I noticed that too. I think the article should read
multi-cellular life
Instead of All, since viruses need a host to replicate in, and the article summary even says they could be the reason that life progressed past single cellular organisms.
I think it's true that games USED to be designed with only the player in mind, but that is changing.
As a former Halo2 player, I can say MLG is a major part of the elite online Halo community and has been since the days of Halo1. However, you could not pay me to watch Ogre 1 and Ogre 2's screen for anything resembling entertainment value. I might take some of their tactics, but it's not really incredibly fun for me to watch another players screen. I see it as the equivalent of watching baseball from the view of the Shortstop's eyes, or football from the position of a wide receiver.
I do think that this is changing with the capabilities of the Xbox360 and the addition of spectator cameras into some newer games. It's not ready for primetime, but I think it's taking steps toward getting there.
The ultimate application of spectator video games would be a system like the instant replay in Madden games, or like the cameras in Driver3 (hated the game, but the cameras were fun). This way the directors could go through the gameplay footage, and strategically place cameras where the action was at any given moment. This would make games watchable, and with a coherent announcer who can effectively explain what is going on without using Halo2 jargon to the random MTV viewer, then professional gaming might just have a chance.
Oh, to be in high school again...
I haven't been the fastest to warm up to texting, and I stay away from it as much as possible still, even though I use up my allotted texts per month. My reply started because I noticed you talk about texting a girl instead of calling her. I've noticed this trend getting more and more popular. I've called girls and they just text me back, maybe because I post on slashdot, although the ones that text back are interested. I suppose this is better than in the past when half the girls *won't* call back even if they are interested, because they don't want to be the one to call, so you have to put yourself out there a couple times to make sure they are really pushing the red button, not the green one when you call.
It's just become an interesting trend to see how people are trying to achieve less and direct contact with eachother as the digital age brings us closer together.
I've thought about this plenty, but to have some benchmarks for the shapes different proteins make, we need lots of evidence that a folding model matches the true output of the mRNA.
So yeah, I look forward to the day when we can truly predict how they fold, but it's going to take a lot of work to determine the ways that different amino acids interact and how the conformational shape changes due to different interactions throughout the process of elongation. Then if that wasn't enough, we'll need to also account for the different molecular chaperones that assist some proteins in finding a functional conformational structure.
I'd like to see some of the Bioinformatics guys get into this type of research (if they're not already), I'm sure there's a brilliant Biochemist out there just waiting to team up with a programmer to create a simulation that can accurately fold any sequence of amino acids.
I got a G4 iBook about 9 months ago when my school had a ridiculous sale, it's worked very well, although I'd like to upgrade the RAM. One thing I've noticed is that it looks like the left side of my screen is dimmer than the right side of my screen, I don't know if I'm just going crazy, but I'm pretty sure it hasn't gotten worse, or if it's the lighting in the room I have it in. One thing I've noticied is that the white keyboard and hand rest really picks up dirt from your hands over time, and starts to look a little dingy, although I might be nit-picking.
I hate to be off-topic, but in terms of software; I didn't feel like paying for MS Office, so I was using NeoOffice/J, a mac port of OpenOffice.org using Cocoa, so I didn't have to use the bulky X11 interface, but the load time was so slow I switched to OpenOffice when 2.0 came out for the mac. Does anyone have any good experience going between OOo and MS Office on OSX?
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I noticed that too. I think the article should read
multi-cellular life
Instead of All, since viruses need a host to replicate in, and the article summary even says they could be the reason that life progressed past single cellular organisms.
I think it's true that games USED to be designed with only the player in mind, but that is changing.
As a former Halo2 player, I can say MLG is a major part of the elite online Halo community and has been since the days of Halo1. However, you could not pay me to watch Ogre 1 and Ogre 2's screen for anything resembling entertainment value. I might take some of their tactics, but it's not really incredibly fun for me to watch another players screen. I see it as the equivalent of watching baseball from the view of the Shortstop's eyes, or football from the position of a wide receiver.
I do think that this is changing with the capabilities of the Xbox360 and the addition of spectator cameras into some newer games. It's not ready for primetime, but I think it's taking steps toward getting there.
The ultimate application of spectator video games would be a system like the instant replay in Madden games, or like the cameras in Driver3 (hated the game, but the cameras were fun). This way the directors could go through the gameplay footage, and strategically place cameras where the action was at any given moment. This would make games watchable, and with a coherent announcer who can effectively explain what is going on without using Halo2 jargon to the random MTV viewer, then professional gaming might just have a chance.
Oh, to be in high school again...
I haven't been the fastest to warm up to texting, and I stay away from it as much as possible still, even though I use up my allotted texts per month. My reply started because I noticed you talk about texting a girl instead of calling her. I've noticed this trend getting more and more popular. I've called girls and they just text me back, maybe because I post on slashdot, although the ones that text back are interested. I suppose this is better than in the past when half the girls *won't* call back even if they are interested, because they don't want to be the one to call, so you have to put yourself out there a couple times to make sure they are really pushing the red button, not the green one when you call.
It's just become an interesting trend to see how people are trying to achieve less and direct contact with eachother as the digital age brings us closer together.
I've thought about this plenty, but to have some benchmarks for the shapes different proteins make, we need lots of evidence that a folding model matches the true output of the mRNA. So yeah, I look forward to the day when we can truly predict how they fold, but it's going to take a lot of work to determine the ways that different amino acids interact and how the conformational shape changes due to different interactions throughout the process of elongation. Then if that wasn't enough, we'll need to also account for the different molecular chaperones that assist some proteins in finding a functional conformational structure. I'd like to see some of the Bioinformatics guys get into this type of research (if they're not already), I'm sure there's a brilliant Biochemist out there just waiting to team up with a programmer to create a simulation that can accurately fold any sequence of amino acids.
I got a G4 iBook about 9 months ago when my school had a ridiculous sale, it's worked very well, although I'd like to upgrade the RAM. One thing I've noticed is that it looks like the left side of my screen is dimmer than the right side of my screen, I don't know if I'm just going crazy, but I'm pretty sure it hasn't gotten worse, or if it's the lighting in the room I have it in. One thing I've noticied is that the white keyboard and hand rest really picks up dirt from your hands over time, and starts to look a little dingy, although I might be nit-picking. I hate to be off-topic, but in terms of software; I didn't feel like paying for MS Office, so I was using NeoOffice/J, a mac port of OpenOffice.org using Cocoa, so I didn't have to use the bulky X11 interface, but the load time was so slow I switched to OpenOffice when 2.0 came out for the mac. Does anyone have any good experience going between OOo and MS Office on OSX?