Toshiba OCZ Unveils Low Cost, High Performance TL100 Series Solid State Drives

Despite advances in CPU, GPU, and memory technologies, for most users, moving from a traditional hard drive to a solid state drive remains one of the most effective PC upgrades possible. Although there are usually trade-offs in terms of capacity (unless you’ve got an unlimited budget), solid state drives offer exponentially faster access times, significantly more bandwidth, and can handle many more concurrent operations.  What that means for end users is that – all other things being equal – upgrading from a hard drive to an SSD results is a more responsive system, that boots faster, shuts down faster,  and can move data around quicker.  Applications launch faster and game levels load faster too. There are also battery life and durability benefits for notebooks and laptops because solid state drives use less power and have no moving parts.

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New Dad building a story for my daughter via /r/Minecraft


New Dad building a story for my daughter

This will be long and involves story telling, I could use some helpful ideas!

I'm new to Minecraft in the sense that I am a PS4 player only. I don't have all the fancy stuff on PC, but this game has occupied my gaming mind since it became available on PS4. It's been about 3 years total (2.5 in survival, .5 in creative) and I've only worked on one seed. I'm sure given really good builders, you can imagine what they could create. Well, I'm not that guy. Since switching my world to creative, and using helpful tutorials from Jeracraft, I have expanded my world into a great little story I feel to introduce my daughter if she expresses interest in the game. If she doesn't, hey it's been fun building! But if she does, the world I still continue to grow can tell her a story and teach her indirectly.

I've since gone back and made a memorial trip to my beginning castle which I thought was awesome, but once I started watching YouTube videos, it's not that impressive. It starts at original spawn and has a lighted path to my first night. A hallowed out cave with a door. From there, a path leading to my first death down a crevice in the earth. But you then get led to my first castle. It's glorious (to a new player), and because it was in survival at that point I think it's not bad for me!

I will then go to a nether portal that will teleport me to a jail, on the other side of my world.

This is when she will turn on her controller and be spawned in a small cell. My plan is to show her what I did, how I was new to a world that was scary … but then I learned through trial and error, how to make it through countless days and nights. And with some time and dedication, can make something pretty cool.

When she enters the world, I will free her from her cell. Where she feels is new, and helpless, but her Dad is there to guide her.

There will be signs for her to go upstairs to the library where she will find hidden books throughout looking for the secret word. The last book is called The Princess (sappy I know) and the password to the world will be her name.

Now, here's where the ideas are needed. I have built a lot of things from Jeracraft. So the library's, to houses, mansions, church, blacksmith etc … with detailed paths and greenery surrounding them. It's big, and nice. These buildings will tell stories about how this world was scary for her father, and but how he progressed as a builder to get this world ready for her, and to make it safe.

The buildings are representative of life lessons. Barracks to learn, and defend herself. A blacksmith to make her tools for survival stronger. A school to educate herself with actual books I will transpose into them. A church, if she chooses to explore, to see and learn. A farm to grow and be self sustaining. And eat healthy! You get the idea!

What other buildings do you think could help me continue my story!?!? Any help is appreciated and sorry for the long post.

TLDR: Sappy new Dad hopes his daughter likes minecraft!

Submitted September 27, 2016 at 06:41PM by Bildo818
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Un bebé es procreado gracias a una técnica que incorpora el ADN de tres personas

Científicos anunciaron el exitoso nacimiento del primer bebé procreado gracias a una innovadora técnica que incorpora el ADN de tres personas y que representa una nueva era en medicina.

La técnica ayudaría a familias con enfermedades genéticas raras.

El bebé, un sano varón ahora de cinco meses de edad, tiene el ADN de su mamá y su papá, además de una pequeña cantidad de código genético de un donante, informó un equipo de embriólogos con sede en Estados Unidos que llevó a cabo una parte del procedimiento en México.

La nueva y controversial tecnología, llamada 'donación mitocondrial' (que permite que los padres con mutaciones genéticas raras tengan hijos sanos), sólo ha sido aprobada legalmente en Reino Unido.

En un artículo publicado en la revista británica New Scientist, los especialistas refieren que los padres del niño son jordanos, pero que la madre lleva genes del síndrome de Leigh, una enfermedad mortal que afecta el desarrollo del sistema nervioso.

https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/780799626517573632

Los genes de ese síndrome residen en las mitocondrias del ADN, que proporcionan la energía a nuestras células y son justo 37 genes que son transmitidos a los hijos por las madres. Esto es independiente de la mayoría de nuestro ADN que se encuentra en cada núcleo celular.

Alrededor de un cuarto de las mitocondrias de la madre tiene la mutación causante de la enfermedad y, aunque ella está sana, el síndrome de Leigh fue responsable de la muerte de sus dos primeros hijos.

Lee: El Nobel de Química reconoce los estudios de reparación del ADN

La pareja buscó la ayuda del doctor John Zhang y su equipo del Centro de Fertilidad de New Hope en la ciudad de Nueva York, que han estado trabajando en una manera de evitar la enfermedad mitocondrial utilizando la técnica “tres padres”.

El método aprobado en Reino Unido se llama “transferencia pronuclear” y consiste en fecundar tanto el óvulo de la madre como el óvulo de una donante con el esperma del padre. Antes de que los huevos fertilizados comiencen a dividirse en la fase inicial, se elimina cada núcleo.

El núcleo del óvulo fertilizado del donante se desecha y se sustituye por el de la madre.

Sin embargo, esta técnica no era apropiada para la pareja -como musulmanes se oponían a la destrucción de embriones-, así que Zhang modificó la técnica: quitó el núcleo de uno de los óvulos de la madre y lo insertó en el de la donante, al cual se removió su propio núcleo.

A continuación, el huevo resultante -con el ADN nuclear de la madre y el mitocondrial de la donante- fue fertilizado con el esperma del padre y fue implantado en el útero de la madre, quien tras el desarrollo normal de la gestación tuvo a su hijo 9 meses después.

El nacimiento del bebé sano fue acogido con beneplácito por los círculos médicos en todo el mundo como una excelente noticias que va a “revolucionar” la medicina.

Recomendamos: El ADN más antiguo del mundo es de un neandertal que se cató a un pozo

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Online Advertising in China Continues to Generate Public Concern and Police Action

Recent news reports from China illustrate a recurrence of issues concerning online advertising practices. The latest episode involves the alleged redirection of web traffic on Internet service provider (ISP) Baidu from links to seemingly innocuous sites to sites advertising gambling and other unlawful activity.

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