My main PC is in a Corsair 800D case and weighs about 50 pounds.
The last time I was burgled, the Police left me with an advice brochure on home security. Their advice on safes is that any which weighs less than a tonne should be bolted to (through) either roof beams or a solid stone or brick (not plasterboard) wall. Preferably both.
We came into the office one morning to find the safe (about a half-tonne) had been dragged through into the middle of the garage/ workshop, and the little scrotes had evidently spent several hours trying to lever the back off it,working from one of the bolt holes. Which was hilarious, as the door was just closed on the latch ; the safe had been left in the office by a previous resident, without the key, so we only used it as a fire-store for the daily backups. Which were inside. Untouched. (With yesterday's backups at home with one director, the day before at a different director.)
There is a dinosaur sitting on top of the lamppost outside my house, shitting onto my car. They're not extinct today, and pretty unlikely to be extinct tomorrow.
All of the technical pieces are in place now. All that is missing is the impetus or necessity to use them on ourselves.
And the knowledge to predict how protein chains will fold into structures. We can describe how that protein chain forms that structure, but we can't work out from scratch what structure will form from this protein chain. Of course, this knowledge is not necessary for evolution to proceed - just try the mutation and if the organisms don't survive, cull them and eat the remains.
We're slowly getting enough of a handle on physiology and metabolism that we can try rational design of drugs - we want this structure to interact with that structure in this way - but it is ferociously complicated, and all too often the result is an unexpected interation of our molecule with that one over there. That is why, for the foreseeable future, culture testing, then animal testing, then clinical testing in humans will remain the paradigm. you could, of course, shorten the production cycle by volunteering to participate in a test, but accepting the result of being culled if that is how the cookie crumbles for you.
Fortunately, the Earth does this frequently, and with particular fervor!
Evidence please? There is some evidence that in times of environmental stress, some bacteria reduce the effectiveness of their genetic error-correcting mechanisms, allowing more undirected mutations to persist into reproduction. That is a very long way from "directed" evolution. Of course, if you know of peer-reviewed published data supporting your opinion, educate me. IANAbiologist, but approach these questions from the fossil record.
self evolving, cognition based, and physically mutable.
I think I've seen the next step on that progression. It's that "Kardashian Space Program" game, isn't it? The one that produces bizarre freakish mutants with peculiar shapes which couldn't possibly survive in the real world, but are nonetheless popular.
There was a video going around YouTwit, or TwiTube or something a few weeks ago of someone riding a dinosaur through traffic in a Kazakh (+/- a 'stan) city centre. The dinosaur in question was an ostrich.
Errr, the cyanobacteria were both the perpetrators of the Great Oxidation, and survived it perfectly well. Marine cyanobacteria and their derivative algae are still responsible for something around half of the oxygen production on Earth.
Whether that's an important point has been debated for years. But I saw an interesting concept a few weeks ago. With improving education of children, starting younger and lasting longer, then the efficiency of brains inter-relating concepts improves and that improves efficiency of storage and processing. The analogy was drawn - very arguably - with the progression from machine code to assembler, to increasingly high-level languages, allowing the more compact definition of data structures and storage of data. And this then reduces the period of time that people need to store detailed but unclassified data, and thereby reduce the need for brain material.
I'm not convinced by this argument, but IANAbiologist, so I'll keep it in mind for measuring against future data.
(By the way, you're talking about the internal volume of the skulls, not the external volume. That difference alone is comparable to the trend you describe. Check that you're comparing apple cores with apple cores, not with orange peels.)
Finally, about 6 replies deep to get to the real reason to not be worried by human-made particles. And we don't need to be worried by them for a considerable period of time to come.
There is no evidence (or even claims from the wilder fringes) that the flux of cosmic rays travelling towards Earth at a very large fraction of c has greatly changed in the last few hundred thousand years (in fact, from Be-exposure dating, we've got fairly good evidence that the flux hasn't changed). We have definitely seen single cosmic rays with telescopes (covering only a few square kilometres of sky, for a few years) which are many orders of magnitude more energetic than any that our particle accelerators have produced. So, anything that we create at SLAC, or CERN or BEPC is not anywhere near the limit of what already hits the Earth quite commonly. (And the Sun, more commonly.)
With current and proposed technologies, to exceed the energy of recorded natural cosmic rays, you'd need to build an accelerator approximately the size of Pluto's orbit. And by the time that we buld that, we'll have been watching the cosmic ray flux for long enough that we'd probably have another order of magnitude higher to go in energy. Eventually, we may catch up with nature, but probably not while we've unvisited parts of the Kuiper Belt. Maybe not until your descendants set out for their descendants to visit the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Oh, we're still working to undermine the Brexit vote - after all, in THIS country of the DisUnited Kingdom, we voted to Bremain. But why waste time doing it on a site dominated by Septics?
the backflip paid off for them and is probably the only reason they still have enough numbers to form a government.
Remember - their ability to form a government is at the behest of Sinn Fein. If they choose to back-track on their tradition of not taking their seats in parliament, then May is back to the most slender of majorities - 2 votes if you count the Speaker, and drag people into the Commons in their hospital beds (it has been done before).
Now, I understand why Sinn Fein have that policy - it dates back to the first woman elected to a parliamentary constituency - and I respect that choice. But given a sufficiently high price (e.g., a permanently open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, or the UK becoming a Republic), it must be a position they're considering. They're politicians - prices are negotiable, but do need to be paid (which is why the Liberals are not available for coalition, after the knifing they got in their previous coalition).
the EU will never give us free access to the single market and the UK knows it's economic suicide to leave the single market.
Of course the EU will never allow a non-EU country access to the single market without extracting significant concessions on internal law, movement of people, etc. I've spent enough time working in Norway to know that. The EU know they need to charge a hig price for access to that market, and they do.
Consequently also, the EU knows that it needs to discourage leaving. With the proverbial soft words and a big stick.
If Britain tries to back out of Brexit, I suspect that conversion to the Euro is going to be a part of the price of re-entry. IF they allow us back. Having the economic wreckage of a nation on it's coasts might be a useful deterrent to defectors - kind-of like displaying the quartered remains of traitors above the gates of a city.
What - did I hear a politician hoping to get a good deal from the Brexit negotiations?
Anyway, I've got my dual nationality, I really don't give a shit what happens to Britain.
So you'd rather trust the London government to invest that money in the poorer regions?
Which is exactly why the "United Kingdom" is no longer a useful phrase. The odds of Scotland seceding within a few years is better than evens, and the Welsh and Geordies are starting to get restive.
At this time, it's three kingdoms and a Plantation held together by centralised control and taxation. I don't see that lasting.
I'm not sure what will become of the CDC plans to lower the acceptable level in 2017. Trump's hiring freeze has left 700 vacancies at the CDC and his proposed budget cuts their funding by 17%.
Well that'll sure reduce the amount of disturbing reports they publish.
Just stuff the case with those Silica Gel Desiccant packets - problem solved.
Nope. You've swapped the problem of having condensation in your computer for the problem of changing the desiccant packets before they reach saturation. The action of "desiccant packets" is a chemical reaction, with reactants and products. Once the reactants (water, low-water silica get) have converted to products (high-water silica gel), then you need to remove the productas and supply new reactants.
(OK, strictly it's an equilibrium. but if you're chemically sophisticated enough to appreciate the distinction, you're not going to make the initial claim. Except in jest.)
Having to do it the long way can take hours if you're totally dependent on the automated system and have to break out manual methods,
I didn't say it would be easy.
In my business, I have done the job manually in the past, and will probably have to do it again in the future. It's harder - for sure - but doable. It scares the pants off the sprogs (those with less than 20 years experience) when their computers go down leaving them with a sharp pencil and a notepad (dead-tree variety). And they protest that the rest of the operation will have to stop until their computerised data-acquisition system gets fixed (which they're not taught how to do - it's go to be a technician visit)... which their Boss promptly revokes when told that if the rest of the operation stops working, their company will be billed for the down-time. Which would be between 1 and 2 million USD/day. Then they learn pretty damned quick.
ringing back to the "tick tock vs tock tick" rule about how things sound in English.
I've never heard of that rule. Can you elaborate? (I only did enough English Language at school to satisfy the university entrance requirements, and I just ignored English Lit classes. Did my physics homework in them mostly.)
Different cultures indeed. From your list, I've only seen any episodes of ST:TNG and Firefly, and of those, I'd turn from a ST:TNG to a Firefly episode any day.
Oh no - tell a lie, I've maybe seen one or two episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Some robot that goes "wibbly wibbly" and has a tambourine hanging on it's chest?
An example of this is I was having problems with a device deployment getting bad packet loss after we just installed new cabling for these devices. The group hypothesis was that the people who installed the cabling did a bad job.
You didn't do acceptance testing of the wiring before hooking up the MTGPing? Come on - surely you did? And your cabling contractor bloody well should have done so too, before handing it over.
I knew a Sysadmin years ago who had a Power Over Ethernet cable which she used to threaten cabling contractors (and friends) with. A 240V plug at one end, and an RJ-45 plug and socket at the other end. Alternating wires connected to live and neutral. One wave, and the cabling contractor would hand over their signed check sheets.
The question of zombie apocalypses is a reasonable one. In a film studies or script-writing class. Plausibly in a prosthetics/ make up and SFX class too. Otherwise... BFZ.
I completely fail to get the whole zombie thing. I mean, in general I like my SF films. But zombies - they're dead to me.
Not in the United States. [wikipedia.org] US governments
Was I mis-hearing the radio yesterday? I thought they said that Puerto Rico was trying to become federalised into the United States, bu I only had one hearing aid in. I suppose it's possible that Pakistan is in the process of becoming the 5-something'h State, but It does sound a bit peculiar.
Population 202million - that'd take the new United States something a bit over 500 million, so the 3rd largest country in the world.
I wasn't particularly impressed either, even without "doing the numbers" :
7 million combinations ; "dozens of patterns", thousands of colour combinations.
Let's guess at 2.5 dozen = 30 patterns. A nice round number. And the same palettes for "first" and "second" colours. I make that around 484 colours in the palette. If there are three variable colours, the palette goes down to a mere 62 colours.
It's amusing, but not particularly impressive. You know, if I have a mere 10 variable elements in a design (say, a pattern of dots that can be one of "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0"), then those ten elements can make a whole 1001010100000010111110010000000000(binary) unique copies. It's almost like "fingerprinting" the bits of paper before gluing them to jars of brown spread.
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The last time I was burgled, the Police left me with an advice brochure on home security. Their advice on safes is that any which weighs less than a tonne should be bolted to (through) either roof beams or a solid stone or brick (not plasterboard) wall. Preferably both.
We came into the office one morning to find the safe (about a half-tonne) had been dragged through into the middle of the garage/ workshop, and the little scrotes had evidently spent several hours trying to lever the back off it ,working from one of the bolt holes. Which was hilarious, as the door was just closed on the latch ; the safe had been left in the office by a previous resident, without the key, so we only used it as a fire-store for the daily backups. Which were inside. Untouched. (With yesterday's backups at home with one director, the day before at a different director.)
There is a dinosaur sitting on top of the lamppost outside my house, shitting onto my car. They're not extinct today, and pretty unlikely to be extinct tomorrow.
And the knowledge to predict how protein chains will fold into structures. We can describe how that protein chain forms that structure, but we can't work out from scratch what structure will form from this protein chain. Of course, this knowledge is not necessary for evolution to proceed - just try the mutation and if the organisms don't survive, cull them and eat the remains.
We're slowly getting enough of a handle on physiology and metabolism that we can try rational design of drugs - we want this structure to interact with that structure in this way - but it is ferociously complicated, and all too often the result is an unexpected interation of our molecule with that one over there. That is why, for the foreseeable future, culture testing, then animal testing, then clinical testing in humans will remain the paradigm. you could, of course, shorten the production cycle by volunteering to participate in a test, but accepting the result of being culled if that is how the cookie crumbles for you.
Evidence please? There is some evidence that in times of environmental stress, some bacteria reduce the effectiveness of their genetic error-correcting mechanisms, allowing more undirected mutations to persist into reproduction. That is a very long way from "directed" evolution. Of course, if you know of peer-reviewed published data supporting your opinion, educate me. IANAbiologist, but approach these questions from the fossil record.
I think I've seen the next step on that progression. It's that "Kardashian Space Program" game, isn't it? The one that produces bizarre freakish mutants with peculiar shapes which couldn't possibly survive in the real world, but are nonetheless popular.
Fuck, I hear some stupid things about panspermia, but this is both stupid and dangerous.
There was a video going around YouTwit, or TwiTube or something a few weeks ago of someone riding a dinosaur through traffic in a Kazakh (+/- a 'stan) city centre. The dinosaur in question was an ostrich.
Errr, the cyanobacteria were both the perpetrators of the Great Oxidation, and survived it perfectly well. Marine cyanobacteria and their derivative algae are still responsible for something around half of the oxygen production on Earth.
I'm not convinced by this argument, but IANAbiologist, so I'll keep it in mind for measuring against future data.
(By the way, you're talking about the internal volume of the skulls, not the external volume. That difference alone is comparable to the trend you describe. Check that you're comparing apple cores with apple cores, not with orange peels.)
[Gets LARGE bag of coffee beans and pays water rates for the next year.] Do elaborate.
There is no evidence (or even claims from the wilder fringes) that the flux of cosmic rays travelling towards Earth at a very large fraction of c has greatly changed in the last few hundred thousand years (in fact, from Be-exposure dating, we've got fairly good evidence that the flux hasn't changed). We have definitely seen single cosmic rays with telescopes (covering only a few square kilometres of sky, for a few years) which are many orders of magnitude more energetic than any that our particle accelerators have produced. So, anything that we create at SLAC, or CERN or BEPC is not anywhere near the limit of what already hits the Earth quite commonly. (And the Sun, more commonly.)
With current and proposed technologies, to exceed the energy of recorded natural cosmic rays, you'd need to build an accelerator approximately the size of Pluto's orbit. And by the time that we buld that, we'll have been watching the cosmic ray flux for long enough that we'd probably have another order of magnitude higher to go in energy. Eventually, we may catch up with nature, but probably not while we've unvisited parts of the Kuiper Belt. Maybe not until your descendants set out for their descendants to visit the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Oh, we're still working to undermine the Brexit vote - after all, in THIS country of the DisUnited Kingdom, we voted to Bremain. But why waste time doing it on a site dominated by Septics?
Remember - their ability to form a government is at the behest of Sinn Fein. If they choose to back-track on their tradition of not taking their seats in parliament, then May is back to the most slender of majorities - 2 votes if you count the Speaker, and drag people into the Commons in their hospital beds (it has been done before).
Now, I understand why Sinn Fein have that policy - it dates back to the first woman elected to a parliamentary constituency - and I respect that choice. But given a sufficiently high price (e.g., a permanently open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, or the UK becoming a Republic), it must be a position they're considering. They're politicians - prices are negotiable, but do need to be paid (which is why the Liberals are not available for coalition, after the knifing they got in their previous coalition).
Of course the EU will never allow a non-EU country access to the single market without extracting significant concessions on internal law, movement of people, etc. I've spent enough time working in Norway to know that. The EU know they need to charge a hig price for access to that market, and they do.
Consequently also, the EU knows that it needs to discourage leaving. With the proverbial soft words and a big stick.
If Britain tries to back out of Brexit, I suspect that conversion to the Euro is going to be a part of the price of re-entry. IF they allow us back. Having the economic wreckage of a nation on it's coasts might be a useful deterrent to defectors - kind-of like displaying the quartered remains of traitors above the gates of a city.
What - did I hear a politician hoping to get a good deal from the Brexit negotiations?
Anyway, I've got my dual nationality, I really don't give a shit what happens to Britain.
Which is exactly why the "United Kingdom" is no longer a useful phrase. The odds of Scotland seceding within a few years is better than evens, and the Welsh and Geordies are starting to get restive.
At this time, it's three kingdoms and a Plantation held together by centralised control and taxation. I don't see that lasting.
Well that'll sure reduce the amount of disturbing reports they publish.
Plus shipping.
Approximately 100 months with my 20GB/month connection, and it would cost me about 20 times what my laptop and hard drive cost put together.
Nope. You've swapped the problem of having condensation in your computer for the problem of changing the desiccant packets before they reach saturation. The action of "desiccant packets" is a chemical reaction, with reactants and products. Once the reactants (water, low-water silica get) have converted to products (high-water silica gel), then you need to remove the productas and supply new reactants.
(OK, strictly it's an equilibrium. but if you're chemically sophisticated enough to appreciate the distinction, you're not going to make the initial claim. Except in jest.)
I didn't say it would be easy.
In my business, I have done the job manually in the past, and will probably have to do it again in the future. It's harder - for sure - but doable. It scares the pants off the sprogs (those with less than 20 years experience) when their computers go down leaving them with a sharp pencil and a notepad (dead-tree variety). And they protest that the rest of the operation will have to stop until their computerised data-acquisition system gets fixed (which they're not taught how to do - it's go to be a technician visit) ... which their Boss promptly revokes when told that if the rest of the operation stops working, their company will be billed for the down-time. Which would be between 1 and 2 million USD/day. Then they learn pretty damned quick.
I've never heard of that rule. Can you elaborate? (I only did enough English Language at school to satisfy the university entrance requirements, and I just ignored English Lit classes. Did my physics homework in them mostly.)
Oh no - tell a lie, I've maybe seen one or two episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Some robot that goes "wibbly wibbly" and has a tambourine hanging on it's chest?
You didn't do acceptance testing of the wiring before hooking up the MTGPing? Come on - surely you did? And your cabling contractor bloody well should have done so too, before handing it over.
I knew a Sysadmin years ago who had a Power Over Ethernet cable which she used to threaten cabling contractors (and friends) with. A 240V plug at one end, and an RJ-45 plug and socket at the other end. Alternating wires connected to live and neutral. One wave, and the cabling contractor would hand over their signed check sheets.
I hope to the God of the Cats that you get the reference.
I completely fail to get the whole zombie thing. I mean, in general I like my SF films. But zombies - they're dead to me.
Was I mis-hearing the radio yesterday? I thought they said that Puerto Rico was trying to become federalised into the United States, bu I only had one hearing aid in. I suppose it's possible that Pakistan is in the process of becoming the 5-something'h State, but It does sound a bit peculiar.
Population 202million - that'd take the new United States something a bit over 500 million, so the 3rd largest country in the world.
7 million combinations ; "dozens of patterns", thousands of colour combinations.
Let's guess at 2.5 dozen = 30 patterns. A nice round number. And the same palettes for "first" and "second" colours. I make that around 484 colours in the palette. If there are three variable colours, the palette goes down to a mere 62 colours.
It's amusing, but not particularly impressive. You know, if I have a mere 10 variable elements in a design (say, a pattern of dots that can be one of "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0"), then those ten elements can make a whole 1001010100000010111110010000000000(binary) unique copies. It's almost like "fingerprinting" the bits of paper before gluing them to jars of brown spread.