Well, in Japan that's about 60 percent of the manga market, and hentai pr0n is a major market share on the Net there.
So, basically, given the Japanese and Asian market, the market reality is that half of the people who buy the higher-capacity Blu-Ray equipped PS3 will be buying it to... um... view pr0n. They really care about HDTV high-quality video and image capacity...
So, yes, you are correct. But we're not supposed to admit such things.
Seriously, they even brought in a non-tech Scot. We have to remember that Sony's major profits come from Finance and Insurance - yes, you heard that right - and he's trying to sell you on Blu-Ray for films/movies, music, and games. From that perspective (non-tech), the PS3 is basically a computer with a Blu-Ray drive, as that's where his profits lie - in getting the market to reward Sony with market dominance over competing standards so that they get license fees for every movie, music, or game disc you buy.
Don't believe me? Check out Fortune magazine for an in-depth interview of the two head honchos at Sony. I'm basing part of this on the print edition of the Wall Street Journal as well.
as an Intel shareholder, I'm glad to hear this. Now if Sony would just announce a price drop for the PS3 to get Blu-Ray lock-in, I might invest in them.
For the longest time, Intel shares have been based on the projection of 90+ percent market share - while Motorola has been knocked out now that Apple is using Intel chips, the rapid adoption of AMD by Dell and other suppliers has meant the market dominance model was in danger.
The geek in me, of course, loves AMD - I have one in my home laptop, and most of our lab's computers are dual core dual processor AMD Linux boxen with dual hard drives.
But looked at from the market perspective, this makes a lot of sense.
I predict, however, that this news will cause the non-techie investors to bail out of Intel - more cheap shares for techies like me, I guess.
Another copy of the first two organs wouldn't do me a whole lot of good...
Well, let's examine that.
So, if you're 82 and your heart is failing - don't you want a new heart (assuming we can rebuild the telomeres and it's not like Dolly the Sheep who is as old as her "parent")? How about if your eye was damaged - we can get you an undamaged eye.
Now, admittedly, if you have a genetic disease - or even something like Alzheimers or Parkinsons (the latter is your energy cells - mitochondria - starting to fail) - this probably wouldn't help.
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1. scaffolding - to build on (e.g. a heart is only useful if it has the correct dimensions and actions) 2. tissue variation and connections - if it doesn't connect well, and has specialization on the wrong side (e.g. the inside of a tissue is frequently different from the outside - just think of skin cells at various layers 3. nerves - no nerves in a growth state means we can't knit it together 4. comparable blood vessels, veins, arteries, capilliaries - for the blood you'll be needing 5. tissue compatability - this is critical, most organ transplants have major problems in their non-compatability - rejection is not a good thing, this is why everyone looks for the Holy Grail of Cloned Tissue (since it would automatically be compatable)
Oh, and until we see this done in the lab by three different research teams, it doesn't mean we can do it in real life. Just think of South Korea and their fake-out for why we're so skeptical. Although the canine experiment done there looks like it might be viable, and is therefore an advance.
I don't do the procedure myself - I meant - let me look it up:
a. DNA b. Cerebrospinal fluid - ante-mortem -- fancy word for spinal fluid at the base of the brain, taken before death c. Serum/plasma - that might be what you said
We try to get all three, and then when they die, we cut open the brain, and measure various things, doing scans, measuring electro potential, and so on.
The reality - the cold hard fact - is that scientific research will simply relocate to Taipei (which has a fine series of labs doing stem cell research), China (yes, they do this too), the Caribbean (many Dutch and French labs), or Europe.
We either lose the genetic research race or we win it. Shutting the doors won't stop the research, it will just make we scientists do the research in other countries, which will then get the glory of the Nobel Prize.
It's time to pay attention to the reality of research - it can be done anywhere with sufficient power, a good building, and the scientific funding.
nope, I've never considered, as you suggest, "an interesting verse in the Bible", just as I've never considered following other Bible verses that suggest I keep slaves, sleep with my daughters, marry multiple wives, or stone people who lie.
It has nothing to do with geeks. It has everything to do with Science.
And, for the record, God loves Science so much, He created Science before Man.
to fund it, at a level ten times what the Administration "would" have, that would make a very strong argument that science funding and actual research has declined under the current Administration.
Me and half a lab doing malaria research got laid off when they cut infectious disease funding - they announced they were funding it, but they gave it half the money they did the prior year - for all US research in the area. The reality is that basic science funding is down, and if it weren't for people like Howard Hughes (HHMI) or Bill Gates, we'd be way behind all of Europe - and even behind China and Canada.
Luckily for me, I served in the Canadian Army, and they take personal privacy a little more seriously up there.
It's a sad commentary when the supposedly most advanced superpower in the history of the world can't even keep personal data private for it's most advanced military forces.
I agree, we run our entire lab on Linux, with the exception of my WinXP machine and a laptop downstairs.
Reliability - thy name is Linux - we can't afford to keep rebooting our servers when our medical genetics perl scripts run days and weeks before crunching the DNA sequences and family inheritance statistical inferences.
Maybe shops that are only open for 9-9 each day can, but we have to be up all the time.
Well, at least you don't have to try to get people's brains to study Alzheimers and Parkinsons within hours of their death...
See, we can diagnose your behavior, run your DNA, do all the scans we want, but in the end, if we can get accurate brain measurements within a few hours of death, that's way more useful.
She greets each resident in the home by name, announces visitors, phone calls, voice mails, emails and deliveries. Cleopatra shows who is home, pictures of recent visitors at the front door, the local weather forecast, stock market changes, and even the national security level.
Scenario 1: your boss arrives. She looks like your aunt to Cleo, so Cleo says "Dang! What are you doing here? Master said to go away and next time don't be such a slob!" Result: you get fired, have to stop payment on Cleo, noone happy.
Scenario 2: Cleo mispronounces Josep Mian'g'l'yn's name in such a way that she manages to insult the ambassador and his wife. Result: They declare war on America, and win as all our armed forces are busy watching a porous wall and sand in the middle east. Still noone happy.
Scenario 3: Cleo announces the phone is ringing while you and your wife are in the bedroom - busy. Result: After the third time, your wife leaves in a huff, you get divorced. Still noone happy.
Scenario 4: Cleo announces the subject of your emails while your minister is visiting. Result: After the eighteenth viagra and hot sex action spam is announced, you are barred from attending church services. Only your teen is happy, since he gets to skip church.
Scenario 5: Cleo announces a Code Red Double Plus Ungood Terror Alert every five minutes, setting off klaxons. Result: You take a shotgun to Cleo, Cleo "dies", everyone happy.
Like collecting door to door for AIDS relief and keeping the $$$ yourself. (assuming you don't have AIDS)
But, if you were going to use the money to go on a safari tour in Africa, then you might have a possibility of getting it, so isn't that ok?
Hey, we had a theory that there might be a possibility of WMD, so we went to Iraq, same logic, right?
In the end, though, I think it all boils down to gullibility and people's innate desire to help out those who actually need help - a good thing - and the unscrupulous people who feed off of our good impulses.
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oh, come on, it's not like global warming is making it much more probable that hurricanes cause more and more devastation with the increase in destructive energy....
spammers don't care about the spin from the feds, they only care about where the easy money and gullible people are.
It will probably involve pictures or fast money
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As both of those things cause people to become incredibly gullible, whether it be pictures of tennis stars or the possiblity of "inheriting" or "winning the lottery" a large sum of money.
Also, you can pretty much guarantee it will start off as a Windows malware attempt.
Unfortunately, I am to be saying that a Mr. Sting died in Nigeria yesterday, with his Estate not settled. If you can contact me, we will send you $1 million as your inheritence. Please be of utmost privacy in responding to this request, as otherwise it will be spent on bribes and this would be double plus ungood.
Contact me at Gully_B_L_Fool@nevertrust.ng or if our service is not working, send a copy to U_R_A_Sucker@aol.com just in case.
Hoping to hear from you soonest, and not from Texas,
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So, in other words... you can look at porn on it?
... um ... view pr0n. They really care about HDTV high-quality video and image capacity ...
Well, in Japan that's about 60 percent of the manga market, and hentai pr0n is a major market share on the Net there.
So, basically, given the Japanese and Asian market, the market reality is that half of the people who buy the higher-capacity Blu-Ray equipped PS3 will be buying it to
So, yes, you are correct. But we're not supposed to admit such things.
Seriously, they even brought in a non-tech Scot. We have to remember that Sony's major profits come from Finance and Insurance - yes, you heard that right - and he's trying to sell you on Blu-Ray for films/movies, music, and games. From that perspective (non-tech), the PS3 is basically a computer with a Blu-Ray drive, as that's where his profits lie - in getting the market to reward Sony with market dominance over competing standards so that they get license fees for every movie, music, or game disc you buy.
Don't believe me? Check out Fortune magazine for an in-depth interview of the two head honchos at Sony. I'm basing part of this on the print edition of the Wall Street Journal as well.
as an Intel shareholder, I'm glad to hear this. Now if Sony would just announce a price drop for the PS3 to get Blu-Ray lock-in, I might invest in them.
For the longest time, Intel shares have been based on the projection of 90+ percent market share - while Motorola has been knocked out now that Apple is using Intel chips, the rapid adoption of AMD by Dell and other suppliers has meant the market dominance model was in danger.
The geek in me, of course, loves AMD - I have one in my home laptop, and most of our lab's computers are dual core dual processor AMD Linux boxen with dual hard drives.
But looked at from the market perspective, this makes a lot of sense.
I predict, however, that this news will cause the non-techie investors to bail out of Intel - more cheap shares for techies like me, I guess.
why is this so surprising that Firefox will drop it as well?
Sure.
OK if I install this spyware in your computer and just backup your credit card numbers for you without your permission?
Thanks.
Oh, no, that's ok, you don't have to answer. We'll do it anyway.
Another copy of the first two organs wouldn't do me a whole lot of good...
Well, let's examine that.
So, if you're 82 and your heart is failing - don't you want a new heart (assuming we can rebuild the telomeres and it's not like Dolly the Sheep who is as old as her "parent")? How about if your eye was damaged - we can get you an undamaged eye.
Now, admittedly, if you have a genetic disease - or even something like Alzheimers or Parkinsons (the latter is your energy cells - mitochondria - starting to fail) - this probably wouldn't help.
1. scaffolding - to build on (e.g. a heart is only useful if it has the correct dimensions and actions)
2. tissue variation and connections - if it doesn't connect well, and has specialization on the wrong side (e.g. the inside of a tissue is frequently different from the outside - just think of skin cells at various layers
3. nerves - no nerves in a growth state means we can't knit it together
4. comparable blood vessels, veins, arteries, capilliaries - for the blood you'll be needing
5. tissue compatability - this is critical, most organ transplants have major problems in their non-compatability - rejection is not a good thing, this is why everyone looks for the Holy Grail of Cloned Tissue (since it would automatically be compatable)
Oh, and until we see this done in the lab by three different research teams, it doesn't mean we can do it in real life. Just think of South Korea and their fake-out for why we're so skeptical. Although the canine experiment done there looks like it might be viable, and is therefore an advance.
I don't do the procedure myself - I meant - let me look it up:
;-)
a. DNA
b. Cerebrospinal fluid - ante-mortem -- fancy word for spinal fluid at the base of the brain, taken before death
c. Serum/plasma - that might be what you said
We try to get all three, and then when they die, we cut open the brain, and measure various things, doing scans, measuring electro potential, and so on.
Brains! Must have Brains!
The reality - the cold hard fact - is that scientific research will simply relocate to Taipei (which has a fine series of labs doing stem cell research), China (yes, they do this too), the Caribbean (many Dutch and French labs), or Europe.
We either lose the genetic research race or we win it. Shutting the doors won't stop the research, it will just make we scientists do the research in other countries, which will then get the glory of the Nobel Prize.
It's time to pay attention to the reality of research - it can be done anywhere with sufficient power, a good building, and the scientific funding.
the point is the stem cell lines live on in perpetuity, growing, and thus making new harvesting unnecessary.
also, once a cure is found, it usually involves the creation and manufacture of a drug, which involves zero usage of stem cells.
please go take a basic biology or biochemistry course. this will answer many of your questions. you can even do it online nowadays.
or just go to the nearest library.
nope, I've never considered, as you suggest, "an interesting verse in the Bible", just as I've never considered following other Bible verses that suggest I keep slaves, sleep with my daughters, marry multiple wives, or stone people who lie.
It has nothing to do with geeks. It has everything to do with Science.
And, for the record, God loves Science so much, He created Science before Man.
to fund it, at a level ten times what the Administration "would" have, that would make a very strong argument that science funding and actual research has declined under the current Administration.
Me and half a lab doing malaria research got laid off when they cut infectious disease funding - they announced they were funding it, but they gave it half the money they did the prior year - for all US research in the area. The reality is that basic science funding is down, and if it weren't for people like Howard Hughes (HHMI) or Bill Gates, we'd be way behind all of Europe - and even behind China and Canada.
He's a retired vet.
Luckily for me, I served in the Canadian Army, and they take personal privacy a little more seriously up there.
It's a sad commentary when the supposedly most advanced superpower in the history of the world can't even keep personal data private for it's most advanced military forces.
I agree, we run our entire lab on Linux, with the exception of my WinXP machine and a laptop downstairs.
Reliability - thy name is Linux - we can't afford to keep rebooting our servers when our medical genetics perl scripts run days and weeks before crunching the DNA sequences and family inheritance statistical inferences.
Maybe shops that are only open for 9-9 each day can, but we have to be up all the time.
Don't you have a UPS? I bet they do too.
...
I can see it now, a very small worm lugging a very large UPS behind it
Now where do we plug in the extension cord?
What'll you do when the power goes out?
My guess is, if the power goes out, the bug will party down!
Karaoke in the Lower Intestine!
Mamba in the Upper Intestine!
My first question is, what if it breaks down?
Since it's in the gut, it would hopefully pass, but what if it shorted out?
Doctor: Nurse, time to get the bug out!
Nurse: Um, Doctor, did you remember to insert a new battery?
Doctor: No, why?
Nurse: Well, this might take a bit longer than we were expecting. It's not moving.
Well, at least you don't have to try to get people's brains to study Alzheimers and Parkinsons within hours of their death ...
See, we can diagnose your behavior, run your DNA, do all the scans we want, but in the end, if we can get accurate brain measurements within a few hours of death, that's way more useful.
Now, did I mention the Spinal fluid extract?
Because of the low barrier to entry in most of the games they've announced for it - most can be just played without tons of training.
xBox360 has gone the other way - most games mean you have to be a "real gamer" and focus hours.
Now, there are crossplatform games, but that's the short version.
I predict they'll change in a few years, once they see the vast untapped markets. Economics always wins.
She greets each resident in the home by name, announces visitors, phone calls, voice mails, emails and deliveries. Cleopatra shows who is home, pictures of recent visitors at the front door, the local weather forecast, stock market changes, and even the national security level.
Scenario 1: your boss arrives. She looks like your aunt to Cleo, so Cleo says "Dang! What are you doing here? Master said to go away and next time don't be such a slob!"
Result: you get fired, have to stop payment on Cleo, noone happy.
Scenario 2: Cleo mispronounces Josep Mian'g'l'yn's name in such a way that she manages to insult the ambassador and his wife.
Result: They declare war on America, and win as all our armed forces are busy watching a porous wall and sand in the middle east. Still noone happy.
Scenario 3: Cleo announces the phone is ringing while you and your wife are in the bedroom - busy.
Result: After the third time, your wife leaves in a huff, you get divorced. Still noone happy.
Scenario 4: Cleo announces the subject of your emails while your minister is visiting.
Result: After the eighteenth viagra and hot sex action spam is announced, you are barred from attending church services. Only your teen is happy, since he gets to skip church.
Scenario 5: Cleo announces a Code Red Double Plus Ungood Terror Alert every five minutes, setting off klaxons.
Result: You take a shotgun to Cleo, Cleo "dies", everyone happy.
Be careful what you wish for - you might get it.
and put them in 2020 ...
they'd be dead.
Just like Dvorak's writing.
Like collecting door to door for AIDS relief and keeping the $$$ yourself. (assuming you don't have AIDS)
But, if you were going to use the money to go on a safari tour in Africa, then you might have a possibility of getting it, so isn't that ok?
Hey, we had a theory that there might be a possibility of WMD, so we went to Iraq, same logic, right?
In the end, though, I think it all boils down to gullibility and people's innate desire to help out those who actually need help - a good thing - and the unscrupulous people who feed off of our good impulses.
oh, come on, it's not like global warming is making it much more probable that hurricanes cause more and more devastation with the increase in destructive energy ....
spammers don't care about the spin from the feds, they only care about where the easy money and gullible people are.
As both of those things cause people to become incredibly gullible, whether it be pictures of tennis stars or the possiblity of "inheriting" or "winning the lottery" a large sum of money.
Also, you can pretty much guarantee it will start off as a Windows malware attempt.
Unfortunately, I am to be saying that a Mr. Sting died in Nigeria yesterday, with his Estate not settled. If you can contact me, we will send you $1 million as your inheritence. Please be of utmost privacy in responding to this request, as otherwise it will be spent on bribes and this would be double plus ungood.
Contact me at Gully_B_L_Fool@nevertrust.ng or if our service is not working, send a copy to U_R_A_Sucker@aol.com just in case.
Hoping to hear from you soonest, and not from Texas,
I remain,
Pay-ing von Court d'Case