Actually, It is a rather good example. Autism is a set of symptoms that also have varying causes , Fragile X being one of them. Even the potential to fix one kind of cause is better than none.
He isn't complaining. You seem to be responding to his mentioning that "he knows how to do this on Windows" , by interpreting it as "Why is Linux so broken that it can't do a simple thing like that?"
This isn't a Linux versus Windows thing. This is a Windows user, migrating to Linux and wants to know how to accomplish something. Constructive answers are more useful in such cases than getting defensive by alleging hypocrisy and double standards.
As the article starts of declaring, 2 out of 3 people do not understand when to subtract and when to divide. I think I was just being realistic, or at most cynical.
Unfortunately, he is right in the sense that eventually , it IS the absolute fuel consumption that matters, Since, we get only so many barrels of oil out of the wells per day, not barrels of oil in proportion of those we got before...
As for the article, why don't they just calculate the efficiency boost upon swapping a vehicle. It could even be extended to more than just fuel by taking in parameters like battery life , maintained, recyclability etc. I mean, this is the general public we are talking about....they just need to know if they are getting 5 gold stars or 2 black crosses.
Wait a minute, Gizmodo didn't steal anything. They purchased an object from a third party. It may be ethically wrong, but whether it is legally wrong depends on whether the third party "stole" the goods, and if Gizmodo were aware that it was stolen. That is a matter for the courts to decide based on what the third party did in order to return the object.
The fault is really Apple's. If I had a classified object or document and left it in a public place, there is no way I can accuse a random reader of violating the 'National Secrets Act'.
It seems to me that Apple is just deeply embarrassed about its own goof-up(s), and wants to blame and vent on someone....anyone, that it can. That said, they obviously have every right to refuse Gizmodo an invitation to their roadshow...it just seems pathetic to me.
If you think Indians, at least as a specific case, learn English by reading it, you are mistaken. And while it may not conform precisely to what Americans narrowly define as "correct" English, English happens to be very common in urban India.
The method with which the "drug" works is called RNA intereference. RNAi is more or less a standard method in molecular laboratories. Unfortunately, the efficacy of RNAi in different cells and for different proteins varies a lot, for reasons that are poorly understood. Further, RNA is rather unstable in water, and delivering substantial doses of RNA to cells in an organism has remainded challenging.
Morever, all viruses do not start with an RNA-based genome. Some DNA based viruses use promoters for their genes that cause very strong expression of the genes, like the CMV promoter [PDF alert], which is used in isolation to create "over expression" in molecular biology. RNAi is typically very poor against such strong promoters.
Ebola is a virus that is relatively slow replicating in the initial stages. It is not a particularly ingenious design as compared to say the flu virus. This gives the RNAi a chance to work against it.
In short, I don't want to say _never_ (that'll just be ignorant), but as yet, RNAi needs a lot of research and is perhaps not the best strategy for all viruses.
Sorry, I don't see comparisons with India and China in that graph.
But that is besides the point, this measure of productivity is GDP per man-hour of work. The GDP is largely diluted among non-working sections where countries have a large populations. What this means, is that for various reasons, the country as a whole is not a productive as the US. It does not mean that an average Indian/Chinese worker is less productive than the average American worker.
Mostly likely something akin to Terminator technology will be developed before such a service is made available to the consumer.
Examples of genes being present during birth but lost in adults are not unknown. The genes could also be programmed to be epigentically inactivated in the progenies sperm/eggs. Plenty of ways to maintain control, until someone breaks that D(G)RM, anyway.
Uh, no. It works by the parents who want to procure a 'fixed' egg licensing the right to duplicate the patented genes. It doesn't work by ownership, it works by license. Obviously, multiplication of the gene for use through out the body is fair use for the lifetime of the organism.
It works in the same way software licensing does. After all, genes are software, DNA is the medium. I realise though that in general, its not a pretty thought.
...have experimentally shown that plants use quantum entanglement in photosynthesis.
Another Slashdot summary fail. The paper shows that entanglement can exist in photosystems of plants at high temperatures and a fundamentally noisy system, and is very exciting to note that.
It however, does not show that plants actually use the quantum entanglement in anyway. It may just be that the phenomenon is incidental and a result of the high-level organisation of the proteins in the photosystem without any implications for a plant or evolutionary pressure to select for it.
You are looking at Chrome OS with a perspective rooted in present-day models. The whole project is based on a cloud-computing paradigm where users do not have to download or make binary blobs in order to do anything.
Suppose I wanted to see to do some advanced image processing. I don't really care for writing the code, editing the code and so on. All I want to do is get my data out from the images. Today, I have to have MATLAB, Photoshop, Origin and sleuth of other suites installed which I don't really use every day but need say once in a few months. The idea of web-based applications means that no one has to get, install and maintain software. You just point your browser to the right website.
So yes, Chrome OS makes no sense in a world which is in general bandwidth starved, has clumsy and slow web-app technologies and browsers that were built mainly for rendering a markup language that is at least years old. In a future, where Internet coverage is 100% , where net bandwidth speeds are higher than or equal to the rate of data flow between your RAM and processor, Chrome OS is perfect.
Google is not a charity, its a corporation - and greed is an asset as long as they give more to get more. If they want to get some money and show me ads in exchange for providing me a service I find useful, I see nothing wrong with it.
Unless of course if the panspermia hypothesis turns out to be a factor. Its a big "if", but the fact that life can be this robust increases the chances of it originating in small isolated sweet spots of abundance and then evolving into something that can thrive in what are thought to be largely hostile planets is encouraging. Of course, the felxibility at the molecular level suggests that there are many ways to skin a cat and be "alive".
Oh, so you mean the morons who are typing "My bank account number is 223344" or "My credit card is visa 2303232300022000 from citibank with cvv 100" into the address bar of their browser have a serious problem ?
There isn't exactly a deadline on finding the signature of life in the Universe. Sure , it would be cool....but if the star/nebula I am looking at has a life of millions of years, I'd rather wait 5 months and be sure the instrument is fine, rather than flick it on to have a series of other mishaps because 50 other components had begun to malfunction.
1. You are assuming that all life works in the same way, that it will be based directly on absorption of solar energy.
2. Even if it was happening as such, the amount of light absorbed by life in any part of the spectrum represents an unbelievably small fraction of the total solar output. On Earth, the total radiations received is ~1% of total solar output. And of course, plants use a fraction of that energy. To detect this over cosmic scales, you would need an instrument with sensitivity that is probably not achievable (yet, anyway) due to basic quantum barriers.
3. The instrument has high spectral sensitivity, you would need to couple that with spatial sensitivity to figure out if there is actually a local region where the spectrum is different. Given that planets are again, very tiny compared to stars , and we are just beginning to observe them indirectly out of our solar system, that seems like a hard call.
4. Finally, how would you know what the real , unperturbed spectrum of the star? The HIFI can detect signatures in the infra-red which is essentially vibrational and rotational modes of molecules. We know for sure that these organic molecules are far to unstable to exist in the stellar environment. So there must be a pool of it which the light is passing through. Their way is far better than yours because it works.
The Second Life client reports the hardware MAC address of the machine it is running on for the purposes of identifying and blocking miscreants/TOS violators. It has nothing to do with network traffic redirection. Agreed, it is not foolproof - but it is sufficiently above the effort threshold of anyone seeking to do childish griefing.
While those may be all good and sound principles, they have nothing to do with this specific case of a (non-)violation of the GPL - which is a license, not an ethical/freedom/rights guideline.
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Actually, It is a rather good example. Autism is a set of symptoms that also have varying causes , Fragile X being one of them. Even the potential to fix one kind of cause is better than none.
Complain not , of the headline shall you. Strong is the force, cured the furry ones are.
He isn't complaining. You seem to be responding to his mentioning that "he knows how to do this on Windows" , by interpreting it as "Why is Linux so broken that it can't do a simple thing like that?" This isn't a Linux versus Windows thing. This is a Windows user, migrating to Linux and wants to know how to accomplish something. Constructive answers are more useful in such cases than getting defensive by alleging hypocrisy and double standards.
As the article starts of declaring, 2 out of 3 people do not understand when to subtract and when to divide. I think I was just being realistic, or at most cynical.
As for the article, why don't they just calculate the efficiency boost upon swapping a vehicle. It could even be extended to more than just fuel by taking in parameters like battery life , maintained, recyclability etc. I mean, this is the general public we are talking about....they just need to know if they are getting 5 gold stars or 2 black crosses.
The fault is really Apple's. If I had a classified object or document and left it in a public place, there is no way I can accuse a random reader of violating the 'National Secrets Act'.
It seems to me that Apple is just deeply embarrassed about its own goof-up(s), and wants to blame and vent on someone....anyone, that it can. That said, they obviously have every right to refuse Gizmodo an invitation to their roadshow...it just seems pathetic to me.
If you think Indians, at least as a specific case, learn English by reading it, you are mistaken. And while it may not conform precisely to what Americans narrowly define as "correct" English, English happens to be very common in urban India.
Morever, all viruses do not start with an RNA-based genome. Some DNA based viruses use promoters for their genes that cause very strong expression of the genes, like the CMV promoter [PDF alert], which is used in isolation to create "over expression" in molecular biology. RNAi is typically very poor against such strong promoters.
Ebola is a virus that is relatively slow replicating in the initial stages. It is not a particularly ingenious design as compared to say the flu virus. This gives the RNAi a chance to work against it.
In short, I don't want to say _never_ (that'll just be ignorant), but as yet, RNAi needs a lot of research and is perhaps not the best strategy for all viruses.
Sorry, I don't see comparisons with India and China in that graph. But that is besides the point, this measure of productivity is GDP per man-hour of work. The GDP is largely diluted among non-working sections where countries have a large populations. What this means, is that for various reasons, the country as a whole is not a productive as the US. It does not mean that an average Indian/Chinese worker is less productive than the average American worker.
Examples of genes being present during birth but lost in adults are not unknown. The genes could also be programmed to be epigentically inactivated in the progenies sperm/eggs. Plenty of ways to maintain control, until someone breaks that D(G)RM, anyway.
Uh, no. It works by the parents who want to procure a 'fixed' egg licensing the right to duplicate the patented genes. It doesn't work by ownership, it works by license. Obviously, multiplication of the gene for use through out the body is fair use for the lifetime of the organism. It works in the same way software licensing does. After all, genes are software, DNA is the medium. I realise though that in general, its not a pretty thought.
Putting a pair of words in quotes generally means that the author doesn't share that opinion
Uh No, it means that the author is quoting literally here and is not paraphrasing based on his own opinions.
...a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world
The question is, a beacon indicating exactly what?
Another Slashdot summary fail. The paper shows that entanglement can exist in photosystems of plants at high temperatures and a fundamentally noisy system, and is very exciting to note that.
It however, does not show that plants actually use the quantum entanglement in anyway. It may just be that the phenomenon is incidental and a result of the high-level organisation of the proteins in the photosystem without any implications for a plant or evolutionary pressure to select for it.
Suppose I wanted to see to do some advanced image processing. I don't really care for writing the code, editing the code and so on. All I want to do is get my data out from the images. Today, I have to have MATLAB, Photoshop, Origin and sleuth of other suites installed which I don't really use every day but need say once in a few months. The idea of web-based applications means that no one has to get, install and maintain software. You just point your browser to the right website.
So yes, Chrome OS makes no sense in a world which is in general bandwidth starved, has clumsy and slow web-app technologies and browsers that were built mainly for rendering a markup language that is at least years old. In a future, where Internet coverage is 100% , where net bandwidth speeds are higher than or equal to the rate of data flow between your RAM and processor, Chrome OS is perfect.
Google is not a charity, its a corporation - and greed is an asset as long as they give more to get more. If they want to get some money and show me ads in exchange for providing me a service I find useful, I see nothing wrong with it.
Please do read a book by Gregory David Roberts called 'Shantaram' to know how the Mumbai slums are different from being homeless.
Unless of course if the panspermia hypothesis turns out to be a factor. Its a big "if", but the fact that life can be this robust increases the chances of it originating in small isolated sweet spots of abundance and then evolving into something that can thrive in what are thought to be largely hostile planets is encouraging. Of course, the felxibility at the molecular level suggests that there are many ways to skin a cat and be "alive".
Gosh, who knew.
I think that's sarcasm, though they mean the same thing. Scientific literature usually speaks of causality as a concept, and causation as specific to a particular phenomenon. http://www.answers.com/causality http://www.answers.com/causation
You are confused between correlation and causality.
There isn't exactly a deadline on finding the signature of life in the Universe. Sure , it would be cool....but if the star/nebula I am looking at has a life of millions of years, I'd rather wait 5 months and be sure the instrument is fine, rather than flick it on to have a series of other mishaps because 50 other components had begun to malfunction.
Umm, no.
1. You are assuming that all life works in the same way, that it will be based directly on absorption of solar energy.
2. Even if it was happening as such, the amount of light absorbed by life in any part of the spectrum represents an unbelievably small fraction of the total solar output. On Earth, the total radiations received is ~1% of total solar output. And of course, plants use a fraction of that energy. To detect this over cosmic scales, you would need an instrument with sensitivity that is probably not achievable (yet, anyway) due to basic quantum barriers.
3. The instrument has high spectral sensitivity, you would need to couple that with spatial sensitivity to figure out if there is actually a local region where the spectrum is different. Given that planets are again, very tiny compared to stars , and we are just beginning to observe them indirectly out of our solar system, that seems like a hard call.
4. Finally, how would you know what the real , unperturbed spectrum of the star? The HIFI can detect signatures in the infra-red which is essentially vibrational and rotational modes of molecules. We know for sure that these organic molecules are far to unstable to exist in the stellar environment. So there must be a pool of it which the light is passing through. Their way is far better than yours because it works.
The Second Life client reports the hardware MAC address of the machine it is running on for the purposes of identifying and blocking miscreants/TOS violators. It has nothing to do with network traffic redirection. Agreed, it is not foolproof - but it is sufficiently above the effort threshold of anyone seeking to do childish griefing.
While those may be all good and sound principles, they have nothing to do with this specific case of a (non-)violation of the GPL - which is a license, not an ethical/freedom/rights guideline.
http://www.aoa.org/x5253.xml