It's been a long time since physics class but if I recall correctly positrons are anti-electrons. Doesn't antimatter only annihilate matter of it's respective type? (ie electron-positron, proton-antiproton, etc.) So wouldn't this antimatter only annihilate electrons? It would essentially be ionizing matter (making it positive) that it comes into contact with, right? And how does a thimbleful of antimatter do anything more than annihilating a thimbleful of matter? (again these are positrons not antiprotons so I don't see how you can make an antimatter H bomb or nuclear bomb when the fuel for those are hydrogen, uranium, or plutonium.)
IIRC the high rate of mutation is mainly in a specific region of the mtDNA. It depends on what that region encodes for. If that region doesn't have the necessary codons for initiation of the repair mechanism it would explain the high rate of mutation as the mitochondria would be unable to fix the damage. This in no way means the mitochondria are actively controlling the mutations.
Is the ratio of trash gasification per day versus the amount of trash generated by the populace per day. Will the plant burn all the trash before we can replace it? Will this create another boom of a disposable economy and waste generation?
This was found in the electron transport chain, which occurs in the mitochondria, which have their own DNA (circular DNA to be precise). The cell is repairing damaged DNA, the cell does this naturally. It is a defense mechanism and does not signal that the cell is actively controlling its evolution. This correction of the damage will NOT be passed on to the next generation of offspring unless it occurs in the egg or sperm cells (and if it is the mitochondria the sperm cells will also have nothing to do with it as all our mitochondria are inherited by our mother's egg cells). This seems to me to be a headline grabber with little to no actual relevance to the research within.
One in a suburb near chicago as well. Sadly my neices and nephews seem to have usurped our lego collection or I'd have gotten many more buckets (seeing as I'm an adult now and can choose not to wait til christmas or birthdays for legos). Although I'm starting to wonder if it was them or my brother (their father) who is really pilfering them to play with...
As a new owner of a Linux EEE PC 1000 I bite my thumb at Microsoft!
That said, the mandriva interface was a bit bubbly for my tastes. I put Ubuntu EEE 8.0.1 on it instead. But the wireless was shoddy. Upgraded to 8.10 and installed adam's kernel and the proper wireless drivers and it works perfect now. I'm still tweaking it to get the battery life up higher but I'm surprised and relieved at the processing power of the atom cpu. My linux netbook seems to run considerably faster than most of the more powerful xp laptops my friends have. At first I thought having no optical drive was madness, but after using it I have trouble understanding why I even need to use one (barring music and video backup). I install from the internet or transfer over the home network.
Gee I sure am glad I paid extra for that 3 year warranty on the tv I bought a few months ago... Well at least I didn't buy the 5 year one. Will the manufacturer honor the warranty from circuit city?
Unfortunately, you would also have to worry about one single virus that wipes out your entire beef source. Bio-diversity is a good thing. The more varieties of animal, the better off the species, and its predators, are.
I have that exact one. If you go with Ubuntu eee install intrepid 8.10. It has better support for the wireless. On hardy 8.04.1 the driver doesn't work properly, they use a different wireless card but the driver is for the earlier eee pcs. After intrepid install go with Adam's kernel at array.org and the driver for the correct wireless card with dkms. It works perfectly with that set up. Also the 40G has two SSD's, one 8GB (the main one which is a little faster) and one 32GB SDHC disc. Put the OS on the 8GB partition and edit the boot list for auto mounting the 32GB disc or it won't work. You also have to comment out the cd drive line or your usb flash drives won't automount on insertion. (at least on 8.04.1 I had to do these latter things, but it might have been updated in 8.10 though.)
Anyone know if the EEE version of 8.10 is out as well? Has it fixed the wireless problem that 8.04.1 has? I just got a 1000 40G yesterday and already had to fix the automount for the 32 GB drive, USB drives, and try to troubleshoot the wireless (which appears is set up for the wireless card on the previous EEE PCs and not the current one). Oh and is this the full release version of 8.10 or a beta?
They could really erase a criminals memory of an event and all the stuff that makes him bad.
Memory isn't what makes the criminal. Their whole mind and experiences are what make the criminal. Removing the memories doesn't remove the criminal. The foundation is still in place.
And I think it is important to notice that (if I RTFS correctly) the scientists didn't remove a memory that was already ingrained into the brain. They prevented the memory from being recorded. Still pretty scary if found to work with humans, but not as far reaching as what is implied. This could show insight into how people black out and forget horrible things that happened to them or things they have done.
We don't know of anything AT absolute zero. Just what's NEAR it. We've never gotten to 0K yet. And there are several states of matter near absolute zero. Bose-Einstein condensate, superfluids (Helium comes to mind), among others as well IIRC. What really impresses me is this is with electrons not atoms or molecules, but single particles. I would like to know how electron repulsion/degeneracy comes into effect here. (I assume since it is at low densities that it might not have as great an effect.)
Check to see if it was from Thailand. Not that I have anything against the country (their food is delicious!) but the manufacturing plant there has been churning out sub-par drives in certain models. Check the newegg reviews on your specific drive.
As far as this drive though, I recently got this exact drive (the 1.5TB). The write and read speeds, though not documented, seem right on par with my other sata drives (one is 300GB Maxtor with 32MB cache, the other is 320GB Seagate with 16MB cache. Both SATA with the limiter jumper removed.) I only use the 1.5TB drive (actual space is about 1.35TB) for media storage, formatted in NTFS but used mainly in Ubuntu 8.04. It, however, was from Thailand so I'm a little worried. I keep all the stuff I've backed up on it on other drives and plan to until a few months have passed the trial. Ran seagate tools and the drive passed all tests.
I have the 4GB (2x2GB) version of this ram and my system actually was locking up because the mobo has the ram voltage set to 1.5V default. I had to put the proper voltage up to 1.8V and the mobo thought I was doing a slight overclock. My cpu is QX9650 which is supposed to take overclocking well. But still, it seems foolish and irresponsible (on the cpu maker's part) to have a processor blow out while trying to get your other components to run at the default settings.
Indeed. I will NOT be installing 3.1 if this tracker is installed with it. If anyone from mozilla reads slashdot pay attention. Do NOT include this software in the core browser or you will lose not only my support but the support of everyone I know. (And I happen to be the tech guy for all of my friends and family, and there are LOTS of them) I will actively make sure they do not upgrade to 3.1. Either make it an add-on or scrap it entirely. If you pride your browser on its security features this is a spit in the face to everything you've worked for.
Did the definitions of 'fact' and 'debunk' change recently? Every 'myth' listed has 'fact' under it proving it is true. According to my good friend Mr. Webster this is called 'confirmation.'
One cheap visual aid would be an old computer and or server, so you can show them what it looks like inside a computer. My kids tend to like watching me swapping components, at least.
So does my cat. Hopefully your children won't try to be as paws-on as the cat is. Like moths to a flame...
I'm sorry you have a degenerative disease but it has fuckall to do with the topic.
This is what I don't get...do you only pay to see the play version of movies? Or pay to see them only if you are invited to the set?
Short answer: yes. Ever been to a play? I pay quality cash to see a performance. I can pay $0-$5 to watch a DVD. If I have the choice to watch a shakespeare play on tv for free (WTTW or a DVD or something) vs seeing it in person for $$$, you bet your ass I'm going to see it in person. I feel zero moral responsibility to pay for digital media. I do feel that I should pay to see a performance. And what does being invited to the set have to do with this?
All of us that make the indie band you love sound tight, polished and coherent thank you for this.
Yes, this is part of the ticket cost. We pay for the tickets, the venue pays you. I don't get paid everytime a student performs the lab I set up. The student pays the school to do it. I get paid by the school. Do I keep getting paid for setting up that lab after I've quit and moved on to a different job? Hell no. Why should you or any musician be any different? If you have problems with the artist overspending his or her share of the profits, I suggest to bring it up with them. It has nothing to do with me or my money. I work for my money, why shouldn't you work for yours? Don't expect handouts for the rest of your life just because you helped create something once.
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It's been a long time since physics class but if I recall correctly positrons are anti-electrons. Doesn't antimatter only annihilate matter of it's respective type? (ie electron-positron, proton-antiproton, etc.) So wouldn't this antimatter only annihilate electrons? It would essentially be ionizing matter (making it positive) that it comes into contact with, right? And how does a thimbleful of antimatter do anything more than annihilating a thimbleful of matter? (again these are positrons not antiprotons so I don't see how you can make an antimatter H bomb or nuclear bomb when the fuel for those are hydrogen, uranium, or plutonium.)
[R]easonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources
Well violating the students' constitutional rights seems pretty unreasonable to me, so the whole law is moot IMHO.
IIRC the high rate of mutation is mainly in a specific region of the mtDNA. It depends on what that region encodes for. If that region doesn't have the necessary codons for initiation of the repair mechanism it would explain the high rate of mutation as the mitochondria would be unable to fix the damage. This in no way means the mitochondria are actively controlling the mutations.
Is the ratio of trash gasification per day versus the amount of trash generated by the populace per day. Will the plant burn all the trash before we can replace it? Will this create another boom of a disposable economy and waste generation?
This was found in the electron transport chain, which occurs in the mitochondria, which have their own DNA (circular DNA to be precise). The cell is repairing damaged DNA, the cell does this naturally. It is a defense mechanism and does not signal that the cell is actively controlling its evolution. This correction of the damage will NOT be passed on to the next generation of offspring unless it occurs in the egg or sperm cells (and if it is the mitochondria the sperm cells will also have nothing to do with it as all our mitochondria are inherited by our mother's egg cells). This seems to me to be a headline grabber with little to no actual relevance to the research within.
He's the narrator, IIRC, recalling his tales to others. No time travel AFAIK. (gods I hope I'm right)
One in a suburb near chicago as well. Sadly my neices and nephews seem to have usurped our lego collection or I'd have gotten many more buckets (seeing as I'm an adult now and can choose not to wait til christmas or birthdays for legos). Although I'm starting to wonder if it was them or my brother (their father) who is really pilfering them to play with...
Feel free to continue shitting on your customers. The rest of us that you drop a load on will just go to a competitor and download the full game.
As a new owner of a Linux EEE PC 1000 I bite my thumb at Microsoft!
That said, the mandriva interface was a bit bubbly for my tastes. I put Ubuntu EEE 8.0.1 on it instead. But the wireless was shoddy. Upgraded to 8.10 and installed adam's kernel and the proper wireless drivers and it works perfect now. I'm still tweaking it to get the battery life up higher but I'm surprised and relieved at the processing power of the atom cpu. My linux netbook seems to run considerably faster than most of the more powerful xp laptops my friends have. At first I thought having no optical drive was madness, but after using it I have trouble understanding why I even need to use one (barring music and video backup). I install from the internet or transfer over the home network.
Gee I sure am glad I paid extra for that 3 year warranty on the tv I bought a few months ago... Well at least I didn't buy the 5 year one. Will the manufacturer honor the warranty from circuit city?
Unfortunately, you would also have to worry about one single virus that wipes out your entire beef source. Bio-diversity is a good thing. The more varieties of animal, the better off the species, and its predators, are.
I have that exact one. If you go with Ubuntu eee install intrepid 8.10. It has better support for the wireless. On hardy 8.04.1 the driver doesn't work properly, they use a different wireless card but the driver is for the earlier eee pcs. After intrepid install go with Adam's kernel at array.org and the driver for the correct wireless card with dkms. It works perfectly with that set up. Also the 40G has two SSD's, one 8GB (the main one which is a little faster) and one 32GB SDHC disc. Put the OS on the 8GB partition and edit the boot list for auto mounting the 32GB disc or it won't work. You also have to comment out the cd drive line or your usb flash drives won't automount on insertion. (at least on 8.04.1 I had to do these latter things, but it might have been updated in 8.10 though.)
Anyone know if the EEE version of 8.10 is out as well? Has it fixed the wireless problem that 8.04.1 has? I just got a 1000 40G yesterday and already had to fix the automount for the 32 GB drive, USB drives, and try to troubleshoot the wireless (which appears is set up for the wireless card on the previous EEE PCs and not the current one). Oh and is this the full release version of 8.10 or a beta?
I for one would prefer advanced fighter jet technology (i.e. F-22) to stay IN the united states and out of China, Russia, Israel, Iran...etc.
After seeing what those advanced fighter jets can do, I'm sure THEY would like that too.
My ceiling is my mother's main floor you insensitive clod!
They could really erase a criminals memory of an event and all the stuff that makes him bad.
Memory isn't what makes the criminal. Their whole mind and experiences are what make the criminal. Removing the memories doesn't remove the criminal. The foundation is still in place.
And I think it is important to notice that (if I RTFS correctly) the scientists didn't remove a memory that was already ingrained into the brain. They prevented the memory from being recorded. Still pretty scary if found to work with humans, but not as far reaching as what is implied. This could show insight into how people black out and forget horrible things that happened to them or things they have done.
We don't know of anything AT absolute zero. Just what's NEAR it. We've never gotten to 0K yet. And there are several states of matter near absolute zero. Bose-Einstein condensate, superfluids (Helium comes to mind), among others as well IIRC. What really impresses me is this is with electrons not atoms or molecules, but single particles. I would like to know how electron repulsion/degeneracy comes into effect here. (I assume since it is at low densities that it might not have as great an effect.)
Check to see if it was from Thailand. Not that I have anything against the country (their food is delicious!) but the manufacturing plant there has been churning out sub-par drives in certain models. Check the newegg reviews on your specific drive.
As far as this drive though, I recently got this exact drive (the 1.5TB). The write and read speeds, though not documented, seem right on par with my other sata drives (one is 300GB Maxtor with 32MB cache, the other is 320GB Seagate with 16MB cache. Both SATA with the limiter jumper removed.) I only use the 1.5TB drive (actual space is about 1.35TB) for media storage, formatted in NTFS but used mainly in Ubuntu 8.04. It, however, was from Thailand so I'm a little worried. I keep all the stuff I've backed up on it on other drives and plan to until a few months have passed the trial. Ran seagate tools and the drive passed all tests.
Maybe the copilot was helping the pilot join the mile high club. They are behind a locked door... Fly by wire indeed.
Patriot, Corsair, and OCZ would tend to disagree with you. I'm willing to bet they have more experience with ram voltages than an anonymous coward.
I have the 4GB (2x2GB) version of this ram and my system actually was locking up because the mobo has the ram voltage set to 1.5V default. I had to put the proper voltage up to 1.8V and the mobo thought I was doing a slight overclock. My cpu is QX9650 which is supposed to take overclocking well. But still, it seems foolish and irresponsible (on the cpu maker's part) to have a processor blow out while trying to get your other components to run at the default settings.
Indeed. I will NOT be installing 3.1 if this tracker is installed with it. If anyone from mozilla reads slashdot pay attention. Do NOT include this software in the core browser or you will lose not only my support but the support of everyone I know. (And I happen to be the tech guy for all of my friends and family, and there are LOTS of them) I will actively make sure they do not upgrade to 3.1. Either make it an add-on or scrap it entirely. If you pride your browser on its security features this is a spit in the face to everything you've worked for.
Did the definitions of 'fact' and 'debunk' change recently? Every 'myth' listed has 'fact' under it proving it is true. According to my good friend Mr. Webster this is called 'confirmation.'
One cheap visual aid would be an old computer and or server, so you can show them what it looks like inside a computer. My kids tend to like watching me swapping components, at least.
So does my cat. Hopefully your children won't try to be as paws-on as the cat is. Like moths to a flame...
I'm sorry you have a degenerative disease but it has fuckall to do with the topic.
This is what I don't get...do you only pay to see the play version of movies? Or pay to see them only if you are invited to the set?
Short answer: yes. Ever been to a play? I pay quality cash to see a performance. I can pay $0-$5 to watch a DVD. If I have the choice to watch a shakespeare play on tv for free (WTTW or a DVD or something) vs seeing it in person for $$$, you bet your ass I'm going to see it in person. I feel zero moral responsibility to pay for digital media. I do feel that I should pay to see a performance. And what does being invited to the set have to do with this?
All of us that make the indie band you love sound tight, polished and coherent thank you for this.
Yes, this is part of the ticket cost. We pay for the tickets, the venue pays you. I don't get paid everytime a student performs the lab I set up. The student pays the school to do it. I get paid by the school. Do I keep getting paid for setting up that lab after I've quit and moved on to a different job? Hell no. Why should you or any musician be any different? If you have problems with the artist overspending his or her share of the profits, I suggest to bring it up with them. It has nothing to do with me or my money. I work for my money, why shouldn't you work for yours? Don't expect handouts for the rest of your life just because you helped create something once.