Ditto IANA manufacturer type, but I do have first hand experience with a plastic thing starting to smell like cat pee. It was in the year 2012, my red nylon spatula, having a red scraper part and a black handle part, which I'd owned for a few years, suddely turned my kitchen drawer into a stinky mess. Of course I thought it was food residue, but it quickly turned out to be eminating from specifically the red "active" bit of the spatula. I tried dishwashing it away, to no avail. I sent an email to the seller, but unfortunately my interest died out when the seller pointed out I should talk to the producer. Now I've forwarded the mail to the correct people, let's see if they have an explanation.
We have a Microsoft Sharepoint system at work where we log our project hours. Hitting Save now moves all hours to one later date, until everything is deleted at January 7th...
a) Soot particles aggregate, lowering their surface-to-volume ratio, shutting down the combustion, or b) Soot particles escape the plasma, shutting down combustion, or c) Electron flow from the gun interferes with the combustion reaction itself, which would be awesome
It seems to me that the combination of a large external drive and online storage is easy and safe. The crashplan backup software lets you perform backup of a set of data to multiple destinations, including any connected drive/folder, online storage and sending to friends' computers. Thus you can be a couple of friends (3 should be more than enough) who team up to have 3 copies of each others' backup sets.
That way the backup is performed quickly to the external drive, while it trickles to the online repository and to your friends, depending on your broadband speed. Get some international friends and you're ridiculously secure from any disaster. I imagine crashplan soon will have "virtual friends" which are backup sites in the siberian tundra or something, why not?
Come on, any good salesperson in a shop, booth, kiosk would to the same: "One mars bar please" "There you go. By the way we've got a good offer on razors this week. Playboy mag here says the ladies like it clean nowadays. Although that coke ad says the opposite, that them girls like it ruffian style, it's refreshing."
To all who criticize the money spent on this research: Do you really think we ever can or should stop a question from being answered? Are not scientists in their position because at some point they were curious about the world and went about getting educated in skillfully pursuing answers?
I think in this case a simple question was answered and presented decently with the first empirical data. Next, they can dig out a theoretical model that fit the observed data. If they struggle finding a good theoretical match, then things get interesting.
Question: Is resistance to antibiotics energy-unfavourable for bacteria? Meaning, if antibiotics are not abundantly present to guide bacterial evolution, will bacterial strains revert to a 'simpler structure' and become susceptible to antibiotics again?
I was scrolling down to see if anyone had suggested this before posting myself, and lo..
This all leads to a society that preserves the knowledge of a person by adapting an artificial intelligence to it and letting this artificial intelligence free to communicate in a network. I've read this somewhere I'm sure, maybe The Night's Dawn Trilogy? In this way, you are not only preserving the factual knowledge a person possesses, but that person's unique interpretation and creative constructs based on that knowledge. We would maybe need to mimic a neural network that is modeled closely to the person in question. The problem won't be to have the computing capacity to do this in some years, the problem will be how to read the neural network of a (recently deceased?) brain.
Anyway, if we made an artificial intelligence that would post things to facebook and twitter, I think it would only turn out creepy because what we post on facebook/twitter is curated information or new media or brainfarts. Now the brainfarts we can do, but we can't create new media; Imagine a photo of your dead friend at a bar five days after he died. Nope, it doesn't work.
another stone for you
I believe freedom of speech is good morale, even by objective scientific terms, because it reflects that each person on this planet are perfectly equal. If brought up with an ideal set of equal oppurtunities to food, education and the expression of their utility; be it building a park, harvesting oil, producing art, solving conflicts etc, any "clean slate" baby taken from any mother on this planet would have no less place in society than the next k+1 member.
It is utopia, but an approachable one. Some nations are closer to it than others. Some nations "do it wrong" by muddling the right of the individual with mechanisms that allow the individual right to not create conditions conducive to the right of the individual, even while accepting to live in the same society.
Maybe the world should have one anarchist geographical area, ratified by all the nations of the world, as Anarchia, where everyone not happy with having leaders, can go and live their lives in total freedom.
We like to think that facebook is the real world. But it's not. It's a company that shares what we publish with the people we choose. It's not a society where you need proper morale or ethics to create a place where the individual has the right to say or become what it wants. They make money through advertisement. They have no morale to look after except the profit of their investors. They are protecting their employees by making sure they make money, even in Pakistan. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a closed circuit. You don't need facebook to protect the right of the individual in the real world. Yet.
Maybe some time in the future nations will recognize facebook or something similar as a public space which everyone has the right to have access to, and therefore must include freedom of speech. But it definitely doesn't have to be that way now. We're living in a really cool time where The Network is something we will depend on much more when the capacity of transport diminishes while oil and gas reserves deplete. Maybe our world will slow down its pace soon, we've had a really good half a century at rapid speeds, but it's probably not sustainable. Thank god we developed The Network. It's the single most important invention to the coming centuries.
No the article still states that the receiver needs to know the "correct measurement" to be made, which means that Bob needs information from Alice on which measurement to make and that information has no choice but speed-of-light exchange.
I just wonder if not the energy of the information exchange exceeds the energy exchange of the entangled pair, even theoretically.
I bet it initially smashed through a porous structure and entered an underground river which spans a martian continent. Now it's popping up closer to the surface and can penetrate the thin ice it is trapped under!
I could also suggest it is being carried by aliens, but that's boring if you're a scientist.
Wait.. I'm not a scientist. But I'd like to be one, so there.
I'm not going to comment much on this, I think everyone can see that this is bombastic and narrow.
I'm norwegian myself and I don't recognize myself or my friends in this. But alas, this is not forum for discussing nations and the people there. But seriously man, you should get out more, locally but also globally.
This is proof of global warming! A high-altitude cloud surface does a better job in trapping radiation than reflecting it, so boom, man-made greenhouse. In combination with less low-altitude cloud cover (for some reason, speculatively from less solar activity, less cosmic particle showers, less water-droplet-seeds), which are good at reflecting light, we have a powerful greenhouse effect, maybe totally dominating any CO2 greenhouse effect.
Would be fun if somone could quantatively back this up:p
Again, for all participants in Shell Eco Marathon, including the Norwegian contribution, and the Turkish one, they are allowed to use the amount of energy in 1 liter of petroleum. The unit is not 1 liter of hydrogen, but 1 liter of gas. They use hydrogen which is consumed in fuel cells, but the amount of energy in that xxx volume hydrogen equals the amount of energy in 1 liter of gas. The efficiency of the whole system is reflected directly by how far they get with the fuel they are allowed to take on board the vehicle.
UrbanConcept Fuel Cell class:
1st place: 1246 km
2nd place: 804 km
3rd place: 568 km
I have a Razer Pro|Click bluetooth mouse and to me it's working pretty well. The battery life seems excellent, I can probably go two months without changing batteries. It uses 2 AA batteries. An improvement possibility there, with li-ion rechargeable, but then you'd add some cost.
Bluetooth though, is simply brilliant. I never think about the connection. My laptop has always-on bluetooth, together with the wifi, so I just flip on the mouse itself and 3 seconds later I can move it around. The accuracy for office work is adequate, but I have one annoyance with it: Every once in a while, it freezes. Either it unfreezes by itself after 10 seconds, or I have to switch the mouse off and on. It's one reason, that while doing CAD design, I prefer a wired mouse which never fails.
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Ditto IANA manufacturer type, but I do have first hand experience with a plastic thing starting to smell like cat pee.
It was in the year 2012, my red nylon spatula, having a red scraper part and a black handle part, which I'd owned for a few years, suddely turned my kitchen drawer into a stinky mess. Of course I thought it was food residue, but it quickly turned out to be eminating from specifically the red "active" bit of the spatula. I tried dishwashing it away, to no avail. I sent an email to the seller, but unfortunately my interest died out when the seller pointed out I should talk to the producer. Now I've forwarded the mail to the correct people, let's see if they have an explanation.
This article was my only clue at the time http://sandwalk.blogspot.no/2007/01/smell-of-cat-pee.html
Although (bio)chemical pathways are interesting, without a trained eye for structures and experience with plastics, I'm lost.
We have a Microsoft Sharepoint system at work where we log our project hours. Hitting Save now moves all hours to one later date, until everything is deleted at January 7th...
A viral video of a new game in the wipeout series made it to slashdot frontpage? I must be new here.
I'm not feeling very competent, but:
a) Soot particles aggregate, lowering their surface-to-volume ratio, shutting down the combustion, or
b) Soot particles escape the plasma, shutting down combustion, or
c) Electron flow from the gun interferes with the combustion reaction itself, which would be awesome
It seems to me that the combination of a large external drive and online storage is easy and safe. The crashplan backup software lets you perform backup of a set of data to multiple destinations, including any connected drive/folder, online storage and sending to friends' computers. Thus you can be a couple of friends (3 should be more than enough) who team up to have 3 copies of each others' backup sets.
That way the backup is performed quickly to the external drive, while it trickles to the online repository and to your friends, depending on your broadband speed. Get some international friends and you're ridiculously secure from any disaster. I imagine crashplan soon will have "virtual friends" which are backup sites in the siberian tundra or something, why not?
Simon
Come on, any good salesperson in a shop, booth, kiosk would to the same:
"One mars bar please"
"There you go. By the way we've got a good offer on razors this week. Playboy mag here says the ladies like it clean nowadays. Although that coke ad says the opposite, that them girls like it ruffian style, it's refreshing."
To all who criticize the money spent on this research: Do you really think we ever can or should stop a question from being answered? Are not scientists in their position because at some point they were curious about the world and went about getting educated in skillfully pursuing answers? I think in this case a simple question was answered and presented decently with the first empirical data. Next, they can dig out a theoretical model that fit the observed data. If they struggle finding a good theoretical match, then things get interesting.
Question: Is resistance to antibiotics energy-unfavourable for bacteria? Meaning, if antibiotics are not abundantly present to guide bacterial evolution, will bacterial strains revert to a 'simpler structure' and become susceptible to antibiotics again?
I was scrolling down to see if anyone had suggested this before posting myself, and lo.. This all leads to a society that preserves the knowledge of a person by adapting an artificial intelligence to it and letting this artificial intelligence free to communicate in a network. I've read this somewhere I'm sure, maybe The Night's Dawn Trilogy? In this way, you are not only preserving the factual knowledge a person possesses, but that person's unique interpretation and creative constructs based on that knowledge. We would maybe need to mimic a neural network that is modeled closely to the person in question. The problem won't be to have the computing capacity to do this in some years, the problem will be how to read the neural network of a (recently deceased?) brain. Anyway, if we made an artificial intelligence that would post things to facebook and twitter, I think it would only turn out creepy because what we post on facebook/twitter is curated information or new media or brainfarts. Now the brainfarts we can do, but we can't create new media; Imagine a photo of your dead friend at a bar five days after he died. Nope, it doesn't work. another stone for you
I believe freedom of speech is good morale, even by objective scientific terms, because it reflects that each person on this planet are perfectly equal. If brought up with an ideal set of equal oppurtunities to food, education and the expression of their utility; be it building a park, harvesting oil, producing art, solving conflicts etc, any "clean slate" baby taken from any mother on this planet would have no less place in society than the next k+1 member. It is utopia, but an approachable one. Some nations are closer to it than others. Some nations "do it wrong" by muddling the right of the individual with mechanisms that allow the individual right to not create conditions conducive to the right of the individual, even while accepting to live in the same society. Maybe the world should have one anarchist geographical area, ratified by all the nations of the world, as Anarchia, where everyone not happy with having leaders, can go and live their lives in total freedom. We like to think that facebook is the real world. But it's not. It's a company that shares what we publish with the people we choose. It's not a society where you need proper morale or ethics to create a place where the individual has the right to say or become what it wants. They make money through advertisement. They have no morale to look after except the profit of their investors. They are protecting their employees by making sure they make money, even in Pakistan. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a closed circuit. You don't need facebook to protect the right of the individual in the real world. Yet. Maybe some time in the future nations will recognize facebook or something similar as a public space which everyone has the right to have access to, and therefore must include freedom of speech. But it definitely doesn't have to be that way now. We're living in a really cool time where The Network is something we will depend on much more when the capacity of transport diminishes while oil and gas reserves deplete. Maybe our world will slow down its pace soon, we've had a really good half a century at rapid speeds, but it's probably not sustainable. Thank god we developed The Network. It's the single most important invention to the coming centuries.
No the article still states that the receiver needs to know the "correct measurement" to be made, which means that Bob needs information from Alice on which measurement to make and that information has no choice but speed-of-light exchange. I just wonder if not the energy of the information exchange exceeds the energy exchange of the entangled pair, even theoretically.
I bet it initially smashed through a porous structure and entered an underground river which spans a martian continent. Now it's popping up closer to the surface and can penetrate the thin ice it is trapped under! I could also suggest it is being carried by aliens, but that's boring if you're a scientist. Wait.. I'm not a scientist. But I'd like to be one, so there.
I'm not going to comment much on this, I think everyone can see that this is bombastic and narrow. I'm norwegian myself and I don't recognize myself or my friends in this. But alas, this is not forum for discussing nations and the people there. But seriously man, you should get out more, locally but also globally.
This awesome TED talks talks about phantom limbs, and one way to truly remove them! http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html Grab a cup of coffee, and enjoy! :)
This is proof of global warming! A high-altitude cloud surface does a better job in trapping radiation than reflecting it, so boom, man-made greenhouse. In combination with less low-altitude cloud cover (for some reason, speculatively from less solar activity, less cosmic particle showers, less water-droplet-seeds), which are good at reflecting light, we have a powerful greenhouse effect, maybe totally dominating any CO2 greenhouse effect. Would be fun if somone could quantatively back this up :p
Again, for all participants in Shell Eco Marathon, including the Norwegian contribution, and the Turkish one, they are allowed to use the amount of energy in 1 liter of petroleum. The unit is not 1 liter of hydrogen, but 1 liter of gas. They use hydrogen which is consumed in fuel cells, but the amount of energy in that xxx volume hydrogen equals the amount of energy in 1 liter of gas. The efficiency of the whole system is reflected directly by how far they get with the fuel they are allowed to take on board the vehicle. UrbanConcept Fuel Cell class: 1st place: 1246 km 2nd place: 804 km 3rd place: 568 km
I'm surprised. Why does this 3rd place winner get this attention? If the numbers are anything to impress with, take a closer look at the winner, the Norwegian contribution, clocking in at 1246 km per 1 liter of fuel equivalents. Official Results: http://www.shell.com/home/content/eco-marathon-en/europe/2009/results/app_results_2009.html
I have a Razer Pro|Click bluetooth mouse and to me it's working pretty well. The battery life seems excellent, I can probably go two months without changing batteries. It uses 2 AA batteries. An improvement possibility there, with li-ion rechargeable, but then you'd add some cost. Bluetooth though, is simply brilliant. I never think about the connection. My laptop has always-on bluetooth, together with the wifi, so I just flip on the mouse itself and 3 seconds later I can move it around. The accuracy for office work is adequate, but I have one annoyance with it: Every once in a while, it freezes. Either it unfreezes by itself after 10 seconds, or I have to switch the mouse off and on. It's one reason, that while doing CAD design, I prefer a wired mouse which never fails.