It is likely that treatment of large numbers of patients by cell therapy will only be possible if methods are found using any one cell line to treat very large numbers of patients.
I support this type of research, but would like to half-seriously refer the person who tagged this thread with "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" (or people who wonder the same) to see the movie "I Am Legend". That's what could go wrong. Scientists are smart, but not infallible.:-O
Ya, I can see using "defined-or", though I understand there can be some confusion between that and an empty regexp, but I intended my post to be humorously rather than actually critical.
I have noticed, however, that "defined-or" is the only one of the three items I mentioned that anyone's bothered to defend. Not so much chatter on "given" or "recursive patterns".:-)
Sometimes something is "good enough" and more isn't really more or better, or at least not enough to warrant the work and/or potential headaches. Perl 5.8 probably fits this category. I'm OK with.10, but 6? I don't know if it's worth it or that it matters for the many things which Perl is used. But, hey, to each their own.
I gave a quick look through the Features list and have the following comment:
Larry, developers; stop smoking crack.
Do we really need the "defined-or" operator? Is the "given" operator really any simpler than the numerous known switch examples? Recursive Patterns? My head almost asploded parsing the example. Stop doing things, just because you can. Do something else -- and I don't mean that franken-project Perl 6.
Because life has no meaning, and because at any second someone could hit Ctrl-C and kill us all instantly, erasing our entire life's work, because the whole of human existance could be some process running in the background of a lab workstation, because someone would be watching us... because someone would be responsible for human suffering.
If one believes in God, how would this be any different. (see: "Noah's Ark") I'll add a little meta-religon and ask: Who says "Genesis" was the first time around?
According to budget documents obtained from the Government Printing Office, the national budget for 2007 totals about $2.784 trillion. At $16.143 billion, spending on NASA accounts for 0.58% of this.
For every $1 the federal government spends on NASA, it spends $98 on social programs. In other words, if we cut spending on social programs by a mere one percent, we could very nearly double NASA's budget.
The 2007 budget allocates roughly $609 billion to defense, not including the budget for the Department of Homeland Security. This is nearly 38 times the amount of money spent on NASA. If you include funding for the Department of Homeland Security, defense spending adds up to $652.5 billion, which is more than 40 times NASA's budget.
Then there is the matter of paying the interest on the national debt. As I write this essay, according to the US Treasury office, the United States is in debt to the tune of $8,835,268,597,181.95. Merely paying the interest on this massive load of debt every year costs a fair amount of money. In 2006, the federal government had to allocate about $400 billion to this task, which adds up to more than 23.5 times the amount of NASA's 2007 allocation.
The notion that more cores (or speed) is always better and will herald ever faster computing, especially for the home market is rubbush. Parallelism comes in many sizes and shapes. Few people are doing FFTs or fluid dynamics at home on their M$ boxes, so fine-grained parallelism is unnecessary.
Coarse-grained and/or multi-threading can help a program's design and performance if done well. But many people simply run one or two apps at a time (or, more commonly, switch between them) and all the cores in the world aren't really going to help things that much for most things. Gaming, certain computations (SETI, etc) perhaps, but not the day-to-day applications.
As a point of reference, I did some C and FORTRAN scientific research programming on an Intel box with 1024 processors (running Unix) back in the day (early 80s). A little skill, practice and a good compiler were the tools of the trade. Funny, even with all those processors, VI didn't run any faster:-)
...they're asking the Judge not to even read it...
The RIAA also wants the judge to put his fingers in his ears and say, "nah, nah, nah, I can't hear you, nah, nah, nah...", whenever the Oregon AG speaks.
Given the article topic, it's a sex joke. Keep up.:-)
For the few people on/. who don't know, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was the title of the short story on which Blade Runner was based.
The tie-in is the joke: If you're going to shag a sheep, do it on the edge of a cliff so they push back harder. And/or any number of other sex/sheep jokes.
"I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain.... what is holding you back from realizing your full potential?
OK, what's holding you back?
I enjoy programming and have from a young age (cut my teeth on BASIC on an Apple IIe).
I actually read TFA and (almost) all the included links to Wikipedia, AntiSocial, WikipediaReview, WikiTruth, etc... I think I can sum up what Jimbo and the other WP Admins would like everyone to keep in mind:
"Pay no attention to the people behind the curtain."
Where possible, of course Wikipedia is manipulated for the benefit and glory of those that own or run it (and/or their friends) - DUH. There's money to be made, agendas to set, axes to grind, opinions to influence, minds to manipulate. Then, of course, there are the evil uses:-)
Next they'll find that the robot's brain changes when it views violence and then all that kicking won't seem so cool... [insert robot revenge imagery here]
but the problem is crappy movies. People I know are fine with renting and/or buying movies they liked in the theater, or think they'll like to watch and/or own -- especially once the price drops after being out for a while.
The problem is there aren't that many movies worth the purchase price and, perhaps it's just me, not that many worth renting or watching again after seeing it in the theater. The last few times I've browsed the video store I thought, no, no, maybe, no,...
I mean the only point of e-voting is that some poor government officials can go home earlier.
...there's more money to be made than with paper and pencil voting. Producing cheap, insecure machines without a paper trail increases companies' profit margins. Lawmakers have be lax and slow to respond, probably because their hands are so comfortable in those companies' pockets. Obviously, the only ones who care are "some" of the voters. Hopefully, that will become "most".
The Shuttle can CAUSE more Lightning:
When the space shuttle goes high into the atmosphere, the long plume from the exhaust gives a pathway through which lightning can flow. In addition, the plume will reduce the electrical field necessary to trigger natural lightning.
From the TFA: "On the opt-out page, it says that you will stop information from being posted to your profile," he noted. "It does not explicitly state that Facebook will stop collecting the information transmitted from third party sites."
Meaning: We'll still collect information on you and do whatever we want with it, but it won't appear on your profile. Better? Yes. Much better? No.
Slashdot Mirror
Powering it at night :-)
I support this type of research, but would like to half-seriously refer the person who tagged this thread with "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" (or people who wonder the same) to see the movie "I Am Legend". That's what could go wrong. Scientists are smart, but not infallible. :-O
Hmmm. Seventeen jobs since joining /. Perhaps there's a correlation? :-)
I have noticed, however, that "defined-or" is the only one of the three items I mentioned that anyone's bothered to defend. Not so much chatter on "given" or "recursive patterns". :-)
Sometimes something is "good enough" and more isn't really more or better, or at least not enough to warrant the work and/or potential headaches. Perl 5.8 probably fits this category. I'm OK with .10, but 6? I don't know if it's worth it or that it matters for the many things which Perl is used. But, hey, to each their own.
Dear Chromatic,
Thank you.
Now enjoy the Holiday Season.
Sincerely, :-)
- Some Random Jackass
Ok, no more coffee for me today. :-)
Funny, when I did that they called it B&E - sigh.
If one believes in God, how would this be any different. (see: "Noah's Ark") I'll add a little meta-religon and ask: Who says "Genesis" was the first time around?
For some reason, I initially thought of Samuel L Jackson. Wouldn't that be interesting? "Get away from the gemstone Mother F*cker!"
"Significant"? NASA's funding is a tiny, tiny part of the budget.
From the following: Putting NASA's budget in perspective, July 2007.
Coarse-grained and/or multi-threading can help a program's design and performance if done well. But many people simply run one or two apps at a time (or, more commonly, switch between them) and all the cores in the world aren't really going to help things that much for most things. Gaming, certain computations (SETI, etc) perhaps, but not the day-to-day applications.
As a point of reference, I did some C and FORTRAN scientific research programming on an Intel box with 1024 processors (running Unix) back in the day (early 80s). A little skill, practice and a good compiler were the tools of the trade. Funny, even with all those processors, VI didn't run any faster :-)
The RIAA also wants the judge to put his fingers in his ears and say, "nah, nah, nah, I can't hear you, nah, nah, nah...", whenever the Oregon AG speaks.
For the few people on /. who don't know, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was the title of the short story on which Blade Runner was based.
The tie-in is the joke: If you're going to shag a sheep, do it on the edge of a cliff so they push back harder. And/or any number of other sex/sheep jokes.
It's been a long week.
Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
Great. New images stuck in my head.
My fellow citizens of the Internet: ask not what Slashdot will do for your data, but what together we can do for the freedom of all data.
Or, from the Wikipedia entry:
"it is alleged that many researchers have been shown to speculate that"
"Pay no attention to the people behind the curtain."
Where possible, of course Wikipedia is manipulated for the benefit and glory of those that own or run it (and/or their friends) - DUH. There's money to be made, agendas to set, axes to grind, opinions to influence, minds to manipulate. Then, of course, there are the evil uses :-)
Next they'll find that the robot's brain changes when it views violence and then all that kicking won't seem so cool... [insert robot revenge imagery here]
The problem is there aren't that many movies worth the purchase price and, perhaps it's just me, not that many worth renting or watching again after seeing it in the theater. The last few times I've browsed the video store I thought, no, no, maybe, no, ...
I, for one, like seeing my vote on hardcopy.
Until it's launched, of course. Unless it will also trail a very, very long grounding wire...
From: What is NASA's Anvil Rule for Thunderstorms?
Meaning: We'll still collect information on you and do whatever we want with it, but it won't appear on your profile. Better? Yes. Much better? No.