If you say anything supporting Apple, immediately you're an apple fanboy and a windoze hater. Forget the fact that it might be a much more stable operating system or the fact that there are next to no viruses for it(lets not debate why).
If you hate apple then youre immediately labeled as ignorant and a windows fanboy. Forget the fact that they are cheaper and that there are tons of industry specific applications that require you to run a windows based machine for compatability reasons.
It's on his daughter's computer though. He's probably trying to remove spyware programs like AIM and MSN messenger. Honestly have you ever tried removing one of those?
Evolution is a theory because it can't be proven. We can find evidence, like the fossil record or comparing DNA sequences and Homeobox genes among related species, but until someone is able to come up with an experiment that accurately tests it, we're stuck.
The only evolutionary studies that I can think of would take thousands of years to conduct. Anyone want to fund me?
To those of you who believe in ID, give me a break. ID is not an alternative; there are no -good- alternatives to evolution. Evolution is the only "theory" supported by the evidence.
If this were about seperating theory from fact, why aren't we demanding alternatives to the Pythagorean Theorm? Maybe God can intelligently design a triangle that doesn't follow that? Because that will remain a theory too until all numbers can be tested (which isn't possible).
Gee thats funny, I'm a fricking pro at making those handbrake turns in GTA. Of course this is after crashing into cars, buildings, trees, light posts and people a few hundred times before I got good at it. Turns out GTA is realistic after all?
This is the obvious solution everyone seems to have missed.
If you're sued you take it to a jury trial.
If you're on the jury you vote against the RIAA.
The people supposedly govern themselves after all. Well they did until Republicans took over:-O!!!
I said it because it sells magazines and gets grants to say that Dolly had 20% shorter telomeres and that's why she had all the problems that she did. Heck it got these authors published in Nature, you can't beat that. Then the media jumps on it because telomeres and cloning were hot topics back then, which is why you find so many hits about Dolly's telomeres.
But in reality who knows if sheep telomeres don't normally fluctuate in length by that much? The results are based on a very small sample (insert intro to statistics lesson here). The scientists are resolving bands between 19kb and 22kb on a gel which is awfully difficult to do (insert molecular biology lesson here).
Don't believe me?
"It is very difficult to distinguish between 22-kilobase-long telomeres and 19-kilobase-long telomeres, and that's really what we're talking about here," said Dr. Robert Weinberg, a cancer researcher at the Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The resolution of the gels is not very good in that range."
"It's premature to draw rock-solid conclusions from this scant amount of data," Weinberg said.
Dr. Judith Campisi, who studies cellular aging at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, said, "I'm not convinced the results are meaningful."
Dr. Huber Warner, deputy director of the biology of aging program at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md., called the results "a little messy." A 20 percent difference in telomere length could just be within the ordinary variation for sheep, he said.
Dr. Harry Griffin, assistant director of the Roslin Institute, noted that the report was a letter, not a full scientific paper. "You have to appreciate that the measurement of telomere length is not an exact science," Griffin said.
Next time you google something try reading more than just the headlines.
No you didn't misread it but the point was more that Dolly had the phenotype of a sheep that was much older than would be explained by simply by the length of her telomeres. Aging and cancer are much more than just telomeres and telomerase activity.
Whoops I forgot to address these in my last post. Read previous post for some sort of proof on the statement: Aging is not all about telomeres. So altering this pathway will not make you younger or more immortal. It will only make you closer to being immortal:-).
Also, like the author of the paper states and some readers point out, this paper shows this occurs well in human cell culture. Who is to say what will happen if you actually treat a human this way. Do I really need to state that the distance between a culture dish of human cells and an actual human is astronomical? There is a mechanism in humans that prevents telomerase activity. Perhaps injecting humans with this active gene will do nothing but increase this prevention mechanism. Again, when telomeres were discovered long ago (before Dolly) scientists all thought this was the silver bullet to cancer. It's not, it's way more complicated. At least understand that scientists don't understand this phenomenon and that if this gets the Chinese scientists any press, they get more funding.
Who here doesn't understand the concept of if I BS a little and blow this outta proportion a little, I get way more money?!
I honestly hope some moderator mods this up fast.
I'm a grad student working on this very thing so I'd like to hope I know something about it... When Dolly was first cloned we all thought telomeres were the key to keeping clones alive longer. So when Dolly was made as a clone the nucleus was injected into an oocyte that had telomerase activity that restored Dolly's telomeres (read: Dolly had normal telomeres). Yet Dolly displayed many diseases and phenotypes that old sheep normally would. The obvious conclusion, there are other factors that we don't know about that contribute to both aging and death.
Please please please don't think telomerase is the key to immortality and the cure to cancers. Yes most cancers eventually gain telomerase activity but this isn't some magical target for immortality and cancer cures.
I just wanted all the slashdot users out there to remember: it may be small like a pack of gum, it may even look like a pack of gum. But please DO NOT EAT IPOD SHUFFLE.
I don't know what the differences in programs between the US and UK are, but I can tell you that if you aren't a US citizen it will be more difficult to get into a US grad school. Tax dollars help fund many grad schools, so those schools will be missing out on money for every foreign student they take. Also post 9/11 its much more difficult to get a student Visa and grad schools are a little more reluctant to accept foreign students.
While probably not applicable to someone from the UK, many US grad schools have the grad students act as Teaching Assistants. Anyone who's taken a Physics, calculus or chemistry class has probably had a foreign TA who doesn't speak english very well. These are all things the grad schools take into account when they accept students.
These are all things I've heard from one of my recommenders (who also happens to be on a selections committee =D)
I'm going back to school but not for anything CS related; I'm applying to interdisciplinary science programs. I'll probably specialize in molecular biology, genetics, or developmental biology.
But in this field in order of importance it is:
1) Experience in -real- hypothesis based research (school projects, hahahaha. no.)
2)Recommendations/References/Knowing Someone
3)GRE Scores
4)GPA
The goal of a science PhD program is to teach you how to do research, so any past experience in doing that is a good prediction of how successful you will be in grad school, that's why it's the most important. I'm sure something paralell for CS PhD's exists, whatever the point of a CS PhD is:P~
Letters of recommendation all should come from someone with a PhD who currently works in the field who knows you well. Knowing someone or contacting a professor ahead of time just gets your application noticed or looked over a little more carefully (which is good...). But it isn't the most important by any means.
GPA means next to nothing (unless you've got like a 2.0/4) Someone with a 3.0 GPA at Yale probably knows more than someone with a 3.5 at Florida State. This is why GRE scores are more important, they put all the grad school applicants on a level playing field.
This was the funny (yet sad) part about Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire. He clearly admits that his show is a comedy show, duh its on a network called Comedy Central. People don't tune into his show to become informed on the news, they tune in to laugh.
Crossfire does attempt to be a news show and does a terrible job at it. They're on CNN, a news network that people turn on to learn about the news. Go figure?
Stewart was attacked for doing a bad job or reporting the news on his comedy show? I say we blame Stewie on The Family Guy next for not informing me more about civil rights.
Stewart attacked Crossfire for doing a bad job of reporting news on their news show. The sad part is that they, and you, don't seem to understand this.
Apple suing to protect their trade secrets? How boring. Why don't they just "leak" a steady stream of false information to mix in with the real insider info. That way no one will know what's true.
What a joke, awards for video game movies. Never miss a chance to pat yourself on the back I guess.
I vote for the Aspyr load up screen because that lady whispering "Aspyr" sounds hot.
Wait, there are movies in video games?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, right. The buyer with no Ebay history whatsoever buys a PS3 for 1mil? I'm seeing that bid cancelled in 3...2...1...
Dude, there's no way in hell I'm gettin a Dell.
June 15th at 15:00 for firmware version 1.50
Gee, I wonder why they made us wait a few days.
That movie is a joke, it's not actual news reporting. How this made /. is beyond me. Anyone else notice it's from macteens?
I pondered saying "/meesa" but I would have had to kill myse *croaking noises*
Wow, news about easter eggs in Star Wars? This really is news for nerds.
/me wonders why he read the article anyways
/me wonders why he is writing "/me"
/me has to log off immedi
If you say anything supporting Apple, immediately you're an apple fanboy and a windoze hater. Forget the fact that it might be a much more stable operating system or the fact that there are next to no viruses for it(lets not debate why). If you hate apple then youre immediately labeled as ignorant and a windows fanboy. Forget the fact that they are cheaper and that there are tons of industry specific applications that require you to run a windows based machine for compatability reasons.
It's on his daughter's computer though. He's probably trying to remove spyware programs like AIM and MSN messenger. Honestly have you ever tried removing one of those?
Evolution is a theory because it can't be proven. We can find evidence, like the fossil record or comparing DNA sequences and Homeobox genes among related species, but until someone is able to come up with an experiment that accurately tests it, we're stuck.
The only evolutionary studies that I can think of would take thousands of years to conduct. Anyone want to fund me?
To those of you who believe in ID, give me a break. ID is not an alternative; there are no -good- alternatives to evolution. Evolution is the only "theory" supported by the evidence.
If this were about seperating theory from fact, why aren't we demanding alternatives to the Pythagorean Theorm? Maybe God can intelligently design a triangle that doesn't follow that? Because that will remain a theory too until all numbers can be tested (which isn't possible).
Gee thats funny, I'm a fricking pro at making those handbrake turns in GTA. Of course this is after crashing into cars, buildings, trees, light posts and people a few hundred times before I got good at it. Turns out GTA is realistic after all?
This is the obvious solution everyone seems to have missed. If you're sued you take it to a jury trial. If you're on the jury you vote against the RIAA. The people supposedly govern themselves after all. Well they did until Republicans took over :-O!!!
I said it because it sells magazines and gets grants to say that Dolly had 20% shorter telomeres and that's why she had all the problems that she did. Heck it got these authors published in Nature, you can't beat that. Then the media jumps on it because telomeres and cloning were hot topics back then, which is why you find so many hits about Dolly's telomeres.
But in reality who knows if sheep telomeres don't normally fluctuate in length by that much? The results are based on a very small sample (insert intro to statistics lesson here). The scientists are resolving bands between 19kb and 22kb on a gel which is awfully difficult to do (insert molecular biology lesson here).
Don't believe me?
Next time you google something try reading more than just the headlines.
No you didn't misread it but the point was more that Dolly had the phenotype of a sheep that was much older than would be explained by simply by the length of her telomeres. Aging and cancer are much more than just telomeres and telomerase activity.
Oh, FYI -
Unlike the article states, I PROMISE, Genes and Development is not "famous" in the scientific community.
Nature, Cell, Development, those are famous journals. Genes and Development is for articles that don't quite make the famous journals.
Whoops I forgot to address these in my last post. Read previous post for some sort of proof on the statement: Aging is not all about telomeres. So altering this pathway will not make you younger or more immortal. It will only make you closer to being immortal :-).
Also, like the author of the paper states and some readers point out, this paper shows this occurs well in human cell culture. Who is to say what will happen if you actually treat a human this way. Do I really need to state that the distance between a culture dish of human cells and an actual human is astronomical? There is a mechanism in humans that prevents telomerase activity. Perhaps injecting humans with this active gene will do nothing but increase this prevention mechanism. Again, when telomeres were discovered long ago (before Dolly) scientists all thought this was the silver bullet to cancer. It's not, it's way more complicated. At least understand that scientists don't understand this phenomenon and that if this gets the Chinese scientists any press, they get more funding.
Who here doesn't understand the concept of if I BS a little and blow this outta proportion a little, I get way more money?!
I honestly hope some moderator mods this up fast. I'm a grad student working on this very thing so I'd like to hope I know something about it... When Dolly was first cloned we all thought telomeres were the key to keeping clones alive longer. So when Dolly was made as a clone the nucleus was injected into an oocyte that had telomerase activity that restored Dolly's telomeres (read: Dolly had normal telomeres). Yet Dolly displayed many diseases and phenotypes that old sheep normally would. The obvious conclusion, there are other factors that we don't know about that contribute to both aging and death. Please please please don't think telomerase is the key to immortality and the cure to cancers. Yes most cancers eventually gain telomerase activity but this isn't some magical target for immortality and cancer cures.
I just wanted all the slashdot users out there to remember: it may be small like a pack of gum, it may even look like a pack of gum. But please DO NOT EAT IPOD SHUFFLE.
Read more at http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ on the bottom of the page.
I don't know what the differences in programs between the US and UK are, but I can tell you that if you aren't a US citizen it will be more difficult to get into a US grad school. Tax dollars help fund many grad schools, so those schools will be missing out on money for every foreign student they take. Also post 9/11 its much more difficult to get a student Visa and grad schools are a little more reluctant to accept foreign students.
While probably not applicable to someone from the UK, many US grad schools have the grad students act as Teaching Assistants. Anyone who's taken a Physics, calculus or chemistry class has probably had a foreign TA who doesn't speak english very well. These are all things the grad schools take into account when they accept students.
These are all things I've heard from one of my recommenders (who also happens to be on a selections committee =D)
I'm going back to school but not for anything CS related; I'm applying to interdisciplinary science programs. I'll probably specialize in molecular biology, genetics, or developmental biology.
But in this field in order of importance it is: 1) Experience in -real- hypothesis based research (school projects, hahahaha. no.) 2)Recommendations/References/Knowing Someone 3)GRE Scores 4)GPA
The goal of a science PhD program is to teach you how to do research, so any past experience in doing that is a good prediction of how successful you will be in grad school, that's why it's the most important. I'm sure something paralell for CS PhD's exists, whatever the point of a CS PhD is :P~
Letters of recommendation all should come from someone with a PhD who currently works in the field who knows you well. Knowing someone or contacting a professor ahead of time just gets your application noticed or looked over a little more carefully (which is good...). But it isn't the most important by any means.
GPA means next to nothing (unless you've got like a 2.0/4) Someone with a 3.0 GPA at Yale probably knows more than someone with a 3.5 at Florida State. This is why GRE scores are more important, they put all the grad school applicants on a level playing field.
Just my 2 cents.
This was the funny (yet sad) part about Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire. He clearly admits that his show is a comedy show, duh its on a network called Comedy Central. People don't tune into his show to become informed on the news, they tune in to laugh.
Crossfire does attempt to be a news show and does a terrible job at it. They're on CNN, a news network that people turn on to learn about the news. Go figure?
Stewart was attacked for doing a bad job or reporting the news on his comedy show? I say we blame Stewie on The Family Guy next for not informing me more about civil rights.
Stewart attacked Crossfire for doing a bad job of reporting news on their news show. The sad part is that they, and you, don't seem to understand this.
Are you sure you don't mean feet? :-O!!!
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric. 02/ Oops!
Apple suing to protect their trade secrets? How boring. Why don't they just "leak" a steady stream of false information to mix in with the real insider info. That way no one will know what's true.
Did someone say 100gb iPod?!What a joke, awards for video game movies. Never miss a chance to pat yourself on the back I guess. I vote for the Aspyr load up screen because that lady whispering "Aspyr" sounds hot. Wait, there are movies in video games?