The reviewers of this supposedly peer-reviewed paper have done a sloppy job. There are genome sequences available that clearly show that cephalopods are mollucs, which are bilaterians and thus relatively close to us. A truly alien organism would be less related to us than bacteria are.
I am not on this study but it is a close colleague of mine (in the same lab) that has made the TSLP trap. It is NOT an antibody. Basically, he fused the extracellular parts of the receptor and the co-receptor into a single fusion protein, which binds TSLP very efficiently and does not release it for a very long time. This recombinant protein can be produced in large quantities, so the production costs will especially depend on the manufacturing standards for biologicals The "golden standard" benchmark that they compare their fusion protein TSLP trap with is an antibody though.
There is no good enough DNA to do a cloning of an original mammoth - and also if we did, it would not have any mates. The best chance is to identify the critical genetic variants that made the mammoth adapted to its niche, insert those in elephant. This mutated / genetically engineered elephant would fill the same function and "walk and talk" like the original mammoth - but with the advantage that one can breed with elephants to make more of them.
People may think that this is a bit of a strange effort - to de-extinct mammoths, but in fact it might actually make a huge ecological service since a lot of species originally evolved under the pressure of mammoth and other megafauna herbivory. Re-wilding (like how re-introduction of wolves could stop erosion in an American national park) is actually a pretty cool trend.
One of my major issues with Windows is the constant reboots for updates and a very slow shut down / start up when updates are being applied. It has happened several times for my colleagues (on Win7) that their presentations were interrupted by a forced update that could not be cancelled. Why can't updates in Windows be as smooth and easy as in Linux? Stuff can be updated in the background, not extra configurations / applications of updates during start up or shut down.
Disclaimer: I manage my own work computer running Linux (Arch). A bit more of an administrative burden to make sure that stuff works with the work infrastructure but worth it.
Since I am in biomedical sciences I probably can answer this : most are pretty computer illiterate and actually use MS Office for everything. Entering large data-sets in the spreadsheet is done by copy-paste and not by fancy scripts. In my lab, I am the only linux user, which sort of makes me have to resort to LibreOffice/Zotero for collaborative writing instead of doing LaTeX.
I use a Swedish VPN simply so that my kids can watch cartoons on Netflix in Swedish. The content is not much different between Belgium and Sweden on Netflix, so I am basically doing it for the language option.
If there was a way to split contract-obliged geoblocking and localization that should definitely be done!
This is very cool and could potentially be extremely useful in animal breeding for livestock, pets or conservation biology.
Basically, differentiate stem cells into eggs and sperm, cross, differentiate the new stem cells and repeat.
A cool thing in animal breeding is that this could overcome species barriers, so traits could be introgressed by crossing species where the first generation offspring normally would have been sterile.
They never used Oracle/Sun Java but Apache Harmony due to the " no GPL in userspace" rule in Android.
My guess is that this has nothing to do with Oracle and everything to do with that Apache harmony isdead and it is annoying to maintain a fork.
Using OpenJDK could increase quality and security thanks to more eyeballs.
I hope the EU will be proactive and mandate a single car charger standard. It would be extremely stupid to fragment the EV power supply market like phones used to be before the microUSB standard.
I have found and reported a few bugs blocking some Win16 applications to run under Wine. It is ofcourse more difficult for developers to adress those issues nowadays, but on the other hand is the OS much smaller than the current versions so a 100% re-implementation should be possible. I think it would be great if some more effort would be put into the Win16 compatibility of Wine.
At work, we had some fully working machines where the controlling software was built for Win16, and when the machines had to be replaced by Win95/98/XP machines it all became completely unreliable (crashes claiming "not enough memory"). It is sad when very expensive and fully functional machinery (in this case a CytoFluor 4000) gets unusable because of something stupid like that.
They already got DDEkit (basically a "glue" library that allows to build a linux driver for another kernel or user space) from GenodeOS (l4 kernels) and NetBSD rump kernel (also portable drivers) is being ported atm.
I thought it used Apache Harmony with a strict "no GPL in userspace" rule for Android. Funnily Apache, IBM, Oracle and others were allies against Sun's rule over Jaba and wanted more equal footing of alternatibe implementations. Oracle quickly changed tune after buying Sun.
What do you think about the "anykernel" concept (invented by another Finn btw) used in NetBSD? Basically, they have modularized the code so that a driver can be built either in a monolithic kernel or for user space without source code changes ( rumpkernel.org ). The drivers are highly portable and used in Genode os (L4 type kernels), minix etc... Would this be possible or desirable for Linux? Apparently there is one attempt called "libos"...
I have not tried ABP but lots of firefox extensions do work on Android so it seems like a useless project to make an "Adblock browser".
Those who have a little bit of knowlege (and root) most likely already have adaway from f-droid installed making it even less useful
I am curious to know if Replicant works with the latest kernel. One reason as far as I have understood it with the "old" kernels also on the latest ROMs is for compatibility with blob Android drivers. If Replicant does not have those, it should be possible to already run linux 4.0 on it?
Since most device-to-computer communication now is via mtp or wireless : why use FAT32? For Android (especially Samsung) F2FS would make far more sense.
Distributed storage capacity has the potential to even out the prices over the day and match consumption and production. It also solves a major issue with most renewables. It would be even more interesting if people were allowed to store cheap electricity and sell it back during expensive hours for profit.
I think the idea is to hook up 3 already existing trans-continental highways.
Europe's E30 is already connected to the Trans-siberian highway (so basically a road all the way from Ireland to Vladivostok). The big idea here would be to hook this up to trans-continental highways in North America (the trans-canadian something?).
As a non-native speaker using English daily with other non-native speakers, I must say that it is the ideal global lingua franca. First of all, it is very open-minded about "broken" pronounciation and minor grammatical errors ("Bad English" is actually a thing). In contrast to other big languages, it is not as obviously tied to a single nation or culture - so everyone can make it "theirs". (Other large languages expect perfection and a non-native speaker will be treated as intellectually inferior)
I think one explanation for this could be that English itself stared off as a hybrid language (Germanic Saxon/Scandinavian mixed with Latin midevial French - and possibly some ancient Celtic in the mix).
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The reviewers of this supposedly peer-reviewed paper have done a sloppy job. There are genome sequences available that clearly show that cephalopods are mollucs, which are bilaterians and thus relatively close to us. A truly alien organism would be less related to us than bacteria are.
It also happens to be the operating-system-of-choice for docker containers since it is so light weight.
I am not on this study but it is a close colleague of mine (in the same lab) that has made the TSLP trap. It is NOT an antibody. Basically, he fused the extracellular parts of the receptor and the co-receptor into a single fusion protein, which binds TSLP very efficiently and does not release it for a very long time. This recombinant protein can be produced in large quantities, so the production costs will especially depend on the manufacturing standards for biologicals The "golden standard" benchmark that they compare their fusion protein TSLP trap with is an antibody though.
There is no good enough DNA to do a cloning of an original mammoth - and also if we did, it would not have any mates. The best chance is to identify the critical genetic variants that made the mammoth adapted to its niche, insert those in elephant. This mutated / genetically engineered elephant would fill the same function and "walk and talk" like the original mammoth - but with the advantage that one can breed with elephants to make more of them. People may think that this is a bit of a strange effort - to de-extinct mammoths, but in fact it might actually make a huge ecological service since a lot of species originally evolved under the pressure of mammoth and other megafauna herbivory. Re-wilding (like how re-introduction of wolves could stop erosion in an American national park) is actually a pretty cool trend.
One of my major issues with Windows is the constant reboots for updates and a very slow shut down / start up when updates are being applied. It has happened several times for my colleagues (on Win7) that their presentations were interrupted by a forced update that could not be cancelled. Why can't updates in Windows be as smooth and easy as in Linux? Stuff can be updated in the background, not extra configurations / applications of updates during start up or shut down. Disclaimer: I manage my own work computer running Linux (Arch). A bit more of an administrative burden to make sure that stuff works with the work infrastructure but worth it.
This could be a Msys2 comperitor. Both will have the Arch feel but WSL allows unmodified binaries and no porting needed.
Since I am in biomedical sciences I probably can answer this : most are pretty computer illiterate and actually use MS Office for everything. Entering large data-sets in the spreadsheet is done by copy-paste and not by fancy scripts. In my lab, I am the only linux user, which sort of makes me have to resort to LibreOffice/Zotero for collaborative writing instead of doing LaTeX.
I use a Swedish VPN simply so that my kids can watch cartoons on Netflix in Swedish. The content is not much different between Belgium and Sweden on Netflix, so I am basically doing it for the language option. If there was a way to split contract-obliged geoblocking and localization that should definitely be done!
This is very cool and could potentially be extremely useful in animal breeding for livestock, pets or conservation biology. Basically, differentiate stem cells into eggs and sperm, cross, differentiate the new stem cells and repeat. A cool thing in animal breeding is that this could overcome species barriers, so traits could be introgressed by crossing species where the first generation offspring normally would have been sterile.
They never used Oracle/Sun Java but Apache Harmony due to the " no GPL in userspace" rule in Android. My guess is that this has nothing to do with Oracle and everything to do with that Apache harmony isdead and it is annoying to maintain a fork. Using OpenJDK could increase quality and security thanks to more eyeballs.
I hope the EU will be proactive and mandate a single car charger standard. It would be extremely stupid to fragment the EV power supply market like phones used to be before the microUSB standard.
I have found and reported a few bugs blocking some Win16 applications to run under Wine. It is ofcourse more difficult for developers to adress those issues nowadays, but on the other hand is the OS much smaller than the current versions so a 100% re-implementation should be possible. I think it would be great if some more effort would be put into the Win16 compatibility of Wine. At work, we had some fully working machines where the controlling software was built for Win16, and when the machines had to be replaced by Win95/98/XP machines it all became completely unreliable (crashes claiming "not enough memory"). It is sad when very expensive and fully functional machinery (in this case a CytoFluor 4000) gets unusable because of something stupid like that.
They already got DDEkit (basically a "glue" library that allows to build a linux driver for another kernel or user space) from GenodeOS (l4 kernels) and NetBSD rump kernel (also portable drivers) is being ported atm.
I thought it used Apache Harmony with a strict "no GPL in userspace" rule for Android. Funnily Apache, IBM, Oracle and others were allies against Sun's rule over Jaba and wanted more equal footing of alternatibe implementations. Oracle quickly changed tune after buying Sun.
What do you think about the "anykernel" concept (invented by another Finn btw) used in NetBSD? Basically, they have modularized the code so that a driver can be built either in a monolithic kernel or for user space without source code changes ( rumpkernel.org ). The drivers are highly portable and used in Genode os (L4 type kernels), minix etc... Would this be possible or desirable for Linux? Apparently there is one attempt called "libos"...
I have not tried ABP but lots of firefox extensions do work on Android so it seems like a useless project to make an "Adblock browser". Those who have a little bit of knowlege (and root) most likely already have adaway from f-droid installed making it even less useful
I am curious to know if Replicant works with the latest kernel. One reason as far as I have understood it with the "old" kernels also on the latest ROMs is for compatibility with blob Android drivers. If Replicant does not have those, it should be possible to already run linux 4.0 on it?
Since most device-to-computer communication now is via mtp or wireless : why use FAT32? For Android (especially Samsung) F2FS would make far more sense.
Distributed storage capacity has the potential to even out the prices over the day and match consumption and production. It also solves a major issue with most renewables. It would be even more interesting if people were allowed to store cheap electricity and sell it back during expensive hours for profit.
AICP seems interesting... will try :)
I am definitely moving away from CM as soon as this bundling gets in place. What would be the best alternative Omnirom? Something else?
No but E30 officially stretches to Ireland. I suppose via ferry.
I think the idea is to hook up 3 already existing trans-continental highways. Europe's E30 is already connected to the Trans-siberian highway (so basically a road all the way from Ireland to Vladivostok). The big idea here would be to hook this up to trans-continental highways in North America (the trans-canadian something?).
As a non-native speaker using English daily with other non-native speakers, I must say that it is the ideal global lingua franca. First of all, it is very open-minded about "broken" pronounciation and minor grammatical errors ("Bad English" is actually a thing). In contrast to other big languages, it is not as obviously tied to a single nation or culture - so everyone can make it "theirs". (Other large languages expect perfection and a non-native speaker will be treated as intellectually inferior) I think one explanation for this could be that English itself stared off as a hybrid language (Germanic Saxon/Scandinavian mixed with Latin midevial French - and possibly some ancient Celtic in the mix).
Anyone know how some animals get the golden yellow colour? That would be cool.