The startup Finnzymes already found real-world use for these microbes. It's not their DNA, though; it's their DNA-handling enzymes. When doing the PCR procedure, you have 20-40 temperature cycles. Regular enzymes are killed at 45 C, so after each cycle, you'd have to add more regular enzyme, ending up with a big soup of DNA and killed enzyme. The hot spring microbes live at 60 C, and their enzymes survive the cycles just fine. This makes it possible to build small tabletop devices that do the PCR in 16 minutes rather than 68 minutes.
It would be perfect against salmonella. Salmonella is extremely hazardous to public health, because it can reside dormant in the intestinal biofilm for practically indefinite periods (up to 25 years), and the carrier remains infectious all the time. A single bacterium can cause a potentially fatal illness, so in some jurisdictions, anyone who works with food is tested for salmonella. Unfortunately the only way to positively remove salmonella from a carrier is ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic generally considered an antibiotic of last resort. Its serious, potentially disabling side-effects include permanent damage of peripheral nerves, the intestine and spontaneous tendon rupture. A way to dissolve the bacteria from the biofilm would probably make them easier to eradicate with less dangerous antibiotics.
Most places actually seem be rather innovation-hostile. When a manager talks about "innovation", usually that means something like R&D or engineering. Workers that aren't officially in these departments, by definition, do not innovate.
An incident I'll always remember was in a summer job, where I also did some assembly-line canning of liquids. There was an elderly woman feeding cans to the system. Now, the stack was misaligned, so I had to manually turn each can before filling it - that is, completely useless work for nothing, easily eliminated. I suggested that she'd turn the stack the correct way around, so I got this extremely hostile reply that this is the way it's been done for the last 30 years, and she's not gonna change it. Because I was a summer trainee, I was junior to her, and by definition, she was right. What makes this even more mind-boggling was that I read a report where an industrial engineer had researched the same woman doing a very similar job, and found an analogous way to improve it and save her of the sickness leave caused by the wrist strain.
In conclusion, humans are monkeys that work primarily by hierarchy, not intelligence.
Seriously. Don't give them. Politely explain you are never going to give them to him. There's no way he can legally use violence to take them from you. Refusing to give a grade because of this is improper conduct.
MRI is not radio-frequency imaging, and should not be limited by the diffraction limit. MRI does not form an image based on the amplitude of radiation (like an eye). Rather, it unselectively sends a pulse to the target, and extracts the frequencies of the response with Fourier transform. Now, the trick in MRI is exploiting the fact that the frequency depends on the magnetic field: the field strength is varied on a gradient. Different locations respond at different frequencies. MRI does not "see" anything, but it can "hear" based on frequency which proton it is "listening to".
Resolution is thus limited by the precision of the magnetic fields generated and the ability to resolve different frequencies. Frequencies retain their relative positions when magnetic field is varied, but the peaks get narrower and thus resolution increases with field strength. Thus, the major limitation is constructing strong enough magnets at reasonable prices.
The invention isn't medical MRI, it's a chemical NMR slapped to an atomic force microscope. These non-optical microscopes are very difficult to use in practice.
What I don't get is that they break the law, and then they can just walk away if the judge doesn't do what they want. Like, Mallory steals from Alice, then the prosecutor sues him, then Mallory just drops the case and walks away, because the judge gives orders to him he doesn't like. How can this be legal?
True. It has always been a public secret that getting a Nobel prize is all about the connections, knowing the right people. You can't get enough publicity to your work otherwise, and without that, no chance.
European houses are directly wired to three-phase 400 V power, from which single-phase 240 V "wall socket" power is extracted at the circuit breaker. However, because the 400 V is wired directly to the house, there's usually at least one 400 V socket in the garage. It might be easier to adopt electric cars in Europe for this reason.
Would Internet stop Stalin, that's the question. His regime was directly responsible for more genocide than Hitler's. You'd have to be quite ignorant of WW2 history to assume it was only about Hitler's imperialist ambitions.
Actually, they do in some countries, especially electricians. For safety reasons, the profession is regulated. Personally, I think that it's a very bad idea not to get a degree for an IT job. When the company is in financial trouble, the first thing to do is to show the door to the interns/temps/dropouts/etc. And when you don't have degree, it's much more difficult to get a job again.
Buzzwords when in contact with erbium electrodes with kryptonite catalysis can produce limitless hydrogen. Seriously, the hydrogen-run car is fiction, pure and simple. The fact is that combustion of hydrocarbons is the most efficient and safe way to produce energy in an "on the spot" basis. No amount of wishing can change molecular hydrogen into a viable energy carrier or create a way to produce it economically. No amount of research is going to make a small, explosively flammable, extremely difficult to compress molecule easier to handle. Hydrogen is produced today - from natural gas, a fossil fuel. In contrast, actual, scaled-up processes to produce hydrocarbons from non-petrol sources have been known since the 1800's and 1930's. The only reason they aren't used is that oil is still too cheap.
This is even more brilliant than this "Sale - 50 off" ad I saw in Denmark. Mind you, 50 DKK = US$8.66, and the original price for the shirt was 300 DKK = US$52, so it was 17% off, not 50%.
Duh. This is obvious sampling bias. Of course the oldest find of the skeletons of a complete family is that of a family died suddenly and violently. If they had died separately, it'd be less likely that they'd be found in exact same location.
This is actually sensible, because the government virtually freaks out with the word "waste". The regulations assume the worst, and you'll have to comply to rules that are very expensive to implement - and for no sensible reason. For example, if you have solvent waste, you should never call it that, because then you're not allowed to transport it without jumping through some hoops, irrespective of what it actually contains. This is even if you intend to recycle or incinerate it.
That's pure and unadultered bull. The research I'm doing right now involves chemicals first described in e.g. 1836 and 1871. I'll have to cite papers from 2008 also.
Consider this: if you synthesized exactly one molecule of all molecules of the same size as synthetic drugs on average, the total mass would exceed that of the known universe by a factor of 10^128.
That's because heroin, particularly crude heroin, is just a simple semisynthesis with not particularly hazardous chemicals. The largest risk would be that if they purified it, they used ether, which is dangerously flammable. Meth labs, on the other hand, are much nastier.
Agree on the dog issue, though. The original purpose of keeping dogs in bourgeois households was purely for bragging rights of the higher classes - that you could feed not only your family, but also a completely useless thing like a dog. The dog tax should be $5000-20000 per year, and then it'd be just like in the good old days.
Vista often powers up my laptop at 4 am from hibernate. It appears that because you can't really switch off a laptop except by extracting the battery, it's always ready to software power-on. This means that events and timed events can power it up. For example, the network card powered it up because the LAN server complains that it can't get a connection (obviously because it's powered off). I've meticulously removed all timed events and converted them to conditional events (at logon, for example), but some still remain. It's still not safe to leave it on hibernate or standby. This is behavior completely inexcusable for any OS in a laptop.
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The startup Finnzymes already found real-world use for these microbes. It's not their DNA, though; it's their DNA-handling enzymes. When doing the PCR procedure, you have 20-40 temperature cycles. Regular enzymes are killed at 45 C, so after each cycle, you'd have to add more regular enzyme, ending up with a big soup of DNA and killed enzyme. The hot spring microbes live at 60 C, and their enzymes survive the cycles just fine. This makes it possible to build small tabletop devices that do the PCR in 16 minutes rather than 68 minutes.
It would be perfect against salmonella. Salmonella is extremely hazardous to public health, because it can reside dormant in the intestinal biofilm for practically indefinite periods (up to 25 years), and the carrier remains infectious all the time. A single bacterium can cause a potentially fatal illness, so in some jurisdictions, anyone who works with food is tested for salmonella. Unfortunately the only way to positively remove salmonella from a carrier is ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic generally considered an antibiotic of last resort. Its serious, potentially disabling side-effects include permanent damage of peripheral nerves, the intestine and spontaneous tendon rupture. A way to dissolve the bacteria from the biofilm would probably make them easier to eradicate with less dangerous antibiotics.
Most places actually seem be rather innovation-hostile. When a manager talks about "innovation", usually that means something like R&D or engineering. Workers that aren't officially in these departments, by definition, do not innovate. An incident I'll always remember was in a summer job, where I also did some assembly-line canning of liquids. There was an elderly woman feeding cans to the system. Now, the stack was misaligned, so I had to manually turn each can before filling it - that is, completely useless work for nothing, easily eliminated. I suggested that she'd turn the stack the correct way around, so I got this extremely hostile reply that this is the way it's been done for the last 30 years, and she's not gonna change it. Because I was a summer trainee, I was junior to her, and by definition, she was right. What makes this even more mind-boggling was that I read a report where an industrial engineer had researched the same woman doing a very similar job, and found an analogous way to improve it and save her of the sickness leave caused by the wrist strain. In conclusion, humans are monkeys that work primarily by hierarchy, not intelligence.
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Yes, that's exactly why they'd want the MS developers as soon as possible. It would save those years.
Yes I know of that, but it's just a toy.
Seriously. Don't give them. Politely explain you are never going to give them to him. There's no way he can legally use violence to take them from you. Refusing to give a grade because of this is improper conduct.
Right now Google has a VERY good opportunity to hire and release a Google Earth-based flight simulator.
MRI is not radio-frequency imaging, and should not be limited by the diffraction limit. MRI does not form an image based on the amplitude of radiation (like an eye). Rather, it unselectively sends a pulse to the target, and extracts the frequencies of the response with Fourier transform. Now, the trick in MRI is exploiting the fact that the frequency depends on the magnetic field: the field strength is varied on a gradient. Different locations respond at different frequencies. MRI does not "see" anything, but it can "hear" based on frequency which proton it is "listening to".
Resolution is thus limited by the precision of the magnetic fields generated and the ability to resolve different frequencies. Frequencies retain their relative positions when magnetic field is varied, but the peaks get narrower and thus resolution increases with field strength. Thus, the major limitation is constructing strong enough magnets at reasonable prices.
The invention isn't medical MRI, it's a chemical NMR slapped to an atomic force microscope. These non-optical microscopes are very difficult to use in practice.
What I don't get is that they break the law, and then they can just walk away if the judge doesn't do what they want. Like, Mallory steals from Alice, then the prosecutor sues him, then Mallory just drops the case and walks away, because the judge gives orders to him he doesn't like. How can this be legal?
Fight: U.S. Marshals vs. the NSA. Who would win?
So I herd you like antennas so we put an antenna to your antenna so you can phone while you phone
True. It has always been a public secret that getting a Nobel prize is all about the connections, knowing the right people. You can't get enough publicity to your work otherwise, and without that, no chance.
European houses are directly wired to three-phase 400 V power, from which single-phase 240 V "wall socket" power is extracted at the circuit breaker. However, because the 400 V is wired directly to the house, there's usually at least one 400 V socket in the garage. It might be easier to adopt electric cars in Europe for this reason.
Would Internet stop Stalin, that's the question. His regime was directly responsible for more genocide than Hitler's. You'd have to be quite ignorant of WW2 history to assume it was only about Hitler's imperialist ambitions.
Actually, they do in some countries, especially electricians. For safety reasons, the profession is regulated. Personally, I think that it's a very bad idea not to get a degree for an IT job. When the company is in financial trouble, the first thing to do is to show the door to the interns/temps/dropouts/etc. And when you don't have degree, it's much more difficult to get a job again.
Buzzwords when in contact with erbium electrodes with kryptonite catalysis can produce limitless hydrogen. Seriously, the hydrogen-run car is fiction, pure and simple. The fact is that combustion of hydrocarbons is the most efficient and safe way to produce energy in an "on the spot" basis. No amount of wishing can change molecular hydrogen into a viable energy carrier or create a way to produce it economically. No amount of research is going to make a small, explosively flammable, extremely difficult to compress molecule easier to handle. Hydrogen is produced today - from natural gas, a fossil fuel. In contrast, actual, scaled-up processes to produce hydrocarbons from non-petrol sources have been known since the 1800's and 1930's. The only reason they aren't used is that oil is still too cheap.
Nice, except if the hardware is compromised.
This is even more brilliant than this "Sale - 50 off" ad I saw in Denmark. Mind you, 50 DKK = US$8.66, and the original price for the shirt was 300 DKK = US$52, so it was 17% off, not 50%.
Duh. This is obvious sampling bias. Of course the oldest find of the skeletons of a complete family is that of a family died suddenly and violently. If they had died separately, it'd be less likely that they'd be found in exact same location.
This is actually sensible, because the government virtually freaks out with the word "waste". The regulations assume the worst, and you'll have to comply to rules that are very expensive to implement - and for no sensible reason. For example, if you have solvent waste, you should never call it that, because then you're not allowed to transport it without jumping through some hoops, irrespective of what it actually contains. This is even if you intend to recycle or incinerate it.
Actually they could rename it "Expensive Photo Shop". That'd take care of two things at once: dissing the competitor and promoting the software.
That's pure and unadultered bull. The research I'm doing right now involves chemicals first described in e.g. 1836 and 1871. I'll have to cite papers from 2008 also. Consider this: if you synthesized exactly one molecule of all molecules of the same size as synthetic drugs on average, the total mass would exceed that of the known universe by a factor of 10^128.
That's because heroin, particularly crude heroin, is just a simple semisynthesis with not particularly hazardous chemicals. The largest risk would be that if they purified it, they used ether, which is dangerously flammable. Meth labs, on the other hand, are much nastier. Agree on the dog issue, though. The original purpose of keeping dogs in bourgeois households was purely for bragging rights of the higher classes - that you could feed not only your family, but also a completely useless thing like a dog. The dog tax should be $5000-20000 per year, and then it'd be just like in the good old days.
Vista often powers up my laptop at 4 am from hibernate. It appears that because you can't really switch off a laptop except by extracting the battery, it's always ready to software power-on. This means that events and timed events can power it up. For example, the network card powered it up because the LAN server complains that it can't get a connection (obviously because it's powered off). I've meticulously removed all timed events and converted them to conditional events (at logon, for example), but some still remain. It's still not safe to leave it on hibernate or standby. This is behavior completely inexcusable for any OS in a laptop.