He3 isn't even usable in first-generation nuclear fusion, it's one of the less easy things to fuse. We probably won't even be able to begin using it until 25 years after we do finally get fusion working. Suggesting that He3 is a good reason to go back to the moon right now, especially as the first reason, is the clearest sign of a true space-nutter.
people forget that the original pitch for cable-tv was that, because you paid a monthly fee, there would be no ads in the content
[Citation Needed] where does this meme come from?
The original pitch for cable TV in the 1950s was basically "we make the antenna work so you don't have to", especially for people who lived in an area where mountains obstructed the signal. Cable-only channels came much later, in the late '70s and early '80s when satellite TV happened. And they already had ads on them.
This is not a unified character, it is Japanese-only. Some program (apparently LaTeX) is using the wrong font because it thinks it is part of a mathematical equation, even to the point of showing the wrong font for the character in a font character viewer window.
My guess is that it can be used in certain numerical contexts, sort of like "No." ("number") in English. It can mean a quantity as in "n no x" (ippiki no neko), and maybe some other contexts. So something, probably an application, was coded to think of it as used in numerical contexts. The specific instance is about LaTeX, which is one of those ancient apps like emacs that is so old it had to create everything from scratch, so it's possibly specific to LaTeX or some port thereof.
Slashdot does support Unicode (assuming your browser can be convinced to post in the right encoding). It just happens to have most of the code points (basically everything above U+00FF) blacklisted.
It's too bad they didn't renew it. It looked like season two would have gone in the direction of what was "over the wall". And it was also a good buddy-cop show with fun banter. Well at least it got a few more episodes shown than Firefly. I still need to re-watch it in the intended episode order. I think my favorite episode has to be the "smart house" episode, because it's a limited AI that's been corrupted by a malicious attacker.
But they still don't change size or move around. When I said "expand", I meant the usual meaning of changing from small to large. If they were already big, they wouldn't be expanding, would they?
Still doesn't matter, U only ever substitutes for T, and it's just a de-methylated form of T. These guys found a completely base pair that fits into a DNA helix.
I had to RTFA to find this out. It's hard to see because it's so far ahead of the Google car, but you can see little purple shapes on the other side of the intersection. Basically the next block was full due to heavy traffic (probably rush hour), and that driver stopped so as to not "block the box". Driver behind was not paying attention and failed to stop even with a large following distance.
Or the self-driving car in back could, you know, STOP before hitting the car in front of it. As for the car in front, even if there was enough gap to get up on the sidewalk, and the car didn't bottom out trying to do so, and it could rev up the curb in time to make a difference, and there was no pedestrian on the sidewalk to get run over (better to get rear-ended than to kill a pedestrian due to panic), the human in a properly stopped car at a red light would not be vigilantly looking back at every intersection for the one in a million chance of some moron about to run into him without even slowing down.
Looking at the video of all the car positions, this collision was definitely number 2. Not only did it not even slow down, it actually had plenty of following distance in which it didn't slow down. Nice bounce when it hit, too. #X
For a while in the '00s, Austin TX tried doing free bus routes. It ended up being a place for the bums to hang out all day where there was air conditioning (summers usually get to 95F). They also had some free "Dillo" buses which looked like trolleys and ran around downtown, and they killed those, because of not enough riders. (I think those were open-windowed/doored like trolleys, so no air conditioning for the bums.)
Cancer doesn't work that way, you idiot. Cancer is like randomly changing data in a file. This is like changing a computer from binary into ternary, a computer virus can't do that.
The article I read also said "IT HAS 216 COMBINATIONS!!1!!@@!! REGULAR DNA ONLY HAS 20!!!@!". Which is stupid because they're counting two different ways. 6^3 is indeed 216, but 4^3 is 64, and 20 is 31% utilization of 64 possibilities.
The reason is that some combinations are reserved for start and stop codons, and most amino acids have 2 or 4 redundant codings. This both reduces the effect of random mutations, and also makes multi-frame coding work better by being less strict. The bits that match the codes to amino acids when building proteins probably use some kind of wildcards, reducing the number of them needed when you have to basically have a unique small chemical around to match each valid combination. It would be more realistic to say that the new base pairs would allow 45-50 or so new protein codings, still more than tripling the potential number of amino acids.
That being said, a new set of base pairs is really cool. There have been experiments to create alternate DNA codings by re-purposing some of the redundant codings, but there is a backward compatibility kind of problem when doing that. This not only allows a lot of new codes, but the new base pairs themselves have interesting properties. One even has a bond out to the side that you can connect things too. And the twisty folding stuff that RNA likes to do can become a lot more complicated.
And why does Earth life use only 4 base pairs? Probably because the extra complexity just isn't all that useful. CGAT has been around for a couple of billion years, so it's got more installed base behind it than QWERWTY vs DVORAK could ever have. Except this is more like adding a new row or three to QWERTY for more roman-letter characters, such as a bunch of letters with diacritical marks on them, like how the French went nuts romanizing Vietnamese.
Magazine ads don't squirm and wriggle around, expand to take up the whole page, scribble lines under words all over the page, or play loud sounds. Magazine ads are quite unintrusive compared to internet ads.
I'm not really sure what your point is here. That's like asking if paying your ISP bill should make the internet ad-free. Even cable TV isn't analogous, in that it pays some amount for most of the channels you get, then charges you to put it all together.
Cable TV is a transport service. Ads on TV are to pay for the content. Or at least that's the basic idea. Cable TV technology has been able to "insert" (actually overwrite) ads on individual channels for years, though I'm sure they do pay a little to the channel for the privilege. (Some people seem to think that cable TV was ad-free from the start, but it really started by retransmitting over-the-air channels for areas where it was hard to receive. Then they got a bunch more channels when satellite became big, and eventually those channels ran their own commercials.)
What I got tired of was intrusive internet ads. That's the equivalent of trying to read a newspaper while pictures are constantly squirming around and shouting at you. I don't even like news sites that autoplay video. But once I'm triggered to add a new block, I'll also go and block all the domains that are obviously not related to the site content, including the ones that try to track you. It's really surprising to see 20 or 30 domains referenced by a web page for ads and tracking.
I-35 (Texans don't use "the" with highway names) is particularly fun because it is almost always under construction somewhere. Currently the major construction is between Austin and Waco, and in northeast San Antonio. That is (was) some of the oldest sections (1960s era) still remaining, back when they thought curbs were a good idea on freeways. The Austin to Waco section has long been beyond its capacity, with construction making things worse.
And there was a major incident a few months ago when an over-height semi truck went under a bridge and pulled out a concrete beam behind it. (The beam was for a new bridge that was still being built, so it wasn't tied in yet.)
That normally only happens on rural roads with wide shoulders. It also only happens when another car wants to faster than you, more often because the car wants to go 10 over than because you want to go 10 under. So I don't think they're likely to be on the receiving side of this. More likely the driverless car would be the one in front with its bumper being ridden.
I had three different "Aluminum" case PowerBooks/MacBookPros. (That case frame was crap, the DVD slot would go out of alignment, my skin oils made pits in the surface, and the latch didn't work very well.) The last one had the battery go bad at an early age.
I was calling Apple tech support about my click not working, and "oh by the way, my battery isn't holding a charge". I was asked the number of charge cycles and "Okay, we'll send you a replacement."
A few days later by the time it arrived, I realized that the battery was bulging. And that's why the trackpad click wasn't working.
Also, my cousin has a unibody 15" where the trackpad looks shattered, but it still works fine.
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He3 isn't even usable in first-generation nuclear fusion, it's one of the less easy things to fuse. We probably won't even be able to begin using it until 25 years after we do finally get fusion working. Suggesting that He3 is a good reason to go back to the moon right now, especially as the first reason, is the clearest sign of a true space-nutter.
I think "copper top" jokes from The Matrix are more applicable here.
it's your internet connection you're streaming from
Is that really true? Or does the entire stream get proxied through Sling's servers because it's not trivial for something behind NAT to be a server?
people forget that the original pitch for cable-tv was that, because you paid a monthly fee, there would be no ads in the content
[Citation Needed] where does this meme come from?
The original pitch for cable TV in the 1950s was basically "we make the antenna work so you don't have to", especially for people who lived in an area where mountains obstructed the signal. Cable-only channels came much later, in the late '70s and early '80s when satellite TV happened. And they already had ads on them.
Well you know how that works, you have to pass the law to find out what's in it, right?
This is not a unified character, it is Japanese-only. Some program (apparently LaTeX) is using the wrong font because it thinks it is part of a mathematical equation, even to the point of showing the wrong font for the character in a font character viewer window.
My guess is that it can be used in certain numerical contexts, sort of like "No." ("number") in English. It can mean a quantity as in "n no x" (ippiki no neko), and maybe some other contexts. So something, probably an application, was coded to think of it as used in numerical contexts. The specific instance is about LaTeX, which is one of those ancient apps like emacs that is so old it had to create everything from scratch, so it's possibly specific to LaTeX or some port thereof.
Slashdot does support Unicode (assuming your browser can be convinced to post in the right encoding). It just happens to have most of the code points (basically everything above U+00FF) blacklisted.
It's too bad they didn't renew it. It looked like season two would have gone in the direction of what was "over the wall". And it was also a good buddy-cop show with fun banter. Well at least it got a few more episodes shown than Firefly. I still need to re-watch it in the intended episode order. I think my favorite episode has to be the "smart house" episode, because it's a limited AI that's been corrupted by a malicious attacker.
And the Andromeda Strain. He was good at making stories about technological risks.
But they still don't change size or move around. When I said "expand", I meant the usual meaning of changing from small to large. If they were already big, they wouldn't be expanding, would they?
Still doesn't matter, U only ever substitutes for T, and it's just a de-methylated form of T. These guys found a completely base pair that fits into a DNA helix.
I had to RTFA to find this out. It's hard to see because it's so far ahead of the Google car, but you can see little purple shapes on the other side of the intersection. Basically the next block was full due to heavy traffic (probably rush hour), and that driver stopped so as to not "block the box". Driver behind was not paying attention and failed to stop even with a large following distance.
Or the self-driving car in back could, you know, STOP before hitting the car in front of it. As for the car in front, even if there was enough gap to get up on the sidewalk, and the car didn't bottom out trying to do so, and it could rev up the curb in time to make a difference, and there was no pedestrian on the sidewalk to get run over (better to get rear-ended than to kill a pedestrian due to panic), the human in a properly stopped car at a red light would not be vigilantly looking back at every intersection for the one in a million chance of some moron about to run into him without even slowing down.
Looking at the video of all the car positions, this collision was definitely number 2. Not only did it not even slow down, it actually had plenty of following distance in which it didn't slow down. Nice bounce when it hit, too. #X
For a while in the '00s, Austin TX tried doing free bus routes. It ended up being a place for the bums to hang out all day where there was air conditioning (summers usually get to 95F). They also had some free "Dillo" buses which looked like trolleys and ran around downtown, and they killed those, because of not enough riders. (I think those were open-windowed/doored like trolleys, so no air conditioning for the bums.)
I think you mean "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
Cancer doesn't work that way, you idiot. Cancer is like randomly changing data in a file. This is like changing a computer from binary into ternary, a computer virus can't do that.
The article I read also said "IT HAS 216 COMBINATIONS!!1!!@@!! REGULAR DNA ONLY HAS 20!!!@!". Which is stupid because they're counting two different ways. 6^3 is indeed 216, but 4^3 is 64, and 20 is 31% utilization of 64 possibilities.
The reason is that some combinations are reserved for start and stop codons, and most amino acids have 2 or 4 redundant codings. This both reduces the effect of random mutations, and also makes multi-frame coding work better by being less strict. The bits that match the codes to amino acids when building proteins probably use some kind of wildcards, reducing the number of them needed when you have to basically have a unique small chemical around to match each valid combination. It would be more realistic to say that the new base pairs would allow 45-50 or so new protein codings, still more than tripling the potential number of amino acids.
That being said, a new set of base pairs is really cool. There have been experiments to create alternate DNA codings by re-purposing some of the redundant codings, but there is a backward compatibility kind of problem when doing that. This not only allows a lot of new codes, but the new base pairs themselves have interesting properties. One even has a bond out to the side that you can connect things too. And the twisty folding stuff that RNA likes to do can become a lot more complicated.
And why does Earth life use only 4 base pairs? Probably because the extra complexity just isn't all that useful. CGAT has been around for a couple of billion years, so it's got more installed base behind it than QWERWTY vs DVORAK could ever have. Except this is more like adding a new row or three to QWERTY for more roman-letter characters, such as a bunch of letters with diacritical marks on them, like how the French went nuts romanizing Vietnamese.
Magazine ads don't squirm and wriggle around, expand to take up the whole page, scribble lines under words all over the page, or play loud sounds. Magazine ads are quite unintrusive compared to internet ads.
I'm not really sure what your point is here. That's like asking if paying your ISP bill should make the internet ad-free. Even cable TV isn't analogous, in that it pays some amount for most of the channels you get, then charges you to put it all together.
Cable TV is a transport service. Ads on TV are to pay for the content. Or at least that's the basic idea. Cable TV technology has been able to "insert" (actually overwrite) ads on individual channels for years, though I'm sure they do pay a little to the channel for the privilege. (Some people seem to think that cable TV was ad-free from the start, but it really started by retransmitting over-the-air channels for areas where it was hard to receive. Then they got a bunch more channels when satellite became big, and eventually those channels ran their own commercials.)
What I got tired of was intrusive internet ads. That's the equivalent of trying to read a newspaper while pictures are constantly squirming around and shouting at you. I don't even like news sites that autoplay video. But once I'm triggered to add a new block, I'll also go and block all the domains that are obviously not related to the site content, including the ones that try to track you. It's really surprising to see 20 or 30 domains referenced by a web page for ads and tracking.
I-35 (Texans don't use "the" with highway names) is particularly fun because it is almost always under construction somewhere. Currently the major construction is between Austin and Waco, and in northeast San Antonio. That is (was) some of the oldest sections (1960s era) still remaining, back when they thought curbs were a good idea on freeways. The Austin to Waco section has long been beyond its capacity, with construction making things worse.
And there was a major incident a few months ago when an over-height semi truck went under a bridge and pulled out a concrete beam behind it. (The beam was for a new bridge that was still being built, so it wasn't tied in yet.)
That normally only happens on rural roads with wide shoulders. It also only happens when another car wants to faster than you, more often because the car wants to go 10 over than because you want to go 10 under. So I don't think they're likely to be on the receiving side of this. More likely the driverless car would be the one in front with its bumper being ridden.
I had three different "Aluminum" case PowerBooks/MacBookPros. (That case frame was crap, the DVD slot would go out of alignment, my skin oils made pits in the surface, and the latch didn't work very well.) The last one had the battery go bad at an early age.
I was calling Apple tech support about my click not working, and "oh by the way, my battery isn't holding a charge". I was asked the number of charge cycles and "Okay, we'll send you a replacement."
A few days later by the time it arrived, I realized that the battery was bulging. And that's why the trackpad click wasn't working.
Also, my cousin has a unibody 15" where the trackpad looks shattered, but it still works fine.
Also Dangerous Prototypes, quite a few things appear there a few days before Hackaday or Slashdot picks them up.