I'm not a materials chemist, but I'm pretty sure graphene doesn't quite meet the definition of "plastic." I guess the criteria aren't as well-established as I'd assumed. Long live the all-devouring synecdoche.
I'll remember that—it seems like prudent advice. After all, who knows what devious schemes really lie dormant in that huge mess we called the wheat genome?
I apologise for the faulty assumptions; I suppose it should've been obvious that the Calvin cycle doesn't consume nitrogen. My background is mostly nematodes and mammals. The curriculum I was subjected to just didn't get into plants very much.
Actually, his point is fairly sound if you assume the primary growth constraint on plants is the availability of CO2 (although the composition of most fertilizers proves it isn't.)
The assumption is that, when more carbon dioxide is readily available, plants will grow more. However, since the availability of other nutrients (especially exotic minerals and ions) isn't increasing, there will be less of these nutrients to spread amongst the increased number of plants. Hence, vegetables and other crops that are less able to pass on these nutrients to the people eating them.
Of course, this is all irrelevant, because plants have a huge excess of CO2 in the present atmosphere and are generally prevented from growing due to the lack of free nitrogen and phosphorus. Incidentally, I believe more than a few people have suggested (and perhaps even implemented) dumping fertilizer into the oceans to make the resultant algal blooms suck up more CO2. This is a double-edged sword, in that the blooms block out sunlight for plants growing on the ocean floor, but also eventually die off and provide a substantial food boon to the animals near the surface.
if we're talking about Steve Jobs, you've missed the mark; he's where he is because he's a ruthless narcissist. When you're as driven as he is, you can make anyone accept anything.
At any rate, it's not as if they're losing out. More customers, more total profit, and good PR. Something says we should have made harsher demands on them than "expand your market share."
Yes. Unfortunately, capitalism (gives people a reason to try and build a better version, not that the lack of money wouldn't.) Hopefully, more capitalism (will cause someone to build a system that fixes all of these problems.)
Everyone's still stuck on the Parable Of OS/2, and so no one wants to be fully interoperable, unless it means importing users and locking them in forever.
I think that there's a rather wide difference between using a ten-year-old research operating system and a ten-year-old consumer OS. (And, furthermore, that Vista didn't exactly help.)
It's a double troll. They waste your time once when you read it, and again when you try to offer corrections. A significant portion of Slashdot and 4chan copypasta is typo-ridden for no other reason but to infuriate the more pedantic.
...but I know your pain. If you hadn't posted, I probably would've!
Google, can you please acquire a business method patent for forum trolling and then sue the world clean?
Well, they share some code, but it's not as simple as a custom host for Wine. It would be more accurate to say the ReactOS project uses some of the libraries and binaries from Wine, since the essential core parts, like the PE loader, aren't reused. (I think.)
FRY: This is a great, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. Heh heh. LEELA: I don't get it. PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. FRY: Oh. What's it called now? PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Urectum.
Honestly, the GGP mangled his post and was talking about the act of shopping having different weights. I was poking fun at the inexplicable grammatical failure in a quasi-edgy way. I guess that was a bit of a whoosh moment.
I'm not an astrophysicist; it's not "my" planet. That was a direct quote from the second link in the summary. Why is everyone having trouble with that today?
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I'm not a materials chemist, but I'm pretty sure graphene doesn't quite meet the definition of "plastic." I guess the criteria aren't as well-established as I'd assumed. Long live the all-devouring synecdoche.
I'm confused. Italy funded that too, right?
I'll remember that—it seems like prudent advice. After all, who knows what devious schemes really lie dormant in that huge mess we called the wheat genome?
I apologise for the faulty assumptions; I suppose it should've been obvious that the Calvin cycle doesn't consume nitrogen. My background is mostly nematodes and mammals. The curriculum I was subjected to just didn't get into plants very much.
Actually, his point is fairly sound if you assume the primary growth constraint on plants is the availability of CO2 (although the composition of most fertilizers proves it isn't.)
The assumption is that, when more carbon dioxide is readily available, plants will grow more. However, since the availability of other nutrients (especially exotic minerals and ions) isn't increasing, there will be less of these nutrients to spread amongst the increased number of plants. Hence, vegetables and other crops that are less able to pass on these nutrients to the people eating them.
Of course, this is all irrelevant, because plants have a huge excess of CO2 in the present atmosphere and are generally prevented from growing due to the lack of free nitrogen and phosphorus. Incidentally, I believe more than a few people have suggested (and perhaps even implemented) dumping fertilizer into the oceans to make the resultant algal blooms suck up more CO2. This is a double-edged sword, in that the blooms block out sunlight for plants growing on the ocean floor, but also eventually die off and provide a substantial food boon to the animals near the surface.
The traditional TSP exposition implies the fastest route is the most preferable, although there are some renditions based on bus/train fares.
I wonder if said grandmother is irked by all this mileage as a rhetorical device.
I can't tell if I like prefer figure 1 for its irrelevance or figure 2 for its obtuseness. When I grow up, I want to write patents like that.
You are doomed to a nervous, horrible death. I hope no one ever tells you what goes into the average supermarket hotdog.
You are right and this makes me sad. Time to go back to slogging it out with programming language semantics.
if we're talking about Steve Jobs, you've missed the mark; he's where he is because he's a ruthless narcissist. When you're as driven as he is, you can make anyone accept anything.
You're probably right. Mea culpa for posting so early.
Nope. SUA is predominantly used for console applications. They've moved on from "Extend" to "Extinguish" now.
At any rate, it's not as if they're losing out. More customers, more total profit, and good PR. Something says we should have made harsher demands on them than "expand your market share."
Thank you for finally giving us this word. Now we finally have a succinct and compact term for Microsoft's OOXML crap.
Yes. Unfortunately, capitalism (gives people a reason to try and build a better version, not that the lack of money wouldn't.) Hopefully, more capitalism (will cause someone to build a system that fixes all of these problems.)
Everyone's still stuck on the Parable Of OS/2, and so no one wants to be fully interoperable, unless it means importing users and locking them in forever.
I think that there's a rather wide difference between using a ten-year-old research operating system and a ten-year-old consumer OS. (And, furthermore, that Vista didn't exactly help.)
No, it just has really lousy CPU throttling. (Ba-dum, tssh.)
It's a double troll. They waste your time once when you read it, and again when you try to offer corrections. A significant portion of Slashdot and 4chan copypasta is typo-ridden for no other reason but to infuriate the more pedantic.
...but I know your pain. If you hadn't posted, I probably would've!
Google, can you please acquire a business method patent for forum trolling and then sue the world clean?
Well, they share some code, but it's not as simple as a custom host for Wine. It would be more accurate to say the ReactOS project uses some of the libraries and binaries from Wine, since the essential core parts, like the PE loader, aren't reused. (I think.)
FRY: This is a great, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. Heh heh.
LEELA: I don't get it.
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
FRY: Oh. What's it called now?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Urectum.
Easily 15%.
Not when there's a painfully obvious typo in it, it isn't.
Honestly, the GGP mangled his post and was talking about the act of shopping having different weights. I was poking fun at the inexplicable grammatical failure in a quasi-edgy way. I guess that was a bit of a whoosh moment.
I'm not an astrophysicist; it's not "my" planet. That was a direct quote from the second link in the summary. Why is everyone having trouble with that today?