I was on vacation in Moscow in August with my wife, and we were taking the metro. Between stops she says: "Hey, I wonder who's bag that is?" Next to me, is a big-ass, full, black duffle bag. I looked around, and we are the only people in the vicinity. I was sure I was going to die, recalling the metro bombing five months earlier. We briefly mused as to whether it would be better to be right next to the bag, or at the opposite end of the car if it went off. Needless to say, we got off at the next stop. Luckily it wasn't a bomb, but I must admit that I wasn't particularly scarred the rest of our trip. Maybe vodka is the best anti-terror tactic? To this day I curse people who forget their bags though...
Correct. Health is a provincial jurisdiction. There is the Canada Health Act that sets out minimum standards of care, and the federal government send portions of income taxes receipts to the provinces to spend on health, education, and other provincial affairs as they see fit. There is then naturally some variation between provinces in terms of coverage for procedures and drugs, but in non-core areas (e.g. Quebec is thinking of paying for in vitro fertilization treatments).
To dispell any myth, we do have extended health coverage in Canada, usually through our employer. This covers eyeglasses, prescriptions, and dental care.
Also, there is a private health care system in Canada too, but very few people use it. The main reason is that a doctor has to either be part of the public system, or private (can't take gov't money and patients'). You can't buy insurance for the private system, so it's all out of pocket. If people go there at all its for abortions, elective MRIs or skipping the joint replacement queue.
Discrete if you plan on developing algorithms or data structures
Vectors etc. if you plan on doing 3D graphics or physical process simulations.
During my programming career, I have used every math and stats I've ever learned in a course. So like tohers say, take both. By the way, discrete was my worst mark, but also where I learned the most.
Couple of decades? Science has always been funded by government (academic) and industry. If anything, it's more industry driven now than at any point in the past. I would fear the state of the world if all science was to become controlled by companies...
My captors continue to torment me with bizarre dangling objects. They eat lavish meals in my presence while I am forced to subsist on dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of eventual escape... that, and the satisfaction I get from occasionally ruining some piece of furniture. I fear I may be going insane.
Hands down the best paleontology museum. I've been 5 times, and am still fascinated. And after the museum, you can explore the Canadian Badlands where many of the fossils were uncovered.
It can get even more complicated too: if you have 10x coverage of a position, and 9 say T while 1 says G, it may be an allelic variation. There's a one in 16 chance this'll happen randomly instead of 5 Ts and 5Gs as you expect.
These Japanese researchers are obviously part of the "Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids".
The CMP party had essentially re-established "double damages", so-named by the bill's opponents. Internet users sanctioned under this bill for illegal downloads, after two warnings, would continue paying their subscription fees for between two months to a year while their access was suspended. [...] "Once again we are seeing the government's amateurism, as well as that of the Ministry of Culture and the UMP Party," commented Mr. Dupont-Aignan.
My understanding from an IEEE article a while back was that the ballasts are designed cheaply, to keep the unit cost low for CFLs. The problem is that the power draw graph of the CFL is pretty rectangular instead of constant, turning the nice sine wave of voltage from the utility into a mess (bad "harmonics"). When line current and voltage are out of phase, you get a bad power factor because you can't harness the power (current and voltage combo) effectively. So CFLs don't have to be bad, we just make crappy ballasts for them because it hasn't been much of a problem yet in aggregate.
Also, there's the whole cold-weather thing. Traditional fluorescent tubes will start up in the garage for me, provided it's over 0F or so. Not so for CFLs; I went back to incandescent.
I was on the board of our rather large condo complex and wanted to replace the 100 or so incandescent bulbs outside with CFLs but was afraid of the cold factor (it gets to -40 sometimes where I live). So, I took four brands of CFLs and did a controlled experiment: stick two of each brand in the deep freeze overnight, then quickly screw them into sockets to how well they light up. GE and Sylvania 's ballasts punked out, even after warming up. The only brand that worked completely was Globe, the cheapest of the bunch, so don't always go by price. We switched the bulbs in 2005, and haven't replaced a single one yet. They are controlled by photo sensors, so on and off once a day, with no hiccups even in the cold...
It's tuf to understand your message, tho I rufly get your point. French has some great ones too. My favorite is the simple, single mora produced thru five letters:
The article department is hilarious, because we did name some of our machines after Muppets at my old job. There were two monitoring machines, so of course we called them Statler and Waldorf.
As we get more into studying real bacterial and archaeal populations rather than just what we grow on Petri dishes (i.e. metagenomics), the label of "species" is being replaced with "operational taxonomic unit" because of the tremendous flexibility of these microorganisms to gain, lose and transfer genetic material under selective pressure.
I was at a talk a few months ago, and the speaker showed how an E. coli culture was subjected to a toxin, and some cells proliferated because they randomly lost 30% of their genome while replicating: nothing critical for survival, but critical to not being affected by the toxin. This was over the course of a day.
It's called exports (or importing less) and investment. You have to convince people elsewhere to buy your stuff. The rising middle class in Asia should help, if you make something they want, or if have raw materials, like Canada. The U.S. is definitely too driven by fickle domestic consumer demand:
GDP breakdown for selected countries (U.S.A, Canada, China) Consumer spending: 69.9%, 55.6%, 36.4% Public spending: 19.1%, 19.3%, 13.7% Investment: 16.4%, 22.0%, 40.9% Exports: 11.1%, 36.3%, 39.7% Imports: -16.9%, -33.7%, -31.9%
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I was on vacation in Moscow in August with my wife, and we were taking the metro. Between stops she says: "Hey, I wonder who's bag that is?" Next to me, is a big-ass, full, black duffle bag. I looked around, and we are the only people in the vicinity. I was sure I was going to die, recalling the metro bombing five months earlier. We briefly mused as to whether it would be better to be right next to the bag, or at the opposite end of the car if it went off. Needless to say, we got off at the next stop. Luckily it wasn't a bomb, but I must admit that I wasn't particularly scarred the rest of our trip. Maybe vodka is the best anti-terror tactic? To this day I curse people who forget their bags though...
Agreed. The "news" part is that it's widespread, whereas RNA editing was primarily known to occur in mitochondrial genes before.
And Land-o-Lakes butter...that's definitely American. And Ricky Lake.
Probably a trick of the Mercator projection...
Correct. Health is a provincial jurisdiction. There is the Canada Health Act that sets out minimum standards of care, and the federal government send portions of income taxes receipts to the provinces to spend on health, education, and other provincial affairs as they see fit. There is then naturally some variation between provinces in terms of coverage for procedures and drugs, but in non-core areas (e.g. Quebec is thinking of paying for in vitro fertilization treatments).
To dispell any myth, we do have extended health coverage in Canada, usually through our employer. This covers eyeglasses, prescriptions, and dental care.
Also, there is a private health care system in Canada too, but very few people use it. The main reason is that a doctor has to either be part of the public system, or private (can't take gov't money and patients'). You can't buy insurance for the private system, so it's all out of pocket. If people go there at all its for abortions, elective MRIs or skipping the joint replacement queue.
Discrete if you plan on developing algorithms or data structures
Vectors etc. if you plan on doing 3D graphics or physical process simulations.
During my programming career, I have used every math and stats I've ever learned in a course. So like tohers say, take both. By the way, discrete was my worst mark, but also where I learned the most.
Couple of decades? Science has always been funded by government (academic) and industry. If anything, it's more industry driven now than at any point in the past. I would fear the state of the world if all science was to become controlled by companies...
My captors continue to torment me with bizarre dangling objects. They eat lavish meals in my presence while I am forced to subsist on dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of eventual escape... that, and the satisfaction I get from occasionally ruining some piece of furniture. I fear I may be going insane.
Your company tag line should of course be: "All your base pair are belong to us."
Hands down the best paleontology museum. I've been 5 times, and am still fascinated. And after the museum, you can explore the Canadian Badlands where many of the fossils were uncovered.
http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits.htm
It can get even more complicated too: if you have 10x coverage of a position, and 9 say T while 1 says G, it may be an allelic variation. There's a one in 16 chance this'll happen randomly instead of 5 Ts and 5Gs as you expect.
These Japanese researchers are obviously part of the "Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids".
Translating a section from the article:
My understanding from an IEEE article a while back was that the ballasts are designed cheaply, to keep the unit cost low for CFLs. The problem is that the power draw graph of the CFL is pretty rectangular instead of constant, turning the nice sine wave of voltage from the utility into a mess (bad "harmonics"). When line current and voltage are out of phase, you get a bad power factor because you can't harness the power (current and voltage combo) effectively. So CFLs don't have to be bad, we just make crappy ballasts for them because it hasn't been much of a problem yet in aggregate.
I was on the board of our rather large condo complex and wanted to replace the 100 or so incandescent bulbs outside with CFLs but was afraid of the cold factor (it gets to -40 sometimes where I live). So, I took four brands of CFLs and did a controlled experiment: stick two of each brand in the deep freeze overnight, then quickly screw them into sockets to how well they light up. GE and Sylvania 's ballasts punked out, even after warming up. The only brand that worked completely was Globe, the cheapest of the bunch, so don't always go by price. We switched the bulbs in 2005, and haven't replaced a single one yet. They are controlled by photo sensors, so on and off once a day, with no hiccups even in the cold...
It's tuf to understand your message, tho I rufly get your point. French has some great ones too. My favorite is the simple, single mora produced thru five letters:
"oeufs"
Enuf said.
U r rite! I h8 wen ppl try 2 make me use xtra letrs! My msg stil gets thru... USA! USA!
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I can see why the article got a theonion tag, there was a great article way back:
Eight Million Americans Rescued From Poverty With Redefinition Of Term
Funny enough, the commercial must have worked, because guess where the guy bought the domain:
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The article department is hilarious, because we did name some of our machines after Muppets at my old job. There were two monitoring machines, so of course we called them Statler and Waldorf.
As we get more into studying real bacterial and archaeal populations rather than just what we grow on Petri dishes (i.e. metagenomics), the label of "species" is being replaced with "operational taxonomic unit" because of the tremendous flexibility of these microorganisms to gain, lose and transfer genetic material under selective pressure.
I was at a talk a few months ago, and the speaker showed how an E. coli culture was subjected to a toxin, and some cells proliferated because they randomly lost 30% of their genome while replicating: nothing critical for survival, but critical to not being affected by the toxin. This was over the course of a day.
You're a...wait a second, what was I saying?
I agree with other posts, I didn't get a UID for a couple of years after starting to read /. so the ID means little.
Who said every nation had to be a net exporter? That is specious logic: I just said that the U.S. is too dependent on domestic spending.
The world economy is not a zero sum game...that's why it tends to grow (forecasted for between 0.9 and 2.2% for 2009 depending on who you believe).
It's called exports (or importing less) and investment. You have to convince people elsewhere to buy your stuff. The rising middle class in Asia should help, if you make something they want, or if have raw materials, like Canada. The U.S. is definitely too driven by fickle domestic consumer demand:
GDP breakdown for selected countries (U.S.A, Canada, China)
Consumer spending: 69.9%, 55.6%, 36.4%
Public spending: 19.1%, 19.3%, 13.7%
Investment: 16.4%, 22.0%, 40.9%
Exports: 11.1%, 36.3%, 39.7%
Imports: -16.9%, -33.7%, -31.9%