According to my (admittedly limited) understanding of "Standard" English, this would seem to describe some sort of means to transmitting signals over electromagnetic waves that reproduce sound with a level of clarity that is of a greater degree than expected.
What I don't understand is, why would you rather see embryos incinerated as medical waste, rather than used for research?
(Oh, and, to answer your first question: Embryonic stem cells can become all cell types of the body because they are pluripotent. Adult stem cells are generally limited to differentiating into different cell types of their tissue of origin. However, some evidence suggests that adult stem cell plasticity may exist, increasing the number of cell types a given adult stem cell can become.. (Source: NIH) As for your second question, it's being done, but sometimes you just can't use a mouse; ex. for treatment of diseases that do not occur or are difficult to study in animals.)
Looking back at the Cold War-era bunkers, several (civillian) VIP's noted that, although they had been informed of the facilities and the contingencies for their use, they never would have actually gone into them.
Because, as this article hints, they would have had to leave their families to do so.
Thinking about the "human factors" involved...would their be enough warning for anyone to be able to make it to the bunker in time? Would the roads/airspace/transit function well enough to get them to the bunkers? Would they leave their families to do so?
I don't think that population size or density are particularly compelling arguments
Replace the "or" with an "and" and you might have a better idea.
Obviously, it's easy and profitable to cover a small, densely populated area. It's somewhat more difficult, but profitable to cover a large, densely populated area. It's less profitable, but still fairly easy to cover a small, sparsely populated area.
Covering a large, sparsely populated area is a pain. Canada and Australia would seem to bear this out.
For that matter, I wonder how good the coverage can be in (very sparsely populated) northern Finland.
Firstly, to some degree, there are public vocational programs in the US. In some cases, students go to specialized vocational high schools, which teach a minimum scholarly curriculum combined with vocational classes. In other cases, students will attend the same school, but take a different courseload.
The reason the division is not more pronounced speaks to complex social issues in the US.
Firstly, there is a sense that nobody has the right to decide how a minor will earn a living. Even if such a decision can be reversed later in life, there is a sense that it should only be made by an individual once he or she reaches the age of majority. (18 in the US, so that only pushes it back two years vs. your example.)
Related to this is the worry that minorities and the poor will be shunted into trade schools without regard to their individual abilities and desires. To some degree, this is a well-founded fear: even well-meaning people have unconscious stereotypes.
Underlying these concerns is the notion that a vocational education is a second-class education. Whether or not this is the case, it certainly carries that stigma in the minds of many parents--especially when disproportionate numbers of blacks, hispanics, and poor students fill those classes.
Stranger thing is, Apple so far hasn't tried to enforce the patent against IBM or anyone else. Probably because they realize that IBM isn't likely to roll over, when it had similar technology at about the same time.
...at least according to the organizations (Including manufacturers themselves) who chart these things. The industry has achieved gradual but consistent drops in unscheduled repairs for the last couple of decades. Tune-up and oil change intervals excluded.
The reason, IMHO, is computers. Not the ones in the engine compartment, but the ones in the dealership that record all the warranty repairs. Manufacturers today have a much shorter turnaround to address defects. The Japanese will iron out the bugs in a new design within months; even the Americans can usually do it within the first model year. And on the production line, computers have completely or partially automated machining, welding, and finishing.
I'm not sure to what degree its done in automobile manufacturing, but in most manufacturing industries, CAD modeling has eliminated a lot of the last-minute "Stop the line, the whatsit doesn't have enough clearance!" mistakes.
The result is a much more consistent product. Your 2006 Impala is, statistically anyway, much more likely to get you to work tomorrow than your grandad's was in 1966. It may be much more expensive, and more challenging to work on, but it's nowhere near as problematic.
Spyware is looking and sending, those things are inflicting things on you that change your computing experience, they're very different from spyware, and IMHO much more malicious.\
The key word in the above is "IMHO." In common usage, all of that is "spyware". I'm ambivalent about the term, but I accept the usage of both the strict and permissive definitions.
But I do, I have Sygate. So it can't.
Yes, for probably 99% of all the malware out there, a host-based firewall will stop unauthorized outgoing traffic. But a determined malware app will just disable any service that tries to stop it. The best ones will even make it look like your host-based firewall is still up and running effectively.
You might have better luck with a hardware firewall. But the best policy is just to avoid installing software that has an ulterior motive.
Spyware is a loose term, but there are lots of things that aren't viruses/worms that are still bad for you, and your PC.
Like background adware that bombards you with popups. Or a background service that traps your DNS lookups so that all your traffic is routed through some unknown server. Or one that blocks you from, say, Google, so that you're redirected to HappyFunSuperNetSearch.com. And another one that disables the Windows Firewall and ZoneAlarm, and prevents you from re-activating it. And another one that will automatically download any "upgrades" that become available. And don't try uninstalling...it won't work.
And of course they automatically download other...helpful utilities...from companies that are "partners" with the spyware publisher.
It's not quite correct to call these "trojan horses" because...well, it's all down there in the fine print when you install them. Call them "hidden features." Or call them Spyware, like everyone else does.
the stuff I really do care about being private, like my usernames/passwords, e-mails (actually they're unencrypted so that's pretty bad, why dont people complain about that insecurity??), bank information, and the like is handled by applications/protocols that ARE secure and AREN'T spied on.
You've got to be kidding me.
True spyware doesn't care that you're using secure, encrypted applications and protocols. It doesn't care, because it's hiding in the background, and grabbing your account login/password as you type it into the keyboard. It's running on your machine, so it can hear everything you type, and see every pixel Windows draws to the screen, if it wants to. It can then, assuming you have no outgoing-traffic firewall, send those keystrokes and screen captures to its masters in Florida or China or Russia or wherever.
No, most spyware probably doesn't do this, but it can. And you'll never know.
The starting salary only applies for those graduates who get jobs in the first place.
Using the NACE methodology, if 10% of CS graduates nationwide get jobs paying an average of $50K, and 90% of CS graduates don't get jobs at all, the average starting salary for a CS graduate is $50K.
You can't "disprove" a bad joke, no matter how much well-researched fact you throw at it. Because, frankly, nobody cares about the truth. The truth is boring.
Seeing people get worked up, on the other hand, is funny.
Apple's been making a "small profit" on the iTunes music store for quite some time now. It comes up at every quarterly conference call, and the answer has been the same since about 2004.
I know exactly what's surrounding my car at any moment, and the computer does not. I know exactly what I need the car to do, and the computer can only say, "I should probably stop now." It just has a few sensors.
Do you know the exact speed of each wheel at any given time? Do you have an accurate accelerometer to measure lateral force? (The seat of your pants does not count.) Do you know, within a hundredth of a second, when an individual wheel looses traction? Can you respond within the next hundredth of a second?
Breaking traction is not always bad.
It is if you want to be in control of your vehicle. There's really no such thing as a controlled slide. There's an intentional slide, or an escapable slide, but that's not the same thing.
I understand and appreciate the desire to play with your vehicle, so long as it's done on a closed parking lot or track. But please, don't use a public road for a "spirited drive." There's always someone else, and they're probably not interested in a "spirited drive."
It predicts that - Apple will switch to Itanium - Apple will ship dual-architecture Itanium-PowerPC machines - The switch would happen sometime between March and September of 2004.
Even today, that article is ridiculously out-of-touch. Itanium? Dual-architecture machines? Nobody with a modicum of common sense would buy that.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just, say, test it a bit more extensively before releasing it to the public?
So far as I know, there are no design defects with the product. The problems seem to be assembly. Flickering displays and intermittent network connections could be something as simple as lousy soldering, for example. (Disclaimer: I have no special knowledge and am speculating.)
Things like that only happen once you start mass production.
Is it just me, or are a lot more companies having recalls recently?
Anecdotally, I'd say yes. I'd lay the blame at outsourced manufacturing, cost-cutting, and tighter production schedules.
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High (adj) 8: of greater degree, amount, cost, value, or content than average, usual, or expected
Definition (noun) 4b (2): clarity especially of musical sound in reproduction
Radio (noun) 1a : the wireless transmission and reception of electric impulses or signals by means of electromagnetic waves
According to my (admittedly limited) understanding of "Standard" English, this would seem to describe some sort of means to transmitting signals over electromagnetic waves that reproduce sound with a level of clarity that is of a greater degree than expected.
We are talking about todays political climate.
And how is this different from the political climate of 400 years ago?
The people change, the lines on the map change, but politics never changes.
On the other hand, what happens to embryos that are "manufactured" SPECIFICALLY for their stem cells?
Good question. Who does this manufacturing, anyway?
What I don't understand is, why would you rather see embryos incinerated as medical waste, rather than used for research?
(Oh, and, to answer your first question: Embryonic stem cells can become all cell types of the body because they are pluripotent. Adult stem cells are generally limited to differentiating into different cell types of their tissue of origin. However, some evidence suggests that adult stem cell plasticity may exist, increasing the number of cell types a given adult stem cell can become.. (Source: NIH) As for your second question, it's being done, but sometimes you just can't use a mouse; ex. for treatment of diseases that do not occur or are difficult to study in animals.)
Looking back at the Cold War-era bunkers, several (civillian) VIP's noted that, although they had been informed of the facilities and the contingencies for their use, they never would have actually gone into them.
Because, as this article hints, they would have had to leave their families to do so.
Thinking about the "human factors" involved...would their be enough warning for anyone to be able to make it to the bunker in time? Would the roads/airspace/transit function well enough to get them to the bunkers? Would they leave their families to do so?
I don't think that population size or density are particularly compelling arguments
Replace the "or" with an "and" and you might have a better idea.
Obviously, it's easy and profitable to cover a small, densely populated area.
It's somewhat more difficult, but profitable to cover a large, densely populated area.
It's less profitable, but still fairly easy to cover a small, sparsely populated area.
Covering a large, sparsely populated area is a pain. Canada and Australia would seem to bear this out.
For that matter, I wonder how good the coverage can be in (very sparsely populated) northern Finland.
Firstly, to some degree, there are public vocational programs in the US. In some cases, students go to specialized vocational high schools, which teach a minimum scholarly curriculum combined with vocational classes. In other cases, students will attend the same school, but take a different courseload.
The reason the division is not more pronounced speaks to complex social issues in the US.
Firstly, there is a sense that nobody has the right to decide how a minor will earn a living. Even if such a decision can be reversed later in life, there is a sense that it should only be made by an individual once he or she reaches the age of majority. (18 in the US, so that only pushes it back two years vs. your example.)
Related to this is the worry that minorities and the poor will be shunted into trade schools without regard to their individual abilities and desires. To some degree, this is a well-founded fear: even well-meaning people have unconscious stereotypes.
Underlying these concerns is the notion that a vocational education is a second-class education. Whether or not this is the case, it certainly carries that stigma in the minds of many parents--especially when disproportionate numbers of blacks, hispanics, and poor students fill those classes.
shhh.. apple invented it.
Strange thing is, it did, and had actually applied for a patent before IBM began shipping it.
Stranger thing is, Apple so far hasn't tried to enforce the patent against IBM or anyone else. Probably because they realize that IBM isn't likely to roll over, when it had similar technology at about the same time.
So long as Netflix still uses the US Postal Service, the mail will be a safe method for shipping pirated DVDs.
Can you imagine the stink the Netflix lawyers would raise if every one of their shipments started being intercepted?
1. Coffee
2. Diet Dr Pepper
3. Coca-Cola Zero
Diet Pepsi is kind of weak, and Diet Coke is, by the company's own admission, not even supposed to taste like Coca-Cola.
And, although I've never resorted to it, I've heard that caffeine is available in pill form.
...at least according to the organizations (Including manufacturers themselves) who chart these things. The industry has achieved gradual but consistent drops in unscheduled repairs for the last couple of decades. Tune-up and oil change intervals excluded.
The reason, IMHO, is computers. Not the ones in the engine compartment, but the ones in the dealership that record all the warranty repairs. Manufacturers today have a much shorter turnaround to address defects. The Japanese will iron out the bugs in a new design within months; even the Americans can usually do it within the first model year. And on the production line, computers have completely or partially automated machining, welding, and finishing.
I'm not sure to what degree its done in automobile manufacturing, but in most manufacturing industries, CAD modeling has eliminated a lot of the last-minute "Stop the line, the whatsit doesn't have enough clearance!" mistakes.
The result is a much more consistent product. Your 2006 Impala is, statistically anyway, much more likely to get you to work tomorrow than your grandad's was in 1966. It may be much more expensive, and more challenging to work on, but it's nowhere near as problematic.
Spyware is looking and sending, those things are inflicting things on you that change your computing experience, they're very different from spyware, and IMHO much more malicious.\
The key word in the above is "IMHO." In common usage, all of that is "spyware". I'm ambivalent about the term, but I accept the usage of both the strict and permissive definitions.
But I do, I have Sygate. So it can't.
Yes, for probably 99% of all the malware out there, a host-based firewall will stop unauthorized outgoing traffic. But a determined malware app will just disable any service that tries to stop it. The best ones will even make it look like your host-based firewall is still up and running effectively.
You might have better luck with a hardware firewall. But the best policy is just to avoid installing software that has an ulterior motive.
Chuck Norris will not be his successor. He was just the guy who preceded Chuck Norris.
Spyware is a loose term, but there are lots of things that aren't viruses/worms that are still bad for you, and your PC.
Like background adware that bombards you with popups. Or a background service that traps your DNS lookups so that all your traffic is routed through some unknown server. Or one that blocks you from, say, Google, so that you're redirected to HappyFunSuperNetSearch.com. And another one that disables the Windows Firewall and ZoneAlarm, and prevents you from re-activating it. And another one that will automatically download any "upgrades" that become available. And don't try uninstalling...it won't work.
And of course they automatically download other...helpful utilities...from companies that are "partners" with the spyware publisher.
It's not quite correct to call these "trojan horses" because...well, it's all down there in the fine print when you install them. Call them "hidden features." Or call them Spyware, like everyone else does.
the stuff I really do care about being private, like my usernames/passwords, e-mails (actually they're unencrypted so that's pretty bad, why dont people complain about that insecurity??), bank information, and the like is handled by applications/protocols that ARE secure and AREN'T spied on.
You've got to be kidding me.
True spyware doesn't care that you're using secure, encrypted applications and protocols. It doesn't care, because it's hiding in the background, and grabbing your account login/password as you type it into the keyboard. It's running on your machine, so it can hear everything you type, and see every pixel Windows draws to the screen, if it wants to. It can then, assuming you have no outgoing-traffic firewall, send those keystrokes and screen captures to its masters in Florida or China or Russia or wherever.
No, most spyware probably doesn't do this, but it can. And you'll never know.
The starting salary only applies for those graduates who get jobs in the first place.
Using the NACE methodology, if 10% of CS graduates nationwide get jobs paying an average of $50K, and 90% of CS graduates don't get jobs at all, the average starting salary for a CS graduate is $50K.
You can't "disprove" a bad joke, no matter how much well-researched fact you throw at it. Because, frankly, nobody cares about the truth. The truth is boring.
Seeing people get worked up, on the other hand, is funny.
Apple's been making a "small profit" on the iTunes music store for quite some time now. It comes up at every quarterly conference call, and the answer has been the same since about 2004.
I know exactly what's surrounding my car at any moment, and the computer does not. I know exactly what I need the car to do, and the computer can only say, "I should probably stop now." It just has a few sensors.
Do you know the exact speed of each wheel at any given time? Do you have an accurate accelerometer to measure lateral force? (The seat of your pants does not count.) Do you know, within a hundredth of a second, when an individual wheel looses traction? Can you respond within the next hundredth of a second?
Breaking traction is not always bad.
It is if you want to be in control of your vehicle. There's really no such thing as a controlled slide. There's an intentional slide, or an escapable slide, but that's not the same thing.
I understand and appreciate the desire to play with your vehicle, so long as it's done on a closed parking lot or track. But please, don't use a public road for a "spirited drive." There's always someone else, and they're probably not interested in a "spirited drive."
I know literary allusions aren't the stock and trade of CS people. Perhaps they should be.
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Summary here.
Broaden your horizons. Read things beyond the ACM journals and Slashdot. You'll learn something.
You mean like the Mac switch to intel a year early, which all the Mac geeks killed him for?
Take a look at that prediction again.
It predicts that
- Apple will switch to Itanium
- Apple will ship dual-architecture Itanium-PowerPC machines
- The switch would happen sometime between March and September of 2004.
Even today, that article is ridiculously out-of-touch. Itanium? Dual-architecture machines? Nobody with a modicum of common sense would buy that.
Being a "loner" does not necessarily mean that you can't work effectively as part of a team. It merely means that you are inwardly focused.
For that matter, there are a lot of outgoing, sociable people who can be disruptive in a team environment.
that a paper filing stays on paper once it gets to the IRS?
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just, say, test it a bit more extensively before releasing it to the public?
So far as I know, there are no design defects with the product. The problems seem to be assembly. Flickering displays and intermittent network connections could be something as simple as lousy soldering, for example. (Disclaimer: I have no special knowledge and am speculating.)
Things like that only happen once you start mass production.
Is it just me, or are a lot more companies having recalls recently?
Anecdotally, I'd say yes. I'd lay the blame at outsourced manufacturing, cost-cutting, and tighter production schedules.
I thought /. practically was his girlfriend!
Suddenly I feel all dirty....
Look at the Japanese.... no one can sell electronics to them except Japanese.
Really? Sony will be glad to hear that it no longer has to try to compete with iPod.