I can see where this is going. In a few more years, you'll need to dress up in Formal Wear to pick up your Apple Gizmo. Scene at swanky Apple Store. A bouncer scowls at the line forming up, as desperate customers try to slip the Maître d' a little something to find a spot for them. Meanwhile, inside...
Customer: Monsieur! Your finest iPhone, if you please. Snooty Waiter: Our very best from Shenzhen, China. A Foxconn 2018, very good year. Snooty Waiter cuts shrinkwrap and offers it to the customer. Customer: *sniff* Excellent bouquet, Polyolefin with just a touch of plasticizer. Snooty Waiter: Excellent choice, sir!
Anyone remember Kremvax? Started out as a hoax, but eventually becamse something real.
In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic center of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centered on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets
Who knows, perhaps someday the nascent net in Korea will lead to something greater?
Hmm... modern examples of overlooked technologies? Well, an emerging example might be the Memristor. Proposed in 1971, it wasn't until very recently that a practical example was constructed; it remains to be seen if they will remain niche curiosities, or become a common part of common electronic designs.
The summary gets one thing wrong. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are not stronger than those that are nor antibiotic resistant. As a matter of fact they are weaker. Generally, the way that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics is by shutting down the cellular mechanism that the antibiotic uses to get into the cell. However, that cellular mechanism serves a useful function in the cell (usually to bring nutrients into the bacterial cell). When antibiotic resistant bacteria are in an environment without antibiotics they generally die off over a relatively short time-span.
Eh, "-1 Oversimplified".
Loss-of-function or alterations of form are indeed one of of the possible mechanisms, and tends to be the more easily-evolved type, so you will often see those appear (and disappear) the fastest. However, occasionally you see mutations that are "free" to the bug, and represent a genuine evolutionary advance that will stick around, possibly forever.
Outside of this, resistance mechanisms are mostly plasmid-encoded factors for things such as antibiotic-degrading enzymes, efflux pumps, and other such defenses. The evolutionary cost for these can range from very high to trivially low, depending (does your enzyme soak up lots of resources to make, or is it highly efficient? Is it permanently switched on, or does it come with an induction mechanism that only triggers when appropriate?). In addition, many bacteria can swap plasmids around, allowing for more genetic versatility.
So the short answer is, that there is no short answer. How fast resistance disappears when antibiotics are no longer used, will depend on each particular situation. However, over time quick-and-dirty solutions will tend to be replaced by more evolutionarily elegant adaptations.
But the halting problem is not in U. In fact, U cannot contain neither semi decidable nor undecidable problems (which was our base assumption).
This sounds like it would be a great setup for a Charlie Stross novel. Protagonist stumbles upon a conspiracy centered around an ancient alien text allegedly detailing knowledge of the state machine upon which reality executes -- and an artifact, which if activated, may place the universe into a halting state! Amazon review: "A hyperkinetic, Meme-filled trip with an explosive plot twist!"
Dressing something up as satire leaves you holding all the cards. His agenda is advanced, and any shortcomings are glossed over with "this is satire". It removes any accountability or responsibility, or even any demand for consistency or explanation.
Much as it was in the days when only the Dwarf in the jester's cap could mock the King.
Honey is chemically indistinguisable from HFCS-55. In fact HFCS is sometimes used to illegally "stretch" honey, and the only way to tell HFCS from honey is by the pollen-protein contaminants found in honey. Amazingly, the people who are first to condemn HFCS are usually also the first to tout honey as a "natural replacement" for sugar... when in fact it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. (Where DID you think the bees got the sugars in honey, anyway??)
The poster is quite correct in the chemical similarity, but honey has one very key difference. It is *expensive*, and thus used sparingly. No honey-sweetened 64oz Big Gulps. Honey is better for you because of economics, not chemistry.
And the reason this screwed-up situation doesn't get fixed, is that whatever politician moves first to try to improve things will get roasted by his opposition for getting troops killed/costing American jobs/betraying us. Bloviating gasbag pundits/celebrities/talk-show hosts will pick up the story, and the public will whip themselves up into a frenzy over the supposed sell-out, because that's what their Guts tell them to do.
If by some chance all political factions come to a sane consensus (some of them realize how stupid this all is) and try to patch things quietly, count on shameless/crazy opportunists to jump in and start flinging poo for personal advantage. And the worst thing is, that this broken dynamic is being repeated over-and-over (booming prison populations and ever tightening sentencing laws, juvinile sexting prosections and sex offender witchhunts, Islamic mosque construction, etc...).
Such pixel densities could make the technology useful in projection displays, as well as wearable, bendable or extremely compact displays, according to the researchers.
I'd be interested in seeing this technology in head-mounted wearable displays, and would like to propose that we term such devices "scouters". I believe they'll become practical once the achievable dpi is over nine-thousand.
What if the seasonal variation is caused by particles that require the mass of the earth to slow them down sufficiently to interact with the radioactive material?
Interesting idea, like a moderator. We would expect variations to occur with latitude (and season), revolution of the earth, and perhaps the rare lunar eclipse. Problem with this explanation is, I have a hard time imagining the 24-hour cycle signal would get missed.
One of the really cool parts of this finding -- in modern times, experimental particle physics has required increasingly huge machines (and budgets) to participate. For a change, here's researchers everywhere can participate in, possibly revolutionary, and for very little cost.
If glossy screens really bother folks that much (and there's no option available from the manufacturer), matte replacement LCDs are available for most sizes. A quick Google will turn up lots of vendors, and the installation isn't that difficult. You can sell the removed glossy screen on Ebay to recoup part of your cost, too. Not as convenient or as cheap as having it as a default option, but at least it's possible.
I hear PixelQi is coming out with DIY replacement screens as well, although apparently only for the 10.1" netbook size right now.
What you have to understand about China is that their government is an expression of their religious philosophies. They believe that social order is a moral expression, and something worth dying for:
This interpretation rather conveniently ignores the PRC government's long suppression of Confucianism. Its rehabilitation is something quite recent:
"I think he [Qin Shihuang] killed too few Confucian scholars. All those Confucian scholars were indeed counter-revolutionaries." -Chairman Mao
What I'd like to see is for Google to grow some cojones when it comes to dealing with the big media conglomerates.
I respectfully disagree with the listed tactical options, however. "Don't be evil" is a main reason that Google gets a pass on its dominance in the search market and online advertising space. A refusal to use its market power to punish adversaries is part of that -- it is an essential part of what makes the difference between a legal and illegal monopoly.
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For a pithy summary of the game, might I suggest the Somethingawful Goon reviews?
http://frontblog.ffgoons.com/2010/10/01/ffxiv-review
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3353297
Also... CATGIRLS!
I can see where this is going. In a few more years, you'll need to dress up in Formal Wear to pick up your Apple Gizmo.
Scene at swanky Apple Store. A bouncer scowls at the line forming up, as desperate customers try to slip the Maître d' a little something to find a spot for them. Meanwhile, inside...
Customer: Monsieur! Your finest iPhone, if you please.
Snooty Waiter: Our very best from Shenzhen, China. A Foxconn 2018, very good year.
Snooty Waiter cuts shrinkwrap and offers it to the customer.
Customer: *sniff* Excellent bouquet, Polyolefin with just a touch of plasticizer.
Snooty Waiter: Excellent choice, sir!
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Anyone remember Kremvax? Started out as a hoax, but eventually becamse something real.
In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic center of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centered on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets
Who knows, perhaps someday the nascent net in Korea will lead to something greater?
Hmm... modern examples of overlooked technologies? Well, an emerging example might be the Memristor. Proposed in 1971, it wasn't until very recently that a practical example was constructed; it remains to be seen if they will remain niche curiosities, or become a common part of common electronic designs.
The summary gets one thing wrong. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are not stronger than those that are nor antibiotic resistant. As a matter of fact they are weaker. Generally, the way that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics is by shutting down the cellular mechanism that the antibiotic uses to get into the cell. However, that cellular mechanism serves a useful function in the cell (usually to bring nutrients into the bacterial cell). When antibiotic resistant bacteria are in an environment without antibiotics they generally die off over a relatively short time-span.
Eh, "-1 Oversimplified".
Loss-of-function or alterations of form are indeed one of of the possible mechanisms, and tends to be the more easily-evolved type, so you will often see those appear (and disappear) the fastest. However, occasionally you see mutations that are "free" to the bug, and represent a genuine evolutionary advance that will stick around, possibly forever.
Outside of this, resistance mechanisms are mostly plasmid-encoded factors for things such as antibiotic-degrading enzymes, efflux pumps, and other such defenses. The evolutionary cost for these can range from very high to trivially low, depending (does your enzyme soak up lots of resources to make, or is it highly efficient? Is it permanently switched on, or does it come with an induction mechanism that only triggers when appropriate?). In addition, many bacteria can swap plasmids around, allowing for more genetic versatility.
So the short answer is, that there is no short answer. How fast resistance disappears when antibiotics are no longer used, will depend on each particular situation. However, over time quick-and-dirty solutions will tend to be replaced by more evolutionarily elegant adaptations.
But the halting problem is not in U. In fact, U cannot contain neither semi decidable nor undecidable problems (which was our base assumption).
This sounds like it would be a great setup for a Charlie Stross novel. Protagonist stumbles upon a conspiracy centered around an ancient alien text allegedly detailing knowledge of the state machine upon which reality executes -- and an artifact, which if activated, may place the universe into a halting state! Amazon review: "A hyperkinetic, Meme-filled trip with an explosive plot twist!"
A CFL has about 4-5 grams of mercury in it.
You are off by a factor of a thousand. Amount of mercury is more like 4-5 milligrams, about the same amount of mercury as 10 pounds of Swordfish.
Dressing something up as satire leaves you holding all the cards. His agenda is advanced, and any shortcomings are glossed over with "this is satire". It removes any accountability or responsibility, or even any demand for consistency or explanation.
Much as it was in the days when only the Dwarf in the jester's cap could mock the King.
Honey is chemically indistinguisable from HFCS-55. In fact HFCS is sometimes used to illegally "stretch" honey, and the only way to tell HFCS from honey is by the pollen-protein contaminants found in honey. Amazingly, the people who are first to condemn HFCS are usually also the first to tout honey as a "natural replacement" for sugar... when in fact it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. (Where DID you think the bees got the sugars in honey, anyway??)
The poster is quite correct in the chemical similarity, but honey has one very key difference. It is *expensive*, and thus used sparingly. No honey-sweetened 64oz Big Gulps. Honey is better for you because of economics, not chemistry.
And the reason this screwed-up situation doesn't get fixed, is that whatever politician moves first to try to improve things will get roasted by his opposition for getting troops killed/costing American jobs/betraying us. Bloviating gasbag pundits/celebrities/talk-show hosts will pick up the story, and the public will whip themselves up into a frenzy over the supposed sell-out, because that's what their Guts tell them to do.
If by some chance all political factions come to a sane consensus (some of them realize how stupid this all is) and try to patch things quietly, count on shameless/crazy opportunists to jump in and start flinging poo for personal advantage. And the worst thing is, that this broken dynamic is being repeated over-and-over (booming prison populations and ever tightening sentencing laws, juvinile sexting prosections and sex offender witchhunts, Islamic mosque construction, etc...).
Such pixel densities could make the technology useful in projection displays, as well as wearable, bendable or extremely compact displays, according to the researchers.
I'd be interested in seeing this technology in head-mounted wearable displays, and would like to propose that we term such devices "scouters". I believe they'll become practical once the achievable dpi is over nine-thousand.
What if the seasonal variation is caused by particles that require the mass of the earth to slow them down sufficiently to interact with the radioactive material?
Interesting idea, like a moderator. We would expect variations to occur with latitude (and season), revolution of the earth, and perhaps the rare lunar eclipse. Problem with this explanation is, I have a hard time imagining the 24-hour cycle signal would get missed.
One of the really cool parts of this finding -- in modern times, experimental particle physics has required increasingly huge machines (and budgets) to participate. For a change, here's researchers everywhere can participate in, possibly revolutionary, and for very little cost.
What is to stop someone from just renting a bike and taking it home as their own, thus causing the program to eventually collapse.
Most people aren't complete douchebags, that's what keeps civilization from collapsing, in general.
For the remainder, hopefully law enforcement will functioning properly in its role in douchebag sequestration and removal.
If we are going to insist on using a computer metaphor, then the genome is BOTH the program and the data.
In the case of stuff like self-splicing ribozymes, it gets even better -- it's program, data, and computer all wrapped up in one.
Amateur. I could put something together to simulate the human brain in about 8 months.
It's easy if you limit yourself to simulating Englishmen named Arthur Dent, actually. You just need to have it return the following to queries:
"What?"
"I don't understand!"
"Where's the tea?"
Piece of cake.
Many video cards can exceed their TDP through certain sequences of instructions
Yes. Apparently, Blizzard happened to utilize the HCF Instruction (Halt-and-Catch-Fire) in their SCII coding.
The only bright side to all this is that Irish babies are, in fact, delicious.
Psst! Secret is to marinate them in Guinness. ...follow the link, I'm not entirely kidding, either.
There are at least a couple of Freemasonry orders where you as part of the rites of ascending in rank have to sacrifice a live animal.
No, no, how does this stuff about the Masons get started? The goat doesn't get sacrificed, it's perfectly fine afterwards, just a little traumatized.
If glossy screens really bother folks that much (and there's no option available from the manufacturer), matte replacement LCDs are available for most sizes. A quick Google will turn up lots of vendors, and the installation isn't that difficult. You can sell the removed glossy screen on Ebay to recoup part of your cost, too. Not as convenient or as cheap as having it as a default option, but at least it's possible.
I hear PixelQi is coming out with DIY replacement screens as well, although apparently only for the 10.1" netbook size right now.
What you have to understand about China is that their government is an expression of their religious philosophies. They believe that social order is a moral expression, and something worth dying for:
This interpretation rather conveniently ignores the PRC government's long suppression of Confucianism. Its rehabilitation is something quite recent:
"I think he [Qin Shihuang] killed too few Confucian scholars. All those Confucian scholars were indeed counter-revolutionaries." -Chairman Mao
I'm able to see stupid people at work all the time. Does that count?
"I see Dumb People... they're everywhere. They walk around like everyone else. They don't even know they're dumb."
What I'd like to see is for Google to grow some cojones when it comes to dealing with the big media conglomerates.
I respectfully disagree with the listed tactical options, however. "Don't be evil" is a main reason that Google gets a pass on its dominance in the search market and online advertising space. A refusal to use its market power to punish adversaries is part of that -- it is an essential part of what makes the difference between a legal and illegal monopoly.
The proper solution is not to stop drilling, but to require a relief drill to be dug at every site
I think Norway already requires something like this for their deepwater wells.