My school (and the school I graduated from before this) use Blackboard Vista for posting grades, assignments, and so on. It relies on Java for its function.
A lot of my friends are Chinese and they post in Chinese more often than they do in English. I have been using a firefox plugin to translate, which does a passable job most of the time, but I'm interested in seeing how well facebook could do it. Google's translator for Chinese is not very good in my opinion...
I pretty much ONLY swear when I'm in front of a computer, and I know I've heard a fair few swears from the guys sitting next to me too. When you can't swear in meetings or conversations with people, where else would you do it?
"The advantage is that it will not grow outside the very limited environment that provides the necessary arsenic. So if you accidentally spill the toxic tank the bug is not going to propagate and contaminate the rest of the world."
Unfortunately this is not necessarily true, as the organism also could incorporate phosphorus if it was given some in the media (and not given arsenic). However, it is certainly most likely to survive in the environment it has adapted to (i.e. a high-arsenic environment).
However, I still agree that this could be useful for mediation, since arsenic-laiden DNA, proteins, lipids, etc. may be less toxic than arsenic itself.
Not necessarily, the original source (doi:10.1038/nature09250) mentions two different possible sources of the error, either the Rydberg constant is off or the theory gives an incorrect prediction. Though they mention both possibilities in the abstract, the authors only mention the former in their conclusions (maybe an oversight, maybe they think that is the actual cause).
How about ImageJ ? It's a light weight, free, fairly powerful, extensible java-based image editor. I don't know exactly how well it compares to Paint.net in terms of usability and features, but it's worth checking out.
For those who are interested, the original article is published in Human Mutation journal, and can be found here:
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It requires access to the journal to read beyond the abstract.
AFAIK (IANAL), that is not true because companies are allowed to keep things as trade secrets as long as they want before they patent them (if ever). However, once they patent something, it takes 20 years or however long before anyone can do the same thing. And if someone else invents the same thing (not knowing your trade secret) and patents it before the first company to have it does, I think the other company gets to own the rights.
I say it's more likely that the rubber duckies get taken away by a bird / hit by a sharp edge of the glacier and pops / it arrives at the wrong country and people don't know what's going on than that this will work. How long do they expect it will take to travel 30 miles?
Yes, I found it funny in Middle School how our social studies book claimed that Venezuela would run out of oil... in 1980. And I was in middle school in 1992.
At least Wikipedia is usually more up-to-date than that.
It gets about 2x the fuel economy of a relatively efficient gasoline vehicle and diesel only costs about $1 more per gallon (which is about 4/3 as much as regular)... idunno how many people here are capable of such reasoning though.
Also, 65 is a lot more than 46 gotten with the (2009 model of the) Prius, which may make the extra 2,000 worthwhile...
If every person in the world needed a unique key every time they logged in, they would need at least 14 digits. It brings back some bad memories from Legacy of the Wizard.
My guess is they tend to accumulate more with similar DNA molecules because they can base pair with each other [since they have similar base sequences] better than they can with different DNA molecules and therefore interactions between them are more stable...so if they happen to find each other in solution they're more likely to remain together. Why is this surprising again?
I think this is interesting, it surprised me when I did a little research and found you can get similar yields of butanol to those of ethanol (I'm not sure which is actually easier to purify and so on though. Two and a half gallons of ethanol can be produced from a bushel of corn, and a new process claims to give the same yield .
This doesn't surprise me, there are some practical issues with having all your office work done online, such as the fact that if your internet crashes, you can't do anything. On the other hand, people trying to deal with compatibility issues between operating systems probably enjoy this a lot more...
I was actually rather surprised to read that the type of meteor they were analyzing had a fair amount of water and organic compounds typical of life (amino acids etc.), I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the universe, there is a meteorite with enough of that stuff around under appropriate conditions for life forms to exist.
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Who says they have to have previously developed it? They can just coerce the scientists into giving them ther data...
My school (and the school I graduated from before this) use Blackboard Vista for posting grades, assignments, and so on. It relies on Java for its function.
A lot of my friends are Chinese and they post in Chinese more often than they do in English. I have been using a firefox plugin to translate, which does a passable job most of the time, but I'm interested in seeing how well facebook could do it. Google's translator for Chinese is not very good in my opinion...
That would be some interesting circular logic, if the original alternative-language versions of the websites were machine-translated
When we started measuring in Kelvin
I pretty much ONLY swear when I'm in front of a computer, and I know I've heard a fair few swears from the guys sitting next to me too. When you can't swear in meetings or conversations with people, where else would you do it?
"The advantage is that it will not grow outside the very limited environment that provides the necessary arsenic. So if you accidentally spill the toxic tank the bug is not going to propagate and contaminate the rest of the world."
Unfortunately this is not necessarily true, as the organism also could incorporate phosphorus if it was given some in the media (and not given arsenic). However, it is certainly most likely to survive in the environment it has adapted to (i.e. a high-arsenic environment).
However, I still agree that this could be useful for mediation, since arsenic-laiden DNA, proteins, lipids, etc. may be less toxic than arsenic itself.
Not necessarily, the original source (doi:10.1038/nature09250) mentions two different possible sources of the error, either the Rydberg constant is off or the theory gives an incorrect prediction. Though they mention both possibilities in the abstract, the authors only mention the former in their conclusions (maybe an oversight, maybe they think that is the actual cause).
Disclaimer: I am not a physicist
How about ImageJ ? It's a light weight, free, fairly powerful, extensible java-based image editor. I don't know exactly how well it compares to Paint.net in terms of usability and features, but it's worth checking out.
For those who are interested, the original article is published in Human Mutation journal, and can be found here: DOI It requires access to the journal to read beyond the abstract.
Yes, just like hitting the top of my TV makes it stop buzzing or throwing my phone against the wall makes it stop ringing.
AFAIK (IANAL), that is not true because companies are allowed to keep things as trade secrets as long as they want before they patent them (if ever). However, once they patent something, it takes 20 years or however long before anyone can do the same thing. And if someone else invents the same thing (not knowing your trade secret) and patents it before the first company to have it does, I think the other company gets to own the rights.
I say it's more likely that the rubber duckies get taken away by a bird / hit by a sharp edge of the glacier and pops / it arrives at the wrong country and people don't know what's going on than that this will work. How long do they expect it will take to travel 30 miles?
My vote is for PITA
Yes, I found it funny in Middle School how our social studies book claimed that Venezuela would run out of oil... in 1980. And I was in middle school in 1992. At least Wikipedia is usually more up-to-date than that.
It gets about 2x the fuel economy of a relatively efficient gasoline vehicle and diesel only costs about $1 more per gallon (which is about 4/3 as much as regular)... idunno how many people here are capable of such reasoning though. Also, 65 is a lot more than 46 gotten with the (2009 model of the) Prius, which may make the extra 2,000 worthwhile...
they already hate the trees outside my brick apartment walls.
If every person in the world needed a unique key every time they logged in, they would need at least 14 digits. It brings back some bad memories from Legacy of the Wizard.
You should not report that many significant figures for such an unsure number! Shame on you!
They already do this, it's called hybridization .
My guess is they tend to accumulate more with similar DNA molecules because they can base pair with each other [since they have similar base sequences] better than they can with different DNA molecules and therefore interactions between them are more stable...so if they happen to find each other in solution they're more likely to remain together. Why is this surprising again?
I think this is interesting, it surprised me when I did a little research and found you can get similar yields of butanol to those of ethanol (I'm not sure which is actually easier to purify and so on though. Two and a half gallons of ethanol can be produced from a bushel of corn, and a new process claims to give the same yield .
This doesn't surprise me, there are some practical issues with having all your office work done online, such as the fact that if your internet crashes, you can't do anything. On the other hand, people trying to deal with compatibility issues between operating systems probably enjoy this a lot more...
I was actually rather surprised to read that the type of meteor they were analyzing had a fair amount of water and organic compounds typical of life (amino acids etc.), I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the universe, there is a meteorite with enough of that stuff around under appropriate conditions for life forms to exist.
I think you misread the numbers, 4568 million +/- 2 million is not 50% error, more like 0.5%.