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Johncarllos
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« Reply #5722 on: 20 May 2010, 23:19:15 » |
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That article is a joke.
It's an amazing advancement that he has created Mycoplasma laboratorium, the article calls him an antichrist when he's really a superior geneticist.
It's silly that people are afraid of this, a single bacterium can't do crap, and it way less complex than a eukaryote. Variations of this could be made though, that synthesize synthetic fuels, which is amazing.
This semester I took and introduced a DNA plasmid to a strain of E. coli and successfully made it completely resistant to the antibiotic ampicillin. He has just done this on a greater scale.
Did you know that we make the insulin used for diabetics by transforming E. coli? We introduce a simple strand of genetic code that makes the E. coli produce insulin, then filter out the nutrient media and the E. coli and boom, insulin. Then dump the E. coli into another vat and get MORE insulin.
It's been a long process coming that an entire DNA strain has been put together to create an entire creature, even though it was really like taking the parts of a few different cars, sticking them together, and putting them together in an assembly line used to make similar cars. It's a 'new' car, but it's nothing truely shocking. When we can take and create all the pieces from scratch, THAT'S an achievement.
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« Reply #5728 on: 21 May 2010, 05:24:46 » |
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So from amazon.com I got meeee, 1. Mega Man X: Official Complete Works 2. BLAZBLUE Calamity Trigger Limited Edition ArtBook 3. Elite Ozone Depil Mousse - Hair Remover (BECAUSE AM SICK OF HAVING A HAIRY SHOULDER!!!) 4. A few Godzilla movies like, 160 American $$$ total.  |
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AlexThePenguin
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« Reply #5733 on: 24 May 2010, 09:20:00 » |
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It's like that up here, too. We also just got past a nasty cold snap from BC that was all like, "I'm going to rain all over you and drop the temperature into the 50s and below!" *windy whoosh*, but then, the sun was all like, "Oh, no you don't, evildoer!" *shine shine shine shine*, and it was amazing because, except for the giant puddles, you couldn't tell that it had rained half an hour after the sun came out.
This would cycle every few hours, except for a couple extended snaps of each.
It lasted most of last week.
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Vinchenz Rock
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« Reply #5744 on: 26 May 2010, 04:02:45 » |
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And Alec's team didn't get to go to Aspen. I guarantee those Xavier punks used some sort of bot.
Man, that's gay. Well, now my life... I failed 5 of my 7 classes last semester which pretty much rendered that semester as a waste of money and half a year of my life. A lot of it is definitely my fault. I was pretty retarded the entire year, barely lifting my ass up to do any homework nor did I even try studying. I've talked to people about this (including a psychiatrist) and they think I'm just burnt out. Working every single day for, like, 15 years of my life is making me feel bored of it. But it's not just my fault. The course itself is very #####ed up. There are changes made every year because too many people drop out half-way through. The first year is incredibly easy (and fun!) and the second year the difficulty jumps so far up its not even funny. And the people who run the course admits that things need to be changed... but it won't be changed soon enough. So, I'm pretty much wasting my time on this... But... I've already spent so much money. And I want to do this. I'm still going to try to finish the course. I'm going to motivate myself more to fix my programming stump, I'm trying to learn as much as I can this summer so I can be prepared for what's going to come. I will finish the course, I'm not going to be a college drop out. Still... so many of my friends have dropped out... I can only think of one friend out of a group of ten that's definitely going to come back... and even then, he wants to drop out so he can become a lawyer instead because it's actually easier then learning all kinds of complex programming languages and algorithms. But I'm doing it, I'm not going to disappoint my family or myself any longer. |
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Vinchenz Rock
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« Reply #5749 on: 27 May 2010, 11:31:47 » |
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Thanks for the support guys. In other news, I got myself a RetroDuo. This thing is really going to kill productivity, lol, I haven't played my NES and SNES games in years. I already went and beat MegaMan on it. What a bitch, it was a lot harder than I remembered. >_> Feel like doing the same with 2, 3, and 4. It even makes me want to buy 5 and 6 on eBay or something... <_< But anyway, doing this just makes my love for being a Game Designer even stronger. I'm currently tinkering around in OpenGL (a graphics programming language), trying to figure out how to make a 2D platformer on it. How cool would it be if I could recreate a MegaMan engine on it? :P |
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