Mimi's outsize complement of genes--so large that the virus is tantalizingly close to being an independent organism--suggest to many scientists that Mimivirus underwent reductive evolution early on and shed some of its genome, including the genes necessary to replicate on its own.
In other words, Mimi suggests the possibility that virii are descended from cells.
I'm scratching my head. Just what is "genetic dilution"?
P.S. The emergence of life (and DNA, RNA and proteins) is outside evolution. Evolution only says what happens when living things come into existence.
It would be nice if civics was still required. I only learned about jury nullification in Intro to Legal Studies at college, and I'm all for making that a required course. It was definitely one of the best classes I took.
Xbox Live Arcade. Bejeweled, Hexic, Hardwood Backgammon/Spades/Hearts, Zuma, etc. More PopCap games and other casual and puzzle games on the way.
Start naming games that can't be played on a computer and you might have something.
That's a problem in other MORPGs as well. I used to play a game where the nifty items could be bought (from other players) for 20,000 gold. A few years later, it was up to 2 million. A few months later, it was up to 2.5 million. Etc.
OTOH, gold shouldn't be limited to repairs and potions (Diablo). If you wanted to buy anything instead of trading, it had to be done with hard cash off of Ebay.
Cancer can cause evolution, what if this super-cell was not a harmful cell but a super-immunity cell.
Bzzt, try again. The only way for mutations to be passed on in multicellular organisms is if they occur in the gametes. Somatic cells don't contribute to the offspring.
And if you bring up the idea of a cancerous gamete... The result will be spontaneous abortion, aka a miscarriage.
In a recent study, scientists found no trace of Neanderthal DNA in modern Europeans. Given the cranial differences between H. sapiens and H. neanderthalensis, it throws doubt on the idea that they could have seen each other as potential mates.
While it's possible that they intebred, there's currently no evidence for such.
That's a non sequitur. Tell me where I said that it's immoral to protest. I just said that it's not required for a person to protest in order for them to be consider moral. Whether they choose to do so it their own damn choice.
I realize that any delay will harm them as a corporation, and possibly drive up the system price, but these are relatively minor concerns.
Think again. The longer the delay, the more time the XBox 360 will have on the shelves as the lone next-gen console ("Now $249/$349!") and the less time they'll have until the Revolution launches ("Eh, I'll wait."). Remember that consoles sales will be reflected in game deals and the adoption of Blue-Ray. It's critical that they have a strong launch, and that means releasing in a fairly narrow window.
It is the duty of all men to protest against pollicies that are immorral, such as censorship.
Bullshit. We have no such duty. It would be the act of a good samaritan to protest against immorality (for whatever one defines as immorality), but not protesting doesn't make one a "bad samaritan." Duties are arbitrary and defined by our cultures.
¥3,800 (about $32)
I'm not sure how that will translate if/when they bring it to the US. There's a little bit of price flux in media betwen the two countries.
I can't speak for the people you gamed with, but I remember SSB being anything but obscure. Google agrees with me, unless you consider 1.52 million copies sold in Japan and 2.74 million copies sold in the US to be obscure.
Couldn't you spend a few moments to double-check for grammar?/. readers aren't asking for perfection, just posts that adhere to the conventions we learned in elementary school.
In MMORPGs, a premium is placed on cooperation between gamers, who often benefit more by collaborating with peers than by competing with them.
No no, that should read "collaborating with peers and then stabbing them in the back."
Another remnant of the paper-and-dice role-playing games that preceded the online incarnations is the free-form nature of the game, which allows players to deviate from plotlines.
Wait, deviation from plotlines? If you can deviate from the "plot" at all, it was fluid and probably not very important to begin with.
And when they do emerge from their self-imposed exile, most speak a language in which English words are interspersed with endless strands of indecipherable online jargon.
Apparently we speak in tongues.
While cloistering oneself up in the computer room for 30 hours a week may seem anti-social
And we're all addicts.
And no matter how long work and home keep him from his computer, Anderson's fellow gamers are always ready to bring him back into the fold for a few hours of orc-stabbin, sith-slayin', crime-stoppin' fun.
Easy solution. Clone animals (which Bush is not calling for a ban on), figure out how to produce only one organ during the cloning process.
I hate to break it to you, but that's nowhere near an easy solution. Correct biological development requires a complex set of chemical feedback loops involving multiple systems. Until we attain complete control over it in animals models, we're not going anywhere with that.
Even if you're talking about something as comparatively simple like adding muscle mass, doing it in vivo is much faster than doing it in vitro.
Zonk, it would be much easier on the eyes and brain if you broke this into several stories. I know that some people might complain about the lower content density, but 16 links in one paragraph does not entice me to see what that content is.
So take whatever we have done with genetics and file that into the category of strict scientific experimentation. Now take all the theories of how different species/genus/family/etc came to be, which do NOT have an observable experiment to go along with it.
...I'm stunned. Have you missed the literature in which certain fish/plants/bacteria have evolved into (many) different species? Those are examples that scientists have observed. Please catch up.
Similarly, do you discount the idea that processes that have occured within our lifetimes are likely to have occured (in greater scale) in the past?
Those would fall into a separate categories which have less scientific proof.
While you're at it, please catch up on the idea that science is not about "proving" anything. Mathematicians are concerned with proofs. Scientists are concerned with finding the best representation of the truth.
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I'm scratching my head. Just what is "genetic dilution"? P.S. The emergence of life (and DNA, RNA and proteins) is outside evolution. Evolution only says what happens when living things come into existence.
It would be nice if civics was still required. I only learned about jury nullification in Intro to Legal Studies at college, and I'm all for making that a required course. It was definitely one of the best classes I took.
While that's true, lately there's been a trend of not informing jury members of that right, or even denying that such a right exists.
I feel so badly that you have to keep on writing these posts. I'd give up at some point.
Xbox Live Arcade. Bejeweled, Hexic, Hardwood Backgammon/Spades/Hearts, Zuma, etc. More PopCap games and other casual and puzzle games on the way. Start naming games that can't be played on a computer and you might have something.
That's a problem in other MORPGs as well. I used to play a game where the nifty items could be bought (from other players) for 20,000 gold. A few years later, it was up to 2 million. A few months later, it was up to 2.5 million. Etc. OTOH, gold shouldn't be limited to repairs and potions (Diablo). If you wanted to buy anything instead of trading, it had to be done with hard cash off of Ebay.
Bzzt, try again. The only way for mutations to be passed on in multicellular organisms is if they occur in the gametes. Somatic cells don't contribute to the offspring.
And if you bring up the idea of a cancerous gamete... The result will be spontaneous abortion, aka a miscarriage.
While it's possible that they intebred, there's currently no evidence for such.
Interesting points. We'll have to see how fast MS can ramp up production and how the next batch of games are reviewed.
That's a non sequitur. Tell me where I said that it's immoral to protest. I just said that it's not required for a person to protest in order for them to be consider moral. Whether they choose to do so it their own damn choice.
Well, I suppose I did make the assumption that they'll eventually ship more units... ;)
Think again. The longer the delay, the more time the XBox 360 will have on the shelves as the lone next-gen console ("Now $249/$349!") and the less time they'll have until the Revolution launches ("Eh, I'll wait."). Remember that consoles sales will be reflected in game deals and the adoption of Blue-Ray. It's critical that they have a strong launch, and that means releasing in a fairly narrow window.
Bullshit. We have no such duty. It would be the act of a good samaritan to protest against immorality (for whatever one defines as immorality), but not protesting doesn't make one a "bad samaritan." Duties are arbitrary and defined by our cultures.
¥3,800 (about $32) I'm not sure how that will translate if/when they bring it to the US. There's a little bit of price flux in media betwen the two countries.
I can't speak for the people you gamed with, but I remember SSB being anything but obscure. Google agrees with me, unless you consider 1.52 million copies sold in Japan and 2.74 million copies sold in the US to be obscure.
This is why I friended you. Excellent post.
According to TFA, new titles will receive the $23.45 wholesale price. Older (ie less popular) titles will have a $17.95 wholesale price.
Couldn't you spend a few moments to double-check for grammar? /. readers aren't asking for perfection, just posts that adhere to the conventions we learned in elementary school.
I was going to say the same thing. -1 to GP for not thinking.
No no, that should read "collaborating with peers and then stabbing them in the back."
Another remnant of the paper-and-dice role-playing games that preceded the online incarnations is the free-form nature of the game, which allows players to deviate from plotlines.
Wait, deviation from plotlines? If you can deviate from the "plot" at all, it was fluid and probably not very important to begin with.
And when they do emerge from their self-imposed exile, most speak a language in which English words are interspersed with endless strands of indecipherable online jargon.
Apparently we speak in tongues.
While cloistering oneself up in the computer room for 30 hours a week may seem anti-social
And we're all addicts.
And no matter how long work and home keep him from his computer, Anderson's fellow gamers are always ready to bring him back into the fold for a few hours of orc-stabbin, sith-slayin', crime-stoppin' fun.
All in one game? Sign me up!
I hate to break it to you, but that's nowhere near an easy solution. Correct biological development requires a complex set of chemical feedback loops involving multiple systems. Until we attain complete control over it in animals models, we're not going anywhere with that.
Even if you're talking about something as comparatively simple like adding muscle mass, doing it in vivo is much faster than doing it in vitro.
Being self-aware is not the same thing as having a series of complex feedback loops. I'll certainly argue that mammalian cells are not self-aware.
Zonk, it would be much easier on the eyes and brain if you broke this into several stories. I know that some people might complain about the lower content density, but 16 links in one paragraph does not entice me to see what that content is.
...I'm stunned. Have you missed the literature in which certain fish/plants/bacteria have evolved into (many) different species? Those are examples that scientists have observed. Please catch up.
Similarly, do you discount the idea that processes that have occured within our lifetimes are likely to have occured (in greater scale) in the past?
While you're at it, please catch up on the idea that science is not about "proving" anything. Mathematicians are concerned with proofs. Scientists are concerned with finding the best representation of the truth.