of problem with healing in general, usually caused by things like smoking, diabetes, obesity, prior surgeries, etc. or C) The person has some kind of metabolic disorder that compromises bone healing.
So yeah, I think there's a point to this.... especially with 70 million Baby Boomers about to plow through our health care system any minute now.
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I'm no expert on AI, so for all I know, the technology could reach human intelligence by 2029. But nanobots that crawl through your brain? That I can comment on. Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP) was discovered by Urist and Reddi in the 1970's, and it took 30 years just to make that product, a simple growth factor, go from bench top to human clinical product. You're telling me that nanobots, a medical device never before seen by the FDA so far, can be approved and ready and in use in humans by then? Let me set the record straight. Even if artificial intelligence reached human level TODAY, there would be no nanobots crawling through our brains by 2029... maybe by 2039 or 2049. Possibly. So whatever year AI reaches human intelligence level, add 30 to 40 years onto that and you'll have your year for a medical product of that magnitude. Remember, the FDA does not care what science and engineering can do, only that they can do it safely and effectively, which is a lot more difficult to show than a simple experiment proving a concept.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
I for one welcome our hydrocarbon guzzling Earthling overlords.
[i]I held a clearance in the USAF (1971-1975) and saw stuff that is still classified.[/i]
That's because they're probably embarrassed about releasing info on rocket powered elevator shoes and inflatable life raft bell bottoms.
>ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 pts/1 99999:00 Internet
>kill 1
I think God may have some other IP battles to fight at the moment, like the fact that someone patented his powers out from under him: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=godly&s2=powers&OS=godly+AND+powers&RS=godly+AND+powers
Hey, don't forget the efficient workings of the UN either!! :P
That's all the Internet needs.... a myriad of other countries with far ranging economic and social outlooks squabbling over how to run the Internet, and actually having power to enact their agendas.
I hope that if ICANN separates, it at least has people with American ideals running it... rather than, say, Russian, Chinese, or Middle Eastern ideals.
I've noticed that too: Blue wins alot more on most maps. I wonder if it has anything to do with which side of the map they start on? Perhaps it's not so much the class design but the terrain which gives them an edge? Compound that with the momentum you get from winning the first round almost every time?
Yeah, but then I can't get rich off of corn futures. WoOt!! No thanks! :)
Oh, and if anyone can tell me how to pronounce V1agr4, I'd really appreciate it. It's the only thing about this bottle of pills that puzzles me.
I dunno, spam's not so bad. After all these years on email, my penis is longer, and never flacid because of these cool pills I'm taking, and this Nigerian guy gave me a few million bucks, which I subsequently donated to charity to save that poor little boy, even though all he wanted was teddy bears and flowers. Bill, tell these people that there's no such thing as spam. Come on. Will ya?
Good riddance to bad bible beaters.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
One difference to note between the US and EU: A trademark is protected in the United States after it is first registered. (If two try to register it simultaneously, then it defaults to the one who used in first.) In Europe a trademark is protected after it is first USED.
Crud, I hope they dont do this. It might actually work to bring people into their establishments and they would succeed in breeding more of their zombies.
GMail 2.0! Now with less Evil!!
I got betta
It turned me into a NNEWWWTT!!!!
That's no planet... It's a space station.
Generally, the thought is that we should stick something into the hole and let the bone grow into it, and that works to a point, but once the gap gets SO large that you're basically just putting a piece of plastic/collagen in to fully replace the bone, it simply won't work anymore. The bone will not grow through the whole thing. It will just grow into the ends of the scaffold and stop after a while.
So, I don't think this article was trying to say that, even though the media might be trying to hype it that way. Bone healing simply doesn't do this. You will never see a fake femur made of some kind of spongy plastic or collagen material that simply gets stuck in place of a bone.
So yeah, I think there's a point to this.... especially with 70 million Baby Boomers about to plow through our health care system any minute now.