The whole point of the field of statistics is to keep changing your models until you find one that shows the result you want. Why else do you think there are more than a dozen different normalization tests?
I'm amazed that Apple can make a 15" 2880x1800 LCD and make all the tiny electronics that fit in that little laptop... I am certain that all the parts and components are engineered, designed, produced entirely and exclusively by Apple.
The changes outlined refer to methylation, not to actual dna change. The sequence is the same as when you were born (for most part), but methyl groups attach to certain genes to turn them off and detach from other ones to turn them on. This stuff isn't passed to offsprings, they're just switches that are placed on the dna. So, it turns out the old people have the genes that increase chance of cancer/diabetes turned on while babies with the same genes have them turned off, and a middle aged adult is in between.
This is fairly interesting discovery. I guess the next step is to figure out what's controlling the methyl groups. The whole field of biology is enormously complex, there are so many variables and they are all somehow interrelated. Programming analogy: It's like spaghetti code and the program is running exclusively on global variables where each variable controls multiple functions. It runs very efficiently and fast, but debugging is a nightmare. To make matters worse you can't even see these molecular structures in action even under a microscope because they're way too small, so it's like trying to debug the executable of the aforementioned program without a disassembler... the only tool biology has: is the ability to modify the executable and run it again to see what it does. It's amazing that we came to understand this much with our primitive tools.
On one end we have every laptop with a stupid 1366x768 resolution - and a few with 1440x900.
On the other end we have this $2200 thing with 2880x1800.
Can't we get something that's more middle of the line? 1920x1080 on a 14" laptop would be more than great. 1920x1200 on a 15" laptop would be spectacular.
2880x1800 on a 15" screen is just a idiotic. They've gone overboard. You don't even find 2880x1800 on 27" screens, on a 15" screen this is going to be too small to be of any use.
I got an ipad 2 and it came with a bubble under the screen, a glaring manufacturing defect that should have been caught by a simple visual inspection. So, I had to bring it to the customer service (I refuse to call it genius bar because any dumbass is smarter than those idiots). I was the first one in the store because I hate the place even more when it gets crowded, it starts to smell like a sweaty locker room, but even though I was the first person there I still had to wait about 45 minutes for them to get me a replacement one.
I would prefer my money to be wasted on rockets into space instead of rockets launched at brown people. I would rather throw my money at NASA scientists than to throw it at corn/oil subsidies.
make a tv box that comes with a robot that takes up residence in your house, prying around your living room, watching you sleep, watching you shower and take a crap to find out as much about you as possible so bombard you with constant ads targeted entirely to you.
sadly enough an empty chair would be much more beneficial to society than most politicians.
Empty chairs aren't corrupt. Empty chairs don't take your rights. Empty chairs don't give subsidies to their friends. Empty chairs don't collect huge wages and lifetime of medical/dental benefits. Empty chairs don't do insider trading. Okay, now that I think about it, I can't think of a single way a crooked politician would be better than an empty chair. Vote Empty Chair for Congress!
NONSENSE! Shut your face! With nothing but stupid "social funds" we would cure nothing but the dumbest stupidest things like malaria which only kills a few million people a year. How the hell would we ever have enough "social funds" to cure the important things like flaccid penises and hair loss that affects millions of very rich people? HOW? You ever stop to think before you open your stupid ape mouth?
How about instead of taxing them we end the god damn subsidies instead? The god damn corn farmers are ridiculously subsidized which is why we can afford super cheap soda with super cheap corn syrup in it. Soda so cheap because we paid for it with our tax dollars already! End the god damn subsidy instead of adding yet another retarded tax.
Same god damn gasoline. Oil producers are heavily subsidized, so our gas is only $3/gal because we collectively pay HUGE subsidies to the oil industry to make it cheap. On top of that there's a tax too! Why so complicated? Holy batman, end the god damn subsidies!
oh... and all these "taxed enough already" tea party fuckers are all for "reduce taxes, reduce government spending" are against cutting subsidies! A subsidy is a tax that we pay to private businesses. Oil subsidy = oil industry's tax on people. Corn farming subsidy = corn farmer's tax on people. Stupid.
The ribbon bar in Office 2010 is the most unusable piece of crap ever. I had to memorize where all the stuff was before, now I have to re-memorize where all the stuff is because everything is in a new location that is not very intuitive.
How hard is it to make an interface where I can just TYPE what I want to do? I want to type "line spacing" and have it bring me to the place where I change line spacing. Microsoft with their billions of dollars can't figure out how to do that? Is this a joke? So instead I have to press F1, type "line spacing" and have it show me the tips on how to do the special dance to get to where I want. In a world where the computer has 3 billion cycles per second I shouldn't have to waste my cycles trying to remember what awkward button sequence I have to perform to get the reward.
He's an amazing programmer that has done more than his fare share of contributing to the world of computer graphics. In a world where everyone is fighting tooth and nail trying to enforce copyrights and patents, he simply released the full source codes to the programs he wrote. That is altruism at its best and for that he is on the very top of my list of awesome programmers.
This really goes to show you the budget humans have allocated to watching/killing each other vs. the budget allocated for exploring the deepest reaches of outer space. Military comes first, science gets the scraps.
No, according to PETA you must not eat the animals, or use their fur, or skin, only kill them and trash the bodies making sure it is a complete waste of an animal's life and corpse.
Would you install cameras in every street corner, every home, every bedroom so you can watch everyone at all times to prevent child porn? I think everyone would answer with a resounding NO, because anyone can see it is a clear violation of people's privacy. Why would you do the equivalent of that online?
The last few seconds pretty much sums up Ari's shortsightedness. A man from the audience is explaining that what happened to the music industry (how Apple saved the failing business model) and Ari agrees with that, then the man from audience asks if he doesn't see the writing on the wall, that this is going to happen to TV soon, within 20 years. Ari's answer is that he'll be fine with that, he'll be 71.
This is exactly the problem with that whole industry. Their policies are based on shortsighted views and ancient mentality. In the digital age it is folly to let these idiots lead the content industry. They're concerned about immediate profits, with no regard to what will happen in the near future.
People who have the mentality of "I don't care what happens 20 years from now" should not be in charge of anything that is expected to last more than a mere 20 years. If you want your business to fail within 20 years, then Ari is your man. Ari is a death sentence to a company.
Hey, I got a perfect opportunity in his area where he can work from home making $6000/month. If he's interested, let him know, I can send him the information packet right away and he can get started! The packet is $50, but I offer 30-day money back if you don't make thousands of dollars after the first 4 weeks. You have to try this opportunity. Act fast!
YUP... the people who need their money the most fall for this type of scam and become even poorer.
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I don't get it. Why don't they just make it easier to skin it?
The whole point of the field of statistics is to keep changing your models until you find one that shows the result you want. Why else do you think there are more than a dozen different normalization tests?
I'm amazed that Apple can make a 15" 2880x1800 LCD and make all the tiny electronics that fit in that little laptop... I am certain that all the parts and components are engineered, designed, produced entirely and exclusively by Apple.
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The changes outlined refer to methylation, not to actual dna change. The sequence is the same as when you were born (for most part), but methyl groups attach to certain genes to turn them off and detach from other ones to turn them on. This stuff isn't passed to offsprings, they're just switches that are placed on the dna. So, it turns out the old people have the genes that increase chance of cancer/diabetes turned on while babies with the same genes have them turned off, and a middle aged adult is in between.
This is fairly interesting discovery. I guess the next step is to figure out what's controlling the methyl groups. The whole field of biology is enormously complex, there are so many variables and they are all somehow interrelated. Programming analogy: It's like spaghetti code and the program is running exclusively on global variables where each variable controls multiple functions. It runs very efficiently and fast, but debugging is a nightmare. To make matters worse you can't even see these molecular structures in action even under a microscope because they're way too small, so it's like trying to debug the executable of the aforementioned program without a disassembler... the only tool biology has: is the ability to modify the executable and run it again to see what it does. It's amazing that we came to understand this much with our primitive tools.
This is completely overboard.
On one end we have every laptop with a stupid 1366x768 resolution - and a few with 1440x900.
On the other end we have this $2200 thing with 2880x1800.
Can't we get something that's more middle of the line? 1920x1080 on a 14" laptop would be more than great. 1920x1200 on a 15" laptop would be spectacular. 2880x1800 on a 15" screen is just a idiotic. They've gone overboard. You don't even find 2880x1800 on 27" screens, on a 15" screen this is going to be too small to be of any use.
I got an ipad 2 and it came with a bubble under the screen, a glaring manufacturing defect that should have been caught by a simple visual inspection. So, I had to bring it to the customer service (I refuse to call it genius bar because any dumbass is smarter than those idiots). I was the first one in the store because I hate the place even more when it gets crowded, it starts to smell like a sweaty locker room, but even though I was the first person there I still had to wait about 45 minutes for them to get me a replacement one.
It's something about intergalactic black hoes, I think.... I'm not quite sure. We might need to read the article but it may not be SFW.
I would prefer my money to be wasted on rockets into space instead of rockets launched at brown people. I would rather throw my money at NASA scientists than to throw it at corn/oil subsidies.
make a tv box that comes with a robot that takes up residence in your house, prying around your living room, watching you sleep, watching you shower and take a crap to find out as much about you as possible so bombard you with constant ads targeted entirely to you.
buy our crap! Buy Our Crap! BUY OUR CRAP! B_U_Y _ O_U_R _ C_R_A_P!
Warning! You haven't been paying attention to the ads! Further ad avoidance will result in cancelling your TV subscription!
sadly enough an empty chair would be much more beneficial to society than most politicians.
Empty chairs aren't corrupt. Empty chairs don't take your rights. Empty chairs don't give subsidies to their friends. Empty chairs don't collect huge wages and lifetime of medical/dental benefits. Empty chairs don't do insider trading. Okay, now that I think about it, I can't think of a single way a crooked politician would be better than an empty chair. Vote Empty Chair for Congress!
Okay, car analogy: it would be like changing the radio voiding the drive-train warranty.
they clearly stole the design from Apple!
NONSENSE! Shut your face! With nothing but stupid "social funds" we would cure nothing but the dumbest stupidest things like malaria which only kills a few million people a year. How the hell would we ever have enough "social funds" to cure the important things like flaccid penises and hair loss that affects millions of very rich people? HOW? You ever stop to think before you open your stupid ape mouth?
Sheesh, the nerve on some people!
How about instead of taxing them we end the god damn subsidies instead? The god damn corn farmers are ridiculously subsidized which is why we can afford super cheap soda with super cheap corn syrup in it. Soda so cheap because we paid for it with our tax dollars already! End the god damn subsidy instead of adding yet another retarded tax.
Same god damn gasoline. Oil producers are heavily subsidized, so our gas is only $3/gal because we collectively pay HUGE subsidies to the oil industry to make it cheap. On top of that there's a tax too! Why so complicated? Holy batman, end the god damn subsidies!
oh... and all these "taxed enough already" tea party fuckers are all for "reduce taxes, reduce government spending" are against cutting subsidies! A subsidy is a tax that we pay to private businesses. Oil subsidy = oil industry's tax on people. Corn farming subsidy = corn farmer's tax on people. Stupid.
The ribbon bar in Office 2010 is the most unusable piece of crap ever. I had to memorize where all the stuff was before, now I have to re-memorize where all the stuff is because everything is in a new location that is not very intuitive.
How hard is it to make an interface where I can just TYPE what I want to do? I want to type "line spacing" and have it bring me to the place where I change line spacing. Microsoft with their billions of dollars can't figure out how to do that? Is this a joke? So instead I have to press F1, type "line spacing" and have it show me the tips on how to do the special dance to get to where I want. In a world where the computer has 3 billion cycles per second I shouldn't have to waste my cycles trying to remember what awkward button sequence I have to perform to get the reward.
"Fair share" is more like it.
He's an amazing programmer that has done more than his fare share of contributing to the world of computer graphics. In a world where everyone is fighting tooth and nail trying to enforce copyrights and patents, he simply released the full source codes to the programs he wrote. That is altruism at its best and for that he is on the very top of my list of awesome programmers.
This really goes to show you the budget humans have allocated to watching/killing each other vs. the budget allocated for exploring the deepest reaches of outer space. Military comes first, science gets the scraps.
No, according to PETA you must not eat the animals, or use their fur, or skin, only kill them and trash the bodies making sure it is a complete waste of an animal's life and corpse.
The mid-ocean ridges, the fossils, and the myriad of other evidence discovered fits pangaea theory like a glove.
Would you install cameras in every street corner, every home, every bedroom so you can watch everyone at all times to prevent child porn? I think everyone would answer with a resounding NO, because anyone can see it is a clear violation of people's privacy. Why would you do the equivalent of that online?
That's because the Federal Reserve Bank is not part of the U.S. Government.
The last few seconds pretty much sums up Ari's shortsightedness. A man from the audience is explaining that what happened to the music industry (how Apple saved the failing business model) and Ari agrees with that, then the man from audience asks if he doesn't see the writing on the wall, that this is going to happen to TV soon, within 20 years. Ari's answer is that he'll be fine with that, he'll be 71.
This is exactly the problem with that whole industry. Their policies are based on shortsighted views and ancient mentality. In the digital age it is folly to let these idiots lead the content industry. They're concerned about immediate profits, with no regard to what will happen in the near future.
People who have the mentality of "I don't care what happens 20 years from now" should not be in charge of anything that is expected to last more than a mere 20 years. If you want your business to fail within 20 years, then Ari is your man. Ari is a death sentence to a company.
It is not the educated engineers and programmers that patent this crap, they just implement it and the sleaze bag managers and lawyers do the rest.
Hey, I got a perfect opportunity in his area where he can work from home making $6000/month. If he's interested, let him know, I can send him the information packet right away and he can get started! The packet is $50, but I offer 30-day money back if you don't make thousands of dollars after the first 4 weeks. You have to try this opportunity. Act fast!
YUP... the people who need their money the most fall for this type of scam and become even poorer.