To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
"Why not?"
Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.
"What about EMS recombination?"
We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
"Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells."
Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic.
Yeah if you want to see what a fearless soldier would look like, just watch a bunch of little kids play any FPS. They just run around aimlessly and when they find someone, they run straight at them shooting. They die a lot.
"They've made their opinion quite clear as of recent that they couldn't care less about the direction Apple is moving, so I dunno if they're even going to waste their time becoming ready. Though, a good chunk of their money anymore comes from Photoshop, I wouldn't be surprised to see them pulling some wine-variation and just making the Windows version run on Mac (if they care that much). "
I find that very difficult to believe. Apple's base is the design industry, Adobe cannot be indifferent to Apple.
I think what it comes down to is that they should never have redefined the term "addiction" in the first place. "Addiction" used to only describe the physical syndromes of tolerance and potentially fatal withdrawal associated with opiate, barbiturate, and heavy alcohol use. Under the old definition those were the only addictive substances, even cocaine didn't make the list as it doesn't cause withdrawal and tolerance declines rapidly with discontinued use.
"Addiction" is now used to describe any experience a person feels compelled to repeat that is viewed as not being in their best interest. The problem with this is that the history of the term being what it is, we have a tendency to equate any (modern) "addiction" with heroin abuse.
I'm not saying that the modern definition shouldn't be on the books, it should just be called something else. You are not going to experience illness or death if you stop playing video games, or stop watching tv, or even if you stop taking cocaine. Call it something else.
"I'll never understand why so many people have a problem with poor immigrants moving into their country, but it is an attitude you will find anywhere in the world, and it is usually based on some sort of racial prejudice against the people in question."
Sadly, I think its simply a matter of people fearing what they don't understand, or at least find unfamiliar.
I wonder if we will eventually eliminate racism by eliminating race just by interbreeding. I know a lot of interracial couples, but then again the circles I exist in are very liberal. The pessimist in me fears there will always be a class, probably a ruling class, that values the "purity" of its genetics.
Then again, a world without races might be kinda boring, its a difficult issue.
Man, Macs are never affected by anything. I'm really beginning to feel left out. Its really offensive that Sony didn't even bother to port their crappy DRM to Macintosh.
As a Mac user, I'm sick and tired of of software vendors like Sony not supporting the Mac. Over a million people switched last year, the user base is there. Apple goes way out of their way to make it easy to port software to the Mac, and yet there is still only a paltry selection on spyware and malware that will run on Apple hardware without VPC.
I once had to hack together a TOS/EULA for a small net company. I really wanted to stick "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" in there but I chickened out. Its too bad, I later found out that that is something people do. From Blogger's TOS:
(e) IF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR THEN YOUR EYES PROBABLY HURT. ALL CAPS, WHAT WERE WE THINKING? HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THIS OR ANY OTHER OCULAR MALADY.
I'm not sure if he needs to turn in his geek card. One of the times the ultimate question is revealed the character (Dent maybe? its been a while) responds: "Shouldn't it be 'What do you get if you multiply six by seven'".
I believe the mod in question is a GTA mod, so Rockstar should get together with the modders and host the mod on their servers. Make the mod downloadable in exchange for a charitable donation. Tens of thousands of gamers would no doubt donate hundreds of thousands of dollars downloading the thing. The charity wins and Rockstar gets a single piece of good publicity (as they are pretty much the "worst offender" when it comes to violent games).
The DS isn't really appealing to me, this is. When playing a portable system, simplicity is really the main thing for me. The stylus stuck me as something I would lose while jumping from the train after having almost missed my stop because I was too engrossed in the damn game.
Recently I had to choose between a PSP and an iPod nano (choose because I don't make enough damn money). I chose the Nano and I'm glad I did as now I can get a sexy little game system to match it. All for the same price as a PSP (less if you consider the price of a memory card big enough to use the PSP as an MP3 player). The games are cheeper too.
It would be nice if he did draw his own. It would be even nicer if he drew one that was accurate to the actual geography of NYC. The mta maps are grossly distorted, making it difficult to use them to do things like say... choose the subway line closest to a given location.
The MTA has this little problem with confusing the concepts: ""art" and "map".
While I don't dispute your right to not like Gaiman's or Whedon's work, criticizing the movie because the show was pulled is kinda a cheap shot. Plenty of good shows get pulled just because of the network's ingnorance or poor marketing (Family Guy anyone?).
I never watched FireFly myself, but I've been told by people who did that a big part of the reason it was canned was that it was aired out of order for some reason --making the show really difficult to follow. I would also bet it had something to do with a poor response from Buffy fans, who probably just wanted more vampires and valley girls.
I remember ST:VI was completely different in the theater then it is on the home release, they re-cut the entire movie. Valeris was part Romulan and guy in the Klingon mask at the end was actually Klingon. They added all the stuff about the Fed military brass wanting to preemptively attack the Klingons. Plus a bunch of little dialogue changes were made.
They never really explained why or even noted that it had been re-cut (to my knowledge). In the theatre the whole thing was a Klingon-Romulan plot, where as at home it was a Klingon-Federation plot. The home version was really much more true to the Star Trek ideals of breaking down the barriers of racism and old rivalries (which is I suppose why it was re-cut); but I do wish I could see the theatrical version again, just for the sake of not paving over SciFi history.
I believe that without air, you would have to get the nuke inside of it to really be effective. Otherwise you just wind up heating it up a bit. Without a gas to transform the heat produced into kinetic force nukes lose a lot of their flourish.
And I want it legally mandated that this disclaimer be attached to every crapola "scientific" news article where the author is doing just the opposite.
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To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
"Why not?"
Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.
"What about EMS recombination?"
We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
"Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells."
Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic.
What's the big deal? Methamphetimines are just long lasting amphetamines, and amphetamines are so safe we give them to little kids.
</sarcasm>
Yeah if you want to see what a fearless soldier would look like, just watch a bunch of little kids play any FPS. They just run around aimlessly and when they find someone, they run straight at them shooting. They die a lot.
Yesterday's Powerbook is todays iBook.
"They've made their opinion quite clear as of recent that they couldn't care less about the direction Apple is moving, so I dunno if they're even going to waste their time becoming ready. Though, a good chunk of their money anymore comes from Photoshop, I wouldn't be surprised to see them pulling some wine-variation and just making the Windows version run on Mac (if they care that much). " I find that very difficult to believe. Apple's base is the design industry, Adobe cannot be indifferent to Apple.
I think what it comes down to is that they should never have redefined the term "addiction" in the first place. "Addiction" used to only describe the physical syndromes of tolerance and potentially fatal withdrawal associated with opiate, barbiturate, and heavy alcohol use. Under the old definition those were the only addictive substances, even cocaine didn't make the list as it doesn't cause withdrawal and tolerance declines rapidly with discontinued use.
"Addiction" is now used to describe any experience a person feels compelled to repeat that is viewed as not being in their best interest. The problem with this is that the history of the term being what it is, we have a tendency to equate any (modern) "addiction" with heroin abuse.
I'm not saying that the modern definition shouldn't be on the books, it should just be called something else. You are not going to experience illness or death if you stop playing video games, or stop watching tv, or even if you stop taking cocaine. Call it something else.
"I'll never understand why so many people have a problem with poor immigrants moving into their country, but it is an attitude you will find anywhere in the world, and it is usually based on some sort of racial prejudice against the people in question."
Sadly, I think its simply a matter of people fearing what they don't understand, or at least find unfamiliar.
I wonder if we will eventually eliminate racism by eliminating race just by interbreeding. I know a lot of interracial couples, but then again the circles I exist in are very liberal. The pessimist in me fears there will always be a class, probably a ruling class, that values the "purity" of its genetics.
Then again, a world without races might be kinda boring, its a difficult issue.
Man, Macs are never affected by anything. I'm really beginning to feel left out. Its really offensive that Sony didn't even bother to port their crappy DRM to Macintosh.
As a Mac user, I'm sick and tired of of software vendors like Sony not supporting the Mac. Over a million people switched last year, the user base is there. Apple goes way out of their way to make it easy to port software to the Mac, and yet there is still only a paltry selection on spyware and malware that will run on Apple hardware without VPC.
I once had to hack together a TOS/EULA for a small net company. I really wanted to stick "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" in there but I chickened out. Its too bad, I later found out that that is something people do. From Blogger's TOS:
(e) IF YOU HAVE READ THIS FAR THEN YOUR EYES PROBABLY HURT. ALL CAPS, WHAT WERE WE THINKING? HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THIS OR ANY OTHER OCULAR MALADY.
They have the balls I didn't.
The corporations are the citizens. The non-corporate entities are just plebs.
I'm not sure if he needs to turn in his geek card. One of the times the ultimate question is revealed the character (Dent maybe? its been a while) responds: "Shouldn't it be 'What do you get if you multiply six by seven'".
I think he's referring to that joke.
Say goodbye to scratched up iPods.
I believe the mod in question is a GTA mod, so Rockstar should get together with the modders and host the mod on their servers. Make the mod downloadable in exchange for a charitable donation. Tens of thousands of gamers would no doubt donate hundreds of thousands of dollars downloading the thing. The charity wins and Rockstar gets a single piece of good publicity (as they are pretty much the "worst offender" when it comes to violent games).
Given his resume, I find it kinda odd that the Governor would sign such a law.
"Which would be fine, if you'd actually be willing to back up your "principles" with some actual sacrifice."
Well, he does run the risk of getting sued.
The DS isn't really appealing to me, this is. When playing a portable system, simplicity is really the main thing for me. The stylus stuck me as something I would lose while jumping from the train after having almost missed my stop because I was too engrossed in the damn game.
Recently I had to choose between a PSP and an iPod nano (choose because I don't make enough damn money). I chose the Nano and I'm glad I did as now I can get a sexy little game system to match it. All for the same price as a PSP (less if you consider the price of a memory card big enough to use the PSP as an MP3 player). The games are cheeper too.
It would be nice if he did draw his own. It would be even nicer if he drew one that was accurate to the actual geography of NYC. The mta maps are grossly distorted, making it difficult to use them to do things like say... choose the subway line closest to a given location.
The MTA has this little problem with confusing the concepts: ""art" and "map".
While I don't dispute your right to not like Gaiman's or Whedon's work, criticizing the movie because the show was pulled is kinda a cheap shot. Plenty of good shows get pulled just because of the network's ingnorance or poor marketing (Family Guy anyone?).
I never watched FireFly myself, but I've been told by people who did that a big part of the reason it was canned was that it was aired out of order for some reason --making the show really difficult to follow. I would also bet it had something to do with a poor response from Buffy fans, who probably just wanted more vampires and valley girls.
I remember ST:VI was completely different in the theater then it is on the home release, they re-cut the entire movie. Valeris was part Romulan and guy in the Klingon mask at the end was actually Klingon. They added all the stuff about the Fed military brass wanting to preemptively attack the Klingons. Plus a bunch of little dialogue changes were made.
They never really explained why or even noted that it had been re-cut (to my knowledge). In the theatre the whole thing was a Klingon-Romulan plot, where as at home it was a Klingon-Federation plot. The home version was really much more true to the Star Trek ideals of breaking down the barriers of racism and old rivalries (which is I suppose why it was re-cut); but I do wish I could see the theatrical version again, just for the sake of not paving over SciFi history.
Now would that be worth something to ya? Or should I just punch up "clear"?
I believe that without air, you would have to get the nuke inside of it to really be effective. Otherwise you just wind up heating it up a bit. Without a gas to transform the heat produced into kinetic force nukes lose a lot of their flourish.
Ok, fair enough. How about:
Correlation does not imply causality.
And I want it legally mandated that this disclaimer be attached to every crapola "scientific" news article where the author is doing just the opposite.
Correlation is not causality.
That certainly is what they say. Personally I don't intend to be the guy who tests that bit of PR.
The more you tighten your grip, MPAA/RIAA, the more systems will slip through your fingers.