I am forced to wonder if this is somehow connected to Microsoft wanting to create a rival to the iPod. While France may not like Apple, they hate Microsoft even more. I would not be surprised if they wanted Apple to maintain an advantage over Microsoft.
I am in college and the dorm I live in has the washers and dryers setup to connect to the network for years and there is a website you can go to on the local intranet that shows which machines are currently broken, which machines are empty, and which machines are in use. For those in use it also shows how much time is left until they are done. The two problems with this in my dorm is that the website often goes down (the server they have it on is not the best I guess and they are bad at keeping track of if it is working or not) and also many people just leave their laundry in there for awhile after it is done and thus it reads as empty even though there is still stuff in there.
If made more reliable though and maybe check to see if it has been opened since it ended (to see if there are still clothes in there or not) then this could be perfect for dorms all over with limited numbers of machines. As for in the house, well I don't see any reason to start or stop it remotely due to the fact you would have to load/unload it. Also for telling you when it is done would still not be as simple as just starting your stopwatch if you have a digital watch.
While I agree with you that this was the best thing for him to have done, there are always other options. To go with what the GP said, he could have set it up as a contest to find a cure to something like AIDs with the prize covering the research costs plus a nice bonus. This could get a lot more focus put into research. But since there is no way to know if this would work or not, his actions are the best possible currently.
If you are copying a strand and repeat a section that is adding information. If an old section gets transformed into something new, while you may no longer have the old gene, you do have a new one that you did not have before. Through sharing of genes which we know some cells can do, and also through sexual reproduction, these new genes can eventually be found within a cell with the original genes as well. An example of sharing genes is Bacterial conjugation. This is where a plasmid (which is DNA) gets copied into another cell, leaving a copy in the original. This sharing of DNA often leads to antibiotic resistance. So think of this, a mutation happens in a plasmid allowing a cell to better resist a drug. While it is sharing this new plasmid, it could also always get another copy of the original DNA if anything had been lost. This then results in a Cell having more information than it used to. It can be done, it has been done, and we see it happening. Plasmids are often used for genetic engineering because of this natural ability to share new DNA.
I understand what you are saying in that information is lost, but the fact remains that with sharing of DNA that you can eventually get a cell with more information than you had before. All the genes in the world now have not always been around. Mutations create new genes and these get shared.
I do not plan to reply to any more of your messages since you keep missing the whole idea. No matter how much I say, your mind is just not open to the facts.
I will admit that a lot of mutations to remove information an this is called gene deletion. There is also something called insertion however which can occur during mutations. This results in ADDED DNA. All it is is a copying error so the odds of it being helpful are very small, but given the number of cells out there the odds of a few useful mutations occurring now and then becomes much greater.
I have no idea where you keep coming up with your facts because they are just wrong. Sure radiation I bet would be more likely to decrease information, however even that could result in a new useful gene which could be passed on to another cell. We know some bacteria can share genes, so even if one has lost some genes but gained some new useful ones, it could then share the new genes will all the other cells around it. A more common form of mutation would happen during cell division in which there is a copying error. When copying DNA there can be mistakes, some resulting in added DNA. And as I already mentioned, even if the total amount of DNA decreased (which is NOT what always happens), then it STILL CREATES A NEW GENE which an be passed on. That is one nice thing about sexual reproduction, you get genes from two parents since if one is lacking a gene you can get it from the other.
This whole debate started with the idea that a Chicken could NEVER have come from another animal. While I stand by the ability to create new DNA, this original argument was based on the creation of a new species which could be possible on just different genes being expressed.
there is such a thing as mutations. We can see them happen naturally, or we can cause them using methods such as radiation. Mutations happen all the time, and the idea of survival of the fittest keeps the good mutations and removes the bad ones. This does explain the creation of new information. So we HAVE demonstrated the creation of such information. Hell, just look of viruses mutating in response to drugs. If you say it is faith to look at empirical evidence found through the scientific method, then do so, but it is by no means blind faith. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation
Oh, and we can duplicate things like bioluminescence, it just can not be powered by plugging into the wall. A large part of our limitations is the convenience of suppling the power. Now sure, we are not perfect yet, but we also just started to develop things. Whether God controls things or not, life has been around for far longer than humans have been trying to find better ways to light a house.
You can still believe in whatever you want, but you cannot deny what IS IN FACT happening all around us. Lifeforms change over time, and that is a FACT. This happens as a mix of mutation and natural selection (or selective breeding). If you want to believe God still controls these changes, then you can say God controls the mutations, but the fact that mutations and evolution are happening are something one must admit to.
You need to understand that this is even happening today. Using controlled breeding people create new species all the time. I am not talking about doing anything with genetic engineering, but rather simply choosing mates. An example is something done in Russia with the silver fox to create a domesticated version in the same fashion that the domesticated dog was created. This is a new, very different looking animal from what they started with, but it has been done. The whole thing is that it is often difficult to find the dividing line between two species since as one evolves into another they change in such small steps you can hardly notice. I guess you could compare it to someone getting older. I will look the exact same tomorrow even though over a long period of time I would change. You just don't notice the changes right away.
I can see someone arguing about prehistory for things we don't have proof of, but you can't argue what is going on today in the world you live in and is well documented.
well I think one could assume it means the first chicken egg. If not, one could also make the assumption that it means any kind of egg in which case that clearly would have come first. I may have been misunderstanding the question my whole life, but I always viewed it as meaning chicken egg.
I too am one who thought of this years ago, however I came up with the other answer. Just because the embryo is that of a Chicken does not mean the egg itself is. Makes me think of Jurassic Park and how they put dinosaur embryos in ostrich eggs. They still were technically ostrich eggs. So in this case, the egg is that of the animal that came before. The chicken would have come first and the eggs it laid would have been the first chicken eggs. I guess it all comes down to how you classify what kind of egg it is. I personally go by the shell and such, but I may be wrong.
While IE may have been important to Microsoft in the past as many people have pointed out, there is also another option for them now. They could take a small fraction of what they spend on IE and invest that in Firefox in exchange for having some input. They also could have few programmers at Microsoft donating code for Firefox. Then, they could just bundle Firefox with Windows and have it use MSN as the default search still.
Sure Microsoft would argue things like Active X, but maybe there is a way to turn on and off your compatibility for those kinds of websites.
You should try the HTC Wizard. Cingular just released it as the Cingular 8125. The HTC Apache (CDMA version) has also been released for multiple carriers as the PPC6700. They run WM5 and work well. I like the exchange server email part along with internet explorer (if only they had firefox for it...). This is the best mobile device I have seen thus far and just got one myself. Email is VERY simple...along with just about everything else.
I think Maia should be the name of this new planet. Maia is the Roman Goddess of Growth which is logical for the first planet in a long time to be added to the solar system. Another good reason is that Maia is the mother of Mercury. The last planet in the solar system named after the mother of the first planet. Uranus already got its name for a similar reason. Uranus is the father of Saturn and thus this name was given to the planet found further out and next to Saturn.
Sure I know Maia is not that well known to most people, but this would help people learn the name.
ok, I can understand the need for a moving alarm system to make it harder to get around the system, but doesn't this robot just seem a bit large for its job? I would think you could make a much smaller version that would be hard to spot at first and could also move around faster.
Think about it, you are stealing something a this big robot enters the room. If you know what it is, you know it means trouble. Thus, you just fire a gun at the big target and odds are you would hit it and do massive damage. Just seems like a big target to me.
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I am forced to wonder if this is somehow connected to Microsoft wanting to create a rival to the iPod. While France may not like Apple, they hate Microsoft even more. I would not be surprised if they wanted Apple to maintain an advantage over Microsoft.
I am in college and the dorm I live in has the washers and dryers setup to connect to the network for years and there is a website you can go to on the local intranet that shows which machines are currently broken, which machines are empty, and which machines are in use. For those in use it also shows how much time is left until they are done. The two problems with this in my dorm is that the website often goes down (the server they have it on is not the best I guess and they are bad at keeping track of if it is working or not) and also many people just leave their laundry in there for awhile after it is done and thus it reads as empty even though there is still stuff in there.
If made more reliable though and maybe check to see if it has been opened since it ended (to see if there are still clothes in there or not) then this could be perfect for dorms all over with limited numbers of machines. As for in the house, well I don't see any reason to start or stop it remotely due to the fact you would have to load/unload it. Also for telling you when it is done would still not be as simple as just starting your stopwatch if you have a digital watch.
While I agree with you that this was the best thing for him to have done, there are always other options. To go with what the GP said, he could have set it up as a contest to find a cure to something like AIDs with the prize covering the research costs plus a nice bonus. This could get a lot more focus put into research. But since there is no way to know if this would work or not, his actions are the best possible currently.
If you are copying a strand and repeat a section that is adding information. If an old section gets transformed into something new, while you may no longer have the old gene, you do have a new one that you did not have before. Through sharing of genes which we know some cells can do, and also through sexual reproduction, these new genes can eventually be found within a cell with the original genes as well. An example of sharing genes is Bacterial conjugation. This is where a plasmid (which is DNA) gets copied into another cell, leaving a copy in the original. This sharing of DNA often leads to antibiotic resistance. So think of this, a mutation happens in a plasmid allowing a cell to better resist a drug. While it is sharing this new plasmid, it could also always get another copy of the original DNA if anything had been lost. This then results in a Cell having more information than it used to. It can be done, it has been done, and we see it happening. Plasmids are often used for genetic engineering because of this natural ability to share new DNA.
I understand what you are saying in that information is lost, but the fact remains that with sharing of DNA that you can eventually get a cell with more information than you had before. All the genes in the world now have not always been around. Mutations create new genes and these get shared.
I do not plan to reply to any more of your messages since you keep missing the whole idea. No matter how much I say, your mind is just not open to the facts.
I will admit that a lot of mutations to remove information an this is called gene deletion. There is also something called insertion however which can occur during mutations. This results in ADDED DNA. All it is is a copying error so the odds of it being helpful are very small, but given the number of cells out there the odds of a few useful mutations occurring now and then becomes much greater.
I have no idea where you keep coming up with your facts because they are just wrong. Sure radiation I bet would be more likely to decrease information, however even that could result in a new useful gene which could be passed on to another cell. We know some bacteria can share genes, so even if one has lost some genes but gained some new useful ones, it could then share the new genes will all the other cells around it. A more common form of mutation would happen during cell division in which there is a copying error. When copying DNA there can be mistakes, some resulting in added DNA. And as I already mentioned, even if the total amount of DNA decreased (which is NOT what always happens), then it STILL CREATES A NEW GENE which an be passed on. That is one nice thing about sexual reproduction, you get genes from two parents since if one is lacking a gene you can get it from the other.
This whole debate started with the idea that a Chicken could NEVER have come from another animal. While I stand by the ability to create new DNA, this original argument was based on the creation of a new species which could be possible on just different genes being expressed.
there is such a thing as mutations. We can see them happen naturally, or we can cause them using methods such as radiation. Mutations happen all the time, and the idea of survival of the fittest keeps the good mutations and removes the bad ones. This does explain the creation of new information. So we HAVE demonstrated the creation of such information. Hell, just look of viruses mutating in response to drugs. If you say it is faith to look at empirical evidence found through the scientific method, then do so, but it is by no means blind faith. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation Oh, and we can duplicate things like bioluminescence, it just can not be powered by plugging into the wall. A large part of our limitations is the convenience of suppling the power. Now sure, we are not perfect yet, but we also just started to develop things. Whether God controls things or not, life has been around for far longer than humans have been trying to find better ways to light a house. You can still believe in whatever you want, but you cannot deny what IS IN FACT happening all around us. Lifeforms change over time, and that is a FACT. This happens as a mix of mutation and natural selection (or selective breeding). If you want to believe God still controls these changes, then you can say God controls the mutations, but the fact that mutations and evolution are happening are something one must admit to.
You need to understand that this is even happening today. Using controlled breeding people create new species all the time. I am not talking about doing anything with genetic engineering, but rather simply choosing mates. An example is something done in Russia with the silver fox to create a domesticated version in the same fashion that the domesticated dog was created. This is a new, very different looking animal from what they started with, but it has been done. The whole thing is that it is often difficult to find the dividing line between two species since as one evolves into another they change in such small steps you can hardly notice. I guess you could compare it to someone getting older. I will look the exact same tomorrow even though over a long period of time I would change. You just don't notice the changes right away. I can see someone arguing about prehistory for things we don't have proof of, but you can't argue what is going on today in the world you live in and is well documented.
well I think one could assume it means the first chicken egg. If not, one could also make the assumption that it means any kind of egg in which case that clearly would have come first. I may have been misunderstanding the question my whole life, but I always viewed it as meaning chicken egg.
I too am one who thought of this years ago, however I came up with the other answer. Just because the embryo is that of a Chicken does not mean the egg itself is. Makes me think of Jurassic Park and how they put dinosaur embryos in ostrich eggs. They still were technically ostrich eggs. So in this case, the egg is that of the animal that came before. The chicken would have come first and the eggs it laid would have been the first chicken eggs. I guess it all comes down to how you classify what kind of egg it is. I personally go by the shell and such, but I may be wrong.
While IE may have been important to Microsoft in the past as many people have pointed out, there is also another option for them now. They could take a small fraction of what they spend on IE and invest that in Firefox in exchange for having some input. They also could have few programmers at Microsoft donating code for Firefox. Then, they could just bundle Firefox with Windows and have it use MSN as the default search still. Sure Microsoft would argue things like Active X, but maybe there is a way to turn on and off your compatibility for those kinds of websites.
You should try the HTC Wizard. Cingular just released it as the Cingular 8125. The HTC Apache (CDMA version) has also been released for multiple carriers as the PPC6700. They run WM5 and work well. I like the exchange server email part along with internet explorer (if only they had firefox for it...). This is the best mobile device I have seen thus far and just got one myself. Email is VERY simple...along with just about everything else.
I think Maia should be the name of this new planet. Maia is the Roman Goddess of Growth which is logical for the first planet in a long time to be added to the solar system. Another good reason is that Maia is the mother of Mercury. The last planet in the solar system named after the mother of the first planet. Uranus already got its name for a similar reason. Uranus is the father of Saturn and thus this name was given to the planet found further out and next to Saturn. Sure I know Maia is not that well known to most people, but this would help people learn the name.
ok, I can understand the need for a moving alarm system to make it harder to get around the system, but doesn't this robot just seem a bit large for its job? I would think you could make a much smaller version that would be hard to spot at first and could also move around faster. Think about it, you are stealing something a this big robot enters the room. If you know what it is, you know it means trouble. Thus, you just fire a gun at the big target and odds are you would hit it and do massive damage. Just seems like a big target to me.
I think Legend of the Rangers was a SciFi movie and not TNT but not sure