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[Laura Knotek]

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Does it offer much more than the Bing sports app for example?

It's really a shame I could never test Cortana because of my 8X's limitations.

It will show current scores when I tap on the tile (I have Cortana pinned to my start screen). I like that better than opening Bing sports or the ESPN app.

 

[Sport Driver]

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So I won't be on official OS at all. Before I we get cyan MS will release GDR 2
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 820 Tapatalk

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Was the virus killing humans thing already in the previous movie? I don't remember such a thing.

At the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes the cure that made the apes smart created a virus that killed people. Not the first one they created, which seemed to cure the guy's dad but the second one. The one lab guy is found dead in his apartment and he sneezed on the other guy's (the one who raised Caesar) neighbor who was a pilot which is how it spreads, which they show with the map at the end of the movie. Which is why it's easier for the Apes to take control as the human population starts to decline.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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Was the virus killing humans thing already in the previous movie? I don't remember such a thing.

No, and the current movie calls the virus something very similar to SIV, which I think is dumb, since SIV/HIV are completely different.

I did research on Alzheimer's disease during my master thesis, and there are approaches similar to how it's described in the movies. Of course, none of them have a big effect and research much more focuses on stopping the disease than on reverting it. It's also highly unlikely that an additional protein expressed in apes would make them much more intelligent.

Also, I don't think that a retroviral therapy works like shown in the movie. It's however clear that such treatments can go terribly wrong, research on this was halted for years because a trial lead to cancer much worse than the disease it should have treated.

Still, it didn't bother me much when watching the movie. At least it was somehow connected to science. Usually you just get a pile of made up crap.

I agree.

I still think the zombie apocalypse movies seem more realistic in terms of the science.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So I won't be on official OS at all. Before I we get cyan MS will release GDR 2
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 820 Tapatalk

I'm probably in the same position. I have no idea when I'll get Cyan. Christmas?

 

[Laura Knotek]

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At the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes the cure that made the apes smart created a virus that killed people. Not the first one they created, which seemed to cure the guy's dad but the second one. The one lab guy is found dead in his apartment and he sneezed on the other guy's (the one who raised Caesar) neighbor who was a pilot which is how it spreads, which they show with the map at the end of the movie. Which is why it's easier for the Apes to take control as the human population starts to decline.

Oh yeah, the neighbour who is a pilot gets a nosebleed near the end. He is "patient zero", since he spreads it to the people on the plane (and overseas).

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Oh yeah, the neighbour who is a pilot gets a nosebleed near the end. He is "patient zero", since he spreads it to the people on the plane (and overseas).

Wouldn't patient zero be the lab guy who got it first and gave it to the pilot?

 

[azcruz]

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Weeee!

 

[Laura Knotek]

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Wouldn't patient zero be the lab guy who got it first and gave it to the pilot?

Probably. I'm using the terminology originally used with HIV. The Canadian flight attendant was called "patient zero" in the spread of HIV.

However, that turned out to be false. The first case of HIV in the US was in a teenager from St Louis, Missouri, who never travelled outside of the US. He died in 1969.

 

[Sport Driver]

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I'm probably in the same position. I have no idea when I'll get Cyan. Christmas?

Don't be so optimistic, I was thinking more like Easter 2015 .

 

[Sport Driver]

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I'm probably in the same position. I have no idea when I'll get Cyan. Christmas?

Don't be so optimistic, I was thinking more like Easter 2015 .
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 820 Tapatalk

 

[N_LaRUE]

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That was weird. I got kicked off that forum. I didn't exist for a few minutes there.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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That was weird. I got kicked off that forum. I didn't exist for a few minutes there.

Don't feel bad. So did I (while trying to clean spam). I couldn't get on Android Central, iMore, CrackBerry, Connectedly or Mobile Nations either.

They must have rebooted a server.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Don't feel bad. So did I (while trying to clean spam). I couldn't get on Android Central, iMore, CrackBerry, Connectedly or Mobile Nations either.

They must have rebooted a server.

You would know more than I. I'm guessing it was the accounts server as the rest of the forum seemed to be working.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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I found the zombie thing I was talking about. It was fungus but I do believe there's a parasite as well.

Undead-End: Fungus That Controls Zombie-Ants Has Own Fungal Stalker - Scientific American

 

[Chregu]

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I found the zombie thing I was talking about. It was fungus but I do believe there's a parasite as well.

Undead-End: Fungus That Controls Zombie-Ants Has Own Fungal Stalker - Scientific American

That's no fun. I hope nobody of you is an ant!

Now I feel like watching Zombieland, and I could, I'm sick at home after all...

 

[WanderingTraveler]

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I found the zombie thing I was talking about. It was fungus but I do believe there's a parasite as well.

Undead-End: Fungus That Controls Zombie-Ants Has Own Fungal Stalker - Scientific American

Gah. You made me remember about the...thing Kotaku made me look at.

A fungus that ate its way through a spider.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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This was the one on cats - Do Cats Control My Mind? - James Hamblin - The Atlantic

I often wonder if I may have had this when younger or something. I was quite fearless then. Then again it may just be young stupidity. I'm still not scared of much though and I like cats.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Leave it to me to like the most expensive cover you can buy for a Nexus 7.... it will have to wait until after the vacation though.

devices - Nexus 7 - Portenzo

 

[Chregu]

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Leave it to me to like the most expensive cover you can buy for a Nexus 7.... it will have to wait until after the vacation though.

devices - Nexus 7 - Portenzo

It's probably more expensive than the device itself ;-)