The weapons at the time were cannon and musket. Muskets were iron, hard to make, heavy to carry, hard to operate, dangerous to the user (they could explode), had a horrific rate of fire, noisy, created a lot of smoke to obscure the battleplace, etc. Ben Franklin, I think it was, argued for the longbow as it could be manufactured anywhere, was light, safer to operate, had a massive rate of fire, was silent, and just as deadly as the musket - the ideal weapon for the Americans.
The problem is, Longbows require extensive training to fire effectively. Firearms allowed you to get away with cheaper, less well trained troops.
They may be from novel viruses. The They may be ancient paralogs of the marker genes. Or they may be from a new branch of cellular organisms in the tree of life, distinct from bacteria, archaea or eukaryotes. I think most likely they are from novel viruses.
I'm going to go with this last opinion as well, it's probably from some virus, which would account for the sequence wackiness. I'm wondering if they can construct some speculative primers and (without isolating the organism) start sequencing outwards from these novel sequences, maybe get enough to tell if it's a virus or a novel organism.
In any case, the real cost of something is the real cost, it can't be avoided. If it costs 48c to send that postcard you can't magically make it 28c by regulation. The cost is just shifted somewhere else, it still has to be paid by someone.
True, but it's much like the situation with "Unlimited" ISPs. You've got folks that pull down multiple gigabytes per month, and some that use a fraction of that. The single flat price makes it convenient enough to be worth it.
Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus
It seems that this organisms was adapted in the lab to substitute Arsenic for Phosphorous, and is not a naturally Arsenic-based lifeform -- and that it will still preferrentially use phosphorous when allowed any.
These days, even chicken doesn't taste like chicken.
"Now how did the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like, uh... oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken for example. Maybe they couldn't tell what to make chicken taste like which is why chicken tastes like everything!"
Not a passive booster, but I've used an external antenna before on my Touch HTC -- which still has a jack for such a thing (many newer phones do not, or have them hidden internally with no holes in the case for access).
In some locations I sent from 0-1 bars to 1-2 bar, which doesn't sound like much but makes an enormous difference in being able to make phone calls and transmit data.
I also tested it out using Field test mode (For those with an HTC Touch, enter ##33284# to access) to see the dbm measurements, and there were definite changes as I moved the external antenna around the room.
Sounds a lot like Biotene gum, which uses a combination of the enzymes Lysozyme, Glucose Oxidase, and Lactoperoxidase to destroy bacteria. Lysozyme directly attacks the peptidoglycans in bacterial cell walls, while Glucose Oxidase generates Hydrogen Peroxide from Glucose (in the gum). Lactoperoxidase then uses the peroxide to destroy bacteria as well.
I chew this stuff pretty often, it's better than regular gum for getting rid of bad breath. Only problem is that if you chew too much, it can give you a stomachache.
Running at resolutions beyond the HD rez, even on large screens, eliminate any sort of need for FSAA. At that point, you just don't get jaggies that need to be smoothed.
You still get pixel-shimmer though, which FSAA greatly reduces.
Well, it looks like these mini livers put us just slightly under two orders of magnitude in size away before getting sufficient capacity to sustain a human (at the mentioned minimum of 30% normal function).
Or does it? in many cases, liver disease is the result of a chronic and slow destruction that does not remove all capacity at a stroke; rather, the person slowly loses capacity until at some point it becomes insufficient to sustain life.
I am hoping a partial transplant of even a micro-sized lobe might be sufficient to bump them back up to capacity. If we can get a big enough liver-oid to provide a few years function, that might be enough for an elderly patient to live out the rest of their normal life-span (or at least normal "health-span").
Bananas, not sure about their variability, but most varieties of them are also reproduced asexually.
All commercial varieties of banana are reproduced asexually, as they are triploid and sterile; the random seed may occasionally occur, but very rarely.
Wild bananas are seed producing, see pictures here.
An analogy for the slashdot crowd might be Napster (centralised) vs. BitTorrent (distributed).
BitTorrent's a good example of both the strength and weakness of distributed distribution. There are going to be both popular and unpopular plants, and as the years pass eventually you'll start finding the equivalent of dead torrents. The best solution may be a hybrid model, with a centralized bank periodically "Re-seeding" (ah-yup) less popular varieties into the distributed network.
Only side effect would be not being able to eat fava beans.
If "only" that were true. As the wiki entry you linked to points out, for people with G6PD deficiency, a hemolytic anemia reaction can be induced by various drugs and chemicals (including some pretty common ones -- I once met a patient with G6PD deficiency, who apparently had an attack triggered by solvent vapors in a nail salon). Ironically enough, some of these drugs on the problem list include a number of anti-malarial agents.
Infections can also precipitate a crisis, and that's not something you can simply tell them to avoid. So unfortunately, it is a very imperfect defense against Malaria. However, so great was the historical (and in some areas, current) burden, that the advantages outweighed the drawbacks -- as they did for Sickle Cell trait, Alpha and Beta Thalessemia, Hereditary Elliptocytosis, Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (maybe), and several others. For more information, see Genetic Resistance to Malaria as a good starting place.
Additionally, these drives spin down quite regularly which increase battery life, however there are concerns about the duty cycle of spinup/spindown before failure.
I've heard Seagate responded to this by issuing new firmware that now keeps the drive spun-up constantly (eliminating pauses, but draining the battery).
I don't know... it seems that the drive's power-saving timings really would best be handled by the OS, and not by the drive's own firmware.
I save money by purchasing cheap used cars. I'm betting I would have to drive the Mazda a long time before I ever broke even on the purchase.
Look at it this way... It's like the old argument people had versus the Prius and Insight -- you'll save more money buying a used, but eventually there will be enough used Priuses and Insights in the market to lower the price.
After enough years pass, future purchasers will also then have the option of buying used Mazda-2's. So maybe not in time for our purchases, but eventually someone will save money both ways.
In the past, I've always gone with the biggest single-platter drive I can get. Seems to work well as far as reliability goes.
Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturers seemed to have dropped that technical information from their websites. While you can sometimes figure out that various drive models are multiples of some value (indicating capacity of a single platter side), capacities are changing fast enough that it is no longer a reliable indicator -- I could very well being just looking at old stock from a previous density.
Anyone have a good way to tell how many platters/heads a drive has, before buying it?
That would be an SSD, which fails on write, thus keeping any original data around. Over time, as an SSD fails, it simply has less and less available capacity, thus proving to be very reliable.
In theory, that's what's supposed to happen on the cell-level. In practice, companies are often not so considerate in making things fail gracefully. Often the whole drive just bricks itself.
They expected military retaliation after this; unfortunately, what they got was "Strategic Bombing"... no, not just military installations, but CIVILIAN installations. We blew up schools, churches, houses... that's called terrorism today. It pissed them off, too, because attacking non-combatants is an honorless act of cowardice.
A conservative estimate places the number of bombing runs at more than 5,000, with more than 11,500 bombs dropped, mainly incendiary bombs. The targets were usually residential areas, business areas, schools, hospitals (non-military targets).
Note the beginning date of the bombing campaign, 18 February 1938 (and that the bombings were covered in the U.S. media). In addition, bombings of other cities such as Shanghai and Wuhan took place, but Chongqing was probably the hardest-hit target.
Go is a simple game. Mind numbingly simple, in fact.
The rules that create and define the game are starkly simple. The "rules" that emerge and operate during the game are mind-boggling difficult. For instance, simply knowing when a game is functionally over can be very difficult for a beginner.
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The weapons at the time were cannon and musket. Muskets were iron, hard to make, heavy to carry, hard to operate, dangerous to the user (they could explode), had a horrific rate of fire, noisy, created a lot of smoke to obscure the battleplace, etc. Ben Franklin, I think it was, argued for the longbow as it could be manufactured anywhere, was light, safer to operate, had a massive rate of fire, was silent, and just as deadly as the musket - the ideal weapon for the Americans.
The problem is, Longbows require extensive training to fire effectively. Firearms allowed you to get away with cheaper, less well trained troops.
http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-behind-story-of-my-new-plosone.html
They may be from novel viruses. The They may be ancient paralogs of the marker genes. Or they may be from a new branch of cellular organisms in the tree of life, distinct from bacteria, archaea or eukaryotes. I think most likely they are from novel viruses.
I'm going to go with this last opinion as well, it's probably from some virus, which would account for the sequence wackiness. I'm wondering if they can construct some speculative primers and (without isolating the organism) start sequencing outwards from these novel sequences, maybe get enough to tell if it's a virus or a novel organism.
In any case, the real cost of something is the real cost, it can't be avoided. If it costs 48c to send that postcard you can't magically make it 28c by regulation. The cost is just shifted somewhere else, it still has to be paid by someone.
True, but it's much like the situation with "Unlimited" ISPs. You've got folks that pull down multiple gigabytes per month, and some that use a fraction of that. The single flat price makes it convenient enough to be worth it.
That way when you sit in your car you can look around and it would feel as if you sit in your car.
"Yo, Dawg -- I heard you like sitting in cars..."
From the New York Times Summary:
Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus
It seems that this organisms was adapted in the lab to substitute Arsenic for Phosphorous, and is not a naturally Arsenic-based lifeform -- and that it will still preferrentially use phosphorous when allowed any.
These days, even chicken doesn't taste like chicken.
"Now how did the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like, uh ... oatmeal or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken for example. Maybe they couldn't tell what to make chicken taste like which is why chicken tastes like everything!"
Are any of these examples of what you're talking about?
http://www.google.com/products?q=cell%20phone%20passive%20repeater
I'm curious about them, but cautious about cheap ones which may not work.
Not a passive booster, but I've used an external antenna before on my Touch HTC -- which still has a jack for such a thing (many newer phones do not, or have them hidden internally with no holes in the case for access).
In some locations I sent from 0-1 bars to 1-2 bar, which doesn't sound like much but makes an enormous difference in being able to make phone calls and transmit data.
I also tested it out using Field test mode (For those with an HTC Touch, enter ##33284# to access)
to see the dbm measurements, and there were definite changes as I moved the external antenna around the room.
Sounds a lot like Biotene gum, which uses a combination of the enzymes Lysozyme, Glucose Oxidase, and Lactoperoxidase to destroy bacteria. Lysozyme directly attacks the peptidoglycans in bacterial cell walls, while Glucose Oxidase generates Hydrogen Peroxide from Glucose (in the gum). Lactoperoxidase then uses the peroxide to destroy bacteria as well.
I chew this stuff pretty often, it's better than regular gum for getting rid of bad breath. Only problem is that if you chew too much, it can give you a stomachache.
Running at resolutions beyond the HD rez, even on large screens, eliminate any sort of need for FSAA. At that point, you just don't get jaggies that need to be smoothed.
You still get pixel-shimmer though, which FSAA greatly reduces.
This shows that the technological arms race to extract every penny from high-frequency mechanical arbitrage will soon reach its ultimate limits.
Not yet, not until the Vile Offspring are born, and consume their parents...
Well, it looks like these mini livers put us just slightly under two orders of magnitude in size away before getting sufficient capacity to sustain a human (at the mentioned minimum of 30% normal function).
Or does it? in many cases, liver disease is the result of a chronic and slow destruction that does not remove all capacity at a stroke; rather, the person slowly loses capacity until at some point it becomes insufficient to sustain life.
I am hoping a partial transplant of even a micro-sized lobe might be sufficient to bump them back up to capacity. If we can get a big enough liver-oid to provide a few years function, that might be enough for an elderly patient to live out the rest of their normal life-span (or at least normal "health-span").
Ah yes... I'm expecting Fujitsu, AMD, and NEC to form a rival alliance any day now.
Bananas, not sure about their variability, but most varieties of them are also reproduced asexually.
All commercial varieties of banana are reproduced asexually, as they are triploid and sterile; the random seed may occasionally occur, but very rarely.
Wild bananas are seed producing, see pictures here.
An analogy for the slashdot crowd might be Napster (centralised) vs. BitTorrent (distributed).
BitTorrent's a good example of both the strength and weakness of distributed distribution. There are going to be both popular and unpopular plants, and as the years pass eventually you'll start finding the equivalent of dead torrents. The best solution may be a hybrid model, with a centralized bank periodically "Re-seeding" (ah-yup) less popular varieties into the distributed network.
Only side effect would be not being able to eat fava beans.
If "only" that were true. As the wiki entry you linked to points out, for people with G6PD deficiency, a hemolytic anemia reaction can be induced by various drugs and chemicals (including some pretty common ones -- I once met a patient with G6PD deficiency, who apparently had an attack triggered by solvent vapors in a nail salon). Ironically enough, some of these drugs on the problem list include a number of anti-malarial agents.
Infections can also precipitate a crisis, and that's not something you can simply tell them to avoid. So unfortunately, it is a very imperfect defense against Malaria. However, so great was the historical (and in some areas, current) burden, that the advantages outweighed the drawbacks -- as they did for Sickle Cell trait, Alpha and Beta Thalessemia, Hereditary Elliptocytosis, Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (maybe), and several others. For more information, see Genetic Resistance to Malaria as a good starting place.
Additionally, these drives spin down quite regularly which increase battery life, however there are concerns about the duty cycle of spinup/spindown before failure.
I've heard Seagate responded to this by issuing new firmware that now keeps the drive spun-up constantly (eliminating pauses, but draining the battery).
I don't know... it seems that the drive's power-saving timings really would best be handled by the OS, and not by the drive's own firmware.
I save money by purchasing cheap used cars. I'm betting I would have to drive the Mazda a long time before I ever broke even on the purchase.
Look at it this way... It's like the old argument people had versus the Prius and Insight -- you'll save more money buying a used, but eventually there will be enough used Priuses and Insights in the market to lower the price.
After enough years pass, future purchasers will also then have the option of buying used Mazda-2's. So maybe not in time for our purchases, but eventually someone will save money both ways.
And if you squeeze the nanotube very, very hard, it disappears!
Unless you use it to fashion a container for nanotoothpaste. In which case, no matter how hard you squeeze it, there will always be a little bit left.
and now you've dragged Moot into this. I've got a bad feeling about this!
No, it's perfectly okay. Moot wishes to be teh little girl, so that counts as consent.
In the past, I've always gone with the biggest single-platter drive I can get. Seems to work well as far as reliability goes.
Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturers seemed to have dropped that technical information from their websites. While you can sometimes figure out that various drive models are multiples of some value (indicating capacity of a single platter side), capacities are changing fast enough that it is no longer a reliable indicator -- I could very well being just looking at old stock from a previous density.
Anyone have a good way to tell how many platters/heads a drive has, before buying it?
That would be an SSD, which fails on write, thus keeping any original data around. Over time, as an SSD fails, it simply has less and less available capacity, thus proving to be very reliable.
In theory, that's what's supposed to happen on the cell-level. In practice, companies are often not so considerate in making things fail gracefully. Often the whole drive just bricks itself.
They expected military retaliation after this; unfortunately, what they got was "Strategic Bombing" ... no, not just military installations, but CIVILIAN installations. We blew up schools, churches, houses... that's called terrorism today. It pissed them off, too, because attacking non-combatants is an honorless act of cowardice.
I'd suggest reading up on the Japanese bombing of Bombing of Chongqing:
A conservative estimate places the number of bombing runs at more than 5,000, with more than 11,500 bombs dropped, mainly incendiary bombs. The targets were usually residential areas, business areas, schools, hospitals (non-military targets).
Note the beginning date of the bombing campaign, 18 February 1938 (and that the bombings were covered in the U.S. media). In addition, bombings of other cities such as Shanghai and Wuhan took place, but Chongqing was probably the hardest-hit target.
So either they will not move at all, or they will superimpose at that point.
"Superimpose"? Is that what they're calling it these days?
Go is a simple game.
Mind numbingly simple, in fact.
The rules that create and define the game are starkly simple. The "rules" that emerge and operate during the game are mind-boggling difficult. For instance, simply knowing when a game is functionally over can be very difficult for a beginner.