Well, the guy was busy. Besides what MagusSlurpy covered, the reason the mucus and bacteriophages are able to co-operate is because the bacteriophages mimic the shapes of antibodies on their exteriors, and mucin proteins have patches of glycan residues that bind antibodies and hold them in place as a normal defence mechanism. The bulk of the paper actually focuses on this exact thing.
All-in-one systems tend to be efforts to target specific markets. A lot of people on Slashdot were confused when the PS3 had a web browser in it, for example, but such a convergence of devices makes a lot of sense in a tiny Japanese apartment. It's one of those features where you have to remind yourself that it may still have appeal to the market as a whole even if you don't like it yourself.
Mostly it's articles like this, but I'm not entirely sure that counts, since it's outselling the Nexus 10.
I think the gist is "If Windows makes up such a huge portion of the desktop segment, why isn't Microsoft seeing the same success with tablets?"—of course, we can all answer that question a hundred times over, so... Good catch, and points to you.
Your signature has more to do with this than you might think; Xbox gamers are deeply entrenched in their niche. The loyalty factor in this case could probably power a small nuclear reactor.
As someone else pointed out, the 360 is (was?) sold below manufacturing cost. If you buy a lot of systems and few games, you're damaging their bottom line. (Maybe that's why Sony didn't hesitate when they realised blocking Other OS on the PS3 would end the ability to build new clusters.)
"eXPerience" was a blatant retronym that marketing made up so they could get an X in there. There was little or no discussion of "experience" in the Whistler interface until late in development.
Each version number is a lesson in history about versions and branding. In the late 90s, "2000" was the big thing that everyone was excited about. "XP" probably would've been called "Windows Extreme" edition if they could get away with it at the time. "360" was supposed to sound holistic, or at least all-observing.
"One" reflects a drive toward simplicity, and yet still captures the idea that it encompasses everything; it's not an ordinal. You can trust that the next one won't be called "Xbox Two".
If it does fail, I'm voting price point; with specs like this, I can't imagine how it would be cheaper than a Surface Pro, which is already a disaster in part because of its price. But the Xbox customer base is pretty loyal; that might not be enough to stop them.
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here. So what? Art communities always get a disproportionate amount of people like that, and the attitudes are, in general, diffusive. I think Tumblr is exceptional in its concentration of socially-conscious and excessively socially-conscious people primarily because of the age group, though. New Sincerity and third-wave feminism have been busy, and I expect we'll see consistently higher rates of intolerant left-leaning mentalities in the future.
Try to take a deep breath and remember that one person's "stupid shit" is another person's favourite hobby. The tech community largely ignores Tumblr because it's a very different culture. It's true that the most popular feeds often just live off rebloggings with few or no comments, but the people committing those rebloggings are a captive audience, and they do use the platform socially the rest of the time. Try not to take it too personally that you didn't fit in!
And I said somewhat technically literate, not savvy. Tumblr represents the vague demographic of "digital natives"; people currently in high school and just going into college, mostly in the US. That tends to necessitate a certain minimum threshold of fluency.
Non-Google Jabber accounts are less common than Google accounts, so I'm guessing most people won't notice. It certainly can't help, though, since it'll drive away non-Chrome users. As well as everyone who fears Google+ for its real name policy controversy junk.
Admittedly I haven't had the pleasure of fixed-length strings in Java (not a lot of that in my line of work), but what you're saying sounds... predictable enough. That's why I suggested BASIC; it actually does have fixed-length strings (most notably in structs, which it calls Types, confusingly) which work with the same functions as its regular variable-length strings.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the website is made. Tumblr-the T-shirt, Tumblr-the Coloring Book, Tumblr-the Lunch box, Tumblr-the Breakfast Cereal, Tumblr-the Flame Thrower.
Tumblr users may loathe advertising, but the site is also a huge reservoir of creative people and their fans. Even if Tumblr offered just a shop interface in the style of an eBay buy-it-now storefront, they'd make a killing. DeviantART taps into the same user base as Tumblr, and while they do offer premium accounts, most of their revenue comes from skimming off user sales.
Despite all of the replies to you mumbling about porn, Tumblr's main draw is that it's a social base of somewhat technically literate, creatively-oriented people, mostly teenagers. They view it as an escape from Facebook's social ills. It combines some of the features of Twitter ("reblogging" things and making them appear in your feed) with richer post style controls, more like LiveJournal. In fact, it might be rather appropriate to call it LiveJournal for millennials. There's generally more emphasis on image-based communication, and a lot of the same meme-spamming you'd expect to find on a site like 4chan or Reddit, but in general the atmosphere is a little more positive and accepting than other popular social sites.
Fortunately, all of the data formats for storing nucleotide information were standardized before XML became popular. It's mostly newer topics of computational interest, like metabolic networks, that suffer. (Although I'm sure there's one or two obscure proprietary formats that put raw gene sequences in XML anyway.) You can feel the generational gap as intelligent, record-oriented formats give way to ugly lazy ones, although not all new formats are stupid... and some formats could honestly be called attempts to re-invent XML, like ASN.1, which NCBI offers (although I don't know of anything that actually reads it.)
Actually, the Currency datatype provides a fixed decimal. It was removed in VB.NET for no clear reason, but provided a 64-bit value with a constant 4 base 10 digits in the fraction.
And I believe the official abbreviation is "PL/I".:)
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Well, the guy was busy. Besides what MagusSlurpy covered, the reason the mucus and bacteriophages are able to co-operate is because the bacteriophages mimic the shapes of antibodies on their exteriors, and mucin proteins have patches of glycan residues that bind antibodies and hold them in place as a normal defence mechanism. The bulk of the paper actually focuses on this exact thing.
All-in-one systems tend to be efforts to target specific markets. A lot of people on Slashdot were confused when the PS3 had a web browser in it, for example, but such a convergence of devices makes a lot of sense in a tiny Japanese apartment. It's one of those features where you have to remind yourself that it may still have appeal to the market as a whole even if you don't like it yourself.
Mostly it's articles like this, but I'm not entirely sure that counts, since it's outselling the Nexus 10.
I think the gist is "If Windows makes up such a huge portion of the desktop segment, why isn't Microsoft seeing the same success with tablets?"—of course, we can all answer that question a hundred times over, so... Good catch, and points to you.
There was once something with a vaguely similar name, if that helps.
Your signature has more to do with this than you might think; Xbox gamers are deeply entrenched in their niche. The loyalty factor in this case could probably power a small nuclear reactor.
As a former Texas Instruments customer, I am deaf to your claims.
As someone else pointed out, the 360 is (was?) sold below manufacturing cost. If you buy a lot of systems and few games, you're damaging their bottom line. (Maybe that's why Sony didn't hesitate when they realised blocking Other OS on the PS3 would end the ability to build new clusters.)
"eXPerience" was a blatant retronym that marketing made up so they could get an X in there. There was little or no discussion of "experience" in the Whistler interface until late in development.
Actually, that joke has expired.
Each version number is a lesson in history about versions and branding. In the late 90s, "2000" was the big thing that everyone was excited about. "XP" probably would've been called "Windows Extreme" edition if they could get away with it at the time. "360" was supposed to sound holistic, or at least all-observing.
"One" reflects a drive toward simplicity, and yet still captures the idea that it encompasses everything; it's not an ordinal. You can trust that the next one won't be called "Xbox Two".
If it does fail, I'm voting price point; with specs like this, I can't imagine how it would be cheaper than a Surface Pro, which is already a disaster in part because of its price. But the Xbox customer base is pretty loyal; that might not be enough to stop them.
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here. So what? Art communities always get a disproportionate amount of people like that, and the attitudes are, in general, diffusive. I think Tumblr is exceptional in its concentration of socially-conscious and excessively socially-conscious people primarily because of the age group, though. New Sincerity and third-wave feminism have been busy, and I expect we'll see consistently higher rates of intolerant left-leaning mentalities in the future.
Try to take a deep breath and remember that one person's "stupid shit" is another person's favourite hobby. The tech community largely ignores Tumblr because it's a very different culture. It's true that the most popular feeds often just live off rebloggings with few or no comments, but the people committing those rebloggings are a captive audience, and they do use the platform socially the rest of the time. Try not to take it too personally that you didn't fit in!
And I said somewhat technically literate, not savvy. Tumblr represents the vague demographic of "digital natives"; people currently in high school and just going into college, mostly in the US. That tends to necessitate a certain minimum threshold of fluency.
I use Pidgin myself. Doesn't meant we're in the majority though.
Non-Google Jabber accounts are less common than Google accounts, so I'm guessing most people won't notice. It certainly can't help, though, since it'll drive away non-Chrome users. As well as everyone who fears Google+ for its real name policy controversy junk.
Not personally, but I know a guy who knows a guy...
Actually I just know the guy; we work together. I'll bug him tomorrow for you.
"Deprecated" in PHP jargon means "widely used."
Admittedly I haven't had the pleasure of fixed-length strings in Java (not a lot of that in my line of work), but what you're saying sounds... predictable enough. That's why I suggested BASIC; it actually does have fixed-length strings (most notably in structs, which it calls Types, confusingly) which work with the same functions as its regular variable-length strings.
There are people like that everywhere, in one flavour or another. You'll note that I said "in general." (Here's a highlights reel if you're bored.)
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the website is made. Tumblr-the T-shirt, Tumblr-the Coloring Book, Tumblr-the Lunch box, Tumblr-the Breakfast Cereal, Tumblr-the Flame Thrower.
Tumblr users may loathe advertising, but the site is also a huge reservoir of creative people and their fans. Even if Tumblr offered just a shop interface in the style of an eBay buy-it-now storefront, they'd make a killing. DeviantART taps into the same user base as Tumblr, and while they do offer premium accounts, most of their revenue comes from skimming off user sales.
Despite all of the replies to you mumbling about porn, Tumblr's main draw is that it's a social base of somewhat technically literate, creatively-oriented people, mostly teenagers. They view it as an escape from Facebook's social ills. It combines some of the features of Twitter ("reblogging" things and making them appear in your feed) with richer post style controls, more like LiveJournal. In fact, it might be rather appropriate to call it LiveJournal for millennials. There's generally more emphasis on image-based communication, and a lot of the same meme-spamming you'd expect to find on a site like 4chan or Reddit, but in general the atmosphere is a little more positive and accepting than other popular social sites.
Fortunately, all of the data formats for storing nucleotide information were standardized before XML became popular. It's mostly newer topics of computational interest, like metabolic networks, that suffer. (Although I'm sure there's one or two obscure proprietary formats that put raw gene sequences in XML anyway.) You can feel the generational gap as intelligent, record-oriented formats give way to ugly lazy ones, although not all new formats are stupid... and some formats could honestly be called attempts to re-invent XML, like ASN.1, which NCBI offers (although I don't know of anything that actually reads it.)
That's not really what I mean by "different." Steyn claimed the two statements attacked the same group, which they clearly do not.
PHP is cheating! However, you may like this.
Actually, the Currency datatype provides a fixed decimal. It was removed in VB.NET for no clear reason, but provided a 64-bit value with a constant 4 base 10 digits in the fraction.
And I believe the official abbreviation is "PL/I". :)