Yes, Carbon-14 is scary, especially as it enters the food chain
through any plant absorbing it from the air and becomes part of your
body after you eat it. Nuclear bombs would ruin food production on earth for decades!
How many generations have the worms been up there for?
I would theorise that under cosmic, solar and van allen radiation there
is strong evolution pressure to deal better with radiation and thus
free radicals, wheen in space. This would lead any organism evolved in
space, to have, better anti-aging mechanism than earth bound mortals.
I would think this would even work on humans, and would think that
human from the year 3000, who had 40 generations in space would
be much longer living than earth humans.
What has gone up in the uk is the number of skills the programmer is expected to know, or the number
of languages and packages in the average job spec. I regularly get sent job specs with four or five languages,
e.g. all of Java, Python, C#, Perl and PhP. Meanwhile, new applications and frameworks keep on get added to the
spec. So while i know that much more than 12 years ago and i'm expected to know more, and be more productive
wages haven't gone up at all. While MVC is a good programming model, I think most frameworks are just there
to make the programmers work in a more common fashion so that they can be more disposable.
Oracle don't seem to have messed my MySQL or BerkeleyDB since they bought them. Java didn't have an GNU license, it had teams of sun lawyers creating a license, and the recent ruiling between Oracle and Sun, seems to proof that the Java API (and maybe API is general), are open to be implemented by all. Which after all, is what an API is for.
No the cloud is about getting you job as IT man in the local office moved to IT man at Some Corp, who is current pay is subsubsized by there book shop profits, later local IT man will disappear, and Some Corp will hike up the prices.
Got to admit it domain registries have got a very easy life. I'm happy that big companies have to pay a little to keep the web running. And that new startups can get
new places to start building. But really there are so many internet startups, you need a computer, some free time, a domain some server space in the 'clod'. NB engineers should refer to the 'cloud' as the clod, because is its where clods to stupid to understand computers, think the work of buying, installing, maintaining and computers is done in a magic cloud cuckooland by robot and fairies.
The other part of startup cuckooland is huge amount of marketing money that has to go into making one of domain names, worth anything. I'd like to see the business case for this making some ROI, but suspect that its either random, or so gamed over and lied about that its as close to random as you'll ever know. Want to start a business, place your chips on the roulette wheel please. That piece of cynism is known in investing and corporate finance as the efficient market hypothesis. I can't tell a good, idea from a bad idea anymore, but i'm happy when someone pays to do programming work for them (especially if can choice my own tools), so let me, change my tune, go on start a web business you can be next facebook. Wait, that so web 2.0, your new web 4.0 is?
Java for the web, you mean you don't already know, JSP?
You could just write java server pages, or add in the java standard templete library.
Its not difficult, but might not be MVC enough for large scale development,
So add Apache Wicket or Spring MVC or possibly playframework.
I've often programmed write new article, or add item, GET links, and also javascript actions. Which would mean google is going to be spamming forums and databases. Whats the robots.txt command to prevent going running the javascript on a page?
Once you have a moon space, you can mining material from the moon, particularly silicon, aluminium, titanium and oxygen. And launch to space some 36 times more cheaply in terms of energy. The up front cost of a moon base is a lot, especially including the mining equipment, a smelter, and frabrication planets. But once you have one you can build earth satellites, and explore the other planets, many time more cheaply. Earth is dependent on satellites, and since its getting crowded in orbit, we will need space tugs and debris cleaners craft up earth orbit, to manage the earth satellite. We can do that a lot more cheaply, if we can mine and frabricate in space.
Watching football wasn't good for growing my brain, ignoring the football on the TV and coding and playing computer games at the same time was good for my brains ablity to ignore distraction, Playing football, soccer was good for my brain and body, . Heading the ball causing brain truma. Which is why former England captain Gary Liniker (sp) was famous for never wanting to head the ball.
It names after the Gell Mann's group of all particles that you can make with up,down and strange quarks, the Xi^0 particle is the name for the Baryon for the particle with two strange quarks and an a up quark. For heavier quarks, physicists write as a subsubscript the letter for an heavy quark replacing the strange quark.
The Baryon multiplets are.
Spin 1/2 (you can draw this as a hexagon)
Xi^0 Xi^-
Sigma^- Sigma^0 Sigma^+
Lambda
Neutron Proton
Spin 3/2 (draw this as a triangle)
Omega^-
Xi^0 Xi^-
Sigma^- Sigma^0 Sigma^+
Delta^- Delta^0 Delta^+ Delta^++
There are plenty of Baryons yet to be found, including most massively of all, the Omega Triple Bottom, which is (bbb) instead of (sss)
A million java programming, Inigo Montoya's, shouting, you kill my language and my living, prepare to die!
With java programming being one of the top payed programming languages, this is quite serious. Ok i've
got perl, and php and a bit of C/C++, but when it comes to language design, Java is still the best, and
my first choice for solid and reliable, development.
NASA's Kepler mission has so far found 2300 potential planets outside the
solar system, and the mission has been extended to past 2016. Way to
go Kepler!
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Yes, Carbon-14 is scary, especially as it enters the food chain through any plant absorbing it from the air and becomes part of your body after you eat it. Nuclear bombs would ruin food production on earth for decades!
How many generations have the worms been up there for? I would theorise that under cosmic, solar and van allen radiation there is strong evolution pressure to deal better with radiation and thus free radicals, wheen in space. This would lead any organism evolved in space, to have, better anti-aging mechanism than earth bound mortals. I would think this would even work on humans, and would think that human from the year 3000, who had 40 generations in space would be much longer living than earth humans.
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Can betteridge's Law cause paradox?
Plus its More humane than flying lead!
To write the reaction more clearly, cosmic ray proton (very fast) + atom -> lots of neutrons and protons at medium speeds then n+N14->C14 +p
n+N14 ->C14 + p
See the radiocarbon dating page at wikipedia.
Does it install correctly on /dev/mapper RAID drives?
Twinkle Twinkle ----whoops- Twankler Twunkler - oochs When he has told to write out mozert 500 times as a child
What has gone up in the uk is the number of skills the programmer is expected to know, or the number of languages and packages in the average job spec. I regularly get sent job specs with four or five languages, e.g. all of Java, Python, C#, Perl and PhP. Meanwhile, new applications and frameworks keep on get added to the spec. So while i know that much more than 12 years ago and i'm expected to know more, and be more productive wages haven't gone up at all. While MVC is a good programming model, I think most frameworks are just there to make the programmers work in a more common fashion so that they can be more disposable.
See, Strangest Result of the year.
Oracle don't seem to have messed my MySQL or BerkeleyDB since they bought them. Java didn't have an GNU license, it had teams of sun lawyers creating a license, and the recent ruiling between Oracle and Sun, seems to proof that the Java API (and maybe API is general), are open to be implemented by all. Which after all, is what an API is for.
No the cloud is about getting you job as IT man in the local office moved to IT man at Some Corp, who is current pay is subsubsized by there book shop profits, later local IT man will disappear, and Some Corp will hike up the prices.
Got to admit it domain registries have got a very easy life. I'm happy that big companies have to pay a little to keep the web running. And that new startups can get new places to start building. But really there are so many internet startups, you need a computer, some free time, a domain some server space in the 'clod'. NB engineers should refer to the 'cloud' as the clod, because is its where clods to stupid to understand computers, think the work of buying, installing, maintaining and computers is done in a magic cloud cuckooland by robot and fairies. The other part of startup cuckooland is huge amount of marketing money that has to go into making one of domain names, worth anything. I'd like to see the business case for this making some ROI, but suspect that its either random, or so gamed over and lied about that its as close to random as you'll ever know. Want to start a business, place your chips on the roulette wheel please. That piece of cynism is known in investing and corporate finance as the efficient market hypothesis. I can't tell a good, idea from a bad idea anymore, but i'm happy when someone pays to do programming work for them (especially if can choice my own tools), so let me, change my tune, go on start a web business you can be next facebook. Wait, that so web 2.0, your new web 4.0 is?
LoL. Muppet or Sugar Cube?
Psychiatrists hate people who are cleverer than themselves, and invent new diseases just to label them.
Java for the web, you mean you don't already know, JSP? You could just write java server pages, or add in the java standard templete library. Its not difficult, but might not be MVC enough for large scale development, So add Apache Wicket or Spring MVC or possibly playframework.
I've often programmed write new article, or add item, GET links, and also javascript actions. Which would mean google is going to be spamming forums and databases. Whats the robots.txt command to prevent going running the javascript on a page?
The 21st century is much nice, they put a tax on all internet microtransactions (paypal) to build their space ship.
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Watching football wasn't good for growing my brain, ignoring the football on the TV and coding and playing computer games at the same time was good for my brains ablity to ignore distraction, Playing football, soccer was good for my brain and body, . Heading the ball causing brain truma. Which is why former England captain Gary Liniker (sp) was famous for never wanting to head the ball.
The Baryon multiplets are.
Spin 1/2 (you can draw this as a hexagon)
Xi^0 Xi^-
Sigma^- Sigma^0 Sigma^+
Lambda
Neutron Proton
Spin 3/2 (draw this as a triangle)
Omega^-
Xi^0 Xi^-
Sigma^- Sigma^0 Sigma^+
Delta^- Delta^0 Delta^+ Delta^++
There are plenty of Baryons yet to be found, including most massively of all, the Omega Triple Bottom, which is (bbb) instead of (sss)
But when many apps run on the same platform, you want that virtual machine to prevent one app screwing up, from taking down the others and the OS.
A million java programming, Inigo Montoya's, shouting, you kill my language and my living, prepare to die! With java programming being one of the top payed programming languages, this is quite serious. Ok i've got perl, and php and a bit of C/C++, but when it comes to language design, Java is still the best, and my first choice for solid and reliable, development.
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