I don't know why but this concept gives me the creeps because we don't really understand all there is to know about genetics. By creating meat in a lab, there is no way to be sure that it is exactly the same as nature intended it to be. In fact, our bodies may very well process it differently or it could be very detrimental to our health. It is better to use actual animals but figure out a way to make it more environmentally sound. For example, by harvesting the methane gas produced by cows, we are left with a rather abundant energy source. I am usually always skeptical of "simple" solutions because humanity is always looking for the magic pill for panacea and it just never happens. It is possible to be smart and economical about cattle farming while treating these animals humanely.
I always thought Big Brother would start in the US.
The funny thing is so did I. But, come to think of it the D.C. Comics guys also thought it would start in the U.K. with their V for Vendetta movie. And, in actuality, the whole surveillance camera moves began in London.
The only reason this is a so-called disease is because Big Pharma makes tons of money on trying to medicate the children of America. What if this was not a "disability" but actually just the next step in evolution of human beings? What if there is actually nothing wrong at all? I believe ADHD isn't a malady.
I think the HP CEO has leapt to a conclusion without really thinking through the scenario. The short answer is, no, this will not cause the Android platform to become a walled garden. It made perfect financial sense for Google to aquire Motorola Mobility because it gives Google absolute and complete control over a hardware set with which to continue to develop Android. The advantages are numerous as Google can really create a first class operating system with direct access to the hardware layer. By developing the hardware and software in tandem (yet keeping the operating system open source) the product will simply improve by leaps and bounds while giving third party developers even more power. Google is mostly an open source company and operates as such anyhow.
Are antibiotics ineffective on sinus infections because the infection is viral and not bacterial or could it be that the common bacteria responsible for such an infection has grown resistant to the antibiotic?
Yes, to your point. I make no apologies for AT&T. AT&T is evil and so are the other big 3. At least consumers have a choice to go with an MVNO. I use PagePlus Cellular which uses Verizon Wireless' network and 55.00 per month gets you 1GB of data and no contract.
If they're selling more smart phones than they ever have... and they're overselling their resources, which they seem to know they're doing... why not just upgrade the network?
It isn't as simple to just upgrade the network. They have only a finite amount of frequency spectrum to squeeze a large number of data hungry devices so it will not necessarily help to just add more towers. Of course, if AT&T is sitting on unused spectrum, they should be upgrading the network.
Maybe climate change is happening, maybe it isn't. I don't think anyone really knows for certain. However, this is NOT an excuse to continue to burn fossil fuels and polluting our environment. Ultimately, fossil fuels are unsustainable as long term energy solutions. We need to look at hydrogren, solar, wind, and maybe even nuclear. Heartland Institute sounds suspiciously like a lobby group for the "clean" coal and oil industries, nothing more and nothing less. They have a vested interest in supporting their respective industries. This brings me to another point, "clean" coal, is bullshit! It is still a carbon based product being burned and since when does coal burn cleanly. Usually, burining coal results in a dark smoke that cannot possibly be good for the environment.
Pain is probably one of the most mysterious things the body experiences. Recent studies have shown that the distinctions between physical and emotional pain are often blurred because emotional pain can become physical pain. Emotional pain can create real, actual physical ailments and this is why there is great emphasis in studying depression in humans. Current thinking that depression causes undue cardiovascular stress and can possibly accelerate alzheimers and have other deleterious effects on the brain. Depression can cause pain. This study is exciting because it just might cure depression versus just using medicines to mitigate it.
I think that is precisely what I like about Twisted Metal is that it does not really tell a story. The violence is almost cartoonish. I really liked the original one with that clown van. It was hysterical.
That is an extremely thin veil. The politicans really want to ultimately be able to control dissent. I grow weary of this crap but human ingenuity finds a way around little problems like these. I am waiting for the time when communities come together to build community-owned, decentralized networks nullifying the point of creating such laws as these. If the internet were really owned by the people, a surveillance law would be practically impossible to enforce. It just shows that government is afraid of the people and it should be. People should not fear their government.
This is a poor idea because ultimately it is the quality of the code being committed, not the number of the commits. You can have a high number of commits with poorly written code that has buffer overruns, null pointer dereferences, and failure to manage dynamic memory properly. This rewards someone that is sly, not a good programmer.
It is good to see Google willing to do what no other traditional telecommunications company is willing to do. 1GB FTTH is available in Japan and there is talk about it happening in the UK. It is a shame to see Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, and Sprint still trying to squeeze money out of antiquated technologies. Another competitor to the entrenched Big Telecom companies was sorely needed. This will force the legacy carriers to up their ante or try to fight a losing game in the court systems to block Google. Google is one of the wealthiest companies out there and it is not inconcievable that it would be more costly to fight in court then simply to fight on the open market by bringing 1GB FTTH at the same cost but in 1/3 of the time.
I can see this tightening of regulation creating an all new internet that is build amongst non-profit communities and connected together in fashions so that no one owns the transmission means. Unlike today's internet which is essentially owned by oligarchy consisting of AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon (i.e. Big Telecom) communities may end up either laying their own transmission lines or use multipoint wireless. This might just be the tipping point at which the pricing and collusion of Big Telecom leads to their ultimate demise and irrelevance.
Research is expensive and the kind the learned senator proposes is very expensive because it will involve genetic testing which requires powerful computing resources and top medical doctors and geneticists essentially to prove what is already known: radiation is harmful. Instead of spending more money on the program at this point, disband it. This is money that has the possibility to be spent on bringing math, science, and engineering back to America where all Americans have the possibility of benefitting. The travelling public has no tangible benefit from these scanners, only a defined cost.
We're rapidly headed towards a police state! If you live in Hawaii and are registered to vote there, please, please write your representatives and have this defeated. For one, it is a gross invasion of privacy. For another, it is a huge and needless expense on the ISP. The ISP is burdened with extra server and storage needs as a result of such politician shortsightedness. Think of the expense that it places on small businesses like coffee shops and smaller motels that provide wireless access as a courtesy. Now, they have to purchase servers for data archival. Additionally, this is a burden on tax payers because it will be expensive to enforce. Your politcians should be working to improve lives, not increase the reach of the state. Last time I checked, the economy was poor. Tell your representatives to work on fixing the economy, not trying to make things safer through the enactment of senseless laws.
I thought that null pointers are necessary in order to terminate a linked list. What you want to avoid doing is dereferencing a null pointer as this is a very bad thing. At least, this what I rememebr from Comp Sci 102. How else can one terminate a linked list other than creating a tag labeled "end" ?
Well, maybe Facebook should swallow a heaping teaspoon of its own advice. After all, they were being evil about user privacy. Even Mark Zuckerberg deluded himself into believing that users don't care about privacy.
This is simply abuse on the opposite side of the spectrum of copyright law. Copyrights and patents have a real use to help foster the inventor but when it is abused in sue for profit schemes and the like, it is time for reform, not abolition. The patent and the copyright, as our forefathers envisioned, was not for the major, global corporation but for the small time inventor. Maybe patents should not be allowed to be granted to corporations and universities but individuals.
I think the reason is more simple than that. Some TSA officers probably feel like they have an axe to grind with the Pauls over their anti-TSA statements. This is a simple case of getting even. That much said, both Rand and Ron are right in the matter. I am not really much of a fan of Rand, but his father Ron I'd like to see as the next President. The reality, however, is a long shot.
Owing mainly to the global economy, everyone's culture has changed and every country has assimiliated elements of other countries. For example, the U.S. has a pretty strong following of Zen Buddhist philosophy imported from Japan and many alternative medicine ideas imported from Asia. Each country is almost becoming a small melting pot in its own right.
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I don't know why but this concept gives me the creeps because we don't really understand all there is to know about genetics. By creating meat in a lab, there is no way to be sure that it is exactly the same as nature intended it to be. In fact, our bodies may very well process it differently or it could be very detrimental to our health. It is better to use actual animals but figure out a way to make it more environmentally sound. For example, by harvesting the methane gas produced by cows, we are left with a rather abundant energy source. I am usually always skeptical of "simple" solutions because humanity is always looking for the magic pill for panacea and it just never happens. It is possible to be smart and economical about cattle farming while treating these animals humanely.
I always thought Big Brother would start in the US.
The funny thing is so did I. But, come to think of it the D.C. Comics guys also thought it would start in the U.K. with their V for Vendetta movie. And, in actuality, the whole surveillance camera moves began in London.
The only reason this is a so-called disease is because Big Pharma makes tons of money on trying to medicate the children of America. What if this was not a "disability" but actually just the next step in evolution of human beings? What if there is actually nothing wrong at all? I believe ADHD isn't a malady.
I think the HP CEO has leapt to a conclusion without really thinking through the scenario. The short answer is, no, this will not cause the Android platform to become a walled garden. It made perfect financial sense for Google to aquire Motorola Mobility because it gives Google absolute and complete control over a hardware set with which to continue to develop Android. The advantages are numerous as Google can really create a first class operating system with direct access to the hardware layer. By developing the hardware and software in tandem (yet keeping the operating system open source) the product will simply improve by leaps and bounds while giving third party developers even more power. Google is mostly an open source company and operates as such anyhow.
Are antibiotics ineffective on sinus infections because the infection is viral and not bacterial or could it be that the common bacteria responsible for such an infection has grown resistant to the antibiotic?
Yes, to your point. I make no apologies for AT&T. AT&T is evil and so are the other big 3. At least consumers have a choice to go with an MVNO. I use PagePlus Cellular which uses Verizon Wireless' network and 55.00 per month gets you 1GB of data and no contract.
If they're selling more smart phones than they ever have... and they're overselling their resources, which they seem to know they're doing... why not just upgrade the network?
It isn't as simple to just upgrade the network. They have only a finite amount of frequency spectrum to squeeze a large number of data hungry devices so it will not necessarily help to just add more towers. Of course, if AT&T is sitting on unused spectrum, they should be upgrading the network.
Maybe climate change is happening, maybe it isn't. I don't think anyone really knows for certain. However, this is NOT an excuse to continue to burn fossil fuels and polluting our environment. Ultimately, fossil fuels are unsustainable as long term energy solutions. We need to look at hydrogren, solar, wind, and maybe even nuclear. Heartland Institute sounds suspiciously like a lobby group for the "clean" coal and oil industries, nothing more and nothing less. They have a vested interest in supporting their respective industries. This brings me to another point, "clean" coal, is bullshit! It is still a carbon based product being burned and since when does coal burn cleanly. Usually, burining coal results in a dark smoke that cannot possibly be good for the environment.
Talk about a leap to a conclusion! Yikes! I hate politicians of all types and breeds. They are basically life forms lower than algae.
Pain is probably one of the most mysterious things the body experiences. Recent studies have shown that the distinctions between physical and emotional pain are often blurred because emotional pain can become physical pain. Emotional pain can create real, actual physical ailments and this is why there is great emphasis in studying depression in humans. Current thinking that depression causes undue cardiovascular stress and can possibly accelerate alzheimers and have other deleterious effects on the brain. Depression can cause pain. This study is exciting because it just might cure depression versus just using medicines to mitigate it.
I think that is precisely what I like about Twisted Metal is that it does not really tell a story. The violence is almost cartoonish. I really liked the original one with that clown van. It was hysterical.
That is an extremely thin veil. The politicans really want to ultimately be able to control dissent. I grow weary of this crap but human ingenuity finds a way around little problems like these. I am waiting for the time when communities come together to build community-owned, decentralized networks nullifying the point of creating such laws as these. If the internet were really owned by the people, a surveillance law would be practically impossible to enforce. It just shows that government is afraid of the people and it should be. People should not fear their government.
This is a poor idea because ultimately it is the quality of the code being committed, not the number of the commits. You can have a high number of commits with poorly written code that has buffer overruns, null pointer dereferences, and failure to manage dynamic memory properly. This rewards someone that is sly, not a good programmer.
Apple engages in these same style of patent lawsuits. When you swallow your own medicine, it doesn't taste so good - it tastes, well, like medicine.
It is good to see Google willing to do what no other traditional telecommunications company is willing to do. 1GB FTTH is available in Japan and there is talk about it happening in the UK. It is a shame to see Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, and Sprint still trying to squeeze money out of antiquated technologies. Another competitor to the entrenched Big Telecom companies was sorely needed. This will force the legacy carriers to up their ante or try to fight a losing game in the court systems to block Google. Google is one of the wealthiest companies out there and it is not inconcievable that it would be more costly to fight in court then simply to fight on the open market by bringing 1GB FTTH at the same cost but in 1/3 of the time.
I can see this tightening of regulation creating an all new internet that is build amongst non-profit communities and connected together in fashions so that no one owns the transmission means. Unlike today's internet which is essentially owned by oligarchy consisting of AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon (i.e. Big Telecom) communities may end up either laying their own transmission lines or use multipoint wireless. This might just be the tipping point at which the pricing and collusion of Big Telecom leads to their ultimate demise and irrelevance.
Research is expensive and the kind the learned senator proposes is very expensive because it will involve genetic testing which requires powerful computing resources and top medical doctors and geneticists essentially to prove what is already known: radiation is harmful. Instead of spending more money on the program at this point, disband it. This is money that has the possibility to be spent on bringing math, science, and engineering back to America where all Americans have the possibility of benefitting. The travelling public has no tangible benefit from these scanners, only a defined cost.
We're rapidly headed towards a police state! If you live in Hawaii and are registered to vote there, please, please write your representatives and have this defeated. For one, it is a gross invasion of privacy. For another, it is a huge and needless expense on the ISP. The ISP is burdened with extra server and storage needs as a result of such politician shortsightedness. Think of the expense that it places on small businesses like coffee shops and smaller motels that provide wireless access as a courtesy. Now, they have to purchase servers for data archival. Additionally, this is a burden on tax payers because it will be expensive to enforce. Your politcians should be working to improve lives, not increase the reach of the state. Last time I checked, the economy was poor. Tell your representatives to work on fixing the economy, not trying to make things safer through the enactment of senseless laws.
I thought that null pointers are necessary in order to terminate a linked list. What you want to avoid doing is dereferencing a null pointer as this is a very bad thing. At least, this what I rememebr from Comp Sci 102. How else can one terminate a linked list other than creating a tag labeled "end" ?
Well, maybe Facebook should swallow a heaping teaspoon of its own advice. After all, they were being evil about user privacy. Even Mark Zuckerberg deluded himself into believing that users don't care about privacy.
This is simply abuse on the opposite side of the spectrum of copyright law. Copyrights and patents have a real use to help foster the inventor but when it is abused in sue for profit schemes and the like, it is time for reform, not abolition. The patent and the copyright, as our forefathers envisioned, was not for the major, global corporation but for the small time inventor. Maybe patents should not be allowed to be granted to corporations and universities but individuals.
I think the reason is more simple than that. Some TSA officers probably feel like they have an axe to grind with the Pauls over their anti-TSA statements. This is a simple case of getting even. That much said, both Rand and Ron are right in the matter. I am not really much of a fan of Rand, but his father Ron I'd like to see as the next President. The reality, however, is a long shot.
Owing mainly to the global economy, everyone's culture has changed and every country has assimiliated elements of other countries. For example, the U.S. has a pretty strong following of Zen Buddhist philosophy imported from Japan and many alternative medicine ideas imported from Asia. Each country is almost becoming a small melting pot in its own right.
I guess it is safe to say that "erroding Canada's culture" is okay then. So the CRTC is really a PAC or Lobbyist group.
Prime example evidence #1 of how SOPA breaks the cloud.
A single complaint that a cloud service has a copyright file can result in a takedown of the entire cloud. Stranding all clients of that cloud.
Thanks to the government and their extra-judicial processes, they have broken the notion of internet provided services.
This may be the lifeline that some of us Information Technology professionals are hoping for. It basically cancels out dumb decisions made by the PHB