Now, the flaw in Niedi's reasoning is that evolution is directed only to better differential reproduction. So, if bacteria reproduce before self-destruction, there will be no environmental pressure to select against this feature.</quote>
bacteria usually keep on deviding (reproducing) themselves for an extremely long time, so I suppose the self-destructing genes will lead to premature death -> less reproduction in total compared to "normal" bacteria
As soon as even one or two bacteria manage to throw the phage-genes out again or, even simpler, acquire a loss-of-function mutation they'll have a huge advantage over the self-destructing ones and might eventually eliminate them. The result would be quite nasty for those who run the harvesting plant...
I'd at least suggest seperated smaller tanks of bacteria that are isolated from one another so that the damage of such an event is kept at a minimum.
Yup, that's definitely good about windows mobile. However, if that article's right microsoft appears to be working very hard to fix that. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/16/microsoft_sells_restrictive_new_wimo_marketplace_via_iphone_ads.html
yeah, the safety of the pebble-bed design has been proven, how exactly?
For every type of nuclear reactor so far, we've been told again and again that they're perfectly safe. Now a new one comes along and once AGAIN it's perfectly safe. Hooorray
Problem is: it's HUMANS doing the construction, work and handling and humans are error prone, not to mention greedy. Here in germany things were also beginning to look a little brighter for the church of the atom with the legislation thinking overtly about reverting the move to leave nuclear power or at least postpone it. Then shit hit the fan at a nuclear power plant here. And then at another. And after they spent a LONG time fixing them one was up for a week before having to do an emergency shutdown again. Simple things like a transformer failure. And whoops, our emergency systems are broken, too bad we forgot to test em the last few years. Just as stupid as a sysadmin relying on a backup system that hasn't been tested for 5 years, just on a bigger scale.
Now it also came to light that the study done for declaring our end storage point (gorleben) was manipulated in favor for choosing it becasue, hey, noone wanted to spend millions and go through the public disaster of having to find YET another one.
so yeah, all hail to the atom, the new technology is perfectly safe now, I'm sure
I agree with the iPhone, it's definitely NOT meant for geeks.... but with a mac? x11 (was pretty awful but 2.4 is quite good), bash, the most important command-line tools, it's all there. Of course not OFFICIALLY documented, but well documented by a lot of geeks online. And if you want more, just get macports. You can tinker all you want on OSX, if you're not afraid of the CLI. Personally I'm using a mac at work with Gimp, Inkscape, OsiriX and LyX being the programs I use most. I use Thunderbird for mailing and Mozilla for surfing. I could use Songbird but I must admit I like iTunes better, so yeah that one goes to apple. Still I don't really see what your hating geeks-argument is all about when it comes to the mac platform. They might want to control the AVERAGE user but I have the feeling that they simply don't mind the geeks. On a mac, they don't officially offer advanced options but they also don't lock up the system leaving you to tinker all you want. So if you just want everything to instantly work and work well you will end up using the software apples throws in front of you. If you don't mind spending some time trying you can use whatever you please. And they at least don't pull any WGA or PleaseEnterThisLaughablyLongKey crap which I'm mighty thankful for. So yeah, I don't see the railroad you're referring to... And with the iphone? Get an open platform if you want to set a sign or jailbreak the thing if you don't care. I was given an ipod touch some time ago and it offers some neat possibilities after jailbreaking. Still, if the N900 turns out to be any good I would go for that. Too bad the Freerunner was such a friggin huge brick...
We don't need cars that tell us when our driving sucks. Just make everyone slow down.
Germany: no speed limits on the autobahn, going 100+mph is not that special here... Deaths on the road per 1 million inhabitants in 2006: 62
USA: pretty low speed limits on most roads. Number of deaths on the road per 1 million inhabitants in 2006: 142
Yep, imposing the 55mph rule is gonna solve all your problems. Try driving 55mph on a straight road for more than 2 hours without losing concentration. You hardly have to steer and with everyone going at the same speed there's no need to brake. And thanks to cruise control there's also no need to accelerate or stay on the gas. YAY, falling asleep on the road has never been that easy.
Agreed, I've yet to see any curve on a german autobahn (except on an interchange in an old car maybe) where you can manage to slide out at 75mph. Unless there's snow/ice or something is SERIOUSLY wrong with your car or tires.
I don't get all the fuss about speed either. Here it's not that unusual to go at speeds of 100mph or higher and we have "only" 62 deaths on the road per year and 1 million inhabitants. The number for the US is 142, according to wikipedia. And I know, it's not 100% comparable but still, I don't see how the speed makes our roads that more dangerous...
Maybe you should put some more effort into actually teaching people how to drive, from what I've heard from friends it's laughably easy to get a drivering license in the US
Both exist. Bacteria can evade antibiotics in many ways, some active, some passive.
The easiest way to actively evade antibiotics is by developing efflux pumps which will pump out a certain drug or class of drugs (Tetracycline, beta-lactame).
The easiest way to passively evade antibiotics is through modification of the drug target which is a rare thing but can happen since bacteria are quite prone to mutations and also multiply like mad.
The thing that completely stupefies me is how that stuff is supposed to do away with resistances... Maybe it makes them barf their plasmids but still, I have no idea how that is supposed to work. Especially since some plasmids come with their own simple but effective measures against it. That option would be pretty easy to verify though.
This means that 2 cores should be enough for everybody !
what? never! You need a quad, definitely. One core for the os, one for each application. See, it makes the whole resource management thingie soo much easier...
I'll give it a shot. The page this article is from (heise.de) is probably the closest to a german./ there is. The original article that is referred to in this text was published in the Spiegel (Translation: mirror), a well-known german magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel
The Bundeswehr is said to set up a "Cyberwar unit", which won't only protect the (army's or Germany's, not explicitly stated) own IT-infrastructure but is also supposed to carry out reconnaissance or manipulation "in opposing networks". According to information of the Spiegel, the troup is made out of a few dozen computer science alumni of the Bundeswehr's universities. According to the Hamburg-based news magazine the "hackers in uniform" are still in training at the moment but should be fully ready next year. The top secret (har har) unit is supposedly under the command of the "Kommando Strategische AufklÃrung" (like they said in the./ article) and is led by the Brigade General (whatever rank that is)Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. There haven't been any comments from the Bundeswehr regarding this report. According to the Basic Constitutional Law the German army is not allowed to carry out any functions/missions in the inland (meant is that they may not carry out police or secret service work, etc.... within germany) but there have been plans to abolish that restriction for quite some time. While experts are still debating wether a term like Cyberwar is correct since there are neither killings nor injuries in such a war, there seems to be an agreement that the defense against such threats should be one of the duties of a nation's army. And even if the Cyberattack on Estland wasn't termed a "War" afterwards it's true that every state that runs a substantial IT-infrastructure is taking potential threats of cyberattacks seriously.
Americans mangling up random german words never fail to amuse me;)
Ef it's not something like leukemia you will have to reprogramm these stem cells too since they are only able to differenciate to blood cells and the like. This includes most of the immune cells, but even for that you will have to find the right signals (also a kind of programming) to get them to differenciate.
Don't confuse them with embryonal stem cells, these are two completely different kinds.
Right now the whole stem cell debate is far too inflated with false hopes and overly optimistic goals. I could imagine that umbilical cord cells could maybe help with leukemia one day but apart from that I fail to see the big deal. These are only hematopoetic stem cells after all...
And even IF we were one day able to extend the possibilities of differenciation we still have the (far bigger) problem of telling them WHERE and HOW to differenciate. And I don't see any handy solutions for that on the horizon.
Not quite. It is a crime to use your fake name and such, but unless the cost is stated very clearly on the page (and not just in line XYZ of the EULA or something like that) it counts as an attempt to mislead the customer, or as the heading said, tricking him into buying.
There have been a lot of sites like this (IQ test, friendship test blabla) and in pretty much all cases the court told them to shove it... The point is, those who run the sites know it and will most certainly never go to court. If you want to get rid of them real quick have a lawyer answer the mail for you. Or go to the "Verbraucherzentrale", they will tell you what to write.
OH NOES, THEY SHOULD OPEN SORES IT and hand out free coffee and cake too while they're at it....
what kinda answer do you expect, seriously? ask a kid if it wants a free lolly, most will be glad to scream yes.
ask the shopkeeper if he'll give it to him and well, you'll probably get a different reply Face it, open sourcing it would be one of the most stupid things to do. For an ambitious open source platform there's android and openMOKO or whatever it's called, for the sucker that crashes constantly and is a pain to use there's windows mobile. And Apple is just Apple. They service a different niche, they offer a phone that probably can't do half as much as the android but what it does it does pretty well. Closed but pretty reliable and sleek looking.
Plus, if they open source it their image might be pulled down by a great load of crap-phones running apple's OS
Don't get me wrong, I think open source is great, it just doesn't make sense for Apple from a commercial point of view. If you want open source you got Android and the freerunner. If you want an open OS on the computer you got Linux. Not MacOS.
well, if you stick to that definition then I guess the popular nude bath not far from me is to be considered a child brothel (at least in part since there's no "over 18" rule)
shocking, isn't it
Howso? I think that it would rather increase the amount of background noise, making it harder to get any usable results...
Now if you had an old CRT I would agree, but I don't see how unplugging an LCD and the PSU would decrease the chances of decryption.
I'm wondering if this is really an issue.... I mean come on, they used a damn HUGE antenna for the setup with the wall inbetween, always disconnected the psu and typed really carefully and slowly.
It would be interesting to see how much you can still recover with a more realistic setup, like a faster typer, plugged in psus, some other electronic equipment in the room and an antenna that can be put in/ontop one of these neat little dark vans.
Get me an OpenMoko that fits in my jeans/trouser pocket and I'm in.
Don't get me wrong, It's all great and stuff but that thing should be a phone in the first place. Considering that it's a bit too clunky for my likes.
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Now, the flaw in Niedi's reasoning is that evolution is directed only to better differential reproduction. So, if bacteria reproduce before self-destruction, there will be no environmental pressure to select against this feature.</quote>
bacteria usually keep on deviding (reproducing) themselves for an extremely long time, so I suppose the self-destructing genes will lead to premature death -> less reproduction in total compared to "normal" bacteria
As soon as even one or two bacteria manage to throw the phage-genes out again or, even simpler, acquire a loss-of-function mutation they'll have a huge advantage over the self-destructing ones and might eventually eliminate them. The result would be quite nasty for those who run the harvesting plant...
I'd at least suggest seperated smaller tanks of bacteria that are isolated from one another so that the damage of such an event is kept at a minimum.
Yup, that's definitely good about windows mobile. However, if that article's right microsoft appears to be working very hard to fix that.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/16/microsoft_sells_restrictive_new_wimo_marketplace_via_iphone_ads.html
yeah, the safety of the pebble-bed design has been proven, how exactly?
For every type of nuclear reactor so far, we've been told again and again that they're perfectly safe.
Now a new one comes along and once AGAIN it's perfectly safe. Hooorray
Problem is: it's HUMANS doing the construction, work and handling and humans are error prone, not to mention greedy.
Here in germany things were also beginning to look a little brighter for the church of the atom with the legislation thinking overtly about reverting the move to leave nuclear power or at least postpone it.
Then shit hit the fan at a nuclear power plant here. And then at another. And after they spent a LONG time fixing them one was up for a week before having to do an emergency shutdown again. Simple things like a transformer failure. And whoops, our emergency systems are broken, too bad we forgot to test em the last few years. Just as stupid as a sysadmin relying on a backup system that hasn't been tested for 5 years, just on a bigger scale.
Now it also came to light that the study done for declaring our end storage point (gorleben) was manipulated in favor for choosing it becasue, hey, noone wanted to spend millions and go through the public disaster of having to find YET another one.
so yeah, all hail to the atom, the new technology is perfectly safe now, I'm sure
I agree with the iPhone, it's definitely NOT meant for geeks....
but with a mac?
x11 (was pretty awful but 2.4 is quite good), bash, the most important command-line tools, it's all there.
Of course not OFFICIALLY documented, but well documented by a lot of geeks online. And if you want more, just get macports.
You can tinker all you want on OSX, if you're not afraid of the CLI.
Personally I'm using a mac at work with Gimp, Inkscape, OsiriX and LyX being the programs I use most.
I use Thunderbird for mailing and Mozilla for surfing. I could use Songbird but I must admit I like iTunes better, so yeah that one goes to apple. Still I don't really see what your hating geeks-argument is all about when it comes to the mac platform.
They might want to control the AVERAGE user but I have the feeling that they simply don't mind the geeks. On a mac, they don't officially offer advanced options but they also don't lock up the system leaving you to tinker all you want. So if you just want everything to instantly work and work well you will end up using the software apples throws in front of you. If you don't mind spending some time trying you can use whatever you please. And they at least don't pull any WGA or PleaseEnterThisLaughablyLongKey crap which I'm mighty thankful for. So yeah, I don't see the railroad you're referring to...
And with the iphone? Get an open platform if you want to set a sign or jailbreak the thing if you don't care.
I was given an ipod touch some time ago and it offers some neat possibilities after jailbreaking. Still, if the N900 turns out to be any good I would go for that. Too bad the Freerunner was such a friggin huge brick...
enough ramblin
We don't need cars that tell us when our driving sucks. Just make everyone slow down.
Germany: no speed limits on the autobahn, going 100+mph is not that special here...
Deaths on the road per 1 million inhabitants in 2006: 62
USA: pretty low speed limits on most roads. Number of deaths on the road per 1 million inhabitants in 2006: 142
Yep, imposing the 55mph rule is gonna solve all your problems. Try driving 55mph on a straight road for more than 2 hours without losing concentration. You hardly have to steer and with everyone going at the same speed there's no need to brake. And thanks to cruise control there's also no need to accelerate or stay on the gas. YAY, falling asleep on the road has never been that easy.
Agreed, I've yet to see any curve on a german autobahn (except on an interchange in an old car maybe) where you can manage to slide out at 75mph. Unless there's snow/ice or something is SERIOUSLY wrong with your car or tires.
I don't get all the fuss about speed either. Here it's not that unusual to go at speeds of 100mph or higher and we have "only" 62 deaths on the road per year and 1 million inhabitants. The number for the US is 142, according to wikipedia. And I know, it's not 100% comparable but still, I don't see how the speed makes our roads that more dangerous...
Maybe you should put some more effort into actually teaching people how to drive, from what I've heard from friends it's laughably easy to get a drivering license in the US
Both exist. Bacteria can evade antibiotics in many ways, some active, some passive.
The easiest way to actively evade antibiotics is by developing efflux pumps which will pump out a certain drug or class of drugs (Tetracycline, beta-lactame).
The easiest way to passively evade antibiotics is through modification of the drug target which is a rare thing but can happen since bacteria are quite prone to mutations and also multiply like mad.
The thing that completely stupefies me is how that stuff is supposed to do away with resistances... Maybe it makes them barf their plasmids but still, I have no idea how that is supposed to work. Especially since some plasmids come with their own simple but effective measures against it.
That option would be pretty easy to verify though.
This means that 2 cores should be enough for everybody !
what? never!
You need a quad, definitely. One core for the os, one for each application. See, it makes the whole resource management thingie soo much easier...
I'll give it a shot. The page this article is from (heise.de) is probably the closest to a german ./ there is. The original article that is referred to in this text was published in the Spiegel (Translation: mirror), a well-known german magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel
The Bundeswehr is said to set up a "Cyberwar unit", which won't only protect the (army's or Germany's, not explicitly stated) own IT-infrastructure but is also supposed to carry out reconnaissance or manipulation "in opposing networks". ./ article) and is led by the Brigade General (whatever rank that is)Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. There haven't been any comments from the Bundeswehr regarding this report. According to the Basic Constitutional Law the German army is not allowed to carry out any functions/missions in the inland (meant is that they may not carry out police or secret service work, etc.... within germany) but there have been plans to abolish that restriction for quite some time.
According to information of the Spiegel, the troup is made out of a few dozen computer science alumni of the Bundeswehr's universities.
According to the Hamburg-based news magazine the "hackers in uniform" are still in training at the moment but should be fully ready next year.
The top secret (har har) unit is supposedly under the command of the "Kommando Strategische AufklÃrung" (like they said in the
While experts are still debating wether a term like Cyberwar is correct since there are neither killings nor injuries in such a war, there seems to be an agreement that the defense against such threats should be one of the duties of a nation's army. And even if the Cyberattack on Estland wasn't termed a "War" afterwards it's true that every state that runs a substantial IT-infrastructure is taking potential threats of cyberattacks seriously.
Americans mangling up random german words never fail to amuse me ;)
Ef it's not something like leukemia you will have to reprogramm these stem cells too since they are only able to differenciate to blood cells and the like. This includes most of the immune cells, but even for that you will have to find the right signals (also a kind of programming) to get them to differenciate.
Don't confuse them with embryonal stem cells, these are two completely different kinds.
I highly doubt it would be of much use.
Right now the whole stem cell debate is far too inflated with false hopes and overly optimistic goals. I could imagine that umbilical cord cells could maybe help with leukemia one day but apart from that I fail to see the big deal.
These are only hematopoetic stem cells after all...
And even IF we were one day able to extend the possibilities of differenciation we still have the (far bigger) problem of telling them WHERE and HOW to differenciate. And I don't see any handy solutions for that on the horizon.
Not quite. It is a crime to use your fake name and such, but unless the cost is stated very clearly on the page (and not just in line XYZ of the EULA or something like that) it counts as an attempt to mislead the customer, or as the heading said, tricking him into buying.
There have been a lot of sites like this (IQ test, friendship test blabla) and in pretty much all cases the court told them to shove it... The point is, those who run the sites know it and will most certainly never go to court.
If you want to get rid of them real quick have a lawyer answer the mail for you. Or go to the "Verbraucherzentrale", they will tell you what to write.
So it ain't THAT bad.
OH NOES, THEY SHOULD OPEN SORES IT
and hand out free coffee and cake too while they're at it....
what kinda answer do you expect, seriously?
ask a kid if it wants a free lolly, most will be glad to scream yes.
ask the shopkeeper if he'll give it to him and well, you'll probably get a different reply
Face it, open sourcing it would be one of the most stupid things to do. For an ambitious open source platform there's android and openMOKO or whatever it's called, for the sucker that crashes constantly and is a pain to use there's windows mobile. And Apple is just Apple. They service a different niche, they offer a phone that probably can't do half as much as the android but what it does it does pretty well. Closed but pretty reliable and sleek looking.
Plus, if they open source it their image might be pulled down by a great load of crap-phones running apple's OS
Don't get me wrong, I think open source is great, it just doesn't make sense for Apple from a commercial point of view. If you want open source you got Android and the freerunner.
If you want an open OS on the computer you got Linux. Not MacOS.
well, if you stick to that definition then I guess the popular nude bath not far from me is to be considered a child brothel (at least in part since there's no "over 18" rule) shocking, isn't it
Howso? I think that it would rather increase the amount of background noise, making it harder to get any usable results... Now if you had an old CRT I would agree, but I don't see how unplugging an LCD and the PSU would decrease the chances of decryption.
I'm wondering if this is really an issue.... I mean come on, they used a damn HUGE antenna for the setup with the wall inbetween, always disconnected the psu and typed really carefully and slowly. It would be interesting to see how much you can still recover with a more realistic setup, like a faster typer, plugged in psus, some other electronic equipment in the room and an antenna that can be put in/ontop one of these neat little dark vans.
Get me an OpenMoko that fits in my jeans/trouser pocket and I'm in. Don't get me wrong, It's all great and stuff but that thing should be a phone in the first place. Considering that it's a bit too clunky for my likes.