Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
RS Website makes no mention of Arduino. A couple months back, they opened a forum to ask how they can improve and appeal to geeks. At a glance, stocking Arduino looked to be the number one answer. I'd love it if they listened.
I'm fully aware that long time frames are used as part of the explanation for abiogenesis. The long time frames and random factors are all in relation to producing the proper conditions come into alignment to allow the reaction to take place. My point was, the molecules are so complex that we are not able to reverse-engineer them to come up with any set of conditions that might conceivably have occurred in nature that, when recreated in a experiment, creates the compounds again. Compare this to simple amino acids that are simple enough that we can create them with the Miller-Urey experiment. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying if we saw such complicated compounds formed by stars, it'd be a huge deal that would result in a new alternative theory for the origin of those compounds.
Relatively simple? We've not managed to work out an experiment to form a protein through nature, and we are a long way off from figuring out the formation of the first functional nucleic acid chain. That's pretty complicated stuff. After that, we gotta work out a chain that can replicate itself, which is hugely complicated. We've managed to form some amino acids, and even making anything past the simplest of them is pretty difficult. Still, the fact that any organic compounds are produced from stars is new and interesting, I should think it'd be awhile before they can talk in much detail about which compounds are, and which compounds are not formed.
Scan the crap out of the paper, write a fingerprint matching algorithm to line up the fibers. I've often thought if I wasn't busy with a real job, this would be fun to implement. Probably a good graduate paper too.
I started to play the game. Then I immediately got visions of my hardware and assembly courses at college. I decided to drop it, since between work and that game, my brain would never get a chance to relax. Beautiful game though. If I had a mind-numbing job I'd probably get pretty heavy into it.
They can conceivably regulate in manners that force industries to pay off these ridiculous patent holders. However, more often, government software regulations force developers to pay off entities that evaluate your code and verify it conforms to published standards. If government wants to do this for code it commissions/uses, that's fine, but enforcing this for private sector code is just silly.
I'd love it if there was a mechanism for Netflix Instant-Watch to sync up the playback of a movie on two different accounts. I watch movies over the phone all the time.
I liked the bit where they cut the vagus nerve. Before I got to that point in TFA, I was thinking "Well sure, rats fed lactobacillus will have lower stress levels! Life isn't as stressful when you poop good!"
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Do you know that the average Chinese farm contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer? Would you EAT a rectal thermometer? Well I would. Ah, mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
RS Website makes no mention of Arduino. A couple months back, they opened a forum to ask how they can improve and appeal to geeks. At a glance, stocking Arduino looked to be the number one answer. I'd love it if they listened.
Sorry but, "Well_Hung_Oyster"? Seriously? (And the filter made me upcap it, nice huh?)
I haven't heard of any replicatable potential explanations. Regardless, my point was and continues to be, it isn't simple.
I'm fully aware that long time frames are used as part of the explanation for abiogenesis. The long time frames and random factors are all in relation to producing the proper conditions come into alignment to allow the reaction to take place. My point was, the molecules are so complex that we are not able to reverse-engineer them to come up with any set of conditions that might conceivably have occurred in nature that, when recreated in a experiment, creates the compounds again. Compare this to simple amino acids that are simple enough that we can create them with the Miller-Urey experiment. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying if we saw such complicated compounds formed by stars, it'd be a huge deal that would result in a new alternative theory for the origin of those compounds.
Relatively simple? We've not managed to work out an experiment to form a protein through nature, and we are a long way off from figuring out the formation of the first functional nucleic acid chain. That's pretty complicated stuff. After that, we gotta work out a chain that can replicate itself, which is hugely complicated. We've managed to form some amino acids, and even making anything past the simplest of them is pretty difficult. Still, the fact that any organic compounds are produced from stars is new and interesting, I should think it'd be awhile before they can talk in much detail about which compounds are, and which compounds are not formed.
....Metaphorical fingerprint. The organization of cellulose fibers on each edge of a torn piece of paper is unique.
Scan the crap out of the paper, write a fingerprint matching algorithm to line up the fibers. I've often thought if I wasn't busy with a real job, this would be fun to implement. Probably a good graduate paper too.
I get this all the time. You're probably using imperial; try switching to metric.
I don't know if transactions are the same as "public charges" or not.
I started to play the game. Then I immediately got visions of my hardware and assembly courses at college. I decided to drop it, since between work and that game, my brain would never get a chance to relax. Beautiful game though. If I had a mind-numbing job I'd probably get pretty heavy into it.
He did leave pretty soon after, and he did get a much higher salary :)
Good point. I guess it really depends on the company.
This is woefully true. I had a coworker try this technique. He got the match, but afterwards the company was pretty bitter towards him.
I mean, was the Pulp Fiction thing the whole point of this article?
They can conceivably regulate in manners that force industries to pay off these ridiculous patent holders. However, more often, government software regulations force developers to pay off entities that evaluate your code and verify it conforms to published standards. If government wants to do this for code it commissions/uses, that's fine, but enforcing this for private sector code is just silly.
Every 3 months, never ceases to amaze me.
I did not know this, thanks! Now I just need an X-Box...
I'd love it if there was a mechanism for Netflix Instant-Watch to sync up the playback of a movie on two different accounts. I watch movies over the phone all the time.
Yeah, I considered that bit too. But I still say it's a decent start at trying to sort out causality.
I liked the bit where they cut the vagus nerve. Before I got to that point in TFA, I was thinking "Well sure, rats fed lactobacillus will have lower stress levels! Life isn't as stressful when you poop good!"
Heh, use it to build bird houses.
I'm not a policeman, I'm a pwincess!!
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Carl Sagan has gotcha covered.