he forgot tetris... BLASPHEMY what other game do you know is able to etch its self directly into your brain? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
though he is somewhat correct, a lot of the games have been utter garbage lately, although most of the bad games of the past died a quiet death to be forgotten as it should be.
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I don't know, the man was aiming for the moon and hit london after all
hurricanes can cause damage to areas over 100 miles from the coast line, that's a very large chunk of the planet that can and is hit by hurricanes. many people living in those areas don't have the option of leaving. entire countries, cuba for one. It's better to develop tech to help people who can't move to survive at the least although it isn't possible at the moment to save everyone that way. If we found a way to break up or civert dangerous hurricanes, that could save a lot of lives and that is what is important.
yes. that is why they never tried it. of course if we ever did, it could just as easily make a stronger hurricane but now with radiation spread all throughout the atmosphere
They've tried cloud seeding too and they even though about detonating hydrogen bombs in the hurricane. Hurricanes are very large heat engines that work off of a temperature gradient. Upset that gradient enough and the storm breaks up or destroys its self. DO it wrong and you can inadvertantly steer the hurricane the wrong way or make things a whole lot worse by actually strengthening it. That isn't to say we haven't tried before though, we've used cloud seeding on storms for years [started as a military weapon, flood the battlefield and mud keeps the tanks from moving much] it ended up killing I think about 30 people in the resulting flood. We really don't want this to be a part of anyone's arsenal. The political effects alone are something to shudder about.
Because you probably wouldn't have bought it if it was $70?
I haven't bought any of their later games anyway. You really think that they would pass on their higher profit margin to the consumer? bwahahaha... that's funny. They are doing this to make money at the cost of privacy and the overall gaming experience, it has nothign to do with offsetting prices. Of course they could still try and offer an ad-free version for say 10$ more...
If a game costs 50$ why the hell should there be ads in it? Who actually puts up with this enough to even make the idea look like something we would tolerate?
Of course now if anyone really pushes the matter and shows how clearly retarded and one-sided this is, the RIAA/MPAA etc... will push a lot harder for a unified copyright system just as horrid as the USA's is now. Only this time they will have the excuse of preventing similar occurances liek this in the future.
Are we going to post a news story everytime google adds to their storage system?
I seem to remember an article poking fun at the fact google's email space isn't "infinite" like some other services so if they doubled or tripled their limit I guess it would be on the front page.
or microsoft adds another bloated line of code?
Windows Vista articles?
or everytime the telco's build a tower?
articles about the irrational fear of wifi and the "dangers" of cell phone towers, I believe we've seen that too. so yes, there will be a front page article on slashdot about all three of these.
indeed, the reason we use baker's yeast is that it is a model organism. it's a very simple, well understood, genetically sequenced organism that is easily growable in a lab environment. we understand enough about it to start actually encoding artificial amino acids in it's genome as well. in that case, we use one of the lesser used stop codons [the amber codon in particular seems to be in common use to my knowledge] and evolve an artificial rna aminoacylase that recognises both the stop codon and our new amino acid. then we insert genes that have the newly utilised stop codon and genes to make the new amino acid and voila, the yeast can now use at least 1 extra building block in its proteins. that could in principle be used to make a super strain of yeast to make alcoholic beveragers etc. though it's a very rube goldberg way of doing it. We can already breed yeast strains capable of nearly doubling the amount of alcohol without distilling. [21% was the highest I've heard used] The real interesting thing we can do is start evolving new proteins that do things that nature is really not equipped to do at the moment. proteins that are very slippery, new enzymes, stronger materials, biopolymers, organic fuel production etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae
I would like to but for some reason the link goes to a subscription page.
This article IS NOT about inserting genes from one species into another, it's about creating entirely new chromosomes and being able to insert them into an organism, the key phrase being "Creating an artificial chromosome".
there is still a transfer of genes, whether it be one or many in a chromosome but this is nothing new. we've been doing this sort of thing in yeast since the early 1980's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_artificial_chromosome
if you start just making up genes you do need to do much more carefull testing - make sure they don't mix with the plant next door and make something evil that kills all the bees or creates a super weed etc etc
we aren't making new "genes" in this case, we are transferring a gene from one species to another. it's very similar to natural processes of horizontal gene transfer, even viruses can and do transfer genetic material from species to species on occasion all for millions of years. as for the danger of creating something dangerous, there are several cases where natural species can and are destroying habitats and poisoning large stretches of ocean in one case. we really should test everything regardless of whether we genetically modified it or bred it successively over many generations.
we know from the light spectrum of the sun what elements are in the sun and what amounts of each, pinpointing the isotopic composition however is more difficult. what I meant by the part
if we find something statistically off about the oxygen/nitrogen composition then we know that it is likely that the samples were contaminated.
was that if we find that the sample consists of mainly oxygen and nitrogen with little hydrogen or helium, it isn't likely to be part of the solar wind- more likely it's contaminated.
argon makes up about 1% of our atmosphere while neon takes up a smaller amount of our air. though I suspect that the gas was contained enough so that had enough to sample sections that had little or no visible contamination. had there been any real significant contamination from gases in our air, it is just as likely that the gases in the samples escaped, thus there wouldn't be much to sample. in addition to that, we know the general composition of the sun which shouldn't deviate too much from the composition of soalr wind so if we find something statistically off about the oxygen/nitrogen composition then we know that it is likely that the samples were contaminated.
The other reason I'd never play in a casino game is that the house's take is big enough that you're practically guaranteed to lose money in the long run, unless you somehow manage to get into games where your skills are extremely high in comparison to your competitors'.
why do you think online casinos are any more "loose" as they say than physical casinos? What prevents online casinos from using software that gives them the same advantages statistically as real world casinos? For that matter, many online casinos are hosted in other countries, some of which don't have the same laws in regards to gambling. why isn't that a concern as well?
Also, their cable, their rules, don't like it, ditch Comcast
do you really think if people had an alternative they would be using comcast? the whole problem is that comcast is your only choice in certain areas, there is no one to switch to- either you go with them or no internet for you.
that could be the case though I wonder what the probability of two seperate black holes getting close enough to merge like that. Even better then that is that this one in particular is part of a multi-star system- what is to say that it didn't siphon off material from another much larger star?
I assume that you need certain proprietary programs that can't be run through Linux- if you can't find any laptops with XP on them, there is a way to get XP on them without paying for %@%$ing Vista. You need to find a copy of XP [harder now but not impossible] refuse the Vista Eula, remove Vista [or have it removed] technically you get the license cash from Vista back which you can put toward a copy of XP. though if you could get away with using FOSS/wined software, I'd go with Debian or Ubuntu and tell them to shove VIsta somewhere unpleasant.
Some non-political example is slashdot versus digg. Moderation is required.
except that on slashdot a large number of the moderations are done by other slashdotters, not editors. you then have meta-moderation which keeps the moderaters in check. most of the time it does a fairly good job of moderating out the idiot posts while lifting up fairly intelligent posts. it isn't perfect but it is certainly better than a dictatorship or pure mob rule.
The fact that some of Satrun's moons have water is nothing new, Tethys for example has a density very near 1 g/cm^3 indicating that it is likely mostly made of water ice. The real interesting thing here is that tidal heating could create pools of warmed liquid water neneat the surface.
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he forgot tetris... BLASPHEMY what other game do you know is able to etch its self directly into your brain? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect though he is somewhat correct, a lot of the games have been utter garbage lately, although most of the bad games of the past died a quiet death to be forgotten as it should be.
I don't know, the man was aiming for the moon and hit london after all
hurricanes can cause damage to areas over 100 miles from the coast line, that's a very large chunk of the planet that can and is hit by hurricanes. many people living in those areas don't have the option of leaving. entire countries, cuba for one. It's better to develop tech to help people who can't move to survive at the least although it isn't possible at the moment to save everyone that way. If we found a way to break up or civert dangerous hurricanes, that could save a lot of lives and that is what is important.
yes. that is why they never tried it. of course if we ever did, it could just as easily make a stronger hurricane but now with radiation spread all throughout the atmosphere
tell me: what will your car, house, driveway and yard look like after a cat 5 hurricane that we didn't steer away?
They've tried cloud seeding too and they even though about detonating hydrogen bombs in the hurricane. Hurricanes are very large heat engines that work off of a temperature gradient. Upset that gradient enough and the storm breaks up or destroys its self. DO it wrong and you can inadvertantly steer the hurricane the wrong way or make things a whole lot worse by actually strengthening it. That isn't to say we haven't tried before though, we've used cloud seeding on storms for years [started as a military weapon, flood the battlefield and mud keeps the tanks from moving much] it ended up killing I think about 30 people in the resulting flood. We really don't want this to be a part of anyone's arsenal. The political effects alone are something to shudder about.
If a game costs 50$ why the hell should there be ads in it? Who actually puts up with this enough to even make the idea look like something we would tolerate?
Of course now if anyone really pushes the matter and shows how clearly retarded and one-sided this is, the RIAA/MPAA etc... will push a lot harder for a unified copyright system just as horrid as the USA's is now. Only this time they will have the excuse of preventing similar occurances liek this in the future.
indeed, the reason we use baker's yeast is that it is a model organism. it's a very simple, well understood, genetically sequenced organism that is easily growable in a lab environment. we understand enough about it to start actually encoding artificial amino acids in it's genome as well. in that case, we use one of the lesser used stop codons [the amber codon in particular seems to be in common use to my knowledge] and evolve an artificial rna aminoacylase that recognises both the stop codon and our new amino acid. then we insert genes that have the newly utilised stop codon and genes to make the new amino acid and voila, the yeast can now use at least 1 extra building block in its proteins. that could in principle be used to make a super strain of yeast to make alcoholic beveragers etc. though it's a very rube goldberg way of doing it. We can already breed yeast strains capable of nearly doubling the amount of alcohol without distilling. [21% was the highest I've heard used] The real interesting thing we can do is start evolving new proteins that do things that nature is really not equipped to do at the moment. proteins that are very slippery, new enzymes, stronger materials, biopolymers, organic fuel production etc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae
argon makes up about 1% of our atmosphere while neon takes up a smaller amount of our air. though I suspect that the gas was contained enough so that had enough to sample sections that had little or no visible contamination. had there been any real significant contamination from gases in our air, it is just as likely that the gases in the samples escaped, thus there wouldn't be much to sample. in addition to that, we know the general composition of the sun which shouldn't deviate too much from the composition of soalr wind so if we find something statistically off about the oxygen/nitrogen composition then we know that it is likely that the samples were contaminated.
too bad you can't delete comments like that... what has been said cannot be un-said
well at least windows would be secure, and look there's clippy to great you at boot up :)
that could be the case though I wonder what the probability of two seperate black holes getting close enough to merge like that. Even better then that is that this one in particular is part of a multi-star system- what is to say that it didn't siphon off material from another much larger star?
I assume that you need certain proprietary programs that can't be run through Linux- if you can't find any laptops with XP on them, there is a way to get XP on them without paying for %@%$ing Vista. You need to find a copy of XP [harder now but not impossible] refuse the Vista Eula, remove Vista [or have it removed] technically you get the license cash from Vista back which you can put toward a copy of XP. though if you could get away with using FOSS/wined software, I'd go with Debian or Ubuntu and tell them to shove VIsta somewhere unpleasant.
The fact that some of Satrun's moons have water is nothing new, Tethys for example has a density very near 1 g/cm^3 indicating that it is likely mostly made of water ice. The real interesting thing here is that tidal heating could create pools of warmed liquid water neneat the surface.