In principle its the same as a helicopter, but due to the reduced cost I would imagine you could put lots more of these in the air. I think that's where the concern is.
Not sure about airspace though, I would imagine airspace over much of the UK is pretty busy.
I don't think that one leads to the other. The eventual result of the mutation may be selecting in the sense that we only observe certain ones...that doesn't mean that it was not random to begin with.
For example, if you look at the triplet codons which code for amino acids, you can see that (in general) the more detrimental a mutation (such as positively charged residue to negatively charged), the more the codon has to be changed.
So I guess one can say that there is a mechanism in place to minimize the negative effects of random mutation. The mutations themselves are still random, however.
Obviously a great deal of nuance was left out of this and my previous comment. Genetics is big, and really can't be done justice in a/. thread.
I dunno about a car analogy, but I always think of magnetic monopoles like a point charge. You can have an object be either positively or negatively charged. Get two near each other and you have a dipole, which is like a normal magnet. What you would do with one I have no clue, but I bet there would be a fleet of magnet researches chomping at the bit to find something.
I was able to get my X41 tablet to have good battery life (a bit better than windows actually), but it took some doing. Powertop is a godsend, it pointed me to the i915 intel drivers as the culprit. Disabling DRI made a huge difference.
Oh snaps, I think I might have played that once (loooong time ago though). Did it have a bunch of little green MFDs that you could customize on the fly?
What's being ruined here? Tylenol is still legal. Opiates are still legal (with prescription of course). They just have to be separate.
But not yet anyways, note that the FDA is CONSIDERING this. And its their freaking job to look at stuff like this, if something is killing people (yes, even if they are a STUPID ASS they don't deserve to die) they should look at the risks versus rewards.
Alcohol is oxidized during metabolism (by NAD+), and the ADH active site doesn't have any sulfur containing residues. Dunno about acetaminophen though.
It's actually a stimulus plan: 1) It blocks powerpoint. 2) US business sees an unprecedented increase in output. 3) So then our economy goes up and we can buy more stuff from them!
I'm a bit confused on how this would actually WORK. Blocking sites is one thing, just have a url blacklist. But say one game on steam is rated but another is not, how can it know which one youre downloading?
Can packet sniffing tell that much about whats going through the tubes? I thought it was mostly: "Thats P2P, thats http, thats some more http..." Even if it could, what kind of overhead are we talking about?
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, but the numbers aren't as fun that way.
So, there's $20,580 in one monopoly game (http://www.monopoly-man.com/money/). At $16.63 for one monopoly game (http://www.amazon.com), thats:
1e12/20580*16.63 = $1.2 billion
More fun with big numbers:
2.2 pounds/game * 1e12/20580 = 53000 tons
16 inches/game * 1e12/20580 = 12000 miles laid end to end
In principle its the same as a helicopter, but due to the reduced cost I would imagine you could put lots more of these in the air. I think that's where the concern is.
Not sure about airspace though, I would imagine airspace over much of the UK is pretty busy.
Anyone know what that fried out component is in the picture on TFA?
I don't think that one leads to the other. The eventual result of the mutation may be selecting in the sense that we only observe certain ones...that doesn't mean that it was not random to begin with.
Actually, you're on the right track.
For example, if you look at the triplet codons which code for amino acids, you can see that (in general) the more detrimental a mutation (such as positively charged residue to negatively charged), the more the codon has to be changed.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
So I guess one can say that there is a mechanism in place to minimize the negative effects of random mutation. The mutations themselves are still random, however.
Obviously a great deal of nuance was left out of this and my previous comment. Genetics is big, and really can't be done justice in a /. thread.
Epigenetics, in my mind, is something different. To quote from your link:
"However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism"
It is simply control of which genes are expressed, not control of which genes are present in the genetic code.
Though, my definition of mutation could be completely off? Please correct me if so.
ALL mutations are random. If they are advantageous, great, than it is likely that they will be passed along.
Fuck this game. Seriously, I can't get ANYTHING done now.
Now I gotta go try and break this siege.
I'm using a unibody pro, so that must be it. The support is still pretty clunky though, I feel like it has more misreads than in OS X.
Works fine in Win 7 RC. Was it disabled in XP/Vista? The scrolling is a bit jerky though compared to OS X.
I dunno about a car analogy, but I always think of magnetic monopoles like a point charge. You can have an object be either positively or negatively charged. Get two near each other and you have a dipole, which is like a normal magnet.
What you would do with one I have no clue, but I bet there would be a fleet of magnet researches chomping at the bit to find something.
Only in certain directions.
I was able to get my X41 tablet to have good battery life (a bit better than windows actually), but it took some doing. Powertop is a godsend, it pointed me to the i915 intel drivers as the culprit. Disabling DRI made a huge difference.
Oh snaps, I think I might have played that once (loooong time ago though). Did it have a bunch of little green MFDs that you could customize on the fly?
emerge gaussrifle; emerge heatsinks
Insufficient disk space for mech-utils/heatsinks
Dammit!
It might encourage ad people to have their ads not be obnoxious pieces of crap.
Probably not, but I can hope.
What's being ruined here? Tylenol is still legal. Opiates are still legal (with prescription of course). They just have to be separate.
But not yet anyways, note that the FDA is CONSIDERING this. And its their freaking job to look at stuff like this, if something is killing people (yes, even if they are a STUPID ASS they don't deserve to die) they should look at the risks versus rewards.
Alcohol is oxidized during metabolism (by NAD+), and the ADH active site doesn't have any sulfur containing residues. Dunno about acetaminophen though.
Married?
Hmph.
I love it when people read a bit of a chemistry book and then pretend to understand ocean acid-base equilibria.
It's actually a stimulus plan:
1) It blocks powerpoint.
2) US business sees an unprecedented increase in output.
3) So then our economy goes up and we can buy more stuff from them!
and uhhh
4) ??
5) Profit!!
Really pretty devious if you ask me.
I'm a bit confused on how this would actually WORK. Blocking sites is one thing, just have a url blacklist. But say one game on steam is rated but another is not, how can it know which one youre downloading?
Can packet sniffing tell that much about whats going through the tubes? I thought it was mostly: "Thats P2P, thats http, thats some more http..." Even if it could, what kind of overhead are we talking about?
Not the vast majority, they're pretty close to japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt#Foreign_ownership
Hmm, a bit clunky now, but I would imagine it could be WTFBBQ for scientific literature searches. Scifinder makes babies cry.