Does this prove Intelligent Design is flawed?
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Because, if God was such a bad programmer he had to encode it 220 times, instead of making an efficient coding paradigm that used only say three segments for backup... well...
Or does it mean chimps run Linux and only need 22 code segments to do what Humans (Windows) needs 220 code segments to get done?
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In your defense, they're quite hard to tell apart once you've had a few Duffs. What look like slightly unshaven legs and sloping posture the night before reveal themselves fully in the morning after.
Have you tested that theory experimentally and repeatedly? And who did the peer review on the research?
Wow. Doubly offtopic. Once for the lame joke, and once because you're pimping your website.
And it was a really lame joke he made.
Hey, if anyone's on Facebook, feel free to join my Seminar Junkies group - I'm the guy in the cape.
Remember, even if we have 220 segments and chimps have 37 segments, it doesn't mean we know what they do, or how they impact other gene-encoding regions - it's only recently we started figuring out most of the segments we thought were "noise" are actually responsible for encoding other genes, due to transcription and folding "errors" - yet which make us what we are.
As I recall this is a flipped segment
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which was puzzling at first, because it's literally flipped around from the chimp gene, and actually is similar to a dog segment. Turns out a lot of what we thought were different gene segments folded wrong and literally reassembled upside down (backwards).
However, just remember that just because we may have found a segment doesn't mean we understand how it works. Sometimes, it's not just the genes it encodes, it's how it impacts other genes on other chromosomes, and how it misfolds or affects transcription errors.
Every day we learn more and more, and understand less and less. But it's fascinating work, and is leading to greater understanding of what makes us tick - even though we are all different and the variation among us homo sapiens is greater than the difference between homo sapiens and a chimp. Sometimes, you may find you may have more genetically in common with someone from Borneo when you're from Germany than you do with another person from Germany.
[note - if I'm wrong about the flip, my apologies, it's been a summer with few seminars - reading the papers is harder in some ways]
If the PS3 fails to ignite blu-ray sales, Sony is going to have to back down and start licensing the blu-ray technology to manufacturers of hybrids
They've already been forced to license it in China, due to widescale piracy of the tech. At least, according to Fortune and the Wall Street Journal. Showed up in an interview with the Scottish CEO of Sony and then followup articles in the WSJ.
Seriously, I was at a few seminars here at the UW by one of the Cambridge scholars who had an actual real cure for 50 percent of all cancers, which involves a literal heating of the interior of cells, triggering an apotosis chain that causes cell death in 99.99 percent of all cancer cells (of that type) while only killing less than 1 percent of normal cells. It's in trials in the UK and elsewhere and won't be available before probably 2016.
The method mentioned is a technique - it increases the rate, and is a great discovery, but is not a "cure" for "cancers". It's just better than what we have now.
There is very little incentive for all but the most rabid consumer to adopt either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray formats before widescale HDTV adoption at a reasonable price, which won't happen until one year AFTER 2009. When the price of reasonable quality HDTV is below the $300 price point, you can expect consumers to start choosing - but the reality is that most movies they want to play - at a price they want to pay for - will be on DVD and work perfectly fine.
People still anecdotaly remember being burned in the VHS versus Beta wars - I was on the winning side of that, bought one of the first very expensive VHS VCRs from RCA, but I worked shift and made more than I do even now.
thanks for modding me as a troll. the truth is frequently painful, but the expansive and multi-adaptable nature of the shuttle compared to the more restricted mission objectives of this new Orion spacecraft (based on the Mercury design) is proof that we are stepping down from our role as Leader in Space Exploration, to one of being just one of many participants.
Is it more cost effective? Yes.
Is it more efficient at just taking people up to orbit? Yes.
Does it mean we've given up our expansive dreams in space? Yes.
All three are true. Whether we wish to acknowledge it or not, at this point the space race is more likely to be between China and Japan, with the EU and the USA following behind.
That's my opinion. I believe I said, if we're basically giving up our lead role in space, it's not a bad choice, if overly expensive, to basically downgrade to this.
But we should be clear it does mean we've basically decided not to lead in space, but to be merely one of many players, some of which will be more active than the USA.
If you actually read the article and look at the images, you'll quickly realize this is more like the Mercury capsules, and is a giant leap backward for America. Meanwhile, the Brits are landing on the moon.
Some days, our continuing downward slide from prominence becomes more apparent. This is one of those days.
Is it better than a Mercury capsule? Sure.
Is it an improvement on the Shuttle? Doubtful at best, but you know they're spinning it that way.
However, it is possible this is more suitable to the space aims of a diminished nation that is at best an equal player with the EU, China, and Japan - and may even use less fuel to get the same basic job done.
But it's not progress. Unless you count progress as realizing we are no longer Number 1 in the Space Race.
Seriously, it either comes out of the Principal's discretionary funds (which are used for a lot of more important things, quite frankly), or it comes out of money either donated by, fundraised by, or secured by the parents.
I read the long print version of the WSJ article at lunch, and I'd have to say it's fairly accurate.
Not every school can be like the one my son goes to, where they get Bill Gates to give them 40 WinXP desktops with flatscreen LCD monitors, and Apple gives them an entire computer lab to crank out the student newspaper on.
Most schools can't even get the school district to pay for a single computer per classroom before grade 6.
So, don't be surprised if the concerns stated are mostly those of parents - they're the ones who got the computers in the first place.
And, yes, they thought you were going to use them to study on and do homework, and it never occurred to them you'd surf the web for fun and watch flash anime and videos and IM all your buds or spend 90 percent of the time in chat like most teen and pre-teen girls do.
They actually think they got you a cell phone so you could call them, not so you could call all your friends and text message them.
Even if you have people in there with 4 or 5 PS2s that is a metric butt load of households with PS2s.
Wrong. My son just bought a PS2 on sale for $49. According to your logic, he will buy a PS3. He isn't interested in the PS3, he wants me to buy a Wii and is getting impatient waiting till they come out.
Ah, finally an article about the PS3 failing. I was getting jitters because I hadn't gotten my fix yet.
Well, you must really hate the Wall Street Journal then. Cause they and Fortune both have been fairly explicit that Sony's betting the PS3 will drive adoption of the blu-Ray, but that all the analysis shows that noone's interested in buying the PS3 and are far more interested in the Wii.
ah, but I believe the new GE LEDs are efficient. I agree as to older ones, but these new ones appear to be very competitive, once they get them mass-produced in sufficient quantity.
my original point was that this was going to happen in Canada too, but for some reason people got all crufty over exactly who is British and all that.
why?
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He also claims that if the PS3 doesn't win it will be regarded as a Microsoft xBox360 win. I don't know of anyone, other than those working for Microsoft or Lionshead, who think Microsoft would win - they'll be lucky to grab the number two spot behind the Nintendo Wii.
If anyone could claim to win, it would be Nintendo. Not only will they continue their long line of profitable consoles and games, they would regain the number one spot worldwide, and in the USA.
The rest of his exploded myths, though, are pretty accurate, although some could argue he's forcing the point.
No, he's obviously someone dependent on either Sony advertising money (a writer at a magazine that will have lots of PS3 ads) or is so wealthy he doesn't understand none of us are interested in shelling out $600 for a PS3 when we get a much more fun $225 Wii and an xBox360 as well for that much...
By fail, I don't think most of us mean won't ship or sell any units, we just mean will be the second or third place advanced console, behind the Wii.
Well, actually, I have four years of German study, and my brother has a Bachelors degree from the University of Hamburg in German Literature, but I'll pretend Germany is only one race to not offend your delicate "British" sensibilities.
Me, I think you're most likely Anglo-Saxon. Which ain't from Britain. No matter how you slice it.
OK, well, I'll just go convince everyone at Simon Fraser University that noone there is Scottish, and that the Auchinleck papers don't exist in a giant tome in the library (you know, the one that shows up in Battlestar Galactica), and that none of us are Scottish.
I'll take my purple single-line Affleck/Auchinleck tartan and use it as an oil rag.
My, but you're certainly being prissy about this. I hope you stay away from any sgian - wouldn't want to upset you..
Is it ok if I tell them to stop insisting they're Kurds in Iraq and that Indians in Sri Lanka should stop calling themselves Tamils while I'm at it?
And I'll just go close down all those Irish, Welsh, and Scottish pubs - including the George and Dragon on the next block from my house here in Seattle....
It's strange, because I thought I saw LEDs from GE, and advertisements on CNN, so I would presume if they're for sale, that LEDs, especially white light LEDs (combo of the colors) were thereby viable.
And a large crowd of people are using them at Burning Man this year, according to all the list chatter.
I love and use them too, but there are problems. 1) can't use them on with dimmers 2) some sockets can not use them because of the fat width right above the metal screw part
1. There are three-way compact flourescents. Actually, it's really a combined one, but then that's what a three-way bulb is, two filaments (say 300 is a 200 watt plus a 100 watt, each switch position gets you 100 watt (200 is off), 200 watt (100 is off), 300 watt (both on)) or in this case two tubes stuck together.
I don't recommend using compact flourescents in ceiling fans, even though they exist (usually fat short bulbs), as the vibration cuts down dramatically on their lifespans.
2. There are a lot more shapes and sizes of bulbs now. Go to Home Depot - you'd be amazed.
Of course it's part of Great Britain. I never claimed otherwise. I just said "many" Scots and Welsh might not agree with your use of the term, and admitted that many such Scots and Welsh are perhaps what you would now call Americans, even if they don't refer to themselves as such.
Next thing you know you'll tell me the British can cook and you've got great French food in London and are watching American football on the telly and thinking of charging American visitors to the BBC a license fee or else making them watch ads or something...
My original point, which was that Canada has similar strict rules regarding press reporting on many criminal trials is also still valid, regardless.
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Because, if God was such a bad programmer he had to encode it 220 times, instead of making an efficient coding paradigm that used only say three segments for backup ... well ...
Or does it mean chimps run Linux and only need 22 code segments to do what Humans (Windows) needs 220 code segments to get done?
In your defense, they're quite hard to tell apart once you've had a few Duffs. What look like slightly unshaven legs and sloping posture the night before reveal themselves fully in the morning after.
Have you tested that theory experimentally and repeatedly? And who did the peer review on the research?
Wow. Doubly offtopic. Once for the lame joke, and once because you're pimping your website.
And it was a really lame joke he made.
Hey, if anyone's on Facebook, feel free to join my Seminar Junkies group - I'm the guy in the cape.
Remember, even if we have 220 segments and chimps have 37 segments, it doesn't mean we know what they do, or how they impact other gene-encoding regions - it's only recently we started figuring out most of the segments we thought were "noise" are actually responsible for encoding other genes, due to transcription and folding "errors" - yet which make us what we are.
which was puzzling at first, because it's literally flipped around from the chimp gene, and actually is similar to a dog segment. Turns out a lot of what we thought were different gene segments folded wrong and literally reassembled upside down (backwards).
However, just remember that just because we may have found a segment doesn't mean we understand how it works. Sometimes, it's not just the genes it encodes, it's how it impacts other genes on other chromosomes, and how it misfolds or affects transcription errors.
Every day we learn more and more, and understand less and less. But it's fascinating work, and is leading to greater understanding of what makes us tick - even though we are all different and the variation among us homo sapiens is greater than the difference between homo sapiens and a chimp. Sometimes, you may find you may have more genetically in common with someone from Borneo when you're from Germany than you do with another person from Germany.
[note - if I'm wrong about the flip, my apologies, it's been a summer with few seminars - reading the papers is harder in some ways]
If the PS3 fails to ignite blu-ray sales, Sony is going to have to back down and start licensing the blu-ray technology to manufacturers of hybrids
They've already been forced to license it in China, due to widescale piracy of the tech. At least, according to Fortune and the Wall Street Journal. Showed up in an interview with the Scottish CEO of Sony and then followup articles in the WSJ.
Seriously, I was at a few seminars here at the UW by one of the Cambridge scholars who had an actual real cure for 50 percent of all cancers, which involves a literal heating of the interior of cells, triggering an apotosis chain that causes cell death in 99.99 percent of all cancer cells (of that type) while only killing less than 1 percent of normal cells. It's in trials in the UK and elsewhere and won't be available before probably 2016.
The method mentioned is a technique - it increases the rate, and is a great discovery, but is not a "cure" for "cancers". It's just better than what we have now.
There is very little incentive for all but the most rabid consumer to adopt either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray formats before widescale HDTV adoption at a reasonable price, which won't happen until one year AFTER 2009. When the price of reasonable quality HDTV is below the $300 price point, you can expect consumers to start choosing - but the reality is that most movies they want to play - at a price they want to pay for - will be on DVD and work perfectly fine.
People still anecdotaly remember being burned in the VHS versus Beta wars - I was on the winning side of that, bought one of the first very expensive VHS VCRs from RCA, but I worked shift and made more than I do even now.
thanks for modding me as a troll. the truth is frequently painful, but the expansive and multi-adaptable nature of the shuttle compared to the more restricted mission objectives of this new Orion spacecraft (based on the Mercury design) is proof that we are stepping down from our role as Leader in Space Exploration, to one of being just one of many participants.
Is it more cost effective? Yes.
Is it more efficient at just taking people up to orbit? Yes.
Does it mean we've given up our expansive dreams in space? Yes.
All three are true. Whether we wish to acknowledge it or not, at this point the space race is more likely to be between China and Japan, with the EU and the USA following behind.
That's my opinion. I believe I said, if we're basically giving up our lead role in space, it's not a bad choice, if overly expensive, to basically downgrade to this.
But we should be clear it does mean we've basically decided not to lead in space, but to be merely one of many players, some of which will be more active than the USA.
If you actually read the article and look at the images, you'll quickly realize this is more like the Mercury capsules, and is a giant leap backward for America. Meanwhile, the Brits are landing on the moon.
Some days, our continuing downward slide from prominence becomes more apparent. This is one of those days.
Is it better than a Mercury capsule? Sure.
Is it an improvement on the Shuttle? Doubtful at best, but you know they're spinning it that way.
However, it is possible this is more suitable to the space aims of a diminished nation that is at best an equal player with the EU, China, and Japan - and may even use less fuel to get the same basic job done.
But it's not progress. Unless you count progress as realizing we are no longer Number 1 in the Space Race.
Seriously, it either comes out of the Principal's discretionary funds (which are used for a lot of more important things, quite frankly), or it comes out of money either donated by, fundraised by, or secured by the parents.
I read the long print version of the WSJ article at lunch, and I'd have to say it's fairly accurate.
Not every school can be like the one my son goes to, where they get Bill Gates to give them 40 WinXP desktops with flatscreen LCD monitors, and Apple gives them an entire computer lab to crank out the student newspaper on.
Most schools can't even get the school district to pay for a single computer per classroom before grade 6.
So, don't be surprised if the concerns stated are mostly those of parents - they're the ones who got the computers in the first place.
And, yes, they thought you were going to use them to study on and do homework, and it never occurred to them you'd surf the web for fun and watch flash anime and videos and IM all your buds or spend 90 percent of the time in chat like most teen and pre-teen girls do.
They actually think they got you a cell phone so you could call them, not so you could call all your friends and text message them.
Is it unreasonable? Depends on your perspective.
Even if you have people in there with 4 or 5 PS2s that is a metric butt load of households with PS2s.
Wrong. My son just bought a PS2 on sale for $49. According to your logic, he will buy a PS3. He isn't interested in the PS3, he wants me to buy a Wii and is getting impatient waiting till they come out.
Ah, finally an article about the PS3 failing. I was getting jitters because I hadn't gotten my fix yet.
Well, you must really hate the Wall Street Journal then. Cause they and Fortune both have been fairly explicit that Sony's betting the PS3 will drive adoption of the blu-Ray, but that all the analysis shows that noone's interested in buying the PS3 and are far more interested in the Wii.
Capitalism sucks that way.
true, Conrad Burns is very unpopular in MT, and is on the short list at the Washington Post blogs of most likely to be replaced.
ah, but I believe the new GE LEDs are efficient. I agree as to older ones, but these new ones appear to be very competitive, once they get them mass-produced in sufficient quantity.
I'll see you one haggis and raise a pint to you against the Faroes. They'll be showing the game at the pub near me.
The Senator from Alaska is the primary funding assistance for the GOP candidate for the US Senate in WA State, too.
They're trying to sneak under the radar and pretend they're moderate, but they're not.
my original point was that this was going to happen in Canada too, but for some reason people got all crufty over exactly who is British and all that.
why?
He also claims that if the PS3 doesn't win it will be regarded as a Microsoft xBox360 win. I don't know of anyone, other than those working for Microsoft or Lionshead, who think Microsoft would win - they'll be lucky to grab the number two spot behind the Nintendo Wii.
If anyone could claim to win, it would be Nintendo. Not only will they continue their long line of profitable consoles and games, they would regain the number one spot worldwide, and in the USA.
The rest of his exploded myths, though, are pretty accurate, although some could argue he's forcing the point.
No, he's obviously someone dependent on either Sony advertising money (a writer at a magazine that will have lots of PS3 ads) or is so wealthy he doesn't understand none of us are interested in shelling out $600 for a PS3 when we get a much more fun $225 Wii and an xBox360 as well for that much ...
By fail, I don't think most of us mean won't ship or sell any units, we just mean will be the second or third place advanced console, behind the Wii.
Either that or he loves Blu-Ray.
Well, actually, I have four years of German study, and my brother has a Bachelors degree from the University of Hamburg in German Literature, but I'll pretend Germany is only one race to not offend your delicate "British" sensibilities.
Me, I think you're most likely Anglo-Saxon. Which ain't from Britain. No matter how you slice it.
OK, well, I'll just go convince everyone at Simon Fraser University that noone there is Scottish, and that the Auchinleck papers don't exist in a giant tome in the library (you know, the one that shows up in Battlestar Galactica), and that none of us are Scottish.
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I'll take my purple single-line Affleck/Auchinleck tartan and use it as an oil rag.
My, but you're certainly being prissy about this. I hope you stay away from any sgian - wouldn't want to upset you
Is it ok if I tell them to stop insisting they're Kurds in Iraq and that Indians in Sri Lanka should stop calling themselves Tamils while I'm at it?
And I'll just go close down all those Irish, Welsh, and Scottish pubs - including the George and Dragon on the next block from my house here in Seattle.
is he gone yet?
It's strange, because I thought I saw LEDs from GE, and advertisements on CNN, so I would presume if they're for sale, that LEDs, especially white light LEDs (combo of the colors) were thereby viable.
And a large crowd of people are using them at Burning Man this year, according to all the list chatter.
I love and use them too, but there are problems. 1) can't use them on with dimmers 2) some sockets can not use them because of the fat width right above the metal screw part
1. There are three-way compact flourescents. Actually, it's really a combined one, but then that's what a three-way bulb is, two filaments (say 300 is a 200 watt plus a 100 watt, each switch position gets you 100 watt (200 is off), 200 watt (100 is off), 300 watt (both on)) or in this case two tubes stuck together.
I don't recommend using compact flourescents in ceiling fans, even though they exist (usually fat short bulbs), as the vibration cuts down dramatically on their lifespans.
2. There are a lot more shapes and sizes of bulbs now. Go to Home Depot - you'd be amazed.
Of course it's part of Great Britain. I never claimed otherwise. I just said "many" Scots and Welsh might not agree with your use of the term, and admitted that many such Scots and Welsh are perhaps what you would now call Americans, even if they don't refer to themselves as such.
...
Next thing you know you'll tell me the British can cook and you've got great French food in London and are watching American football on the telly and thinking of charging American visitors to the BBC a license fee or else making them watch ads or something
My original point, which was that Canada has similar strict rules regarding press reporting on many criminal trials is also still valid, regardless.