Then, when I boot to Windows, it never has any reason to mangle/dev/sdb, because it sees it as an unformatted D: drive.
Cynical response : application sees unformatted D: drive and is coded to respond "there must be evil terrorist plans and kiddy porn in the truecrypt partition. I'd better call the FBI / FSS / MI6 / Whoever and send them fingerprint information." Slightly less cynical response : application sees unformatted D: drive and has been coded by ignorant programmer to "helpfully" format it. Same ignorant programmer also knows that his application always needs administrative privileges, particularly for reading it's configuration from the registry (who would bother to have configuration in a text file?).
there are a number of people who contract the disease [Ebola] and then travel to other countries and spread it.
Please cite your sources. No, seriously. I used to work in a medical research animal house, and I take a non-trivial interest in such matters. The only cases of Ebola (and haemmoragic filovirus fevers in general) that I'm aware of outside Africa are : the Marburg incident, where a shipment of monkeys from outside Europe contained a number of animals with active disease, which spread to unsuspecting handlers in Marburg, East German) ; a small number of needlestick incidents affecting single research workers ; the Washington incident (nearly a duplicate of Marburg, except that it was recognised early thanks to knowledge of the Marburg incident) ; and that's about it.
So - please cite your sources of evidence for human-to-human transmission of haemmoragic fevers outside the country of origin.
That's alright, I own the tape and DVD. I buy, I don't rent.
The *IAA called - they're concerned about the possibility that you are carrying an unauthorised copy of "Outbreak" in your brain, and would like you to call into your local Copyright Control Centre to have any such copies excised. You will be offered a choice between lobotomy and Electro-Convulsive Therapy for the copy excision.
Have a nice day for the remainder of your personality's life.
Any object off earth that doesn't orbit the earth faster than once a day will slow the earth's rotation
True, as far as it goes.
(except maybe objects on the earth's axis of rotation.)
That covers one class of non-compliant cases.
Most of this is due to tidal drag.
I think you're very close to tautology. What, if it's not the interaction of two rotating mutually-orbiting bodies through their associated gravitational fields, is a "tidal" interaction? Some objects that orbit the Earth (well, your primary ; why be parochial?) in less than the Earth's rotational period can slow the Earth's rotation by tidal interaction. Can you add the factors that I've left out of my description?
In addition, stuff that impacts with the earth tends, on average, to slow down the earth.
each recall BY the vendor whittles this trust away bit by bit.
You beg the question of whether there was ever any significant degree of trust in the issue, which could then be whittled away. I know that I've always considered this sort of manoeuvre by manufacturers as an indication of naked seeking of commercial benefit. Do you live in some wonderful land where anyone trusts hardware manufacturers (or indeed any other businessmen) to act in a way that is not directed towards their own unadulterated commercial benefit?
Incredible that such naiveté can survive gestation in this day and age.
Unless of course if 'they want' to log into the PSN or play on Sony's servers.
Never having seen a PS3 (that I'm aware of), and knowing and caring even less about the product than I do about a random piece of Sony hardware, but this sort-of begs the question of why don't people who want to play on chipped machines raise a rigid digit to Sony again and go an play on someone else's servers? Or even on their own server?
i.e.not closely related No one I'm aware of, since the reporting of the first reasonably complete pterosaurs in the 1820s, has proposed any close relationship between pterosaurs and birds.
Where (phylogenetically) the pterosaurs come from is still a very interesting question. I really should get a copy of Unwin's book on the beasts. When I have time!
Don't feed me circular logic crap about the state of gases in strata beside fossils of a "known" age because that is a feedback loop.
Put your straw man away, Mr Extremely-Inappropriately-Named-aristotle-dude. Potassium-argon dating is one (repeat, one) of many radionucleide clocks. The large majority of the others - around a dozen different methods - use parent and daughter nucleides which are in the same phase. These clock systems are used precisely because of the characteristic that you point to. In fact, the characteristic that you point out is also why potassium-argon dating was one of the first developed, and is still one of the cheaper ones to implement. And it's limitations are very well known (even pig-ignorant demagogues who specialise in psychology can understand it!), which is why it's results are always discussed with due consideration of these limitations.
we are suddenly confronted with the question of how some relative of these reef-dwelling animals survived the Snowball Earth.'
You:
There are things called hydrothermal vents that certain species of sponge live around.
The reef environment is considerably different to the hydrothermal vent environment, not least in the nature of the sediments deposited in each. That Dr. Maloof describes them as "reef-dwelling animals" rather strongly implies that he's looked at the materials, established their characteristics, and come to a conclusion as to whether the word "reef" or the phrase "hydrothermal vent" better describes the environment.
You shoot your own argument in the foot. This is not an effective technique for winning debates.
this story is not about whether *life* evolved twice---it's about whether *animals* evolved twice
Precisely.
This means either that 1) snowball earth wasn't that bad, didn't kill them off, and more complex animals (including us) might have evolved from them
There are still many geologists who remain unconvinced as to the the existence of a "Snowball Earth" state. There are even more who remain unconvinced as to the severity of the "Snowball". To be fair, the numbers of both have decreased significantly over the last decade or so (the carbon isotope excursions were the killer datum for me over the existence of a major climatic excursion in the latest Proterozoic), but it is still a very difficult claim to establish that the whole surface of the Earth was frozen over sufficiently to preclude survival of all forms of animal life, including microscopic forms. The presence of even one plate spreading centre which approaches the equator (we currently have at least 3, plus the volcanic complexities of the Indonesian archipelago) would probably mean that thin-ice refugia would be abundant and sufficiently closely spaced to allow communication between them. That in turn would make it vanishingly unlikely that all phyla of animal life (there are currently around 30 such phyla, depending on who you ask) would be exterminated. The "Snowball Earth made all multicellular animal life extinct" hypothesis is really demanding ; much more demanding than the "Snowball Earth killed off a high proportion of animal life species (and higher taxa)" alternative hypothesis. I'm perfectly ready to accept the latter, but I'm much less willing to accept the former. For comparison (with far better statistics to play with): the Permo-Triassic event, whatever it's cause, made something like 96% of fossilisable species extinct, many genera, some classes (e.g. the trilobite arthropods, but not the amniote vertebrates, in a much more hostile range of environments), and I can't think off the top of my head of a single phylum that went extinct.
To be fair, when I read this article yesterday, I didn't for one second get the impression that Maloof and team didn't understand all of this. whether the reporters did, let alone their readers... well, clearly not.
There is also, just to stir the mix, non-trivial evidence that multicellular animal life significantly predates the "Snowball Earth" interval anyway - changes in sediment patterns suggesting bioturbation ; arguable actual ichnofossils from the middle Proterozoic ; and the molecular evolution evidence (with all due caveats) also fairly strongly suggests that the present day diversity of animal life predates the "Snowball Earth" interval.
But that's all too unclear and complex for most people to want to read with their breakfast.
Would they offer me the choice of not listening to music that I choose, and even more importantly, not listening to music that someone else chooses? What on earth makes them think that people who listen to radio are exclusively interested in assailing their ears with music?
If you're writing your own firmware stack, it should be trivial to lie and claim to be supported hardware, and there's really very little the carrier can do about it (except in countries where doing so is illegal, of course).
Brushing aside the legality of the misrepresentation, what could the carriers do about it? The only thing that I can think would be that they would have to implement a whitelist of known-good phones (individual phones, not phone models) and to check for duplicate appearances (so that if phone X appears in two separate places at once, one or both of them gets banned). That would imply either a severe (unacceptable) restriction on roaming, or regular checking of multi-billion record long databases. Non-trivial.
The consequences when a new model - or even a simple new phone - comes out... some sort of administrative registration process to get the numbers into the whitelist, wait for all copies of the database to be updated? Not good.
Unfortunately, I was joking about the first part of my statement. Middle grade levels are most certainly NOT learning programming
I may be taking you a little more seriously than you intended, and I may be misunderstanding what you mean - in your native or residential school system - by "middle grade(s)", but I think that the expectation of abstract understanding is changing through time. A case in point : In the 1670s, the very cutting edge of research physics was Newton's Laws of Motion while the borderlands of maths (plural!) were occupied in parts by integral and differential calculus ; these days, they're expected knowledge of anyone leaving the compulsory education system. It wouldn't surprise me if children were soon expected to arrive in schooling as proficient touch-typists in the same way that they were expected to be able to read when I started school (and many could write to a degree, too).
Well, it was news to me when I did my regular scan of the news yesterday morning. And yes, I do find the SNR of SlashDolt annoyingly high, but it's probably lower than other places. That is really annoying.
Hmm, I really should pay more attention to alternatives. What was that thing that Dawn suggested a while back on Dawkins.Net?...
The next time your girlfriend/wife/significant other says "pee in me",
This is more freaky the more I look at it. I'm not sure which is freakier - that your gf/w/so seems to use terminology like that, or that you seem to have swallowed it (the terminology), ummm, whole and un-diluted.
I remember putting a spieces of peas in glasses of water as a child, and they sprouted roots even though they had no nutrients. Presumably they carry a reserve in themselves to kick-start the process, as they well can't get nutrients without a root system?
Your logic is impeccable, and you can perform the appropriate experiments yourself.
Get some fresh peas (other seed types may be better, but peas should work) and examine them carefully. You'll find that they have two similar hemispheres with a small "embryo" plantlet between them. With a modicum of practice you should be able to demonstrate that either hemisphere in contact with the embryo should be able to germinate.
Analogously (well... plant biologists may quibble), you can consider the "embryo" plantlet as if it were a chicken or frog embryo while the (two) hemispheres constitute a food store analogous to the yoke of the vertebrate egg. (Actually, the embryo+yolk arrangement long predates the origin of the vertebrates, and may predate the separation of the proterostomes and deuterostomes. It may be even older - but that's stretching my biology to it's elastic limit.)
I heard a similar tale a long time ago - from the friend of a friend, who had recently graduated as a medic - of something unpleasant growing in a particularly dirty belly-button.
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Cynical response : application sees unformatted D: drive and is coded to respond "there must be evil terrorist plans and kiddy porn in the truecrypt partition. I'd better call the FBI / FSS / MI6 / Whoever and send them fingerprint information."
Slightly less cynical response : application sees unformatted D: drive and has been coded by ignorant programmer to "helpfully" format it. Same ignorant programmer also knows that his application always needs administrative privileges, particularly for reading it's configuration from the registry (who would bother to have configuration in a text file?).
Please cite your sources.
No, seriously. I used to work in a medical research animal house, and I take a non-trivial interest in such matters.
The only cases of Ebola (and haemmoragic filovirus fevers in general) that I'm aware of outside Africa are : the Marburg incident, where a shipment of monkeys from outside Europe contained a number of animals with active disease, which spread to unsuspecting handlers in Marburg, East German) ; a small number of needlestick incidents affecting single research workers ; the Washington incident (nearly a duplicate of Marburg, except that it was recognised early thanks to knowledge of the Marburg incident) ; and that's about it.
So - please cite your sources of evidence for human-to-human transmission of haemmoragic fevers outside the country of origin.
The *IAA called - they're concerned about the possibility that you are carrying an unauthorised copy of "Outbreak" in your brain, and would like you to call into your local Copyright Control Centre to have any such copies excised. You will be offered a choice between lobotomy and Electro-Convulsive Therapy for the copy excision.
Have a nice day for the remainder of your personality's life.
True, as far as it goes.
That covers one class of non-compliant cases.
I think you're very close to tautology. What, if it's not the interaction of two rotating mutually-orbiting bodies through their associated gravitational fields, is a "tidal" interaction?
Some objects that orbit the Earth (well, your primary ; why be parochial?) in less than the Earth's rotational period can slow the Earth's rotation by tidal interaction. Can you add the factors that I've left out of my description?
Hmmm, I'm seriously unconvinced. Convince me.
If not their spelling checker installation. (Not that "two horns" - "dilemma" is appropriate in any case, as Oracle have more than two options.)
You beg the question of whether there was ever any significant degree of trust in the issue, which could then be whittled away. I know that I've always considered this sort of manoeuvre by manufacturers as an indication of naked seeking of commercial benefit. Do you live in some wonderful land where anyone trusts hardware manufacturers (or indeed any other businessmen) to act in a way that is not directed towards their own unadulterated commercial benefit?
Incredible that such naiveté can survive gestation in this day and age.
Don't say things like that - you'll only encourage them. Both the malware authors and Norton - both aspiring to new depths of reduced performance.
Too late ; you said it. Just shoulder the blame and follow the rest of the scapegoats over the cliff edge.
Never having seen a PS3 (that I'm aware of), and knowing and caring even less about the product than I do about a random piece of Sony hardware, but this sort-of begs the question of why don't people who want to play on chipped machines raise a rigid digit to Sony again and go an play on someone else's servers? Or even on their own server?
Don't let the door hit you (or any of the other 3/4 million "churn" accounts) hit you on the arse as you leave.
What has a parabola got to do with (asserted) exponential growth? Apart from lookling vaguely similar, if you squint in the right way?
i.e.not closely related
No one I'm aware of, since the reporting of the first reasonably complete pterosaurs in the 1820s, has proposed any close relationship between pterosaurs and birds.
Where (phylogenetically) the pterosaurs come from is still a very interesting question. I really should get a copy of Unwin's book on the beasts. When I have time!
Put your straw man away, Mr Extremely-Inappropriately-Named-aristotle-dude. Potassium-argon dating is one (repeat, one) of many radionucleide clocks. The large majority of the others - around a dozen different methods - use parent and daughter nucleides which are in the same phase. These clock systems are used precisely because of the characteristic that you point to.
In fact, the characteristic that you point out is also why potassium-argon dating was one of the first developed, and is still one of the cheaper ones to implement. And it's limitations are very well known (even pig-ignorant demagogues who specialise in psychology can understand it!), which is why it's results are always discussed with due consideration of these limitations.
Then act like it.
No.
Maloof:
You:
The reef environment is considerably different to the hydrothermal vent environment, not least in the nature of the sediments deposited in each. That Dr. Maloof describes them as "reef-dwelling animals" rather strongly implies that he's looked at the materials, established their characteristics, and come to a conclusion as to whether the word "reef" or the phrase "hydrothermal vent" better describes the environment.
You shoot your own argument in the foot. This is not an effective technique for winning debates.
Ah, someone who actually did read the article.
Precisely.
There are still many geologists who remain unconvinced as to the the existence of a "Snowball Earth" state. There are even more who remain unconvinced as to the severity of the "Snowball". To be fair, the numbers of both have decreased significantly over the last decade or so (the carbon isotope excursions were the killer datum for me over the existence of a major climatic excursion in the latest Proterozoic), but it is still a very difficult claim to establish that the whole surface of the Earth was frozen over sufficiently to preclude survival of all forms of animal life, including microscopic forms. The presence of even one plate spreading centre which approaches the equator (we currently have at least 3, plus the volcanic complexities of the Indonesian archipelago) would probably mean that thin-ice refugia would be abundant and sufficiently closely spaced to allow communication between them. That in turn would make it vanishingly unlikely that all phyla of animal life (there are currently around 30 such phyla, depending on who you ask) would be exterminated.
The "Snowball Earth made all multicellular animal life extinct" hypothesis is really demanding ; much more demanding than the "Snowball Earth killed off a high proportion of animal life species (and higher taxa)" alternative hypothesis. I'm perfectly ready to accept the latter, but I'm much less willing to accept the former.
For comparison (with far better statistics to play with): the Permo-Triassic event, whatever it's cause, made something like 96% of fossilisable species extinct, many genera, some classes (e.g. the trilobite arthropods, but not the amniote vertebrates, in a much more hostile range of environments), and I can't think off the top of my head of a single phylum that went extinct.
To be fair, when I read this article yesterday, I didn't for one second get the impression that Maloof and team didn't understand all of this. whether the reporters did, let alone their readers ... well, clearly not.
There is also, just to stir the mix, non-trivial evidence that multicellular animal life significantly predates the "Snowball Earth" interval anyway - changes in sediment patterns suggesting bioturbation ; arguable actual ichnofossils from the middle Proterozoic ; and the molecular evolution evidence (with all due caveats) also fairly strongly suggests that the present day diversity of animal life predates the "Snowball Earth" interval.
But that's all too unclear and complex for most people to want to read with their breakfast.
Would they offer me the choice of not listening to music that I choose, and even more importantly, not listening to music that someone else chooses?
What on earth makes them think that people who listen to radio are exclusively interested in assailing their ears with music?
Brushing aside the legality of the misrepresentation, what could the carriers do about it? The only thing that I can think would be that they would have to implement a whitelist of known-good phones (individual phones, not phone models) and to check for duplicate appearances (so that if phone X appears in two separate places at once, one or both of them gets banned). That would imply either a severe (unacceptable) restriction on roaming, or regular checking of multi-billion record long databases. Non-trivial.
The consequences when a new model - or even a simple new phone - comes out ... some sort of administrative registration process to get the numbers into the whitelist, wait for all copies of the database to be updated? Not good.
Either s/SNR/NSR/
or ( s/high/low/ and s/lower/higher/ ) .
Doh!
I may be taking you a little more seriously than you intended, and I may be misunderstanding what you mean - in your native or residential school system - by "middle grade(s)", but I think that the expectation of abstract understanding is changing through time.
A case in point : In the 1670s, the very cutting edge of research physics was Newton's Laws of Motion while the borderlands of maths (plural!) were occupied in parts by integral and differential calculus ; these days, they're expected knowledge of anyone leaving the compulsory education system.
It wouldn't surprise me if children were soon expected to arrive in schooling as proficient touch-typists in the same way that they were expected to be able to read when I started school (and many could write to a degree, too).
Well, it was news to me when I did my regular scan of the news yesterday morning. And yes, I do find the SNR of SlashDolt annoyingly high, but it's probably lower than other places. That is really annoying.
Hmm, I really should pay more attention to alternatives. What was that thing that Dawn suggested a while back on Dawkins.Net? ...
This is more freaky the more I look at it. I'm not sure which is freakier - that your gf/w/so seems to use terminology like that, or that you seem to have swallowed it (the terminology), ummm, whole and un-diluted.
Then again, you might be taking the piss.
Your logic is impeccable, and you can perform the appropriate experiments yourself.
Get some fresh peas (other seed types may be better, but peas should work) and examine them carefully. You'll find that they have two similar hemispheres with a small "embryo" plantlet between them. With a modicum of practice you should be able to demonstrate that either hemisphere in contact with the embryo should be able to germinate.
Analogously (well ... plant biologists may quibble), you can consider the "embryo" plantlet as if it were a chicken or frog embryo while the (two) hemispheres constitute a food store analogous to the yoke of the vertebrate egg. (Actually, the embryo+yolk arrangement long predates the origin of the vertebrates, and may predate the separation of the proterostomes and deuterostomes. It may be even older - but that's stretching my biology to it's elastic limit.)
I heard a similar tale a long time ago - from the friend of a friend, who had recently graduated as a medic - of something unpleasant growing in a particularly dirty belly-button.
My oft-referred-to "punishing" sense of humour doffs it's hat in recognition of a fellow-traveller. Ouch!
And my oft-exercised tin-lifting arm raises a tin in your direction >| clunk |<
Hadn't thought of that one. Though obviously lots of other people did.
The wife like me to bring back coinage from when I go to work abroad. I'll have to see if I can get hold of some of these for the collection.
Numismatists of the world, unite and take on those damned scriphophilists!