Only as far as our radio broadcasts have reached, at best ~120 light years. On the other hand, anyone within eighty light years would notice that ordinary old Sol has suddenly become one of the brightest radio stars in this neighborhood of the galaxy.
The viruses/bacteria/liposomes that are created to be the vectors for the new gene could cause terrible harm if they were to find their way out into the wild. I disagree with the shoddy pseudoscience of/.'s Cliff Notes version of the referenced article, but there are significant, terrible dangers in the technology used to create genetically modified organisms.
I was trying to think of how to argue against your assertion when it occured to me that potatoes are a ground crop. I was thinking "I don't believe many food plants flower underground", then it occured to me that food plants like potatoes are often cultivated from roots.
Duh.
Nitrifying bacteria that absorb the GM gene could conceivably remain long after the GM crop had been harvested. Successive *root* crops would have the potential of absorbing the GM gene. The next generation of <insert regional tuber of choice here>, if grown from that root stock, could potentially have flowers that carry the GM gene. When they release their pollen, they could then contaminate seed within their own species.
Volunteer GM corn was left to grow in a field which was cultivated the following year with non-GM soybeans. GM corn kernels turned up in the non-GM soybean crop. No modified genes were introduced into the soybean genome by the proximity of the GM corn. Transferring genes between species is difficult, even in labs.
Despite the breathless tone of/.'s improperly-worded teaser, transpecies migration of human-modified genes cannot happen in the middle of a bean field in BFE. The basic mechanisms of life, mechisms that we can't change, don't work that way. Daisies and tulips can't croos-polinate. Even if you splice the phosphorescence gene from a jellyfish into that daisy, it only has one mutant gene. Its pollen will still be so daisylike that it will only be able to pollinate other daisies. The tulips around it will be SOL.
To put it another way, every human being alive has hundreds of mutations in their somal cells, one or two may even get passed on through sex cells to their offspring. In spite of the mutant genes we all carry and in spite of our drives that sometimes lead us to "pollinate" outside our species, although there are sheeplike people who flock en masse to next big OS there are no people-like sheep who have adopted linux.
Read farther down in the posts. Some leftover GM corn kernels were allowed to mature in fields which had been replanted with non-GM soybeans. The resulting harvest had soybean seeds mixed with a tiny amount of GM corn kernels.
The soybeans did not acquire genetic material from the corn.
It is my (possibly flawed) understanding that such a transfer might, might, conceivably (we're talking one in several million odds or so) happen with a viral vector, but such a virus would be considerably more likely to glom onto a completely different corn gene and transpose it. Even if the modified gene did jump, the virus carying the gene would have to infect one of the soybean's sex cells to be present in the end food product, or to be passed on.
I charged them through every available orifice for "emergency services." Nice is one thing, but if I am not on the payroll and someone who saw fit to terminate my services calls me out of the blue and arrogantly demands that I fix something they lacked the foresight to correct, they'll pay, yes indeedy they'll pay.:)
They'll agree in advance to a total amount, and have a check for 50% of that amount waiting for me at their door before I cross the threshold of their building. The balance will be due upon completion of the project.
... which has since been clarified. The original article referenced on/. is misleading. The Opteron has no more and no less ability to support DRM than any other x86 processor on the planet.
Although AMD is a part of the Trusted Computing Initiative, it has not and will not for the foreseeable future optimize its processors for digital rights management. The reasons for the delay of CH and Opteron are the source of much speculation, but a sudden core revision to placate an initiative that hasn't even hit testing phase is most likely not one of them.
This is rumormongering at its finest. Tune in to/. tomorrow when we learn that an alien being masquerading as Elvis Presley (employed by Microsoft) is the true force behind the Linux kernel. The domain name elvix.com has already been registered by Microsoft.
I suspect that surgeons participating in telesurgery must observe certain protocols themselves. "Are you certain this is where I cut?" "Yes, I am certain." "Is everyone certain this is where I make the incision?" "Yes, we are certain."
If you think this is a hoot, wait til this happens on Mars.:)
Actually the Susan B. Anthony dollars were a bit of a challenge for him. Usually U.S. coins have different weights as well as reeded edges to differentiate between coins of the same size. As an example, the cent and the dime (10 cent) are similar in size, but the dime has a reeded edge, and is thinner. The quarter and the Susan B. Anthony dollar were similar enough in size and thickness to confuse everyone, not just visually-impaired people.
The Euro coins I have here *I* think were fairly well designed to be easily distinguishable from one another. The one and two cent coins might be a bit confusing, but close your eyes and feel their edges. Use your fingernails. Feel their weight. When you become familiar with their qualities these coins are all quite distinct.
I suspect that whoever brought up this "issue" is doing a discredit to the majority of color blind Europeans, who one would hope are more clever than those who conceived this "study".
... had no problem distinguishing between Euro coin denominations. As you point out, the edges are quite distinctive and the sizes vary. He could distinguish them, and sort them, in seconds, in like groupings.
I agree, this is probably a feature most customers could live without... I want to see how they implement this startling added attraction. In reading the small print I notice this device doubles as a self-heating soup pot and can make bouillabaise for 2,500 people in under ten minutes.:)
This is all conjecture -- I have yet to see the movie. I wonder, do dead teenage boobs count? Were they prominently displayed? Maybe as part of a slide show that filled the entire screen? Did they LOOK dead?
Perhaps if we learn that Katz was confronted with a pair of pinkish, pert, lively-looking fifteen foot high teenage boobs it might explain his liking this movie. Maybe the dead teenage boobs were part of an evidence photo that was handed back and forth on camera every few minutes? That might hold Mr. Katz' attention the way the use of a lively bird in a television commercial would capture the attention of a house cat.
And after all, these wouldn't be REAL dead boobs...
What's more amazing is that it had no teenage ...
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... boobs, no masturbation jokes, and apparently has a bit of appeal to individuals who think.
Katz actually *got* this movie, which to me is either a credit to the screenwriter (for using small words) or the director (for keeping the moviegoer's attention carefully focused by using conspicuously-placed shiny objects in each frame.)
Actually Katz is probably a thoughtful, intelligent fellow -- I shouldn't be so hard on him. It shocks me: just when I thought I completely understood his taste in films he comes along and likes a movie that somehow manages to avoid ten explosions per minute, one gratuitous segment focusing on jiggling female anatomy, and booger/fart/erection jokes.
At the "bottom" or tunneling end of the probe put a mass of heat-producing nuclear material. Make certain the probe is designed to orient itself with the heated end down.
Unless the tunnel collapsed or filled with frost you wouldn't have liquid water surrounding the probe until it gets to an ocean. As I recall in vaccuum there is no liquid phase of water. It would flash to gaseous form and spew out the end of the tunnel.
The problem I foresee with this approach is the probe hitting a pocket of liquid water deeper into the ice. If there is no seal behind the probe the pressure difference might be sufficient to blow the probe out of the tunnel. It would need to constantly anchor itself against the tunnel walls -- it would probably have to be a fairly hefty piece of machinery.
"Natalie Portman looked hot. We got to see her bellybutton. We got to see some leg. We wanted to see teenage boobs, but this movie couldn't show them. I would have liked to have seen some plot development involving Natalie's teenage boobs. This movie would have been better if we could have seen Natalie's teenage boobs. This would have been an excellent movie if only it were more like Not Another Teen Movie."
Thanks Taco for apparently taking the driver's seat with/. movie reviews.:)
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Only as far as our radio broadcasts have reached, at best ~120 light years. On the other hand, anyone within eighty light years would notice that ordinary old Sol has suddenly become one of the brightest radio stars in this neighborhood of the galaxy.
... not between them.
The viruses/bacteria/liposomes that are created to be the vectors for the new gene could cause terrible harm if they were to find their way out into the wild. I disagree with the shoddy pseudoscience of /.'s Cliff Notes version of the referenced article, but there are significant, terrible dangers in the technology used to create genetically modified organisms.
I was trying to think of how to argue against your assertion when it occured to me that potatoes are a ground crop. I was thinking "I don't believe many food plants flower underground", then it occured to me that food plants like potatoes are often cultivated from roots.
Duh.
Nitrifying bacteria that absorb the GM gene could conceivably remain long after the GM crop had been harvested. Successive *root* crops would have the potential of absorbing the GM gene. The next generation of <insert regional tuber of choice here>, if grown from that root stock, could potentially have flowers that carry the GM gene. When they release their pollen, they could then contaminate seed within their own species.
Volunteer GM corn was left to grow in a field which was cultivated the following year with non-GM soybeans. GM corn kernels turned up in the non-GM soybean crop. No modified genes were introduced into the soybean genome by the proximity of the GM corn. Transferring genes between species is difficult, even in labs.
/.'s improperly-worded teaser, transpecies migration of human-modified genes cannot happen in the middle of a bean field in BFE. The basic mechanisms of life, mechisms that we can't change, don't work that way. Daisies and tulips can't croos-polinate. Even if you splice the phosphorescence gene from a jellyfish into that daisy, it only has one mutant gene. Its pollen will still be so daisylike that it will only be able to pollinate other daisies. The tulips around it will be SOL.
Despite the breathless tone of
To put it another way, every human being alive has hundreds of mutations in their somal cells, one or two may even get passed on through sex cells to their offspring. In spite of the mutant genes we all carry and in spite of our drives that sometimes lead us to "pollinate" outside our species, although there are sheeplike people who flock en masse to next big OS there are no people-like sheep who have adopted linux.
You can definitely tell who clicked through to read the links, can't you?
Read farther down in the posts. Some leftover GM corn kernels were allowed to mature in fields which had been replanted with non-GM soybeans. The resulting harvest had soybean seeds mixed with a tiny amount of GM corn kernels.
The soybeans did not acquire genetic material from the corn.
It is my (possibly flawed) understanding that such a transfer might, might, conceivably (we're talking one in several million odds or so) happen with a viral vector, but such a virus would be considerably more likely to glom onto a completely different corn gene and transpose it. Even if the modified gene did jump, the virus carying the gene would have to infect one of the soybean's sex cells to be present in the end food product, or to be passed on.
I charged them through every available orifice for "emergency services." Nice is one thing, but if I am not on the payroll and someone who saw fit to terminate my services calls me out of the blue and arrogantly demands that I fix something they lacked the foresight to correct, they'll pay, yes indeedy they'll pay. :)
They'll agree in advance to a total amount, and have a check for 50% of that amount waiting for me at their door before I cross the threshold of their building. The balance will be due upon completion of the project.
I love losing karma because some pimple-faced kid thinks that by rating down posts critical of /. that his stories are more likely to be FP'd.
God forbid anyone would dare question a story's accuracy.
... follow the link. Mike Magee is not AMD. If I am AMD I am under-fucking-paid.
... which has since been clarified. The original article referenced on /. is misleading. The Opteron has no more and no less ability to support DRM than any other x86 processor on the planet.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5489.
Although AMD is a part of the Trusted Computing Initiative, it has not and will not for the foreseeable future optimize its processors for digital rights management. The reasons for the delay of CH and Opteron are the source of much speculation, but a sudden core revision to placate an initiative that hasn't even hit testing phase is most likely not one of them.
Doesn't anyone at /. bother to check sources, or even look for more current versions of articles anymore?
/. tomorrow when we learn that an alien being masquerading as Elvis Presley (employed by Microsoft) is the true force behind the Linux kernel. The domain name elvix.com has already been registered by Microsoft.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Read this updated article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5489.
This is rumormongering at its finest. Tune in to
Gemesis makes gem-quality synthetic diamonds. Knowing your objections to the way natural diamonds come to market, this may be a suitable alternative.
I think it deserves mention that OpenPPC.org is an IBM-supported initiative to bring OpenPPC-based machines to us commoners.
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What kind of range does this device have from the base unit?
What is the sound quality like?
How does the headset respond to sources of interference like running microwave ovens?
How long does a charged battery last compared to the manufacturer's claim?
I suspect that surgeons participating in telesurgery must observe certain protocols themselves. "Are you certain this is where I cut?" "Yes, I am certain." "Is everyone certain this is where I make the incision?" "Yes, we are certain."
:)
If you think this is a hoot, wait til this happens on Mars.
Thanks for the laugh. :)
Actually the Susan B. Anthony dollars were a bit of a challenge for him. Usually U.S. coins have different weights as well as reeded edges to differentiate between coins of the same size. As an example, the cent and the dime (10 cent) are similar in size, but the dime has a reeded edge, and is thinner. The quarter and the Susan B. Anthony dollar were similar enough in size and thickness to confuse everyone, not just visually-impaired people.
The Euro coins I have here *I* think were fairly well designed to be easily distinguishable from one another. The one and two cent coins might be a bit confusing, but close your eyes and feel their edges. Use your fingernails. Feel their weight. When you become familiar with their qualities these coins are all quite distinct.
I suspect that whoever brought up this "issue" is doing a discredit to the majority of color blind Europeans, who one would hope are more clever than those who conceived this "study".
... had no problem distinguishing between Euro coin denominations. As you point out, the edges are quite distinctive and the sizes vary. He could distinguish them, and sort them, in seconds, in like groupings.
:)
He's not just color blind.
"underwater lightning"
... I want to see how they implement this startling added attraction. In reading the small print I notice this device doubles as a self-heating soup pot and can make bouillabaise for 2,500 people in under ten minutes. :)
I agree, this is probably a feature most customers could live without
that this may have had any influence on Mr. Katz.
...
This is all conjecture -- I have yet to see the movie. I wonder, do dead teenage boobs count? Were they prominently displayed? Maybe as part of a slide show that filled the entire screen? Did they LOOK dead?
Perhaps if we learn that Katz was confronted with a pair of pinkish, pert, lively-looking fifteen foot high teenage boobs it might explain his liking this movie. Maybe the dead teenage boobs were part of an evidence photo that was handed back and forth on camera every few minutes? That might hold Mr. Katz' attention the way the use of a lively bird in a television commercial would capture the attention of a house cat.
And after all, these wouldn't be REAL dead boobs
... boobs, no masturbation jokes, and apparently has a bit of appeal to individuals who think.
Katz actually *got* this movie, which to me is either a credit to the screenwriter (for using small words) or the director (for keeping the moviegoer's attention carefully focused by using conspicuously-placed shiny objects in each frame.)
Actually Katz is probably a thoughtful, intelligent fellow -- I shouldn't be so hard on him. It shocks me: just when I thought I completely understood his taste in films he comes along and likes a movie that somehow manages to avoid ten explosions per minute, one gratuitous segment focusing on jiggling female anatomy, and booger/fart/erection jokes.
Perhaps Satan *is* ice skating today.
At the "bottom" or tunneling end of the probe put a mass of heat-producing nuclear material. Make certain the probe is designed to orient itself with the heated end down.
Unless the tunnel collapsed or filled with frost you wouldn't have liquid water surrounding the probe until it gets to an ocean. As I recall in vaccuum there is no liquid phase of water. It would flash to gaseous form and spew out the end of the tunnel.
The problem I foresee with this approach is the probe hitting a pocket of liquid water deeper into the ice. If there is no seal behind the probe the pressure difference might be sufficient to blow the probe out of the tunnel. It would need to constantly anchor itself against the tunnel walls -- it would probably have to be a fairly hefty piece of machinery.
... the review could have been summarized as:
/. movie reviews. :)
"Natalie Portman looked hot. We got to see her bellybutton. We got to see some leg. We wanted to see teenage boobs, but this movie couldn't show them. I would have liked to have seen some plot development involving Natalie's teenage boobs. This movie would have been better if we could have seen Natalie's teenage boobs. This would have been an excellent movie if only it were more like Not Another Teen Movie."
Thanks Taco for apparently taking the driver's seat with