Tomatoes are mostly self-pollinating, especially those grown for the commercial market. And farmers buy from seed producers, who grow their seed-as-the-end-goal strains away from usual places of food production (so last year's food strain doesn't interfere with this year's seed strain).

It looks like they are hoping others will take the modification and put it into their already patented (non-GMO/non-modified) strains, so it's not really a strain that is being released. But that was from a quick look at the article. Safe for human consumption, yes.

When you have an overpriced IT person, just work with the cops + jail and get them back, but at a much cheaper rate! Bonus: They no longer have to worry about paying rent/mortgage and other bills. Win-win all around.

This has been one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Even if they choose to be "inspired by" for their series the fact they had to buy this book really weakens their argument that it's not an infringement.

"20 year old varieties work just as well now as they did 20 years ago."

WTF? Hahahaha, no, they don't. Most crops are on cycles between 5 and 15 years due to pests, diseases, and recently weather changes. A 20-year old crop is going to be wiped out probably in a month or two, or with enough toxic pesticides to make the end product carcinogenic (even if organic, thanks to elemental copper and other nasties organic uses).

And even if you did get something from the 20-year old stock, it's going to be significantly less than your neighbors. You'll be making pennies on the dollar, if not tenths of a cent on the dollar of your neighbors.

Luckily in the US many universities run and operate breeding programs, and some farmers support different ones (Mn Soybean association comes to mind). These are a bit cheaper to buy seed from, but most people go through companies to buy seed each year, which often come with guarantees that you can't get by saving seed.

Crop plants thrive in an agroecosystem and are thus pretty much dependent on humans. They are not independent living organisms, as they quickly die in a few generations outside of agricultural systems.

The targeted breeding done to them would not occur in nature. An Irish potato and a Chilean potato do not "meet magically in nature to get it on."

Farmers don't breed plants. You're really grasping at something you seem to have zero understanding of.

Wait, so this guy wanted to plant a specialized category of produce, knew the risks, and sued when one of the risks happened? Who does he sue for drought? Why are his crops worthless now? Not-organic doesn't mean you can't sell them at the market. It just means you can't call them "organic."

I can't believe idiots like this are allowed to have businesses.

We have a leaf, so max range ~ 100mi. I keep it charged to = 40% unless we are going out of town, gets us all around town and back. Lower cost per mile, lower total cost of ownership (saving a ton in maintenance). Can rent a car for long journeys but the charging infrastructure is kicking in so haven't done it yet (but plan to). Some cars in some places have had negative depreciation (worth more if you sell it in 12 months). I doubt I'd get that lucky, and I doubt it will hold.

Oh yeah, and the beautiful quiet, and crazy acceleration.

"If you're giving a presentation"

Usually a video cable....

If you're giving a presentation, you can turn wifi mode off. Or use a separate account (Win + Linux both allow this, I'm sure Mac does too).

Lots of ways other than total segregation, which isn't a bad idea but is really not practical.

I know they say AI, but they definitely mean machine learning, which is really just advanced guessing (and can work well, but still)....

I mean, sure, a single data processing pipeline might have to use 6 different conda environments, each with different dependencies and python versions due to tool and libraries are often deprecated with even minor point changes to python versions...... oh yeah, all that and then you have to shoe-horn in tensorflow (or something else).

I love my VR setup, the vive. It gets me extra exercise each day, keeps it from being boring, and makes it happen regardless of the weather. Fallout, Skyrim are amazing in it, even if they aren't designed for it.

EVE Valkyrie was a Rift exclusive, so I pretty much ignored it. I didn't even know it came over the Vive until I read this, 2 years later. Meh, no thanks. I know studios love doing exclusives, but the VR ecosystem is far too small for that.

That's what I was thinking too. Why would marketing even have the entire film in the same directory as the trailer? Wouldn't it just be emailed across the company network or somesuch?

And didn't they notice it taking even many further hours to upload.

You can cut down on meat without mentioning it to anybody, you know. This would cut down on people commenting on stuff. I know, facebook generation, can't do anything without letting the world know.