The human immune system is not designed to protect against specific enemies. It can adapt to attack most viruses, bacteria and parasites. What makes a pathogen successful against us is an ability to specifically fool those adaptive defenses. In the incredibly miniscule chance that _Bacillus permians_ turns out to be pathogenic, it will have adapted to fool the defenses of our remote ancestors at most. 250 million years ago true mammals hadn't even evolved yet. And even if, through some unbelievably tiny chance, affect humans, it would have no resistance whatsoever to any antibiotics because it has never ever experienced them before. So they'd be quite effective against it.
And yes, evolution DOES keep old defenses around "just in case" -- it's called the immune system.
Why the FUCK do people see the word "bacterium" and immediately think evil, disease, plague, and other bad things?
99.9% of all bacteria on this planet just hang out and chemo/photosynthesize or soak up nutrients. The number of pathogenic bacteria is miniscule, as is the chance that _Bacillus permians_ will turn out to be one.
The only reason why bacteria are immune to antibiotics today is because we use them (abuse them) so much. There were almost no antibiotics 250 million years ago in most environments, certainly none of the ones we use today.
Dynasaurs [sic] didn't have antibiotics, and were not very similar physiologically to humans. The chances are almost nil that this bacterium is pathogenic anyway -- 99% of bacteria aren't.
Your knee-jerk fear mongering is disturbing. Why don't you actually learn something about immunology, epidemiology, or microbiology -- or just general bio -- before you go making stupid statements like "this could make AIDS look like a 24 hour cold."
Here's a fscking clue -- AIDS is virulent against us because it evolved to attack us specifically. _Bacillus permians_ could not have.
99.9% of all bacteria in the world just hang out and metabolize whatever comes their way. Only a very small percentage are pathogenic, and the chances are that this one would be are miniscule. If it was, what would it be doing in a salt crystal? Most pathogenic bacteria live in organisms or ex-organisms. Even if it were pathogenic, it would be adapted to the organisms of 250 million years ago, not today's. And finally, microbiologists culture potentially pathogenic organisms all the time without a problem using simple common sense and caution. As long as those two are applied in this case as well, there's really nothing to worry about. Methinks you've been watching X-files too much.
Hmm. I would assume that the calcium oxide would form at the electrode, and precipitate out of the molten CaCl, to form either a scum on the electrode or particulate matter. The former wouldn't be a problem since the other electrode would be the one accumulating the Ti. The latter presumably could be strained or filtered out.
Anyway, calcium cloride is about as cheap as table salt.;)
Anyone else remember that? A basic Powerbook with just a modem/printer port and a Processor-direct slot on the back, and a dock with hard drive space, a floppy, nubus (Apple's old PCI-like bus) slots, monitor ports, etc.
The Desktop was rewritten in Carbon to provide a testbed for carbon libraries. Jobs stated this at one of the WWDCs.
They better not phase out ObjC in favor of Java! For a comparison of the two, try Omniweb and the bundled calculator. They take almost the same amount of time to start up! That's right -- a pretty-much fully functional web browser takes the same amount of time to start up as a aquified Java rewrite of the ancient Mac calculator.
Incidentally, you can tell what's Java and what isn't by going into the bundle, as well. If the program is something.jar, it's java, natch.
OS X natively supports running off HFS+ and UFS drives, and reads and writes HFS and FAT(16, possibly 32) drives.
HFS+ is case insensitive, but of course case preserving. You deal with case insensitive file systems just like Mac and Windows people have been doing for the last decade and a half.
UFS is case sensitive, like most unix style file systems. It's got advantages for servers, but Classic can't run off it. Carbon Apps can, though. So, use it for servers you don't need to run Classic Apps on, and use HFS+ for desktops for compatibility.
write GPLed software, or any other licensed software. Why? Because any intellectual property created by the Federal Government cannot be copyrighted. No Copyright == No Copyleft. Any software written under the auspices of the Fed. Govt. must be either public domain or the property of the actual authors of the code.
Wouldn't we all love that. Of course, the biggest problems would be where guy A claims that guy B is impinging on his rights, wheras guy B is saying, "Nonsense." Which is exactly what this is.
Guy A is saying: Your choice of a vehicle makes me slightly more likely to die in an accident and reduces the chance that my children will be able to breath outdoors and live in currently-costal cities in 50 years.
Guy B is saying: Nonsense. I'm increasing my chances of surviving an accident, and the air's getting cleaner all the time.
See the quandary? Both people are making a perfectly reasonable argument, from their point of view. For those who drive cars, and don't have the option to buy an SUV, or choose not to exercise it, it's to their advantage to try to buck the SUV trend -- it increases their likelyhood of survival if they can reduce the number of people that drive SUVs. If SUVs are in fact safer, which seems to be at least partially true, those who do have the option of buying a SUV and don't dislike them for other reasons should do so, because all things being equal, anything that increases your chances of passing on your genes is the thing to do.
On the environmental issue, there's a lot that could be done to make SUVs much more fuel efficient. A hybrid engine would be a great start. Once these things are thoroughly tested and any bugs are worked out, I would expect all cars to switch to them. I prophecy that in 5 years, the pure gas engine will go the way of leaded gasoline. Of course, I may be wrong. I freely admit that.:)
For me? Well, I can't afford one, and even if I could, I wouldn't buy one, mainly because I dislike the kind of people I see driving SUVs on campus -- rich JAP-type girls whose daddy bought them the fucker for a graduation present, the onyl thing they use it for is going up and down Ithaca's hills. I can do that in a Prism. Not that I own one.:(
Because the majority of people who can't afford cars and hence have to take public transportation also couldn't afford to pay, say, $10 per day for the bus. That's $50 per week, $200 per month -- a very substantial amount.
Subsidising busses and subways allows the lower class to get to work, so they can have jobs available to them outside their own neighborhood. There's your answer.a
Why was it bad that they were based on the same engine? Is it bad that so many games are using the quake 3 engine? It let the developers focus on plot and gameplay. Trust me, Moo (That's an infinity symbol) is a much better game than M2.
At Cornell, where I go and work tech support, on our main server we have a message when you login about the same thing. "Anyone using this server agrees to monitoring, yadda yadda." This is to protect us legally from hackers. If this message were not there, a hacker could claim that he had no idea that the server wasn't open to anyone, and this way there's no way for them to argue "unreasonable search" or whatever.
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We can't really tell the difference after somewhere between 30 and 60. But that's not the real reason to get, say, a voodoo5 6000 -- who cares if you get 150 FPs at 640x480x16? How about 50 fps at 1280x1024x32? With full-screen anti-aliasing, 32-bit textures? The eye can tell the difference there, that's for sure.
That the FBI would actually say something like that indicates that they don't give a rip about their poblic image. Either that or they don't think much of the American public's literary consciousness. Of course, it's hard to underestimate the American public.
It means that OS X is potentially cross-platform -- as well as offering hope to owners of 604e-base PCI Macs that OS X may support their machines as well -- a number of pre-G3 Powermacs are listed as supported.
There's a fair possibility that Apple might make an Enterprise version of Mac OS X available on x86 or various other platforms. It would make the old Openstep users happy. It would probably only have Cocoa, so they'd have to port the new Finder to Cocoa first -- not that that would be hard. Carbon has endianness-related issues, or so I've heard, so it probably couldn't be run on x86. Classic obviously couldn't be. So other platforms probably wouldn't run the usual Mac apps -- but they could run the awesomeness that is the Cocoa development environment!:D
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Think about it for a bit more than a moment.
The human immune system is not designed to protect against specific enemies. It can adapt to attack most viruses, bacteria and parasites. What makes a pathogen successful against us is an ability to specifically fool those adaptive defenses. In the incredibly miniscule chance that _Bacillus permians_ turns out to be pathogenic, it will have adapted to fool the defenses of our remote ancestors at most. 250 million years ago true mammals hadn't even evolved yet. And even if, through some unbelievably tiny chance, affect humans, it would have no resistance whatsoever to any antibiotics because it has never ever experienced them before. So they'd be quite effective against it.
And yes, evolution DOES keep old defenses around "just in case" -- it's called the immune system.
Why the FUCK do people see the word "bacterium" and immediately think evil, disease, plague, and other bad things?
99.9% of all bacteria on this planet just hang out and chemo/photosynthesize or soak up nutrients. The number of pathogenic bacteria is miniscule, as is the chance that _Bacillus permians_ will turn out to be one.
Excuse me? Think much?
The only reason why bacteria are immune to antibiotics today is because we use them (abuse them) so much. There were almost no antibiotics 250 million years ago in most environments, certainly none of the ones we use today.
Dynasaurs [sic] didn't have antibiotics, and were not very similar physiologically to humans. The chances are almost nil that this bacterium is pathogenic anyway -- 99% of bacteria aren't.
Your knee-jerk fear mongering is disturbing. Why don't you actually learn something about immunology, epidemiology, or microbiology -- or just general bio -- before you go making stupid statements like "this could make AIDS look like a 24 hour cold."
Here's a fscking clue -- AIDS is virulent against us because it evolved to attack us specifically. _Bacillus permians_ could not have.
99.9% of all bacteria in the world just hang out and metabolize whatever comes their way. Only a very small percentage are pathogenic, and the chances are that this one would be are miniscule. If it was, what would it be doing in a salt crystal? Most pathogenic bacteria live in organisms or ex-organisms. Even if it were pathogenic, it would be adapted to the organisms of 250 million years ago, not today's. And finally, microbiologists culture potentially pathogenic organisms all the time without a problem using simple common sense and caution. As long as those two are applied in this case as well, there's really nothing to worry about. Methinks you've been watching X-files too much.
I did get the first even somewhat relevant post, so FYAYMT.
As for my dick, it does what I need it to do.
I want one!
;)
I could program it to bring me my slippers, and bark, and act like a dog... oh, wait, that's the AIBO.
What's PBASIC? Is it related to Visual Basic?
Descarte, eh? Does it think, therefore it am?
Any info on the respective tensile strength/mass ratios of any alloys of Ti, Fe or Al?
Hmm. I would assume that the calcium oxide would form at the electrode, and precipitate out of the molten CaCl, to form either a scum on the electrode or particulate matter. The former wouldn't be a problem since the other electrode would be the one accumulating the Ti. The latter presumably could be strained or filtered out. Anyway, calcium cloride is about as cheap as table salt. ;)
You don't seem to understand how electrolysis works. The CaCl is not used up -- it's just a conductor of electricity.
The duodock.
Anyone else remember that? A basic Powerbook with just a modem/printer port and a Processor-direct slot on the back, and a dock with hard drive space, a floppy, nubus (Apple's old PCI-like bus) slots, monitor ports, etc.
You can still find them in use once in a while...
The Desktop was rewritten in Carbon to provide a testbed for carbon libraries. Jobs stated this at one of the WWDCs. They better not phase out ObjC in favor of Java! For a comparison of the two, try Omniweb and the bundled calculator. They take almost the same amount of time to start up! That's right -- a pretty-much fully functional web browser takes the same amount of time to start up as a aquified Java rewrite of the ancient Mac calculator. Incidentally, you can tell what's Java and what isn't by going into the bundle, as well. If the program is something.jar, it's java, natch.
OS X natively supports running off HFS+ and UFS drives, and reads and writes HFS and FAT(16, possibly 32) drives. HFS+ is case insensitive, but of course case preserving. You deal with case insensitive file systems just like Mac and Windows people have been doing for the last decade and a half. UFS is case sensitive, like most unix style file systems. It's got advantages for servers, but Classic can't run off it. Carbon Apps can, though. So, use it for servers you don't need to run Classic Apps on, and use HFS+ for desktops for compatibility.
write GPLed software, or any other licensed software. Why? Because any intellectual property created by the Federal Government cannot be copyrighted. No Copyright == No Copyleft. Any software written under the auspices of the Fed. Govt. must be either public domain or the property of the actual authors of the code.
Wouldn't we all love that. Of course, the biggest problems would be where guy A claims that guy B is impinging on his rights, wheras guy B is saying, "Nonsense." Which is exactly what this is.
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Guy A is saying: Your choice of a vehicle makes me slightly more likely to die in an accident and reduces the chance that my children will be able to breath outdoors and live in currently-costal cities in 50 years.
Guy B is saying: Nonsense. I'm increasing my chances of surviving an accident, and the air's getting cleaner all the time.
See the quandary? Both people are making a perfectly reasonable argument, from their point of view. For those who drive cars, and don't have the option to buy an SUV, or choose not to exercise it, it's to their advantage to try to buck the SUV trend -- it increases their likelyhood of survival if they can reduce the number of people that drive SUVs. If SUVs are in fact safer, which seems to be at least partially true, those who do have the option of buying a SUV and don't dislike them for other reasons should do so, because all things being equal, anything that increases your chances of passing on your genes is the thing to do.
On the environmental issue, there's a lot that could be done to make SUVs much more fuel efficient. A hybrid engine would be a great start. Once these things are thoroughly tested and any bugs are worked out, I would expect all cars to switch to them. I prophecy that in 5 years, the pure gas engine will go the way of leaded gasoline. Of course, I may be wrong. I freely admit that.
For me? Well, I can't afford one, and even if I could, I wouldn't buy one, mainly because I dislike the kind of people I see driving SUVs on campus -- rich JAP-type girls whose daddy bought them the fucker for a graduation present, the onyl thing they use it for is going up and down Ithaca's hills. I can do that in a Prism. Not that I own one.
The wind could supply additional energy.
Because the majority of people who can't afford cars and hence have to take public transportation also couldn't afford to pay, say, $10 per day for the bus. That's $50 per week, $200 per month -- a very substantial amount.
Subsidising busses and subways allows the lower class to get to work, so they can have jobs available to them outside their own neighborhood. There's your answer.a
Why was it bad that they were based on the same engine? Is it bad that so many games are using the quake 3 engine? It let the developers focus on plot and gameplay. Trust me, Moo (That's an infinity symbol) is a much better game than M2.
At Cornell, where I go and work tech support, on our main server we have a message when you login about the same thing. "Anyone using this server agrees to monitoring, yadda yadda." This is to protect us legally from hackers. If this message were not there, a hacker could claim that he had no idea that the server wasn't open to anyone, and this way there's no way for them to argue "unreasonable search" or whatever.
We can't really tell the difference after somewhere between 30 and 60. But that's not the real reason to get, say, a voodoo5 6000 -- who cares if you get 150 FPs at 640x480x16? How about 50 fps at 1280x1024x32? With full-screen anti-aliasing, 32-bit textures? The eye can tell the difference there, that's for sure.
Sosumi.
That the FBI would actually say something like that indicates that they don't give a rip about their poblic image. Either that or they don't think much of the American public's literary consciousness. Of course, it's hard to underestimate the American public.
Heheheheh. You got it, man. Peace, love, grok.
It means that OS X is potentially cross-platform -- as well as offering hope to owners of 604e-base PCI Macs that OS X may support their machines as well -- a number of pre-G3 Powermacs are listed as supported.
There's a fair possibility that Apple might make an Enterprise version of Mac OS X available on x86 or various other platforms. It would make the old Openstep users happy. It would probably only have Cocoa, so they'd have to port the new Finder to Cocoa first -- not that that would be hard. Carbon has endianness-related issues, or so I've heard, so it probably couldn't be run on x86. Classic obviously couldn't be. So other platforms probably wouldn't run the usual Mac apps -- but they could run the awesomeness that is the Cocoa development environment! :D
Speculation is ALL that's available there! MOSR is the red-headed stepchild of Mac websites.
Ah, but can they? [/devil's advocate]