I wish you'd understand that working on animals is the first step towards making things work on humans. I don't like the sensationalism of certain discoveries (that are indeed important), however this enables to perform experiments in a controlled environment without risks on humans. Unless, of course, that you want this to be done directly on humans without any prior animal testing...
And last but not least, research takes time. More than you can think, sometimes. After the discovery, there are loads of new questions that pop up, consequences, etc.
Don't forget that FFXI is a hard game by design, and some items are labeled "rare/exclusive" and rare by drop rate and all because the idea was to have a few players have them, not the vast majority.
Sadly, the player base is all but going to maximum "conformism", that is why some notorious monsters are so heavily camped. And of course, gil sellers benefit from this.
But the same bashers forget that the PS2 had the same price tag when it was out (at least in Italy). Where were those people back then?
I'm not saying it's not expensive (it *is*), but I wonder why people didn't make such a fuss back then and are doing now.
a. It is not a democracy;
b. You can still get thrown in jail (or worse) for not agreeing with the official views, that are imposed by the government;
c. Freedom of thought is fought at all costs (Great Firewall, censorship in search engines).
Economically it may be growing (and often at the workers' expense) but it is in my extremely personal opinion an *evil* country because it does not allow freedom of thought. And yes, this comes from its Communistic roots, as well.
...but the PS2 when it came out here in Italy costed L.850,000 - that means around $400. What difference there is with PS3? It's roughly the same price.
Completing the sequence and actually putting it together are two entirely different affairs. Small sequences called ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) were obtained during this effort. The big task after that was to put everything together AND in order. Think of it as a massive puzzle.
Even the genome has different "builds" depending on the level of completeness of this work.
Care to give a detailed explanation on why you said that? With documented facts, possibly.
P.s.: I'm biased, I'm a scientist AND a biotechnologist (but I'm not working on GMOs).
There have been some projects, including one from Nobel Prize Carlo Rubbia: that one in particular would cut the time needed to get there to a handful of months, rather than one year. I'm surprised no one even looked into this (save the Italian Space Agency).
The problem is that the story as it is doesn't make any sense at all. I loved it till episode 20, but then things went downhill *way* fast, with the insertions actually ruining the narrative stream, and everything that got way too heavy for an anime.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was widely acclaimed, and IMO overrated. The main reason for the weird ending on first show was caused by lack of funds (did you see the drop in animation from episode 21?) Hideaki Anno, the director, and surely a person with a huge ego, didn't like the criticisms and lashed out at everyone in a Newtype interview published shortly after the end of the series. The subsequent movies and "final episodes", aside being a display of an incoherent plot, are just his revenge against those who didn't "understand" him.
As for the so-called references... I firmly believe there is no "second meaning" in Evangelion. There are a lot of things thrown at the viewer, but I don't find any real sense. I suspect they were put in just to "look cool" and have people think a lot about nothing.
The consequences on the anime market were sadly bad (a whole round of series with stories that made no sense) but more on the fandom, since they're now convinced that everything that looks "strange" on a series MUST be tied to "hidden meaning". Examples are in The Soul Taker, or Shojo Kakumei Utena, where there is no trace of a hidden meaning, but the extreme oddity of the situations "spices up" what could have been a pretty basic storyline.
At least for Windows drivers exist? Yes, but do they work? Not all the time. A simple USB pad converter driver refused to install (complaining about a missing.ini) until I moved the setup program from the CD to the desktop.
With the fact that they're close, you can get absolutely crap drivers from even "respected" hardware makers (ATI for example, I've never seen a single release of their drivers that didn't suck).
So yes, driver exist, but they suck. At least on Linux they can get fixed eventually, while with the vendors you're stuck.
While I don't agree with the "permanent war" idea that some parts of the US government seem to endorse, I personally think that "they caused terrorism" explanation is overly simplistic, and besides does not justify the deaths from both sides.
Again this crap about low-intensity electromagnetic fields and tumors. It shows really a lack of understanding about what it is. Since when the first studies started, there have been around loads of studies and publications on this matter, *without* finding a cause-effect relationship (not a correlation, which is a much weaker link and means little when talking about tumors).
A real-world example: near Rome, there was a protets over a local radio's antennae that caused much magnetic disturbances. Peeople complained that it also caused leukemia and other tumors. The local government issued a study examining the cases of leukemia in the area. There was no statistical increase. The perceived "increase" was just due to better diagnostic procedures.
It saddens me that even a university head can believe this crap.
I don't think it's marxism. It just promotes *competition* on *equal grounds*. Everyone is *not* equal (like in the aforementioned ideology) but instead they can do at their best because the ground is common for everyone. (Unlike the aforementioned ideology, where everyone is equal, even in the results).
There aren't many "facts". Personally I don't trust any "analyst": as much as they give an interpretation over "facts", it looks like speculation to me.
Try to start a party that's not the Communist party in China and see how far you go. Or try some activism for Tibet. You can say all that you want, but the fact that you're there saying things against the USA without getting "prosecution", or even jail, proves something.
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Can you quote the sources?
I wish you'd understand that working on animals is the first step towards making things work on humans. I don't like the sensationalism of certain discoveries (that are indeed important), however this enables to perform experiments in a controlled environment without risks on humans. Unless, of course, that you want this to be done directly on humans without any prior animal testing...
And last but not least, research takes time. More than you can think, sometimes. After the discovery, there are loads of new questions that pop up, consequences, etc.
Don't forget that FFXI is a hard game by design, and some items are labeled "rare/exclusive" and rare by drop rate and all because the idea was to have a few players have them, not the vast majority. Sadly, the player base is all but going to maximum "conformism", that is why some notorious monsters are so heavily camped. And of course, gil sellers benefit from this.
But the same bashers forget that the PS2 had the same price tag when it was out (at least in Italy). Where were those people back then? I'm not saying it's not expensive (it *is*), but I wonder why people didn't make such a fuss back then and are doing now.
The subject says it all. It's getting really tedious. Why just not wait for the release and then make comments?
a. It is not a democracy; b. You can still get thrown in jail (or worse) for not agreeing with the official views, that are imposed by the government; c. Freedom of thought is fought at all costs (Great Firewall, censorship in search engines). Economically it may be growing (and often at the workers' expense) but it is in my extremely personal opinion an *evil* country because it does not allow freedom of thought. And yes, this comes from its Communistic roots, as well.
...but the PS2 when it came out here in Italy costed L.850,000 - that means around $400. What difference there is with PS3? It's roughly the same price.
Completing the sequence and actually putting it together are two entirely different affairs. Small sequences called ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) were obtained during this effort. The big task after that was to put everything together AND in order. Think of it as a massive puzzle. Even the genome has different "builds" depending on the level of completeness of this work.
Care to give a detailed explanation on why you said that? With documented facts, possibly. P.s.: I'm biased, I'm a scientist AND a biotechnologist (but I'm not working on GMOs).
Also I add... the CELL processor, that aside being one of the most interesting CPUs up to date, has its specs open.
There have been some projects, including one from Nobel Prize Carlo Rubbia: that one in particular would cut the time needed to get there to a handful of months, rather than one year. I'm surprised no one even looked into this (save the Italian Space Agency).
The problem is that the story as it is doesn't make any sense at all. I loved it till episode 20, but then things went downhill *way* fast, with the insertions actually ruining the narrative stream, and everything that got way too heavy for an anime.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was widely acclaimed, and IMO overrated. The main reason for the weird ending on first show was caused by lack of funds (did you see the drop in animation from episode 21?) Hideaki Anno, the director, and surely a person with a huge ego, didn't like the criticisms and lashed out at everyone in a Newtype interview published shortly after the end of the series. The subsequent movies and "final episodes", aside being a display of an incoherent plot, are just his revenge against those who didn't "understand" him. As for the so-called references... I firmly believe there is no "second meaning" in Evangelion. There are a lot of things thrown at the viewer, but I don't find any real sense. I suspect they were put in just to "look cool" and have people think a lot about nothing. The consequences on the anime market were sadly bad (a whole round of series with stories that made no sense) but more on the fandom, since they're now convinced that everything that looks "strange" on a series MUST be tied to "hidden meaning". Examples are in The Soul Taker, or Shojo Kakumei Utena, where there is no trace of a hidden meaning, but the extreme oddity of the situations "spices up" what could have been a pretty basic storyline.
At least for Windows drivers exist? Yes, but do they work? Not all the time. A simple USB pad converter driver refused to install (complaining about a missing .ini) until I moved the setup program from the CD to the desktop.
With the fact that they're close, you can get absolutely crap drivers from even "respected" hardware makers (ATI for example, I've never seen a single release of their drivers that didn't suck).
So yes, driver exist, but they suck. At least on Linux they can get fixed eventually, while with the vendors you're stuck.
I refer you to groklaw.net, where a discussion on this has been going on for a while. That XML is not "open", and prevents complete interoperability.
While I don't agree with the "permanent war" idea that some parts of the US government seem to endorse, I personally think that "they caused terrorism" explanation is overly simplistic, and besides does not justify the deaths from both sides.
Problem caused "by their own behaviour"? Please clarify.
OO.org 2 was in contrib, as far as I recall.
FUD? Plenty of sites have covered this. Groklaw has some good analyses.
It is not open unlike ODF. It has binary keys, is pantent-encumbered, and can't interoperate with FOSS projects.
Again this crap about low-intensity electromagnetic fields and tumors. It shows really a lack of understanding about what it is. Since when the first studies started, there have been around loads of studies and publications on this matter, *without* finding a cause-effect relationship (not a correlation, which is a much weaker link and means little when talking about tumors). A real-world example: near Rome, there was a protets over a local radio's antennae that caused much magnetic disturbances. Peeople complained that it also caused leukemia and other tumors. The local government issued a study examining the cases of leukemia in the area. There was no statistical increase. The perceived "increase" was just due to better diagnostic procedures. It saddens me that even a university head can believe this crap.
I don't think it's marxism. It just promotes *competition* on *equal grounds*. Everyone is *not* equal (like in the aforementioned ideology) but instead they can do at their best because the ground is common for everyone. (Unlike the aforementioned ideology, where everyone is equal, even in the results).
There aren't many "facts". Personally I don't trust any "analyst": as much as they give an interpretation over "facts", it looks like speculation to me.
Those are just speculation. Facts are, there isn't a release date nor a price set. That's all.
Try to start a party that's not the Communist party in China and see how far you go. Or try some activism for Tibet. You can say all that you want, but the fact that you're there saying things against the USA without getting "prosecution", or even jail, proves something.