"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
With ambitious statements such as these, I think it's just a matter of time before phone companies start taking a hard look at competition from VoIP in general. Whether they will attempt to embrace the technology and adapt or restrict its usage via litigation (as the RIAA and MPAA have done when confronted with new mediums for delivery) remains to be seen.
Well the main difference between the Japanese and American space programs is that stateside, there are a few very prominent aeronautics companies that are competing for selling technology to NASA, which drives research much faster than government programs alone. Also, the Titan family of rockets has had in excess of a 93% launch success rate(counting the modern satellite delivery versions of the rocket) as the mainstay of the US's rocket-based satellite delivery system. The Titan IV's successor, the Atlas V produced by Lockheed Martin, has a 100% launch success rate.
Comparing that to Japan's main delivery system over the past few years, the ill fated H-2 and current H-2A design's combined 77% success rate with only 13 launches compared to the hundreds of US launches, and it's clear that most of the world has a huge leg up on Japan (including China) when it comes to space delivery.
I'm just concerned that Japan seems to want to leapfrog the manned space flight process altogether in favor of this whole automated robots with rocket delivery idea. There's a big technological gap between extended manned space flight (not to mention construction of space stations) and such and just firing rockets out into space.
I definitely wasn't implying a two-tiered heirarchy with those blanket statements, which seem to have instigated much more than I was intending. I have a good friend who will be graduating next year as an Econ major and speaking anecdotally, your Econ department sounds like it's in a different league than the one I have had experience with. In retrospect, I would probably just put com there at the bottom universally and then everything else more subjective and related to the university.
As far as internships go I could definitely see the use in that. However, I could see someone questioning the wisdom of beginning employment after graduation in such a way as was stated.
I do consider Biology a "hard" science, by most definitions. As an undergrad according to my unis graduation requirements you've worked your way through 75% or so of a Chemistry major (lacking only p chem and some independent lab work) and most of the upper level courses in biology are graduate-level classes (graduate biochem, histology, some of the more computationally heavy genetics courses, etc).
As far as other science majors, Physics, Chemistry, and most engineering majors (I consider any non-chemical engineering a beast separate from that of this nebulous concept of "science") are all challenging programs at most universities.
I wasn't trying to be condescending or arrogant, I just think at unis that offer business and science degrees, there is a lot of resentment towards the workload carried by Marketing, Econ, Com majors and the like by students of the "hard" sciences.
I don't think getting to the moon will be as trivial for Japan as many here think. This is a country who's space division is operating at a tenth of NASA's budget and has had trouble just putting satellites in orbit as recently as 2003. Japanese space technology has a long way to go before they go ahead with all this robot moon base business.
As a Biology major, if this is to be believed
At Stanford, career experts are urging engineering and science majors to get internships and jobs outside of their comfort zones -- in marketing, finance, sales and even consulting.
Then it looks like many hard science majors are going to be competing for jobs that they are arguably less qualified for with people (Communications, Econ, Marketing majors) who are often looked upon with condescension for their "easy" majors.
So after the backdoor information is disseminated over the internet (and it's able to be subverted by the average user, which the article implies) then Sony is just wasting money on the "principle" of stopping piracy?
Folate is a molecule needed for DNA synthesis. Cancer cells need more of it because they are multiplying uncontrolled and therefore are synthesizing much more DNA than regular cells.
Folate in itself, however, is not a mutagen, which is required to disrupt the DNA in a healthy cell to make it become cancerous.
Actually, increased folate intake has shown to decrease instances of many types of cancer because folate deficiency is a main cause of error in DNA synthesis.
these dendrimers are small enough to slip through tiny openings in cell membranes
Yes, this is true, but the dendrimers by themselves are (I'm assuming) biologically inactive, so having these pass through the membrane isn't a big deal.
From the looks of it, the dendrimer is being used as an attaching point to link a molecule that will bind to a receptor on the cancer cell to a cancer fighting drug. This looks like an interesting new way to focus the cell-damaging anticancer drugs to tumors, reducing the amount of collateral damage on healthy tissue that is often the case with anti-cancer treatment.
As I said before, I don't see any reason for artificial light to not be utilized to supplement the lack of sunlight once it is assumed that farming would have to be done at a net resource loss anyways due to the transportation of minerals and nutrients for growth. The main point here is that the farming's main purpose is to produce food, with oxygen being a nice bonus. The amount in this case is not important as long as it is above self-sustaining, and there is no reason to believe that it would not be, as all plants produce quite a net surplus of oxygen. Even so, you have to keep in mind that the proportion of consumption/excretion will remain the same if the light is the limiting factor. In a light-deprived environment plants both consume and produce less oxygen.
Yes, but I was assuming the farms to be done in a closed, artificial atmosphere "bubble" of sorts. The theoretical scientist in me would assume that closed-air territories would first be constructed before any terraforming/atmosphere forming would take place.
Perhaps I should have been more specific. I was referring more to the semantics of "consume" rather than "suck up." In a sense, given a starting supply of oxygen, in the net system oxygen isn't "consumed" as the reaction produces much more oxygen than it takes in. In effect all you're doing is using a supply of oxygen as a jump starter for the plant's own metabolism, which will then return the expended oxygen as well as supply an excess.
Well, the issue is that farming is an energy intensive process, so using artificial sunlight isn't necessarily a waste of time since farming is a natural resource sink as-is. Utilizing the oxygen would just be a nice way to make the process more resource efficient.
And I hate to quarrel, but plants don't suck up oxygen. Their metabolism works by utilizing CO2 and, through the photosynthetic pathway, releasing oxygen at the end.
As to your oxygen question, although if I'm not mistaken algae produces the greatest proportion of atmospheric oxygen, terrestrial plants do produce quite a bit. It is estimated that the rainforests alone contribute 20%. Keep in mind this is total atmospheric oxygen, and that our total oxygen supply on earth is much much more than we could ever hope to utilize in a storage capacity.
would be the oxygen created from the plant's metabolic process. Maybe on a larger scale it could be used as a renewable supply of oxygen for settlements or return travel to earth.
If I've read correctly, MS is trying to tout the x360's media center capabilities. If they can develop versatile software to make an x360 comparable to the $1000+ media center PCs available now, they could tap into that consumer base pretty easily, as it is still a fledgling market. Integrating music downloading would be a step in the right direction. If they set it up so that PCs on the same network as the 360 can access a certain part of the xbox's hard drive (I could see MS highly restricting this to prevent piracy) to transfer data back and forth, all the better. At the very least you could transfer files via a usb external drive.
So they've decided they will probably go to the moon 10-15 years from now, may or may not build something there, and have no idea how they're going to get there.
Doesn't exactly inspire and encourage like the Kennedy declaration did, does it?
It's too bad the public has lost most of its romantic view of space travel. What most people don't realize is that money invested in space exploration usually results in inventions that can be applied here on earth. While I think it's a good thing that Bush is pushing for space exploration, I think NASA needs a PR overhaul to entice more public support, especially in light of the Columbia disaster.
I agree with this. Most patients with degenerative brain disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, PSP, etc.) aren't in need of unspecified neurons or brain matter, but specific neurons. The real breakthrough will be if they can get neurons to differentiate using known developmental cues and signals in the lab, since (I'm pretty sure) after initial development, there's little to no capacity for the mature brain tissue to signal differentiation of adjacent tissue.
Dosage would be a huge issue, as well. Placing too many neurotransmitter-releasing neurons into someone's brain would likely be just as harmful as the patient's previous condition, and doing a stepwise implementation of additional neurons would require far too many surgeries to be feasible.
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With ambitious statements such as these, I think it's just a matter of time before phone companies start taking a hard look at competition from VoIP in general. Whether they will attempt to embrace the technology and adapt or restrict its usage via litigation (as the RIAA and MPAA have done when confronted with new mediums for delivery) remains to be seen.
Comparing that to Japan's main delivery system over the past few years, the ill fated H-2 and current H-2A design's combined 77% success rate with only 13 launches compared to the hundreds of US launches, and it's clear that most of the world has a huge leg up on Japan (including China) when it comes to space delivery.
I'm just concerned that Japan seems to want to leapfrog the manned space flight process altogether in favor of this whole automated robots with rocket delivery idea. There's a big technological gap between extended manned space flight (not to mention construction of space stations) and such and just firing rockets out into space.
I definitely wasn't implying a two-tiered heirarchy with those blanket statements, which seem to have instigated much more than I was intending. I have a good friend who will be graduating next year as an Econ major and speaking anecdotally, your Econ department sounds like it's in a different league than the one I have had experience with. In retrospect, I would probably just put com there at the bottom universally and then everything else more subjective and related to the university.
As far as internships go I could definitely see the use in that. However, I could see someone questioning the wisdom of beginning employment after graduation in such a way as was stated.
As far as other science majors, Physics, Chemistry, and most engineering majors (I consider any non-chemical engineering a beast separate from that of this nebulous concept of "science") are all challenging programs at most universities.
I wasn't trying to be condescending or arrogant, I just think at unis that offer business and science degrees, there is a lot of resentment towards the workload carried by Marketing, Econ, Com majors and the like by students of the "hard" sciences.
I don't think getting to the moon will be as trivial for Japan as many here think. This is a country who's space division is operating at a tenth of NASA's budget and has had trouble just putting satellites in orbit as recently as 2003. Japanese space technology has a long way to go before they go ahead with all this robot moon base business.
As a Biology major, if this is to be believed At Stanford, career experts are urging engineering and science majors to get internships and jobs outside of their comfort zones -- in marketing, finance, sales and even consulting. Then it looks like many hard science majors are going to be competing for jobs that they are arguably less qualified for with people (Communications, Econ, Marketing majors) who are often looked upon with condescension for their "easy" majors.
So after the backdoor information is disseminated over the internet (and it's able to be subverted by the average user, which the article implies) then Sony is just wasting money on the "principle" of stopping piracy?
Folate is a molecule needed for DNA synthesis. Cancer cells need more of it because they are multiplying uncontrolled and therefore are synthesizing much more DNA than regular cells. Folate in itself, however, is not a mutagen, which is required to disrupt the DNA in a healthy cell to make it become cancerous. Actually, increased folate intake has shown to decrease instances of many types of cancer because folate deficiency is a main cause of error in DNA synthesis.
these dendrimers are small enough to slip through tiny openings in cell membranes Yes, this is true, but the dendrimers by themselves are (I'm assuming) biologically inactive, so having these pass through the membrane isn't a big deal. From the looks of it, the dendrimer is being used as an attaching point to link a molecule that will bind to a receptor on the cancer cell to a cancer fighting drug. This looks like an interesting new way to focus the cell-damaging anticancer drugs to tumors, reducing the amount of collateral damage on healthy tissue that is often the case with anti-cancer treatment.
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As I said before, I don't see any reason for artificial light to not be utilized to supplement the lack of sunlight once it is assumed that farming would have to be done at a net resource loss anyways due to the transportation of minerals and nutrients for growth. The main point here is that the farming's main purpose is to produce food, with oxygen being a nice bonus. The amount in this case is not important as long as it is above self-sustaining, and there is no reason to believe that it would not be, as all plants produce quite a net surplus of oxygen. Even so, you have to keep in mind that the proportion of consumption/excretion will remain the same if the light is the limiting factor. In a light-deprived environment plants both consume and produce less oxygen.
Yes, but I was assuming the farms to be done in a closed, artificial atmosphere "bubble" of sorts. The theoretical scientist in me would assume that closed-air territories would first be constructed before any terraforming/atmosphere forming would take place.
Perhaps I should have been more specific. I was referring more to the semantics of "consume" rather than "suck up." In a sense, given a starting supply of oxygen, in the net system oxygen isn't "consumed" as the reaction produces much more oxygen than it takes in. In effect all you're doing is using a supply of oxygen as a jump starter for the plant's own metabolism, which will then return the expended oxygen as well as supply an excess.
Well, the issue is that farming is an energy intensive process, so using artificial sunlight isn't necessarily a waste of time since farming is a natural resource sink as-is. Utilizing the oxygen would just be a nice way to make the process more resource efficient. And I hate to quarrel, but plants don't suck up oxygen. Their metabolism works by utilizing CO2 and, through the photosynthetic pathway, releasing oxygen at the end. As to your oxygen question, although if I'm not mistaken algae produces the greatest proportion of atmospheric oxygen, terrestrial plants do produce quite a bit. It is estimated that the rainforests alone contribute 20%. Keep in mind this is total atmospheric oxygen, and that our total oxygen supply on earth is much much more than we could ever hope to utilize in a storage capacity.
would be the oxygen created from the plant's metabolic process. Maybe on a larger scale it could be used as a renewable supply of oxygen for settlements or return travel to earth.
If I've read correctly, MS is trying to tout the x360's media center capabilities. If they can develop versatile software to make an x360 comparable to the $1000+ media center PCs available now, they could tap into that consumer base pretty easily, as it is still a fledgling market. Integrating music downloading would be a step in the right direction. If they set it up so that PCs on the same network as the 360 can access a certain part of the xbox's hard drive (I could see MS highly restricting this to prevent piracy) to transfer data back and forth, all the better. At the very least you could transfer files via a usb external drive.
So they've decided they will probably go to the moon 10-15 years from now, may or may not build something there, and have no idea how they're going to get there. Doesn't exactly inspire and encourage like the Kennedy declaration did, does it? It's too bad the public has lost most of its romantic view of space travel. What most people don't realize is that money invested in space exploration usually results in inventions that can be applied here on earth. While I think it's a good thing that Bush is pushing for space exploration, I think NASA needs a PR overhaul to entice more public support, especially in light of the Columbia disaster.
Hot_britney_sex_video.exe for free?? And all I have to do is click yes? Awesome!
I agree with this. Most patients with degenerative brain disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, PSP, etc.) aren't in need of unspecified neurons or brain matter, but specific neurons. The real breakthrough will be if they can get neurons to differentiate using known developmental cues and signals in the lab, since (I'm pretty sure) after initial development, there's little to no capacity for the mature brain tissue to signal differentiation of adjacent tissue. Dosage would be a huge issue, as well. Placing too many neurotransmitter-releasing neurons into someone's brain would likely be just as harmful as the patient's previous condition, and doing a stepwise implementation of additional neurons would require far too many surgeries to be feasible.
Use their EU bargaining tactics and release a SP for Windows 2000 that officially renames it to "Windows Antiquated Edition."