The problem with the current system is that is grossly corrupt compared to an ideal system. Politicians lie, they use "yellow journalism," and they leverage money directly or indirectly to push their agenda. If we had a system where an unbiased entity summarized the views and the qualifications of the candidates, and any speaking the candidates did were in a purely professional manner, without trying to appeal to the emotional side of people, we would have a system that works. Unfortunately with the current expectations in place, considering that such a system would work seems impossible. Maybe in 200 years from now, people will look back at our current system and be appalled by how governments were run.
Target doesn't need to worry about stocking things for particular individuals. The reason they do this is to offer good discounts to select individuals that are at a crucial point in their life where they "settle down" and adopt store loyalty. These discounts could actually be a loss for the store. Once the customer becomes loyal, there is no reason to offer further discounts.
The store that has the personal relationship will continue to stock diapers until there are no longer customers who have young children.
I had a class that was taught by an inexperienced teacher. He put the question of "do you want an open or closed book test?" The class pretty much shocked him with almost everyone voting for closed book. I guess graduate level students know better by this point.
I'm pretty sure you cannot enact laws that are regulated by a private organization. The ESRB (and MPAA) is a private organization, and as such they an only put out guidelines. I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of times in the past where lawmakers wanted to put out a law saying that children can't buy R rated movies, but the most they have been able to accomplish is simply requiring businesses don't lie about the ratings.
Also, not all T and up rated games have their rating due to violence, and many games are simply unrated. I could see businesses releasing special Oklahoma edition of the game that simply is not rated.
Logic can expand to data, yes. But that would require asking the chip all possible questions and recording them which could be quite large and not practical. Just like my chess example, you can store the logic of how an AI plays into a small space, but unless you asked it every possible response to all positions on the chess board, you would never know its true strategy.
You don't put data on the chip, you put logic. Something along the lines of... Computer asks device: "Player moves rook to h7. What is the AI's response?"
In this case you would have to take the device apart to figure out how it operates, making it roughly as hard to pirate as moding a game console. Likewise, updates to the chip's firmware can be done though a signed code package.
You want to make a DRM that is really hard to break? Simple, just add a hardware usb device that contains a chip which handles some of the instructions of the game. Emulating that would take a while.
Or, you know, just make it online only and put all the AI logic on the server like most MMOs.
Importance is relative. You could say for a job to be important it furthers society's goals (which is up for interpretation). If you consider society's goals is to ensure that as many people as possible stay alive, then sure saving lives is important. If you consider society's goal is to have the average happiness level of the world be higher, then maybe if you are involved in a project to nuke Africa off the face of the planet, your job would be important since a lot of people suffer in Africa.
In the article for R 18+ classifications: Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted.
Depending on how 'drug' is defined, a game could be banned if using apsrin was part of the plot to recover some ailment. If this was only related to controlled substances, then a fictional drug could be used instead without problem, making the rule near useless.
I mainly play WoW (when I'm board, or when I raid). Other than that, I play puzzle like games. I hate competitive games and FPS. I also spend a lot of time analyzing the rules of games and their consequences, both from a game play perspective and from a playability perspective.
Just another case of think of the children. Try to get your law passed because our children are in danger otherwise.
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The specs on this seem to be better than what Digilent's UNO 32 is: Microchip® PIC32MX320F128 processor 80 Mhz 32-bit MIPS 128K Flash, 16K SRAM 42 available I/O (I think that includes 16 analog)
The price of this is also $25 and the software is based on arduino's code. The voltage is also 3.3 like the announced one instead of the UNO's 5.0V.
Personally, we will probably be sticking to Digilent as the company is about a 30 minute walk of where I work (which saves on shipping costs).
Supply and demand isn't the only factor in setting a price. If there was a flat tax of $5 per software product sold, you can bet no one would sell it for less than $5. As a simple model (if supply is infinite), you can imagine a profit per item vs number willing to buy. Then you pick the largest rectangle that fits within that graph, which represents your total profit. That is, as you set the price higher, those who don't buy are represented by those left of the rectangle. The profit lost from those willing to pay a higher price, but pay the lower one instead are represented by the area above the rectangle. If you add a tax, the location of your rectangle will change, the price will go up, probably by less than the tax, fewer people will buy, and profits will go down.
Who would determine if they are doing a good enough job? A private company will do whatever it takes to maximize profit, not maximize our security. I can see it now, one worker manning an entire airport security with Diebold equipment everywhere.
If there is corruption, and wasteful spending in TSA, then fix it; rebuild it. Just don't sell it out to the lowest bidder. I trust the government more than most private companies.
I wonder how long it would take to strip the planet away, or at least to the point where it isn't affecting the star enough to produce the energy to do this? Maybe it still is around and it is still happening.
Sure I bet the key generator could be well known... too bad that less than 0.1% of those keys are actually active and attempting to use an unactivated key will result in initially an error, and if enough attempts are made an investigation by steam and auto blocking of your account.
Not directly. One of the primary reasons to sequence is to determine the functions of genes. If you have 2 similar organisms that you have sequenced you can do a differential analysis to determine what they share, and what they have different. Many of these genes you will find have already had some analysis done on them, which you can look up to determine pathways, and which ones are promoters and inhibitors. From there, based on observations of the organism, you can determine candidate genes that may be responsible for the difference you saw between the organisms. Take those candidate genes, and either insert them into the other organism, or remove it from one of them and observe the results.
The end effect of this process is the ability to modify other organisms to produce the same effect that weed has, remove this functionality from weed (in case you just like the taste of it), or possibly even increase how potent it is.
I really doubt they only had 8GB of RAM. De Novo assembly (that is without using a template) typically take at least 30GB, and I've seen upwards to 80GB (depending on genome size and read technology). I haven't used CLC (only NGen and Mira), but I really don't think its RAM requirements are special. Theoretically, if they are using some currently-in-development sequencing machine, they might have large enough read lengths to only need 8GB.
As far as HD goes, you only need some for swap if you don't have enough RAM, and around another 5GB for assembly results and information (like how the reads line up).
World of Warcraft is entertainment in bulk, $15 per month + $50 per 18-24 months for an xpac has saved me tons on money. I used to buy a DS game every week (used) for $20-$30.
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The problem with the current system is that is grossly corrupt compared to an ideal system. Politicians lie, they use "yellow journalism," and they leverage money directly or indirectly to push their agenda. If we had a system where an unbiased entity summarized the views and the qualifications of the candidates, and any speaking the candidates did were in a purely professional manner, without trying to appeal to the emotional side of people, we would have a system that works. Unfortunately with the current expectations in place, considering that such a system would work seems impossible. Maybe in 200 years from now, people will look back at our current system and be appalled by how governments were run.
Target doesn't need to worry about stocking things for particular individuals. The reason they do this is to offer good discounts to select individuals that are at a crucial point in their life where they "settle down" and adopt store loyalty. These discounts could actually be a loss for the store. Once the customer becomes loyal, there is no reason to offer further discounts.
The store that has the personal relationship will continue to stock diapers until there are no longer customers who have young children.
If you can do it in c#, you can do it in Java with IKVM.
I had a class that was taught by an inexperienced teacher. He put the question of "do you want an open or closed book test?" The class pretty much shocked him with almost everyone voting for closed book. I guess graduate level students know better by this point.
I'm pretty sure you cannot enact laws that are regulated by a private organization. The ESRB (and MPAA) is a private organization, and as such they an only put out guidelines. I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of times in the past where lawmakers wanted to put out a law saying that children can't buy R rated movies, but the most they have been able to accomplish is simply requiring businesses don't lie about the ratings.
Also, not all T and up rated games have their rating due to violence, and many games are simply unrated. I could see businesses releasing special Oklahoma edition of the game that simply is not rated.
Logic can expand to data, yes. But that would require asking the chip all possible questions and recording them which could be quite large and not practical. Just like my chess example, you can store the logic of how an AI plays into a small space, but unless you asked it every possible response to all positions on the chess board, you would never know its true strategy.
You don't put data on the chip, you put logic. Something along the lines of...
Computer asks device: "Player moves rook to h7. What is the AI's response?"
In this case you would have to take the device apart to figure out how it operates, making it roughly as hard to pirate as moding a game console. Likewise, updates to the chip's firmware can be done though a signed code package.
You want to make a DRM that is really hard to break? Simple, just add a hardware usb device that contains a chip which handles some of the instructions of the game. Emulating that would take a while.
Or, you know, just make it online only and put all the AI logic on the server like most MMOs.
Importance is relative. You could say for a job to be important it furthers society's goals (which is up for interpretation). If you consider society's goals is to ensure that as many people as possible stay alive, then sure saving lives is important. If you consider society's goal is to have the average happiness level of the world be higher, then maybe if you are involved in a project to nuke Africa off the face of the planet, your job would be important since a lot of people suffer in Africa.
In Soviet France robot controls you. In corporate America you control robot!!
I would also like to add that this is really designed for animal cells. Plant cells want a more solid environment.
In the article for R 18+ classifications:
Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted.
Depending on how 'drug' is defined, a game could be banned if using apsrin was part of the plot to recover some ailment.
If this was only related to controlled substances, then a fictional drug could be used instead without problem, making the rule near useless.
Non-compete clauses are pretty much not allowed in California, and AMD is located in California.
I mainly play WoW (when I'm board, or when I raid). Other than that, I play puzzle like games. I hate competitive games and FPS. I also spend a lot of time analyzing the rules of games and their consequences, both from a game play perspective and from a playability perspective.
My current job is in Bioinformatics (by chance).
Just another case of think of the children. Try to get your law passed because our children are in danger otherwise.
The specs on this seem to be better than what Digilent's UNO 32 is:
Microchip® PIC32MX320F128 processor
80 Mhz 32-bit MIPS
128K Flash, 16K SRAM
42 available I/O (I think that includes 16 analog)
The price of this is also $25 and the software is based on arduino's code. The voltage is also 3.3 like the announced one instead of the UNO's 5.0V.
Personally, we will probably be sticking to Digilent as the company is about a 30 minute walk of where I work (which saves on shipping costs).
Supply and demand isn't the only factor in setting a price. If there was a flat tax of $5 per software product sold, you can bet no one would sell it for less than $5. As a simple model (if supply is infinite), you can imagine a profit per item vs number willing to buy. Then you pick the largest rectangle that fits within that graph, which represents your total profit. That is, as you set the price higher, those who don't buy are represented by those left of the rectangle. The profit lost from those willing to pay a higher price, but pay the lower one instead are represented by the area above the rectangle. If you add a tax, the location of your rectangle will change, the price will go up, probably by less than the tax, fewer people will buy, and profits will go down.
Who would determine if they are doing a good enough job? A private company will do whatever it takes to maximize profit, not maximize our security. I can see it now, one worker manning an entire airport security with Diebold equipment everywhere.
If there is corruption, and wasteful spending in TSA, then fix it; rebuild it. Just don't sell it out to the lowest bidder. I trust the government more than most private companies.
I wonder how long it would take to strip the planet away, or at least to the point where it isn't affecting the star enough to produce the energy to do this? Maybe it still is around and it is still happening.
In any case time is relative.
Sure I bet the key generator could be well known... too bad that less than 0.1% of those keys are actually active and attempting to use an unactivated key will result in initially an error, and if enough attempts are made an investigation by steam and auto blocking of your account.
Not directly. One of the primary reasons to sequence is to determine the functions of genes. If you have 2 similar organisms that you have sequenced you can do a differential analysis to determine what they share, and what they have different. Many of these genes you will find have already had some analysis done on them, which you can look up to determine pathways, and which ones are promoters and inhibitors. From there, based on observations of the organism, you can determine candidate genes that may be responsible for the difference you saw between the organisms. Take those candidate genes, and either insert them into the other organism, or remove it from one of them and observe the results.
The end effect of this process is the ability to modify other organisms to produce the same effect that weed has, remove this functionality from weed (in case you just like the taste of it), or possibly even increase how potent it is.
I really doubt they only had 8GB of RAM. De Novo assembly (that is without using a template) typically take at least 30GB, and I've seen upwards to 80GB (depending on genome size and read technology). I haven't used CLC (only NGen and Mira), but I really don't think its RAM requirements are special. Theoretically, if they are using some currently-in-development sequencing machine, they might have large enough read lengths to only need 8GB.
As far as HD goes, you only need some for swap if you don't have enough RAM, and around another 5GB for assembly results and information (like how the reads line up).
World of Warcraft is entertainment in bulk, $15 per month + $50 per 18-24 months for an xpac has saved me tons on money. I used to buy a DS game every week (used) for $20-$30.
Using Cent OS 6 at work. I'll just wait until they include a new version of firefox in their standard distro before I upgrade.
If they make this like WoW, China will have lots of internet cafes that will be set up with this game.