Biological evolution "strives to solve" one problem, how to replicate and survive. There are many solutions to this problem, even if/.ers fail at one of them;>)
Well it seems one large glass of milk and/or one small portion of turkey.
For 100g roasted light turkey meat you get 340mg of tryptophan, 100g of cow's milk has 75mg. So you need 4.5 times the weight of milk to get the same amount, 2% milk only has 40mg per 100g.
It is good to see in this thread people discussing what a skeptic is. Unfortunately the term global warming "denalist" seems to fit too many peoples view.
It is absolutely fine to doubt humanity is causing significant climate change but when people accuse the scientists of cherry picking data, of bad science and bias it sometimes makes me cry to read these people's reasons.
a) the Yamal tree-ring data [telegraph.co.uk] - data from 10 trees is extrpolated into a 'trend' and finds its way into a number of papers
Well according to Steve McIntyre, "It is not my belief that Briffa crudely cherry picked. My guess is that the Russians selected a limited number of 200-400 year trees - that's what they say - a number that might well have been appropriate for their purpose and that Briffa inherited their selection".
If you want to have a reasoned opinion on climate change and the data it is best not to use James Delingpole as your source. Simply put, Steve McIntyre did not like 12 trees used for the 1990 temperature so used 34 other trees from nearby. Can you do that? Simply take the growth from one area and directly compare to another?
b) CRU emails - won't say much more, too much said about this already.
Agree:)
c) New Zealand average temperature graphs [telegraph.co.uk] - high-school style 'cooking the graph' to match expectations
Maybe or maybe not. I agree that the temperature corrections look rather dodgy. If the data did show that New Zealand was not warming while the rest of the globe is warming, would that invalidate AGW? There is a lot of data out there, most of it considered good science. A few blips here and there do seem to be taken too mean more than they should.
Almost, one of the proposed solutions to the EPR paradox was hidden variables. Thereby showing that QM was incomplete and proving Einstein and presumably Podolsky & Rosen beliefs that QM was not wholly correct. However experiments to prove/disprove Bell's Theorem have shown that local hidden variable theories can not replicate QM and therefore observed physics. Therefore a hidden variable theory would have to be non-local, allow some sort of FTL communication. The particles have some sort of FTL concurrence but no information can be transmitted with this.
OR the theory could be local but not counterfactual definitent.
So we are left with either theories which are non-local which seem to suggest special relativity is incorrect (Bohm interpretation. Or QM particles do not have definite physical property like momentum unless you measure them (Copenhagen interpretation).
This is why people think QM is weird.
(Swine Flu) A virus that was super-contagious and infected nearly everyone,
... except that H1N1 isn't "super contagious" - it's not even as contagious as regular flu. The hype from Mexico was wrong - of the 152 people who supposedly died from it (which is what made people thinkit was highly contagious), revised figures showed only 7 actually did.
The big lesson here is don't listen to Fox News and CNN, and don't let Fox News and CNN dictate government policy. (And I'd blame WHO and CDC for part of this as well - they have a financial and institutional interest in keeping the hype going well after it was obvious it was mostly bullshit).
Well the WHO say that it's about as contagious as normal flu. Most experts are likely to say we don't quite know yet but it looks like it is about as contagious as the seasonal flu. H1N1 is not as virulent as first thought and does not seem to have got worse in the northern hemisphere flu season as feared. We should be happy! I can't see how whether 152 or 7 died has much to do with how contagious it is. Your reply to gilleain does not really make much logical sense,the only figure which would matter is how many caught the virus.
Totally agree KDE 6.9 is much better then KDE 4. Plasmas are hot and highly charged, Caramba! I could fiddle with them all day, overall it is a right cutie.
Remember the good ole days, when there was a charismatic candidate that promised a new Washington, one that represents the people and not littered with lobbyists.
I guess GW really messed the country up...
George Washington? Well I guess he did mess up a little then.
I think there is no doubt that counterfeiting will be stretched to include copyright infringement. The reason is simply that most/all? western countries have lost a lot of their industrial base. It is cheaper to use lower paid workers in countries with lower standards of health and safety. Therefore what can these countries do to fill the gap? Many of them see content creation and advanced knowledge as the new industries which we can out compete poorer, more populous countries.
However there is one problem with this and that is knowledge and information are easily transferable, a CPU design or film is easy to share throughout the world. Only a strong legal framework and enforcement could stop such a natural and easy process. As "stealing" information is so easy to accomplish expect harsher and more desperate laws over the coming decades regarding "IP".
Until they eventually work out it won't really work. [cry]
This new treaty as has been described by Geist is a natural progression from what we already have through TRIPS and WIPO. Typical politicians, when laws they make did not have the desired consequences, make harsher and many more laws!
This sounds so cool. I dreamed of such a device when I delivered newspapers, especially on Sundays when only a few papers filled my bag. At the time I imagined delivering the content as memory chips, this was before most people had a mobile phone.
The question I have is who in Apple has these ideas? It sounds like something Google could have done, or even Microsoft.
The likely view of the Conservative party regarding copyright and other things will certainly align themselves with Rupert Murdoch's views. The parties covet the support of certain parts of the media, especially The Sun.
Expect a hard time for the BBC and anything else which may mean less profit for Sky and News Corporation.
Politician's quest to get themselves elected into power so often seems to mean they lose their perspective (think of the children) and sacrifice any principle they may have had.
I don't know that going along with your pseudo science ( and that all it is, given 80% of the temperature monitoring stations have been found to be to close to man made radiators to produce ANY useful information )
Really?. Have you also considered that there are satellite and sea measurements, those scientists are crafty. So what we do now won't affect the future?.
I'd rather spend the resources on something with a better chance at real pay back, and yes that includes laughing at, and campaigning/voting against people like YOU.
Oh OK, as long as you are having a good time I suppose future generations won't matter!
There were reports at the time, that the recent Station Fire (the one that threatened Mount Wilson Observatory) put our more CO2 every two to three days as all the cars in the US do in a year.
Lets do an estimate of how much CO2 was released and compare to the CO2 released by the transport part of the economy.
For the amount of biomass in a forest I get from 44 metric tons per acre for dry biomass in Montana up to 200 tons for all biomass including roots in
tropical rainforest. If we take the mean and assume 122 tons per acre and 50% of dry wood is made of carbon. 336,000 acres was destroyed in the 2009 California wildfires. From this I get 20.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released, which I believe is an over-estimate. In comparison the USA released 1887 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007. Cars and light duty trucks account for two-thirds of the total or 1258. That's at least 60 times more than the fire released over 3+ months.
Of course, the AGW people either ignore or deny this because it doesn't fit their dogma.
(And an interesting aside... we often think of BP, Exxon, Shell etc as being these scary, large influential corporations. And maybe they are, but this exec described how truly small they are compared to the Saudi, Iranian and Qatari national oil companies. ExxonMobile and BP combined produce less oil than the Nigerian national corporation)
You can't base the power and influence of Exxon, BP etc. on the amount of oil they extract as many countries which have a large amounts of oil have nationalised it. Considering ExxonMobile were the most profitable US company in 2008 I think they are a pretty large influential company!
It certainly seems that certain western countries do all they can to secure deals for them in the middle east.
ExxonMobile and co not only extract the oil, but transport it, refine it and sell it to end users. All very profitable operations.
Well not according to Dorlands medical dictionary. Disease is a general term for infections, disorders etc. E.g. Coeliac disease
Anyway even if you were right that disease==infections what about fungi, protozoa and other parasites?
Heck both are not even made of dark matter- that would be the most interesting point if the alien is made of dark matter (which apparently makes up >90% of the matter in the known universe, according to many scientists).
For heaven's sake think for a second. Why use large amounts of NAND when small amounts of DRAM would be faster?
Because it will keep data between boots, your disk cache can't help with booting. As it will be caching the most commonly used files between boots your hard drives may end up being used a lot less, making them more reliable!
So not at all redundant.
but wouldn't this type of retrograde orbit be possible if the planet had gone "rouge" from it's original system and was then captured in the gravity well of its current parent star?
While possible the idea is less likely then a close encounter with another planet in the solar system. The nearest solar system to ours is about 4 light years away, in between is a whole lot of nothing and a bit of gas.
For the solar system to capture a rogue planet it would have to pass very closely and be travelling fairly slowly.
uh... isn't bee Pollen one of those things they put in the energy pills they sell at the gas-n-go mini marts? Maybe they should add some pollen to that sugar water.
Yes bee pollen is used as a food supplement as is royal jelly and Propolis.
also isn't giving Bee's sugar going to prevent them from bothering with the flowers they are supposed to be pollinating? after all they visit flowers for sugar not pollen. The pollen is just symbiotic side-efffect.
Well they need pollen too as a protein source, especially to feed their brood. That is why honey bees have sticky pads on their legs to collect pollen.
While I agree with you post I feel you underestimate the possibilities of saving of energy.
Thus, I do not support significant scaling back of our energy use - most of it really isn't excess, but is required to maintain our present living standard. Reducing energy consumption would require scaling it back very significantly, and I do not want to see that happen. We can definitely try to trim consumption down where possible, by using more energy efficient machines and technologies (such as those nifty insulated houses that leak very little heat). But in the end, this is still a drop in the ocean.
Consider that 30% of a houses energy consumption is used for space heating, bumping up the insulation is not really a drop in the ocean. It is possible to build "zero carbon" housing.
A internal combustion engine is only about 22% efficient and the driver is 1/10 the weight of the hunk of metal. There are major savings to be made in transportation efficiency through better materials and electricity powered vehicles.
A lot of heat (up to 60%) is lost in electricity generation because turbines are limited to the carnot cycle. The waste heat could be used to heat buildings or used in industry.
Of course any one thing is small because we use energy for so many things, but combined we waste a huge amount of energy. It's actually really embarrassing, the only reason people don't tend to notice is that energy is cheap right now. So do we use energy in excess, course we do. How many times have you left an unneeded light on? How many standby devices do you have that could be turned off? You may say, "Ah but they are nothing compared to my total energy usage". And you would be right and therefore make my point.
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Biological evolution "strives to solve" one problem, how to replicate and survive. There are many solutions to this problem, even if /.ers fail at one of them ;>)
Well it seems one large glass of milk and/or one small portion of turkey. For 100g roasted light turkey meat you get 340mg of tryptophan, 100g of cow's milk has 75mg. So you need 4.5 times the weight of milk to get the same amount, 2% milk only has 40mg per 100g.
Like sleek shiny people?
Slashdot is so tender.
a) the Yamal tree-ring data [telegraph.co.uk] - data from 10 trees is extrpolated into a 'trend' and finds its way into a number of papers
Well according to Steve McIntyre, "It is not my belief that Briffa crudely cherry picked. My guess is that the Russians selected a limited number of 200-400 year trees - that's what they say - a number that might well have been appropriate for their purpose and that Briffa inherited their selection".
If you want to have a reasoned opinion on climate change and the data it is best not to use James Delingpole as your source. Simply put, Steve McIntyre did not like 12 trees used for the 1990 temperature so used 34 other trees from nearby. Can you do that? Simply take the growth from one area and directly compare to another?
b) CRU emails - won't say much more, too much said about this already.
Agree :)
c) New Zealand average temperature graphs [telegraph.co.uk] - high-school style 'cooking the graph' to match expectations
Maybe or maybe not. I agree that the temperature corrections look rather dodgy. If the data did show that New Zealand was not warming while the rest of the globe is warming, would that invalidate AGW? There is a lot of data out there, most of it considered good science. A few blips here and there do seem to be taken too mean more than they should.
Almost, one of the proposed solutions to the EPR paradox was hidden variables. Thereby showing that QM was incomplete and proving Einstein and presumably Podolsky & Rosen beliefs that QM was not wholly correct. However experiments to prove/disprove Bell's Theorem have shown that local hidden variable theories can not replicate QM and therefore observed physics. Therefore a hidden variable theory would have to be non-local, allow some sort of FTL communication. The particles have some sort of FTL concurrence but no information can be transmitted with this.
OR the theory could be local but not counterfactual definitent. So we are left with either theories which are non-local which seem to suggest special relativity is incorrect (Bohm interpretation. Or QM particles do not have definite physical property like momentum unless you measure them (Copenhagen interpretation).
This is why people think QM is weird.
The big lesson here is don't listen to Fox News and CNN, and don't let Fox News and CNN dictate government policy. (And I'd blame WHO and CDC for part of this as well - they have a financial and institutional interest in keeping the hype going well after it was obvious it was mostly bullshit).
Well the WHO say that it's about as contagious as normal flu. Most experts are likely to say we don't quite know yet but it looks like it is about as contagious as the seasonal flu. H1N1 is not as virulent as first thought and does not seem to have got worse in the northern hemisphere flu season as feared. We should be happy! I can't see how whether 152 or 7 died has much to do with how contagious it is. Your reply to gilleain does not really make much logical sense,the only figure which would matter is how many caught the virus.
I prefer KDE 6.9, it's more sexy.
Totally agree KDE 6.9 is much better then KDE 4. Plasmas are hot and highly charged, Caramba! I could fiddle with them all day, overall it is a right cutie.
Remember the good ole days, when there was a charismatic candidate that promised a new Washington, one that represents the people and not littered with lobbyists.
I guess GW really messed the country up...
George Washington? Well I guess he did mess up a little then.
I think there is no doubt that counterfeiting will be stretched to include copyright infringement. The reason is simply that most/all? western countries have lost a lot of their industrial base. It is cheaper to use lower paid workers in countries with lower standards of health and safety. Therefore what can these countries do to fill the gap? Many of them see content creation and advanced knowledge as the new industries which we can out compete poorer, more populous countries.
However there is one problem with this and that is knowledge and information are easily transferable, a CPU design or film is easy to share throughout the world. Only a strong legal framework and enforcement could stop such a natural and easy process. As "stealing" information is so easy to accomplish expect harsher and more desperate laws over the coming decades regarding "IP".
Until they eventually work out it won't really work. [cry] This new treaty as has been described by Geist is a natural progression from what we already have through TRIPS and WIPO. Typical politicians, when laws they make did not have the desired consequences, make harsher and many more laws!
This sounds so cool. I dreamed of such a device when I delivered newspapers, especially on Sundays when only a few papers filled my bag. At the time I imagined delivering the content as memory chips, this was before most people had a mobile phone. The question I have is who in Apple has these ideas? It sounds like something Google could have done, or even Microsoft.
The likely view of the Conservative party regarding copyright and other things will certainly align themselves with Rupert Murdoch's views. The parties covet the support of certain parts of the media, especially The Sun.
Expect a hard time for the BBC and anything else which may mean less profit for Sky and News Corporation.
Politician's quest to get themselves elected into power so often seems to mean they lose their perspective (think of the children) and sacrifice any principle they may have had.
I don't know that going along with your pseudo science ( and that all it is, given 80% of the temperature monitoring stations have been found to be to close to man made radiators to produce ANY useful information )
Really?. Have you also considered that there are satellite and sea measurements, those scientists are crafty. So what we do now won't affect the future?.
I'd rather spend the resources on something with a better chance at real pay back, and yes that includes laughing at, and campaigning/voting against people like YOU.
Oh OK, as long as you are having a good time I suppose future generations won't matter!
There were reports at the time, that the recent Station Fire (the one that threatened Mount Wilson Observatory) put our more CO2 every two to three days as all the cars in the US do in a year.
Lets do an estimate of how much CO2 was released and compare to the CO2 released by the transport part of the economy. For the amount of biomass in a forest I get from 44 metric tons per acre for dry biomass in Montana up to 200 tons for all biomass including roots in tropical rainforest. If we take the mean and assume 122 tons per acre and 50% of dry wood is made of carbon. 336,000 acres was destroyed in the 2009 California wildfires. From this I get 20.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released, which I believe is an over-estimate. In comparison the USA released 1887 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007. Cars and light duty trucks account for two-thirds of the total or 1258. That's at least 60 times more than the fire released over 3+ months.
Of course, the AGW people either ignore or deny this because it doesn't fit their dogma.
Practise what you preach my friend.
(And an interesting aside... we often think of BP, Exxon, Shell etc as being these scary, large influential corporations. And maybe they are, but this exec described how truly small they are compared to the Saudi, Iranian and Qatari national oil companies. ExxonMobile and BP combined produce less oil than the Nigerian national corporation)
You can't base the power and influence of Exxon, BP etc. on the amount of oil they extract as many countries which have a large amounts of oil have nationalised it. Considering ExxonMobile were the most profitable US company in 2008 I think they are a pretty large influential company!
It certainly seems that certain western countries do all they can to secure deals for them in the middle east.
ExxonMobile and co not only extract the oil, but transport it, refine it and sell it to end users. All very profitable operations.
Well not according to Dorlands medical dictionary. Disease is a general term for infections, disorders etc. E.g. Coeliac disease Anyway even if you were right that disease==infections what about fungi, protozoa and other parasites?
Heck both are not even made of dark matter- that would be the most interesting point if the alien is made of dark matter (which apparently makes up >90% of the matter in the known universe, according to many scientists).
Well that could answer the Fermi paradox.
For heaven's sake think for a second. Why use large amounts of NAND when small amounts of DRAM would be faster?
Because it will keep data between boots, your disk cache can't help with booting. As it will be caching the most commonly used files between boots your hard drives may end up being used a lot less, making them more reliable!
So not at all redundant.
What's the pattern in base e? Cos I'm not seeing it.
10.101002020002111....
Pi is irrational which means that the decimal expansion never repeats or terminates! Case closed.
but wouldn't this type of retrograde orbit be possible if the planet had gone "rouge" from it's original system and was then captured in the gravity well of its current parent star?
While possible the idea is less likely then a close encounter with another planet in the solar system. The nearest solar system to ours is about 4 light years away, in between is a whole lot of nothing and a bit of gas. For the solar system to capture a rogue planet it would have to pass very closely and be travelling fairly slowly.
There is a fair amount of evidence for a very turbulent beginning to our solar system.
I don't even know why people bother with the DMCA. It's US-only. Notice how all the fun cracking and releasing and such happens outside the US.
I am afraid not, copyright protection and the criminalisation of copyright protection circumvention is part of the WIPO treaty, World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty.
uh... isn't bee Pollen one of those things they put in the energy pills they sell at the gas-n-go mini marts? Maybe they should add some pollen to that sugar water.
Yes bee pollen is used as a food supplement as is royal jelly and Propolis.
also isn't giving Bee's sugar going to prevent them from bothering with the flowers they are supposed to be pollinating? after all they visit flowers for sugar not pollen. The pollen is just symbiotic side-efffect.
Well they need pollen too as a protein source, especially to feed their brood. That is why honey bees have sticky pads on their legs to collect pollen.
I'm currently seeking funding for my duct tape accelerator. I don't think the EU is going to be fooled twice, though.
-Peter
What if CERN combined your duct tape accelerator with the LHC? Then we could have one working accelerator!
Thus, I do not support significant scaling back of our energy use - most of it really isn't excess, but is required to maintain our present living standard. Reducing energy consumption would require scaling it back very significantly, and I do not want to see that happen. We can definitely try to trim consumption down where possible, by using more energy efficient machines and technologies (such as those nifty insulated houses that leak very little heat). But in the end, this is still a drop in the ocean.
Consider that 30% of a houses energy consumption is used for space heating, bumping up the insulation is not really a drop in the ocean. It is possible to build "zero carbon" housing.
A internal combustion engine is only about 22% efficient and the driver is 1/10 the weight of the hunk of metal. There are major savings to be made in transportation efficiency through better materials and electricity powered vehicles.
A lot of heat (up to 60%) is lost in electricity generation because turbines are limited to the carnot cycle. The waste heat could be used to heat buildings or used in industry.
Of course any one thing is small because we use energy for so many things, but combined we waste a huge amount of energy. It's actually really embarrassing, the only reason people don't tend to notice is that energy is cheap right now. So do we use energy in excess, course we do. How many times have you left an unneeded light on? How many standby devices do you have that could be turned off? You may say, "Ah but they are nothing compared to my total energy usage". And you would be right and therefore make my point.