Made for Wi and PS and Xbox, although I mainly have played on Wii.
Very good for cooperative gaming (up to 4 simulataneously), you can die an infinite number of times and all it does is lower your score (you res in-place). Versions based on popular movie series (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc) are available for relatively cheap (if you wait until a year has passed). Great fun with my non-gamer wife!
At my workplace, the default office install on all new machines deliberately sets the default Office Save types to.doc,.xls, and.ppt because people want that compatibility when exchanging files with colleagues and coworkers around the globe. So it's not just people who haven't upgraded that want to save and create files in.doc
If this applies to Google Drive as well, I am so out of there.
To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, "The best thing about a book is that I can own it". I can't give away an e-book, or loan it to a friend, or (usually) check one out of a library. Until these things change, I'm staying with paper.
They're not buying the technology, they're buying the people! People, especially talented people, are always in short supply, and buying the company is a good way to get them (as long as you're planning to be nice to them, that is).
Don't be ridiculous. Every drive in the last 5 years, maybe the last 10, is able to park the head safely even in the event of your pulling the plug on the drive itself. It's got some springy/inductory dealie that pulls the head to a safe landing area.
That doesn't mean that you won't lose data that hasn't been written yet, of course.:)
You're wrong. Patents don't have to be defended, but trademarks do. If I own a patent, I can choose to enforce it against whomever I choose, whenever I choose (unless I've promised not to, hopefully in writing).
There's sort of an exception to this in case law: if I notify a patent holder that I might plan to use their patent, and they don't respond to me within three years, I can go ahead and use it with limited damages. I may still get sued for future damages once they notice I'm infringing, but I can't get retroactively sued for damages, and I probably won't prohibited from selling my product if I pay a suitable royalty.
The reviewers have a heavy investment in their own careers, especially as it relates to hot fusion an accepted theories. When Congress was holding hearings on cold fusion back in 1989, some of these hot-fusion types were telling Congress it was baloney and worthless while at the same time requesting funding for cold fusion research from the NSF.
Wait another 40 or 50 years, and see what happens once the hot-fusion crowd isn't calling the shots anymore.
It would avoid some security issues like when Republican staffers "broke into" Democratic bulletin boards and published internal memoranda.
Not really. Suppossedly, the permissions on the shared files were set incorrectly. It's pretty easy to have sensitive documents shared to the world under linux too. Now admittedly, the technical competence of your linux administrator vs the typical MSCE should be high enough to help reduce these problems, but setting permissions incorrectly is easy to do under any OS.
Of course, if you actually read that chart you'll see that although distillation consumes less power, Ca assumes that you're using preheated water. They note immediately after the chart that this preheating consumes a _lot_ of power... more than tripling the energy cost of distillation vs RO.
Putting them in a ziplock bag won't do all that much to protect against humidity. You want to put them in a sealed (with vaccum grease) glass or plastic vessel with desiccant, a water-absorbing material. That will keep your stuff cool and dry. They make cabinets that you can just put in your refrigerator.
Extending lifespan has (essentially) very little to do with telomerase. In even the longest-lived humans and mice, there's no evidence that the telomere-based cell division limit has been reached.
That said, it's something we'll need to conquer one day in order to keep extending life. Many (though not all) tumors do indeed have telomerase turned on, and turning on telomerase would probably greatly increase the chance of cancer. And in response to another comment, telomerase does indeed extend telomere length.
The resistance markers used are commonly things like ampicillin. While bacteria in the lab may be sensitive to this, most organisms in the wild became resistant long, long ago. You don't need to worry about resistance markers used in the lab, even for crop selection.
Several years ago, I met several people conducting work on "Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions" (the new politically correct name for cold fusion). Research is still ongoing in FRance, Japan, and to a limited degree in the United States.
To summarize a long story, no is sure exactly what happened to Pons and Fleischman. It appears that making a productive electrode is extremely difficult, and after about 10-80 days, an electrode stops being able to drive "fusion". Also, all of the measurements undertaken are far to close to the margin of error for comfort.
Even if cold fusion does work, at present, it would be a curiosity only. Producing electrodes (which appear to need to contain palladium, rhodium, and several other trace elements) would be quite expensive, and would produce only a very limited amount of energy.
With that said: Yes, inquiry into cold fusion was quite effectively quashed when the results were not immediately reproducible. The media caused a giant rush to judgement. Hopefully, one day, we'll know what cold fusion really is.
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Made for Wi and PS and Xbox, although I mainly have played on Wii.
Very good for cooperative gaming (up to 4 simulataneously), you can die an infinite number of times and all it does is lower your score (you res in-place). Versions based on popular movie series (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc) are available for relatively cheap (if you wait until a year has passed). Great fun with my non-gamer wife!
At my workplace, the default office install on all new machines deliberately sets the default Office Save types to .doc, .xls, and .ppt because people want that compatibility when exchanging files with colleagues and coworkers around the globe. So it's not just people who haven't upgraded that want to save and create files in .doc
If this applies to Google Drive as well, I am so out of there.
To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, "The best thing about a book is that I can own it". I can't give away an e-book, or loan it to a friend, or (usually) check one out of a library. Until these things change, I'm staying with paper.
The LapGenie is the best computer "lap" desk I have ever seen. Plus it works if you're laying down or sitting up... and has an interesting name. :)
A bit of a shameless plug, but if you had read my take on this yesterday, you'd be well on your way to a healthier lifestyle by now via Indian food.
http://saccharomyces.blogspot.com/
in the real Olympics, Alcibiades was allowed to compete (or at least the teams he hired were). Now he was a real piece of work.
They're not buying the technology, they're buying the people! People, especially talented people, are always in short supply, and buying the company is a good way to get them (as long as you're planning to be nice to them, that is).
http://saccharomyces.blogspot.com/
Don't be ridiculous. Every drive in the last 5 years, maybe the last 10, is able to park the head safely even in the event of your pulling the plug on the drive itself. It's got some springy/inductory dealie that pulls the head to a safe landing area.
:)
That doesn't mean that you won't lose data that hasn't been written yet, of course.
You're wrong. Patents don't have to be defended, but trademarks do. If I own a patent, I can choose to enforce it against whomever I choose, whenever I choose (unless I've promised not to, hopefully in writing).
There's sort of an exception to this in case law: if I notify a patent holder that I might plan to use their patent, and they don't respond to me within three years, I can go ahead and use it with limited damages. I may still get sued for future damages once they notice I'm infringing, but I can't get retroactively sued for damages, and I probably won't prohibited from selling my product if I pay a suitable royalty.
The reviewers have a heavy investment in their own careers, especially as it relates to hot fusion an accepted theories. When Congress was holding hearings on cold fusion back in 1989, some of these hot-fusion types were telling Congress it was baloney and worthless while at the same time requesting funding for cold fusion research from the NSF.
Wait another 40 or 50 years, and see what happens once the hot-fusion crowd isn't calling the shots anymore.
No.
It would avoid some security issues like when Republican staffers "broke into" Democratic bulletin boards and published internal memoranda.
Not really. Suppossedly, the permissions on the shared files were set incorrectly. It's pretty easy to have sensitive documents shared to the world under linux too. Now admittedly, the technical competence of your linux administrator vs the typical MSCE should be high enough to help reduce these problems, but setting permissions incorrectly is easy to do under any OS.
Of course, if you actually read that chart you'll see that although distillation consumes less power, Ca assumes that you're using preheated water. They note immediately after the chart that this preheating consumes a _lot_ of power... more than tripling the energy cost of distillation vs RO.
Putting them in a ziplock bag won't do all that much to protect against humidity. You want to put them in a sealed (with vaccum grease) glass or plastic vessel with desiccant, a water-absorbing material. That will keep your stuff cool and dry. They make cabinets that you can just put in your refrigerator.
Extending lifespan has (essentially) very little to do with telomerase. In even the longest-lived humans and mice, there's no evidence that the telomere-based cell division limit has been reached.
That said, it's something we'll need to conquer one day in order to keep extending life. Many (though not all) tumors do indeed have telomerase turned on, and turning on telomerase would probably greatly increase the chance of cancer. And in response to another comment, telomerase does indeed extend telomere length.
The resistance markers used are commonly things like ampicillin. While bacteria in the lab may be sensitive to this, most organisms in the wild became resistant long, long ago. You don't need to worry about resistance markers used in the lab, even for crop selection.
To summarize a long story, no is sure exactly what happened to Pons and Fleischman. It appears that making a productive electrode is extremely difficult, and after about 10-80 days, an electrode stops being able to drive "fusion". Also, all of the measurements undertaken are far to close to the margin of error for comfort.
Even if cold fusion does work, at present, it would be a curiosity only. Producing electrodes (which appear to need to contain palladium, rhodium, and several other trace elements) would be quite expensive, and would produce only a very limited amount of energy.
With that said: Yes, inquiry into cold fusion was quite effectively quashed when the results were not immediately reproducible. The media caused a giant rush to judgement. Hopefully, one day, we'll know what cold fusion really is.