However, some experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution.
Firstly adding to your point (and according to the theory,) evolution is only "perfect" over an infinite time frame. The fact that there is no universal antibody could mean one of two things: the time frame was too short or there's a reason why the human body doesn't want a universal solution, and I can think of at least one big one.
The human body has thousands of known symbiotic relationships and potentially thousands or millions of unknown ones. Most of these are bacterium (or more rarely viruses) that do something to help the human body. The digestive tract has literally trillions of non-human cells within it. There is even an organ who's use (which was previously unknown) is to store 'good' bacteria when the body is fighting other harmful invaders. I'm speaking of course of the appendix - the one organ which literally oozes symbiosis. The human body might not 'want' a universal solution as those which are adapted to allow the potential for additional symbiotic relationships before ejecting them have a better chance at thriving as every tiny advantage helps.
I'm not saying this is a step in the wrong direction and I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing because the vast majority if not all viruses of this strain are harmful to humans at this point, but to say that evolution couldn't come up with a solution therefore there isn't one makes a ton of huge assumptions which probably aren't all valid.
Can the resorts withstand category 5 hurricane force winds? Seems to me that with only 1 helipad you may have a huge and dangerous bottleneck to evacuating quickly.
Back in AP Physics in high school my teacher didn't quite have a full agenda for us so we had about two spare weeks to kill at the end of the semester. He wanted to do a project similar to what you're describing and he came up with the idea to build a trebuchet.
There was plenty to build and measure, but there is a ton to calibrate which is the important part. In order to see how far we were from the ideal launch many of us (on our own) were calculating the theoretical maximum lanch distance using the weight we had loaded, the weight of our "ammo" (a tennis ball) the length of the arm and attached string, and quite a few more factors.
The best part about this is you have a very wide variety of math you can accompany with it because a lot of the more negligable forces can be ignored or simplified. If you want you can just do some basic angular momentum / vector acceleration equations and get pretty close to the correct efficiency or you can go as in-depth as calculating frictional forces, properly describe the launch cord motion as a differential equation, etc.
Honestly the experience was probably the most inspirational experience I had not just in physics class, but in school. I'd compare it to a good episode of mythbusters because not only did we get to build something cool and do some calculations, but we got to launch things across our school's front lawn.
Well it would be interesting to see the 1GHz Nano vs the 1.6GHz Atom since they would appear to have about the same power envelope once chipset is considered (assuming all other parts between the two units were equivalent) but that's not what the article was comparing at all so claiming the the Nano bests the Atom was way off base.
The article is about the Nano processor VS. the Atom processor. While an entire system was put on the table for benchmarking, it's hardly representative of the problems the processor itself represents for netbook use nor is it the focus of the article.
I'm sorry I misinterpreted your response to a processor-related article to not be about the processors being analyzed.
As a side note, I'd like to add that it's funny that as I said the Nano benchmarked is a 25 watt processor and the Atom benchmarked is a 4 watt and the difference between the overall benchmarked system power at full load is 20 watts... Of course that couldn't be related to the processors being 21 watts apart... because you:
"don't really give a crud about how low power the CPU is"
While they hide it in the details of their press release a bit, the VIA Nano processor running at 1Ghz is the 8 Watt processor I believe you're referring to while the 1.8Ghz processor tips the scales at around 25 Watts.
I don't think it's as much about taking pictures as it is detecting what demographic the sign should be catering to.
Even in Europe, if the sign is only recording the detected demographic and not storing the picture itself I honestly think it would be hard to make the case it's violating privacy because it doesn't know it's you specifically. The privacy issues arise with things like remote retinal scanning via camera which has been talked about in other Slashdot articles [citation needed - can't find specific article but I know I saw something about high-resolution security cameras taking retinal scans on/.] where identification is specific to a single person.
I actually think this is quite a clever way to use limited advertising space and give a person potentially the most pertinent information albeit in ad form. Additionally and fortunately for things like signs in malls or on subways where this would be implemented, you can just ignore them. I agree this could be mistreated in ways that would violate privacy laws and that should be checked over, but as a concept I think it actually could be both unintrusive and quite useful.
Essentially their argument boils down to because people make mistakes and we can calculate the odds of them making a mistake, if they calculate the odds of something and it's greater than the odds of them having made a mistake then you have to use the odds of them making a mistake as the probability of the event happening.
Nuh-uh, that argument is solid and well formed.
Hey, I have another "scientific" theory, 1 out of every 460 scientific papers are about artificial intelligence, That means the LHC is alive and we don't even know it yet.!
It's not so much about dealing with the heat overall, it's dealing with the heat in the hottest places. The more heat bottlenecks you get rid of, the hotter you can run the chip stably.
Don't get me wrong, the implementation doesn't come without drawbacks. There's the higher expense for the extra circuitry, and the higher electrical requirements to run the coolers. It looks like the only need for this is on high-end chips and even there it's only absolute bleeding edge that'll need anything like this, however for the enthusiast, the CAD designer, the video editor or the programmer, this may just be a breath of fresh air.
No! They're working on a 2 TiB card and have a 64 GiB card just about ready. They have a theoretical limit of 16 EiB!
very doubtful actually. With a magnetic media, the odd division of the disk into sectors nearly always meant each new layout was a different, non-standard size. Drive manufactures in that case found every way possible to round up, including using 1000 bytes as a KB when it is only a KiB. Flash forward to... well... flash. When making the circuitry, it actually takes less work and programming (generally) to round out all address spaces to a given digit to be used. In addition there are very standardized chip memory sizes for flash. I don't know specifically if Panasonic is going to disregard the standard chip sizes and only shoot for KiB, but that's the case far less frequently with flash than with standard rotating hard drives.
The main problem I have with donating body parts for scientific research is that I don't want silly medical students using bits of me to play pranks on each other!
Are you kidding?! Biohazardous pranks are hilarious! How can you not donate to that cause?!
... I expected the Slashdot story to be something like:
3 young lasses from Manassas made glasses for the masses rendering 3d in two passes. Currently the glasses are omitting noxious gasses and they're receiving an action lawsuit in classes so they really need to cover their asses.
Slashdot Mirror
However, some experts question whether a universal vaccine of this kind is even possible, since the human body has been unable to come up with an antibody solution.
Firstly adding to your point (and according to the theory,) evolution is only "perfect" over an infinite time frame. The fact that there is no universal antibody could mean one of two things: the time frame was too short or there's a reason why the human body doesn't want a universal solution, and I can think of at least one big one.
The human body has thousands of known symbiotic relationships and potentially thousands or millions of unknown ones. Most of these are bacterium (or more rarely viruses) that do something to help the human body. The digestive tract has literally trillions of non-human cells within it. There is even an organ who's use (which was previously unknown) is to store 'good' bacteria when the body is fighting other harmful invaders. I'm speaking of course of the appendix - the one organ which literally oozes symbiosis. The human body might not 'want' a universal solution as those which are adapted to allow the potential for additional symbiotic relationships before ejecting them have a better chance at thriving as every tiny advantage helps.
I'm not saying this is a step in the wrong direction and I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing because the vast majority if not all viruses of this strain are harmful to humans at this point, but to say that evolution couldn't come up with a solution therefore there isn't one makes a ton of huge assumptions which probably aren't all valid.
Can the resorts withstand category 5 hurricane force winds? Seems to me that with only 1 helipad you may have a huge and dangerous bottleneck to evacuating quickly.
Back in AP Physics in high school my teacher didn't quite have a full agenda for us so we had about two spare weeks to kill at the end of the semester. He wanted to do a project similar to what you're describing and he came up with the idea to build a trebuchet.
There was plenty to build and measure, but there is a ton to calibrate which is the important part. In order to see how far we were from the ideal launch many of us (on our own) were calculating the theoretical maximum lanch distance using the weight we had loaded, the weight of our "ammo" (a tennis ball) the length of the arm and attached string, and quite a few more factors.
The best part about this is you have a very wide variety of math you can accompany with it because a lot of the more negligable forces can be ignored or simplified. If you want you can just do some basic angular momentum / vector acceleration equations and get pretty close to the correct efficiency or you can go as in-depth as calculating frictional forces, properly describe the launch cord motion as a differential equation, etc.
Honestly the experience was probably the most inspirational experience I had not just in physics class, but in school. I'd compare it to a good episode of mythbusters because not only did we get to build something cool and do some calculations, but we got to launch things across our school's front lawn.
They could sell it to those gullible televangelist audiences as JesOS
Eh... sounds like this is just the first release
I'll wait until the second coming.
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*hangs head shamefully*
oodaloop fired from this association hand in nerd card now.
Haiku boots quickly
similar to BeOS
now with GCC!
We finally can put Lemmiwinks back to work!
Well it would be interesting to see the 1GHz Nano vs the 1.6GHz Atom since they would appear to have about the same power envelope once chipset is considered (assuming all other parts between the two units were equivalent) but that's not what the article was comparing at all so claiming the the Nano bests the Atom was way off base.
And on that I completely agree.
I'm sorry I misinterpreted your response to a processor-related article to not be about the processors being analyzed.
As a side note, I'd like to add that it's funny that as I said the Nano benchmarked is a 25 watt processor and the Atom benchmarked is a 4 watt and the difference between the overall benchmarked system power at full load is 20 watts... Of course that couldn't be related to the processors being 21 watts apart... because you:
"don't really give a crud about how low power the CPU is"
50% more power my foot.
The Intel Atom at 1.6Ghz is a 2-4 watt processor.
While they hide it in the details of their press release a bit, the VIA Nano processor running at 1Ghz is the 8 Watt processor I believe you're referring to while the 1.8Ghz processor tips the scales at around 25 Watts.
I don't think it's as much about taking pictures as it is detecting what demographic the sign should be catering to.
/.] where identification is specific to a single person.
Even in Europe, if the sign is only recording the detected demographic and not storing the picture itself I honestly think it would be hard to make the case it's violating privacy because it doesn't know it's you specifically. The privacy issues arise with things like remote retinal scanning via camera which has been talked about in other Slashdot articles [citation needed - can't find specific article but I know I saw something about high-resolution security cameras taking retinal scans on
I actually think this is quite a clever way to use limited advertising space and give a person potentially the most pertinent information albeit in ad form. Additionally and fortunately for things like signs in malls or on subways where this would be implemented, you can just ignore them. I agree this could be mistreated in ways that would violate privacy laws and that should be checked over, but as a concept I think it actually could be both unintrusive and quite useful.
Essentially their argument boils down to because people make mistakes and we can calculate the odds of them making a mistake, if they calculate the odds of something and it's greater than the odds of them having made a mistake then you have to use the odds of them making a mistake as the probability of the event happening.
Nuh-uh, that argument is solid and well formed.
Hey, I have another "scientific" theory, 1 out of every 460 scientific papers are about artificial intelligence, That means the LHC is alive and we don't even know it yet.!
It depends on the probability that the researches researching the research being researched are wrong.
It's not so much about dealing with the heat overall, it's dealing with the heat in the hottest places. The more heat bottlenecks you get rid of, the hotter you can run the chip stably.
Don't get me wrong, the implementation doesn't come without drawbacks. There's the higher expense for the extra circuitry, and the higher electrical requirements to run the coolers. It looks like the only need for this is on high-end chips and even there it's only absolute bleeding edge that'll need anything like this, however for the enthusiast, the CAD designer, the video editor or the programmer, this may just be a breath of fresh air.
Can you image how annoying it would be to have light flickering around you all the time from your communicating devices?
You know that thing you looked into when you typed your message. Be it a CRT, LCD or Plasma, it flickers at 40-120 times per second.
Communication applications would flicker even faster to the point you wouldn't notice unless you sent a constant string of 0's or 1's.
Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a bad idea for line of sight and other interference reasons, but flicker is near the bottom of that list.
Were you up all night trying to think of that quip...
oh...
Solenodons On a Plane! Hmmm, doesn't have quite the same ring.
Meh, just get Samuel L. Jackson to yell it and the rest of the film will work itself out.
Ahh, duh... I reversed KB and KiB in my head when I responded to that... No wonder the parent to my original post confused me so much.
as some recipients of offsets say the results of their sustainable efforts would be achieved regardless of any one company's investment.
That's not true, those recipients wouldn't get filthy rich without company investments!
No! They're working on a 2 TiB card and have a 64 GiB card just about ready. They have a theoretical limit of 16 EiB!
very doubtful actually. With a magnetic media, the odd division of the disk into sectors nearly always meant each new layout was a different, non-standard size. Drive manufactures in that case found every way possible to round up, including using 1000 bytes as a KB when it is only a KiB. Flash forward to... well... flash. When making the circuitry, it actually takes less work and programming (generally) to round out all address spaces to a given digit to be used. In addition there are very standardized chip memory sizes for flash. I don't know specifically if Panasonic is going to disregard the standard chip sizes and only shoot for KiB, but that's the case far less frequently with flash than with standard rotating hard drives.
No, the file system may support it but the SDXC standard will top out at 2TB. [...] It's called planned obsolescence
What are you talking about? 640k should be enough for anybody!
The main problem I have with donating body parts for scientific research is that I don't want silly medical students using bits of me to play pranks on each other!
Are you kidding?! Biohazardous pranks are hilarious! How can you not donate to that cause?!
... I expected the Slashdot story to be something like:
3 young lasses from Manassas made glasses for the masses rendering 3d in two passes. Currently the glasses are omitting noxious gasses and they're receiving an action lawsuit in classes so they really need to cover their asses.
more as time passes.
Exactly what I was going to say...
Did you steal my idea?