The only reason viruses are hard to deal with has to do with the fact that we can't accidentally kill the host trying to "kill" the virus. Since there isn't a host worth worrying about in this design, we don't have to be nice; we can just wipe the virus out without mercy.
If you want to store energy at night you'd probably be better off going with solar thermal + liquid salt thermal storage + water thermochemical cracking. Hydrogen is better used as a chemical fuel or used in synthesizing other chemicals. It's very good at reducing things or powering fuel cells but as a method of storing solar energy on a daily basis, not so much.
This is from what I've read on the subect, quite impressive in terms of how it works however, this isn't a technology that is very likely capable of exceeding the efficiency of a few other methods of producing Hydrogen. 10% solar => Hydrogen efficiency would be impressive for a biological system but well within reach of other technologies like solar thermal + water thermochemical cracking This technology might be of use if alternatives remain comparatively expensive.
If you're a physicist and you wanted to do calculations that involved a few coulombs of charge worth of electrons, MATLAB would throw out an error as this mathematical operation in particular happens to require the calculation of a ~64 bit integer and not be terribly unreasonable.
There are a few reasons: 1) high temp superconductors have a relatively low critical magnetic field strength at liquid Nitrogen temperatures and 2) At this point, switching to high tempt superconductors in the design would require an even longer delay due to the testing required. Of course if 1/5 the field strength is a ok then high temp superconductors should still have a sufficient critical magnetic field strength at liquide Nitrogen temperatures. Although really, you'd still have coolant boiling away just at a somewhat slower pace.
The SEC's job was to go after fraud and general theft; they didn't do their job. The fact that a lot of them were caught surfing for pron isn't the point; the point is that they were not doing their jobs and the consequences were for the most part, felt by other people.
The tribe members gave blood samples on the condition that they be used for a specific purpose. As interesting as these secondary investigations would have been, their blood belongs to them no one else.
Anybody who would question it is clearly off their nut.
No... Informed skepticism is required in science, it is the ignorant, maligned and malicious screaming and wailing that is nutty. Unfortunately, the GP is right, very few AGW "skeptics" have any real idea of what the hell they're talking about.
that the bullshit noise that fox news and deniers spread around got quashed by some actual investigation.
Ha... As if a bunch of people intent on ignoring reality in favor of their own economic religion would ever be swayed by facts... This investigation will be ignored by the right and decried as one more piece of the massive evil conspiracy against oil companies...
this device wouldwork to degreade an orbit due to drag in LEO but in HEO,Geosynchronous or other higher orbits, it could have a reflective coating to use sun light to alter the orbit.
Obviously if the man said 2+2=4 he must automatically be wrong... The man was crazy but the idea that our government and tax law as a whole have also gone batshit isn't that crazy.
Don't defend what that man did. There are more effective ways of protesting this nonsense without resorting to property damage and death. After all, do you really think that anyone with the legislative power to change things for the better thought to themselves "ya know, he's got a point, maybe we should change the tax laws." It'll be remembered as an act of terrorism nothing more.
"Last week, the Washington State House of Representatives passed a bill which would impose a 10% tax on custom software
Too late, it's already done. Now as for the reason why it isn't law, law yet is a puzzling one: they apparently need to find another 300 million in tax revenue and have completely inored the most obvious: closing the MS tax dodge instead of giving them a free pass that this bill just did. Or they could just I don't know cut all the extraneous crap that they shouldn't be doing to begin with but I suppose that actually solving the problem would piss off everyone dependent on the bloat.
Here's a page with a bit more detail. These alloys are of similar composition to stainless steel and tend to have very high levels of Nickel and a little Chromium tossed in for good measure. Shape memory alloys work by utilizing a crystal structure phase transition that causes stress in the alloy to re-align which basically is responsible for the shape change.
RNAi is an ancient anti-viral defense mechanism found in everything from plants to humans. That said, I agree. Any disease that is caused by the production of a given protein could in principle be treated using a derivative of this RNAi nanoparticle technology.
Now we just need to figure out how to change people's DNA on the fly
Viruses come close to this, it is just a matter of expanding what they can do (eg. enlarging their payload) and reducing the incidence of side effects like severe immune reactions.
Just to give an idea of just how vast DNA's information storage is, the average human cell contains about as much information as most DVDs can store. So hypothetically, if you could reliably transport DNA like we do electrons on the internet, the bandwidth would be enormous (1 gram DNA can store ~10^21 bits) although lag might be a problem unless you can route these DNA packets at relativistic velocities.
No. Take a look at the two pushing this bill: Hatch in particular has a history of supporting idiotic things like allowing copyright holders to destroy property of suspected infringers and Gillibrand has a hostory of taking large campaign contributions from parties directly related to legislation she was involved in. It therefore shouldn't be terribly surprising that these two were involved.
Most people that haven't killed themselves yet like to live longer; that is to say there's a reason to live. Therefore, living longer is generalyl considered beneficial while diseases like cancer which cause suffering during life are to be avoided. Everyone will die eventually, this is true but most people would rather that time come as late as possible.
They figured that adding idle would lure a few digg users and at the least generate a ton of discussion/page views complaining about idle. You know what? they were right. It did generate a ton of comments on the issue and to top it off I bet that more people like us are complaining about idle than those who block the entire section. It's like car accidents, a traffic jam forms because of all the people who slowed down to take a look. Now it's to the point where idle has effectively infected Slashdot and the stories that would belong in idle end up mis-categorized as something else. Eventually there will be enough of this idle garbage finding its way into other sections that there will be no way to avoid running into it any more. The thing is that I seriously doubt that anyone actually pulling the strings behind Slashdot realizes that Slashdot was/is popular because it catered to the nerd demographic. Once it becomes significantly tainted with the idiocy of digg, anyone who was here for the nerdy aspect will jump ship leaving Slashdot a rotted out husk of what it once was.
The article seems to be making the point that if the average price becomes reasonable ie. 100 $$ then somehow people will start replacing their existing 500GB drives with 30-50 GB SSDs which is ridiculous. SSDs still need to be able to compete with hard drives at the $/GB level if they are to replace hard drives. Now that isn't to say that SSDs wouldn't have a niche like netbooks and SSD/hard drive hybrid setups but I seriously doubt we'll see SSDs take over the market in a few years.
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Clearly the solution is to both develop advanced cheap energy and work to "live within our means."
The only reason viruses are hard to deal with has to do with the fact that we can't accidentally kill the host trying to "kill" the virus. Since there isn't a host worth worrying about in this design, we don't have to be nice; we can just wipe the virus out without mercy.
If you want to store energy at night you'd probably be better off going with solar thermal + liquid salt thermal storage + water thermochemical cracking. Hydrogen is better used as a chemical fuel or used in synthesizing other chemicals. It's very good at reducing things or powering fuel cells but as a method of storing solar energy on a daily basis, not so much.
This is from what I've read on the subect, quite impressive in terms of how it works however, this isn't a technology that is very likely capable of exceeding the efficiency of a few other methods of producing Hydrogen. 10% solar => Hydrogen efficiency would be impressive for a biological system but well within reach of other technologies like solar thermal + water thermochemical cracking This technology might be of use if alternatives remain comparatively expensive.
You're forgetting that we also found a frozen ancient in the ice that was still infected with the plague that drove the ancients to Atlantis several million years ago.
If you're a physicist and you wanted to do calculations that involved a few coulombs of charge worth of electrons, MATLAB would throw out an error as this mathematical operation in particular happens to require the calculation of a ~64 bit integer and not be terribly unreasonable.
There are a few reasons: 1) high temp superconductors have a relatively low critical magnetic field strength at liquid Nitrogen temperatures and 2) At this point, switching to high tempt superconductors in the design would require an even longer delay due to the testing required. Of course if 1/5 the field strength is a ok then high temp superconductors should still have a sufficient critical magnetic field strength at liquide Nitrogen temperatures. Although really, you'd still have coolant boiling away just at a somewhat slower pace.
The SEC's job was to go after fraud and general theft; they didn't do their job. The fact that a lot of them were caught surfing for pron isn't the point; the point is that they were not doing their jobs and the consequences were for the most part, felt by other people.
The tribe members gave blood samples on the condition that they be used for a specific purpose. As interesting as these secondary investigations would have been, their blood belongs to them no one else.
Maybe so but a broad spray of shrapnel and bullets won't. Even rain could defeat a cloak unless the rain goes right through it without resistence.
No... Informed skepticism is required in science, it is the ignorant, maligned and malicious screaming and wailing that is nutty. Unfortunately, the GP is right, very few AGW "skeptics" have any real idea of what the hell they're talking about.
Ha... As if a bunch of people intent on ignoring reality in favor of their own economic religion would ever be swayed by facts... This investigation will be ignored by the right and decried as one more piece of the massive evil conspiracy against oil companies...
this device wouldwork to degreade an orbit due to drag in LEO but in HEO,Geosynchronous or other higher orbits, it could have a reflective coating to use sun light to alter the orbit.
Obviously if the man said 2+2=4 he must automatically be wrong... The man was crazy but the idea that our government and tax law as a whole have also gone batshit isn't that crazy.
Don't defend what that man did. There are more effective ways of protesting this nonsense without resorting to property damage and death. After all, do you really think that anyone with the legislative power to change things for the better thought to themselves "ya know, he's got a point, maybe we should change the tax laws." It'll be remembered as an act of terrorism nothing more.
Too late, it's already done. Now as for the reason why it isn't law, law yet is a puzzling one: they apparently need to find another 300 million in tax revenue and have completely inored the most obvious: closing the MS tax dodge instead of giving them a free pass that this bill just did. Or they could just I don't know cut all the extraneous crap that they shouldn't be doing to begin with but I suppose that actually solving the problem would piss off everyone dependent on the bloat.
How so? This story has been on slashdot on several occasions; I'd say that he's gotten a ton of attention just by refusing the prize money.
Here's a page with a bit more detail. These alloys are of similar composition to stainless steel and tend to have very high levels of Nickel and a little Chromium tossed in for good measure. Shape memory alloys work by utilizing a crystal structure phase transition that causes stress in the alloy to re-align which basically is responsible for the shape change.
RNAi is an ancient anti-viral defense mechanism found in everything from plants to humans. That said, I agree. Any disease that is caused by the production of a given protein could in principle be treated using a derivative of this RNAi nanoparticle technology.
Viruses come close to this, it is just a matter of expanding what they can do (eg. enlarging their payload) and reducing the incidence of side effects like severe immune reactions.
Just to give an idea of just how vast DNA's information storage is, the average human cell contains about as much information as most DVDs can store. So hypothetically, if you could reliably transport DNA like we do electrons on the internet, the bandwidth would be enormous (1 gram DNA can store ~10^21 bits) although lag might be a problem unless you can route these DNA packets at relativistic velocities.
No. Take a look at the two pushing this bill: Hatch in particular has a history of supporting idiotic things like allowing copyright holders to destroy property of suspected infringers and Gillibrand has a hostory of taking large campaign contributions from parties directly related to legislation she was involved in. It therefore shouldn't be terribly surprising that these two were involved.
Most people that haven't killed themselves yet like to live longer; that is to say there's a reason to live. Therefore, living longer is generalyl considered beneficial while diseases like cancer which cause suffering during life are to be avoided. Everyone will die eventually, this is true but most people would rather that time come as late as possible.
They figured that adding idle would lure a few digg users and at the least generate a ton of discussion/page views complaining about idle. You know what? they were right. It did generate a ton of comments on the issue and to top it off I bet that more people like us are complaining about idle than those who block the entire section. It's like car accidents, a traffic jam forms because of all the people who slowed down to take a look. Now it's to the point where idle has effectively infected Slashdot and the stories that would belong in idle end up mis-categorized as something else. Eventually there will be enough of this idle garbage finding its way into other sections that there will be no way to avoid running into it any more. The thing is that I seriously doubt that anyone actually pulling the strings behind Slashdot realizes that Slashdot was/is popular because it catered to the nerd demographic. Once it becomes significantly tainted with the idiocy of digg, anyone who was here for the nerdy aspect will jump ship leaving Slashdot a rotted out husk of what it once was.
The article seems to be making the point that if the average price becomes reasonable ie. 100 $$ then somehow people will start replacing their existing 500GB drives with 30-50 GB SSDs which is ridiculous. SSDs still need to be able to compete with hard drives at the $/GB level if they are to replace hard drives. Now that isn't to say that SSDs wouldn't have a niche like netbooks and SSD/hard drive hybrid setups but I seriously doubt we'll see SSDs take over the market in a few years.
As a bonus you get to keep the STDs for free...