BitZtream (692029) wrote: That doesn't happen on iPhones, perhaps its your end thats the problem.
theurge14 (820596) wrote: Sounds like it might be a problem on your phone. I haven't seen this problem at all on iPhones.
[snark]Of course the standards-breaking message sender renders its standards-breaking messages correctly.[/snark]
More seriously, we have:
This suggests that iPhone is using iChat or similar to "txt" with other phones and encoding outgoing info in some sort of multimedia or attachment tags within the SMS format.
I can't stress enough how much it drives me up the wall to get text messages on my Android phone from iPhones. Far too often, they show as "multimedia" messages requiring a data connection just to download 5-7 words of text.
Or when an iPhone user sends a txt message to several people, and each "reply to all" response appears as a separate, disjoint SMS thread without the full conversation or context.
I am not a biologist so forgive me my ignorance but when people say that DNA is the blueprint for an organism I never understand how a bunch of proteins can determine an organism's shape and behavior. Aren't there more factors that determine those things, like the surroundings in which the DNA is used, like chemicals that the growing organism is surrounded with, temperature, etc?
You're absolutely right. Microenvironment -- the cell's chemical, mechanical, and physical environment, determines which genes are switched on, whether those proteins get made, and how and whether they interact with other proteins to alter cell behavior.
This has been a challenge (and perhaps even a failure) of many current genome projects, which are often reductionist to the point of ignoring much of these features, whereas "context" may well be more important than the genome.
There was a big splashy paper in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, where multiple regions of a single tumor were sequenced. It was found that while there were significant differences in the genome across a single tumor, the cell phenotypes (their behavior) was much more convergent. That is, even with significantly different genes, these cells found a way to function similarly when presented a similar environmental context.
It's affecting a lot more than commerce.
My cancer research website is down, too. (Only works on computers that had cached the DNS entries.) So much for inviting seminar speakers today.
I'm an academic. I set my site up years ago (before all the SOPA business) and don't have time to muck with moving my site around, hosting DNS here and content there, and the like. I barely have time to maintain content in the middle of a busy research career. I suppose I'm now supposed to be an expert on mathematical modeling + cancer + hosting my own DNS?
It's always worth keeping in mind that these things affect far more than business sites.
My commute itself is 20-30 minutes.
But as a one-car family, it's 20-30 minutes to get my wife to the bus stop, another 20-30 minutes to get my daughter to day care, and then my own commute.
I'm not honestly sure if this comes out net positive for the environment vs. two cars: two cars would probably cut 10-20 minutes of driving twice daily, but of course adds extra environmental impact of maintaining a second car. It certainly is a net positive on the budget for now, though.
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