I think this heat problem was generally regarded as a major source of delay for the merom macbook pro's as a simple update wasn't going to cut it this time -- the whole interior had to be redesigned to allow for better cooling. Let's hope they got the problem fixed. I also wonder why the fan speed wasn't considered an adequate fix -- is there something inherently unstable about this? Don't fan's in other laptops run that fast?
This is true in some cases, but look a little deeper into THIS case. Transmeta is sueing based even on very old Intel technology. It is difficult to see how they could prove that Intel stole thier IP. I'm not really pissed for no reason, I used to own a Crusoe based device, and your ridiculous rhetorical question does not foster intellectual discourse here ("Why don't you go file a few of your own instead of being pissed for no reason?").
FTA: "The complaint charges that Intel has infringed and is infringing Transmeta's patents by making and selling a variety of microprocessor products, including at least Intel's Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core and Core 2 product lines."
They sure are going back a long ways...
FTA: "Last year, Transmeta laid off 67 employees in a restructuring plan aimed to focus more heavily on IP and the phase out its less profitable processors."
So they went out of the business of actually making anything (presumably because their products were not competitive in the market place), so NOW they turn to their IP to make any money. I really don't know if they've got a valid case or not, but they certainly seem to be trolling.
...and not get all racist here and make fun of another country (after all, our politicians still think of dump trucks and series of tubes). They know it sounds dumb, but the purpose was to levy a tax, and they achieved that goal.
Actually, the only future/sci-fi series I've ever watched and enjoyed were the Trek series and Firefly. It's sad to think a fellow fan could be so dimwitted. There were many posts along the lines of how it would be possible to refresh the series, or what a prequel would add to it. I feel the series has run its course, and should not attempt to continue past its prime lest it degrade in quality and darken the whole franchise. On an another note, I find it difficult to believe a true Trekkie would resort to offensive language on a basically anonymous board such as this. Picard would be ashamed. Mal would probably just shoot you.
I'm a huge fan, but I think a new storyline/universe altogether, would be a much better idea -- not necessarily for a movie, but for a series. I think Sci/Fi's Battlestar Galactica is the best example of what I'm thinking of. Perhaps something borrowed from Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C. Clarke. A Sci/Fi drama about human/robot interactions in the vein of Asimov's Robot novels, perhaps. Many "star-trek-like" series have done ok, and some not-so-well, like babylon, or andromeda, or firefly. what is it about that star-trek formula? maybe it's all the human-centrism...feel-goodism...nerds-are-coolism.
If the soft tissue really is dino tissue, instead of a post-mortem parasite or something, then I would hope the act of breaking the bone did not disturb it (and why in the world is "not fitting in helo" a good reason to break such a priceless artifact anyway???). That tissue is a great source of biological residue, the goldmine being DNA. But it's very easy to contaminate ancient DNA, so I hope they were *really* *really* careful when they broke that bone (*cringes*) and loaded it for transport.
I have a Ph.D. in biology, and I am interested in current research in many other fields as well. That said, I have no idea WTF the *significance* of the current breakthrough is. What does it mean? Why isn't there even a one sentence half-assed attempt in the summary? Thanks for the wiki-link. If I wanted to seriously brush up while trying to navigate the ridiculous wiki, I'd go there. Seriously, most people might just want to know why they should give a shit that BE condensation has been observed at solid-state. Don't get me wrong, I think there is something fascinating in all this, just wish the summary would have pointed to that aspect instead of regurgitating the so-called claimes of a breakthrough.
"The Power Assist Suit could be used by hospital workers to move heavy patients, the researchers say."
um...yeah... that's pretty much the usual bullshit used to secure funding, complete with a picture of dainty women lifting heavy things. Is there honestly such a huge market for nurses to lift heavy people, having to wear a cyborg outfit?? Some of the uses these researchers come up with for applications of their work are just ridiculous. They should just stick with the more obvious -- manual labor, movers, space suits, and even more obvious, military.
Steven Squires, the science director for the Mars rovers has stated that Opportunity will likely spend a lot of time at the crater, which is a scientific gold mine. They want to analyze the exposed subterranean material on the crater walls. I get the impression that the rover may ultimately be asked to go cautiously into the crater and likely spend the rest of its life there. It could go for a while, or it could die any minute. Should it fail while in the crater, it will leave a rich scientific treasure trove behind. There really aren't any other better scientific objectives in the vicinity, and to get the most out of the crater, it will have to go in. I'm not sure it will have the power to climb back out, but, atleast it'll be easy to find once we get there;)
"Bhardwaj attributes the success of cable operators to their use of PacketCable, an IP multimedia transmission system optimized for cable plant. Providers who simply run standard VoIP connections over a cable modem do not see the same results."
This seems to me like the ISP gets an advantage because of this PacketCable thing -- something I'm sure they will not be licensing to their VoIP competitors like Vonage. Not surprisingly, these 'other' VoIP providers fared worse then the ISP-provided VoIP service. I'm sure the ISP will tout how its own Voice service is better than the competitors, and I would also wonder if they take additional steps to degrade the quality of their competitors. Oh yeah, I just tried to get cable internet alone (without TV or voice), and they acted very rapidly to filter the analog TV out, cut my speed from 6 to 4, and jacked up the price to $60/month. Assholes.
"...to help town planners and architects envisage their designs"
"...help ordinary citizens get more involved in urban development."
So which is it? Seems like they're just playing around and making grandoise statements. I can see how this might be one tool for planners and architects (as if the don't already do this sort of thing), but give me a break -- helping ordinary citizens get involved in urban development? I sure hope not. I'd rather have intelligent people propose good designs. Move along, nothing to see here.
I think the point is that when DVD players came out, even if you were an early adopter you ended up very satisfied (as I did), compared to VHS, in many respects. COMPARATIVELY, the new formats have severely disappointed. It is painfully evident that while DVDs were a great thing for the consumers, these HD formats seem to be made for fleecing consumers. Also, early DVD players were not nearly as expensive, and worked with pretty much any TV.
All current life on Earth has been around for the exact same amount of time, i.e., since the first "cell", whatever it was. The lineage has certainly split and evolved divergently over the eons since then, but really, even "primative" organisms, if they are in existence today, have been around for the same amount of time as we humans have. In a sense, therefore, it should not be so surprising to find organisms with as much complexity as humans! It certainly is interesting to see how many commonalities there are amongst species that diverged so long ago -- clearly some convergent evolution also occured along the way -- amazing how nature finds similar solutions to common biological problems.
I'm very sad that it is so easy for you to believe that a scientist would needlessly torture macaques. What exactly are you credentials when you say "it is difficult for me to believe, given the state of neuroscience, that these experiments on monkeys were so much more valuable than would have been experiments on say, mice, or salamanders, or what-have-you"? Honestly, I'd love to know about all that "research" you did on google to arrive at that conclusion. IF you really want to know, tried going to www.pubmed.org and search for the primary literature. You'll realize that Dr. Ringach has done some really pioneering work on determining the precise wiring of the visual cortex. I'm not sure how to explain this to you, but hopefully it will suffice to say that he is not some crazed sadist sitting around poking out monkey's eyeballs. It is also extremely difficult to explain to a lay-person just how many hoops a researcher has to jump through before conducting animal research, let alone primate research. Let's just say you don't do it unless there are absolutely no other options. The cost and bureaucracy associated are prohibitive to "torturers" as you put it. Dr. Ringach studies the brain, not eyeballs. You can't just pick any animal for that (BTW, your opinion on primates could just as easily be someone else's opinion on mice, or flies for that matter). If you want to know the real scoop instead of jumping to the same conclusions these terrorists did, I encourage you to look at the primary literature. If you are still not convinced, I encourage you to lobby against this research, and maybe put your money where your mouth is by refusing any and all medication (you do know they are tested on animals, right? especially stuff like vaccines).
Seriously, I'd love to know what medications those a**holes have ever taken in their entire life. If any one of those jerks really cares about the cause, he/she should stop taking even a simple aspirin -- every single medication is on the market after years of careful animal research. This is a critical step that has to be taken. Every SINGLE discovery that has helped the human health condition had a solid basis in model organism research. These people should really ask themselves whether or not they have ever benefited even from a friggin' vitamin supplement. Even better, how about they volunteer to be the guinea pigs and personally save each animal...
The question was "Why teach either?", referring to why bother teaching evolution at all. Please go back and reread the thread, then you might get a better idea of how the post addresses that question.
I've had HD on my Mac Pro for a year now. Just got an Elgato EyeTV HD tuner and plugged it in and voila, a few basic network channels in HD, anything that comes over the air, and some HD torrents (wanted to try it out, but files are too large to bother with routinely).
You still need a light source -- in this case, lasers. Yes, I know you can get red lasers dirt cheap, but any thing else is very expensive. A laser light source operates at a defined wavelength, and although you cannot easily generate the full spectrum of colors from a single laser. You can get a red, green, and blue laser to potentially mix to generate the full visible spectrum, but the green and especially the blue lasers are very expensive. Also, size does matter -- it is difficult to pack bright light power sources into a small space, like say a cell phone. The techology leap forward here is great in principle, but the phrase "Video projector on a chip" is incorrect, since only the mirrors are on the chip, not the light source.
The research group has succeeded in generating stem cell lines for study from a single cell in an embryo while leaving the rest of the embryo to develop normally. Do not be fooled into thinking this answers all the ethical questions! The embryos from fertility clinics that go unused will still be destroyed, no matter how successful this procedure is (currently, however, it is still not as efficient as using the whole embryo). Thus, it STILL makes much more sense to use those fertility clinic embryos for research -- they will never be implanted, and they WILL be discarded already. The arguments that the Bush camp and the so-called pro-"life" camp are putting forth are total BS in this respect -- failing to fund stem-cell research has absolutely NO impact on destruction of embryos. It is simply a political maneuver into fooling the conservative base into thinking that scientists are rampantly killing little babies.
The recent research is most promising as a source of patient-specific stem cells for that particular baby when it grows up and gets diseases. As a source of stem-cells for research, it is highly doubtful that most fertility clinic clients would allow the embryo that they are IMPLANTING to have a cell removed from it. It is much more likely that UNUSED embryos would be donated to science. Even this method of generating stem cell lines is NOT ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING! It will continue to be like this until Bush is kicked out or congress gets a spine and/or a brain.
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I think this heat problem was generally regarded as a major source of delay for the merom macbook pro's as a simple update wasn't going to cut it this time -- the whole interior had to be redesigned to allow for better cooling. Let's hope they got the problem fixed. I also wonder why the fan speed wasn't considered an adequate fix -- is there something inherently unstable about this? Don't fan's in other laptops run that fast?
This is true in some cases, but look a little deeper into THIS case. Transmeta is sueing based even on very old Intel technology. It is difficult to see how they could prove that Intel stole thier IP. I'm not really pissed for no reason, I used to own a Crusoe based device, and your ridiculous rhetorical question does not foster intellectual discourse here ("Why don't you go file a few of your own instead of being pissed for no reason?").
FTA: "The complaint charges that Intel has infringed and is infringing Transmeta's patents by making and selling a variety of microprocessor products, including at least Intel's Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, Core and Core 2 product lines."
They sure are going back a long ways...
FTA: "Last year, Transmeta laid off 67 employees in a restructuring plan aimed to focus more heavily on IP and the phase out its less profitable processors."
So they went out of the business of actually making anything (presumably because their products were not competitive in the market place), so NOW they turn to their IP to make any money. I really don't know if they've got a valid case or not, but they certainly seem to be trolling.
...and not get all racist here and make fun of another country (after all, our politicians still think of dump trucks and series of tubes). They know it sounds dumb, but the purpose was to levy a tax, and they achieved that goal.
...the term "failure" and click "I'm feeling lucky". Funny as hell, but gotta admit another symptom of the web as political warfare tool.
Actually, the only future/sci-fi series I've ever watched and enjoyed were the Trek series and Firefly. It's sad to think a fellow fan could be so dimwitted. There were many posts along the lines of how it would be possible to refresh the series, or what a prequel would add to it. I feel the series has run its course, and should not attempt to continue past its prime lest it degrade in quality and darken the whole franchise. On an another note, I find it difficult to believe a true Trekkie would resort to offensive language on a basically anonymous board such as this. Picard would be ashamed. Mal would probably just shoot you.
I'm a huge fan, but I think a new storyline/universe altogether, would be a much better idea -- not necessarily for a movie, but for a series. I think Sci/Fi's Battlestar Galactica is the best example of what I'm thinking of. Perhaps something borrowed from Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C. Clarke. A Sci/Fi drama about human/robot interactions in the vein of Asimov's Robot novels, perhaps. Many "star-trek-like" series have done ok, and some not-so-well, like babylon, or andromeda, or firefly. what is it about that star-trek formula? maybe it's all the human-centrism...feel-goodism...nerds-are-coolism.
If the soft tissue really is dino tissue, instead of a post-mortem parasite or something, then I would hope the act of breaking the bone did not disturb it (and why in the world is "not fitting in helo" a good reason to break such a priceless artifact anyway???). That tissue is a great source of biological residue, the goldmine being DNA. But it's very easy to contaminate ancient DNA, so I hope they were *really* *really* careful when they broke that bone (*cringes*) and loaded it for transport.
...Basically, the unholy trifecta which sucked the soul out of the original discovery made here. Bravo Slashdot, bravo.
I have a Ph.D. in biology, and I am interested in current research in many other fields as well. That said, I have no idea WTF the *significance* of the current breakthrough is. What does it mean? Why isn't there even a one sentence half-assed attempt in the summary? Thanks for the wiki-link. If I wanted to seriously brush up while trying to navigate the ridiculous wiki, I'd go there. Seriously, most people might just want to know why they should give a shit that BE condensation has been observed at solid-state. Don't get me wrong, I think there is something fascinating in all this, just wish the summary would have pointed to that aspect instead of regurgitating the so-called claimes of a breakthrough.
um...yeah... that's pretty much the usual bullshit used to secure funding, complete with a picture of dainty women lifting heavy things. Is there honestly such a huge market for nurses to lift heavy people, having to wear a cyborg outfit?? Some of the uses these researchers come up with for applications of their work are just ridiculous. They should just stick with the more obvious -- manual labor, movers, space suits, and even more obvious, military.
Steven Squires, the science director for the Mars rovers has stated that Opportunity will likely spend a lot of time at the crater, which is a scientific gold mine. They want to analyze the exposed subterranean material on the crater walls. I get the impression that the rover may ultimately be asked to go cautiously into the crater and likely spend the rest of its life there. It could go for a while, or it could die any minute. Should it fail while in the crater, it will leave a rich scientific treasure trove behind. There really aren't any other better scientific objectives in the vicinity, and to get the most out of the crater, it will have to go in. I'm not sure it will have the power to climb back out, but, atleast it'll be easy to find once we get there ;)
...in search of a problem. But don't you worry, those problems will come along soon.
This seems to me like the ISP gets an advantage because of this PacketCable thing -- something I'm sure they will not be licensing to their VoIP competitors like Vonage. Not surprisingly, these 'other' VoIP providers fared worse then the ISP-provided VoIP service. I'm sure the ISP will tout how its own Voice service is better than the competitors, and I would also wonder if they take additional steps to degrade the quality of their competitors. Oh yeah, I just tried to get cable internet alone (without TV or voice), and they acted very rapidly to filter the analog TV out, cut my speed from 6 to 4, and jacked up the price to $60/month. Assholes.
"...help ordinary citizens get more involved in urban development."
So which is it? Seems like they're just playing around and making grandoise statements. I can see how this might be one tool for planners and architects (as if the don't already do this sort of thing), but give me a break -- helping ordinary citizens get involved in urban development? I sure hope not. I'd rather have intelligent people propose good designs. Move along, nothing to see here.
Such an obvious way to make a consumer pay extra unnecessarily will help kill the next gen formats. And I think that's a good thing.
I think the point is that when DVD players came out, even if you were an early adopter you ended up very satisfied (as I did), compared to VHS, in many respects. COMPARATIVELY, the new formats have severely disappointed. It is painfully evident that while DVDs were a great thing for the consumers, these HD formats seem to be made for fleecing consumers. Also, early DVD players were not nearly as expensive, and worked with pretty much any TV.
All current life on Earth has been around for the exact same amount of time, i.e., since the first "cell", whatever it was. The lineage has certainly split and evolved divergently over the eons since then, but really, even "primative" organisms, if they are in existence today, have been around for the same amount of time as we humans have. In a sense, therefore, it should not be so surprising to find organisms with as much complexity as humans! It certainly is interesting to see how many commonalities there are amongst species that diverged so long ago -- clearly some convergent evolution also occured along the way -- amazing how nature finds similar solutions to common biological problems.
I'm very sad that it is so easy for you to believe that a scientist would needlessly torture macaques. What exactly are you credentials when you say "it is difficult for me to believe, given the state of neuroscience, that these experiments on monkeys were so much more valuable than would have been experiments on say, mice, or salamanders, or what-have-you"? Honestly, I'd love to know about all that "research" you did on google to arrive at that conclusion. IF you really want to know, tried going to www.pubmed.org and search for the primary literature. You'll realize that Dr. Ringach has done some really pioneering work on determining the precise wiring of the visual cortex. I'm not sure how to explain this to you, but hopefully it will suffice to say that he is not some crazed sadist sitting around poking out monkey's eyeballs. It is also extremely difficult to explain to a lay-person just how many hoops a researcher has to jump through before conducting animal research, let alone primate research. Let's just say you don't do it unless there are absolutely no other options. The cost and bureaucracy associated are prohibitive to "torturers" as you put it. Dr. Ringach studies the brain, not eyeballs. You can't just pick any animal for that (BTW, your opinion on primates could just as easily be someone else's opinion on mice, or flies for that matter). If you want to know the real scoop instead of jumping to the same conclusions these terrorists did, I encourage you to look at the primary literature. If you are still not convinced, I encourage you to lobby against this research, and maybe put your money where your mouth is by refusing any and all medication (you do know they are tested on animals, right? especially stuff like vaccines).
Seriously, I'd love to know what medications those a**holes have ever taken in their entire life. If any one of those jerks really cares about the cause, he/she should stop taking even a simple aspirin -- every single medication is on the market after years of careful animal research. This is a critical step that has to be taken. Every SINGLE discovery that has helped the human health condition had a solid basis in model organism research. These people should really ask themselves whether or not they have ever benefited even from a friggin' vitamin supplement. Even better, how about they volunteer to be the guinea pigs and personally save each animal ...
Touche! That occured to me as I was writing...wasn't sure anyone out there would catch the contradiction.
The question was "Why teach either?", referring to why bother teaching evolution at all. Please go back and reread the thread, then you might get a better idea of how the post addresses that question.
I've had HD on my Mac Pro for a year now. Just got an Elgato EyeTV HD tuner and plugged it in and voila, a few basic network channels in HD, anything that comes over the air, and some HD torrents (wanted to try it out, but files are too large to bother with routinely).
You still need a light source -- in this case, lasers. Yes, I know you can get red lasers dirt cheap, but any thing else is very expensive. A laser light source operates at a defined wavelength, and although you cannot easily generate the full spectrum of colors from a single laser. You can get a red, green, and blue laser to potentially mix to generate the full visible spectrum, but the green and especially the blue lasers are very expensive. Also, size does matter -- it is difficult to pack bright light power sources into a small space, like say a cell phone. The techology leap forward here is great in principle, but the phrase "Video projector on a chip" is incorrect, since only the mirrors are on the chip, not the light source.
The research group has succeeded in generating stem cell lines for study from a single cell in an embryo while leaving the rest of the embryo to develop normally. Do not be fooled into thinking this answers all the ethical questions! The embryos from fertility clinics that go unused will still be destroyed, no matter how successful this procedure is (currently, however, it is still not as efficient as using the whole embryo). Thus, it STILL makes much more sense to use those fertility clinic embryos for research -- they will never be implanted, and they WILL be discarded already. The arguments that the Bush camp and the so-called pro-"life" camp are putting forth are total BS in this respect -- failing to fund stem-cell research has absolutely NO impact on destruction of embryos. It is simply a political maneuver into fooling the conservative base into thinking that scientists are rampantly killing little babies.
The recent research is most promising as a source of patient-specific stem cells for that particular baby when it grows up and gets diseases. As a source of stem-cells for research, it is highly doubtful that most fertility clinic clients would allow the embryo that they are IMPLANTING to have a cell removed from it. It is much more likely that UNUSED embryos would be donated to science. Even this method of generating stem cell lines is NOT ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING! It will continue to be like this until Bush is kicked out or congress gets a spine and/or a brain.