If those alternative energy sources were even remotely feasible you can be sure they would be all over them.
Why? Because they are in a rush to make their existing oil lines, distribution networks, and stations obsolete, and want to shake up the system that is making them money? Not to say they have no interest, but they'd be all over them ONLY if they thought they could make even more money doing so, which they might not.
Isn't it pretty much a foregone conclusion that cellulose based ethanol makes no sense when compared to algae or Jatropha (or similar oil seed plants that can grow on non-arable land) which can be converted to biodiesel?
Seems like this could have two advantages
1. ANY type of plant. Like grass. Seems like that if the conversion from cellulose to ethanol was efficient enough, there would be much better plants or trees to use than Jatropha. Maybe Jatropha was the best option when we were chemically converting cellulose or doing it less efficiently?
2. Maybe we could recycle used paper into fuel?
And then there would be an reason to use both: you can't harvest oil from the entire plant of jatropha, maybe you could grow it, harvest the seeds for oil, and put the rest of the plant into the less efficient cellulose degradation bin for conversion to ethanol?
Disclaimer: while it's probably obvious by this point, I'm no expert, and this is all speculation.
In a world where executives of companies that lose money expect as a matter of course to be paid millions of dollars of bonuses, it is a given that a tool such as the DMCA **WILL** be abused to silence opposition or competition...
Which is why this needed to be pointed out to politicians who can't think ahead for themselves.
57% are from businesses targeting competitors, and only 37% are invalid?
That is indeed poorly phrased, but I think it was that a third of all notices were demonstratably invalid. That might be all from the 57% of competition, and the other %20 is highly questionable but not factually wrong.
Google probably didn't want to overstate anything, so that lobbyists would have nothing to prove wrong and convince lawmakers to ignore google completely. "They said all that 57% was invalid, but that's not true! We had one (coughalmostcough) get upheld in court a few years ago! They're liars, here's some campaign contributions, just forget about those wanks."
The first "way of the samurai" on the PS2 had an interesting system. The actual game was short but was more "choose your own path"-ish than fable, encouraging replay. The emphasis was on the swords, you could carry them from game to game, spend a lot of time upgrading them, learning new moves with them, they could even "learn" how to block attacks automatically. Interestingly, the game automatically erases your saved game when you start playing, and if you die in the game, any of your swords you have will be lost, if they break they stay broken. You could get around that if you backed up your save game on another card, but it was still an interesting setup. It was a little too abnormal for most audiences and was a cult hit.
The second way of the samurai didn't take chances like that, and was crappier overall, the series is now dead forever unfortunately.
A lot of publishers AREN'T making everything for the PS3. The 360 seems to be the best supported console. Which is still odd, since it seems like it should be the wii. I get that it's not as powerful as the other two, and the controls were a new challenge, but it's been years, plenty of time to adapt, and it's been beating the other consoles this whole time. Where are the big games on the wii that aren't made by nintendo? Why aren't companies making games for the wii that are ported to the 360 and PS3?
(I am talking about decent games that have a budget of more than a hundred bucks, the wii is the leading console in terms of shovelware.)
Aha! You took my post taking your post seriously seriously!?! Wooshmate!
Actually, yeah, I did. To my credit, I thought you meant bugs as in insects, not Bugs Bunny. Capitalization should have given it away. While that doesn't make any more sense, it at least sounds more believable that someone would actually think that.
It's not about these superheros not being possible - clearly the science says otherwise. It's about them not having happened yet. Which, since the tales all come from the past, means time travel will have to be invented along with them.
Woosh. Really? Spiderman ISN'T real? Why haven't I read about this on slashdot before?
David Blancarte, 47, is on his feet for the first time since suffering major injuries in a motorcycle accident some 20 years ago...
He said he was riding on Third Street when a woman motorist made a left turn in front of him. He crashed into her vehicle and was thrown over her car and onto the pavement...
The turn-around in his condition was ironically caused by the bite of a Recluse spider that put him in a Manteca hospital for five days. Then he was transferred to the Kindred (rehabilitation) Hospital in Modesto where he stayed for five months.
Blancarte said when he was evaluated at the Modesto hospital his lifeless legs were tested â" actually electrically zapped by a doctor â" to measure nerve function. Not having been able to use his lower limbs for two decades, he was in awe to hear that his nerves were actually alive and could move them again.
Hey! Quit trying to put words into my mouth! I was just saying he/she should take a potential awkward situation into account when placing the computer. Therapy and hurt feelings? Not where I was going with that.
The biochemical energy put into repairing DNA or heat-stable polymerases could have been put into reproduction, for example.
So they'll eat us at a slower rate than they would if they didn't have to have multiple resistance:-P
Just kidding, sorta. As I understand it, those plasmids conferring multiple antibiotic resistance are pretty small compared to bacterial chromesomes, are replicated extremely efficiently, and don't really slow the bugs down to where that wouldn't be a problem. When I make ampycillin resistant E.Coli and grow them in amycillin , they don't seem to go much slower than nonresistant bugs on non-selective media. Granted, I'm not timing them or looking very closely, but I really can't tell a difference. And how much would the extra time for reproduction really help you if it's growing in you? Even if it doubles it's reproduction time, we're still talking a matter of minutes or hours, and it would still grow exponentially. It's still going to reproduce faster than any cancerous cells, right?
It seems to me that the bigger hurdle for a pathogen is avoiding or defeating our immune systems, that seems like a much more complex challenge than being resistant to an antibiotic, and clearly there is no tradeoff there.
UV resistance of course isn't much of an issue, as you typically wouldn't be using UV to treat a bacterial infection, but I don't think it's at all safe to assume that being resistant to one thing makes a bug safer in other ways.
You think you have it bad, I'm 27. I was going to say something like "wooo! That means I'm at my peak." Then I realized that it said, right there, that 22 was the peak. Also I'm wearing my Mr Rogers cardigan, I told myself I was wearing it ironically, but now I see that for the lie it is. So enjoy these last few months when you can finish the summary before jumping to conclusions and can actually wear old person clothes ironically.
I don't know what's worse: that a juror may have compromised a trial, that they let someone who uses twitter decide a 12 million dollar case, or "tweets."
Hey! That has nothing to do with intelligence! A funny fart joke is a funny joke, no matter how smart you are. And it seems like most fart jokes on TV are toungue-in-cheek anyway.
Well shoot, you can just put your own tether onto it, be it lanyard you made at summer camp, a dog leash, one of them there chains that keep people from stealing your wallet, or something else. Or you could just hold onto it better.
-Multitasking
Here again, no need for updates from apple. I mean, I talk on my phone all the time while doing other things. Not driving though, they just outlawed that. And if you buy TWO iphones, you can use two apps at the same time. Imagine being able to use the lightsaber app while using the zippo app!
-Video recording
Tape a video camera to the iphone.
-USB mass storage support
While you're taping a video camera to the phone, go ahead and throw a USB thumb drive in there.
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If those alternative energy sources were even remotely feasible you can be sure they would be all over them.
Why? Because they are in a rush to make their existing oil lines, distribution networks, and stations obsolete, and want to shake up the system that is making them money? Not to say they have no interest, but they'd be all over them ONLY if they thought they could make even more money doing so, which they might not.
That got modded funny, but I found it more depressing than funny. Ha ha ha, you have to buy your rights these days! Hilarious!
Isn't it pretty much a foregone conclusion that cellulose based ethanol makes no sense when compared to algae or Jatropha (or similar oil seed plants that can grow on non-arable land) which can be converted to biodiesel?
Seems like this could have two advantages
1. ANY type of plant. Like grass. Seems like that if the conversion from cellulose to ethanol was efficient enough, there would be much better plants or trees to use than Jatropha. Maybe Jatropha was the best option when we were chemically converting cellulose or doing it less efficiently?
2. Maybe we could recycle used paper into fuel?
And then there would be an reason to use both: you can't harvest oil from the entire plant of jatropha, maybe you could grow it, harvest the seeds for oil, and put the rest of the plant into the less efficient cellulose degradation bin for conversion to ethanol?
Disclaimer: while it's probably obvious by this point, I'm no expert, and this is all speculation.
Disposing of paper evidence is SOOOO last century. They're probably working on bacteria to dispose of hard drives and "terrorists" right now!
In a world where executives of companies that lose money expect as a matter of course to be paid millions of dollars of bonuses, it is a given that a tool such as the DMCA **WILL** be abused to silence opposition or competition...
Which is why this needed to be pointed out to politicians who can't think ahead for themselves.
57% are from businesses targeting competitors, and only 37% are invalid?
That is indeed poorly phrased, but I think it was that a third of all notices were demonstratably invalid. That might be all from the 57% of competition, and the other %20 is highly questionable but not factually wrong.
Google probably didn't want to overstate anything, so that lobbyists would have nothing to prove wrong and convince lawmakers to ignore google completely. "They said all that 57% was invalid, but that's not true! We had one (coughalmostcough) get upheld in court a few years ago! They're liars, here's some campaign contributions, just forget about those wanks."
The first "way of the samurai" on the PS2 had an interesting system. The actual game was short but was more "choose your own path"-ish than fable, encouraging replay. The emphasis was on the swords, you could carry them from game to game, spend a lot of time upgrading them, learning new moves with them, they could even "learn" how to block attacks automatically. Interestingly, the game automatically erases your saved game when you start playing, and if you die in the game, any of your swords you have will be lost, if they break they stay broken. You could get around that if you backed up your save game on another card, but it was still an interesting setup. It was a little too abnormal for most audiences and was a cult hit.
The second way of the samurai didn't take chances like that, and was crappier overall, the series is now dead forever unfortunately.
A lot of publishers AREN'T making everything for the PS3. The 360 seems to be the best supported console. Which is still odd, since it seems like it should be the wii. I get that it's not as powerful as the other two, and the controls were a new challenge, but it's been years, plenty of time to adapt, and it's been beating the other consoles this whole time. Where are the big games on the wii that aren't made by nintendo? Why aren't companies making games for the wii that are ported to the 360 and PS3?
(I am talking about decent games that have a budget of more than a hundred bucks, the wii is the leading console in terms of shovelware.)
Additionally, any student of MS product history ...
Now THERE is a useless major. I thought "Communications" was bad, at least they can get hired by more than one company.
Aha! You took my post taking your post seriously seriously!?! Wooshmate!
Actually, yeah, I did. To my credit, I thought you meant bugs as in insects, not Bugs Bunny. Capitalization should have given it away. While that doesn't make any more sense, it at least sounds more believable that someone would actually think that.
It's not about these superheros not being possible - clearly the science says otherwise. It's about them not having happened yet. Which, since the tales all come from the past, means time travel will have to be invented along with them.
Woosh. Really? Spiderman ISN'T real? Why haven't I read about this on slashdot before?
The lesson here is clear: women should not drive.
You think you're so smart, but I haven't RTFA. Therefore I don't know if you're lying or not, therefore in my world, this man MAY be spiderman.
I live in a world where spiderman is possibly real, along with santa and the easter bunny. All you have is stupid reality.
Hey! Quit trying to put words into my mouth! I was just saying he/she should take a potential awkward situation into account when placing the computer. Therapy and hurt feelings? Not where I was going with that.
Keep the computer in the living room.
Of course that increases the chances that you'll walk into an embarassing situation for both you and your kid.
I have to ask...do people REALLY that often, hit porn sites by accident?
Yes, every time my wife or boss walks in and there's porn on the screen? Accident.
Simpler solution: use a high powered rifle to drive up the repair costs so that it's no longer profitable.
Note that this is probably much MUCH more illegal, exept maybe in Texas.
The biochemical energy put into repairing DNA or heat-stable polymerases could have been put into reproduction, for example.
So they'll eat us at a slower rate than they would if they didn't have to have multiple resistance :-P
Just kidding, sorta. As I understand it, those plasmids conferring multiple antibiotic resistance are pretty small compared to bacterial chromesomes, are replicated extremely efficiently, and don't really slow the bugs down to where that wouldn't be a problem. When I make ampycillin resistant E.Coli and grow them in amycillin , they don't seem to go much slower than nonresistant bugs on non-selective media. Granted, I'm not timing them or looking very closely, but I really can't tell a difference. And how much would the extra time for reproduction really help you if it's growing in you? Even if it doubles it's reproduction time, we're still talking a matter of minutes or hours, and it would still grow exponentially. It's still going to reproduce faster than any cancerous cells, right?
It seems to me that the bigger hurdle for a pathogen is avoiding or defeating our immune systems, that seems like a much more complex challenge than being resistant to an antibiotic, and clearly there is no tradeoff there.
UV resistance of course isn't much of an issue, as you typically wouldn't be using UV to treat a bacterial infection, but I don't think it's at all safe to assume that being resistant to one thing makes a bug safer in other ways.
You think you have it bad, I'm 27. I was going to say something like "wooo! That means I'm at my peak." Then I realized that it said, right there, that 22 was the peak. Also I'm wearing my Mr Rogers cardigan, I told myself I was wearing it ironically, but now I see that for the lie it is. So enjoy these last few months when you can finish the summary before jumping to conclusions and can actually wear old person clothes ironically.
I don't know what's worse: that a juror may have compromised a trial, that they let someone who uses twitter decide a 12 million dollar case, or "tweets."
as if young males are completely devoid of taste, and just want some drunk slut in a bikini making an ass of herself in front of Brett Michaels
Mod parent up. Brett Michaels IS a poor choice for this, it should be OTHER drunk bikini women.
Prepare to laugh at fart jokes
Hey! That has nothing to do with intelligence! A funny fart joke is a funny joke, no matter how smart you are. And it seems like most fart jokes on TV are toungue-in-cheek anyway.
Thanks for ruining it. Before I read your post I was thinking "Man, that is awesome!" Now I'm just thinking "Boooring: no sharks."
I know it says it's not meant for that but that strikes me as trying to cover up being inadequate with some after the fact documentation and legalese.
What does it say it's "meant" for? Entertainment purposes only? Google maps by miss cleo?
-Tethering
Well shoot, you can just put your own tether onto it, be it lanyard you made at summer camp, a dog leash, one of them there chains that keep people from stealing your wallet, or something else. Or you could just hold onto it better.
-Multitasking
Here again, no need for updates from apple. I mean, I talk on my phone all the time while doing other things. Not driving though, they just outlawed that. And if you buy TWO iphones, you can use two apps at the same time. Imagine being able to use the lightsaber app while using the zippo app!
-Video recording
Tape a video camera to the iphone.
-USB mass storage support
While you're taping a video camera to the phone, go ahead and throw a USB thumb drive in there.