Since the primary OS will be Debian based we can assume support for C, C++, Python, Perl, and Bash scripting. But I have heard that you would need to get Oracle involved if you wanted a Java SE JDK since the RPi is Arm based. Can you comment on whether or not this is true and, if so, have you or are you in the process of obtaining the ability to develop Java on this platform?
Paul Ehrlich, famous for writing the population bomb, entered a wager with Julian L. Simon that used the price of some indicator comodidy metals to gauge resource scarcity as a predicted result of overpopulation. Anyways, historically speaking, Simon came out the winner when the index prices fell between 1980 and 1990.
That being said, and my own personal admiration for the free market being laid out in the open, I do believe that there will be a decade where the proverbial Ehrlich's will come out on top. It is simple physics; the high concentration deposits of minerals will be depleted and we will all be left wondering what to do. It is certainly scary that in 13 years the population can rise by 1 billion.
I don't imagine you have ever run a business or been in close proximity to someone who has. To you, businesses are like the engine in your car; you don't really understand every little thing, but you expect it to work cause somebody smarter than you designed it.
Even small businesses spend a significant portion of their time complying with government regulations and fearing fines due to the obscure regulations they overlooked. Ever wonder why only big businesses are a significant supplier of jobs? It is because only big businesses can afford to hire accountants to figure out the maze known as payroll. Yes, some exceptional individuals have figured out the taxes/regulations such that they can have employees in their small business, but this is not the norm. If the tax code was significantly simplified, perhaps more small businesses would be willing to hire.
It's OK though, as long as we keep extending unemployment benefits, nobody even needs jobs;)
Speaking of green jobs; since the recession began I have heard many politicians and pundits say something along the line of "Our district will createjobs and prosperity by leading in the green business revolution"
How has that worked out? I think that our politicians are under some assumption that no other country in the world has engineers working on this problem. That China will sit idly by as we make efficient and lucrative clean energy products. The fact is that we cannot become proffitable just by changing industries, we need a climate where businesses are able to to succeed in any industry. We need less regulation, more efficient regulation (ie; less paperwork for compliance), and more efficient taxation. We also could do with a little tort reform and maybe some tarrif reform mixed in there.
If politicians (many of whom are lawyers and assume people like filling out pages and pages of EPA forms) took one minute to realise negative impact of the procedural overhead caused by all of these convoluted and redundant regulations perhaps we would have a chance at a business revolution. Many of these agencies use violations of these regulations as a revenue gathering device, this only serves to discourage business expansion and job creation.
To recap, I am not saying that we need to kill all business regulation, but we need to cut it down to the point where any person of average intelligence could understand them and reach compliance easily while still having time left in the day to run a business. Same general thought applies to tax law.
While Apple had to Photoshop the Galaxy Tab to fool the courts into thinking it looked like an iPad, your source was much more clever. They strategicly tilted the galaxy tab when comparing it to the iPad to shorten the apparent aspect ratio to closer match the iPad.
Do Apple lawyers write their articles? Probably not, cause whoever did that was much more clever than Apple lawyers.
First off, if it is n-butanol that is being produced, the water solubility of n-butanol (at 25 C) would only allow a ~6% concentration, thus the rest would float to the surface and would be easily skimmed off in a moderately pure state. Now I don't know the temperature dependence of the solubility so perhaps this wouldn't be practical at fermentation temperatures.
Similar research is being done by Dr. Shota Atsumi et. al; they produced an organism with an engineered metabolic pathway which can produce isobutyraldehyde. This compound has a lower boiling point such that at the elevated temperatures of fermentation it is easily distilled from the culture without having to kill or filter the bacteria. Again, the issue of culture toxicity due to the metabolic product is avoided through in situ purification of the product.
True, but the shape of the isodensity surface is so closely related (the square of the wave function) that imaging one can pretty much validate the other. Also, while in the journal article they show the MO, the actual comparison between the image and MO theory is on the basis of electron density.
Thank goodness that they pointed that out, otherwise Apple could sue to prevent Samsung lawyers from actually coming to court, given that they would be infringing on Apple's patent on the human form. Realistically though, Apple would just need to collect licencing fees from all new mothers.
Let's see, Apple's patent contains no more substance than the movie; it is just a bunch of pictures of a hypothetical device (it doesn't even look much like the current iPad). It is so generic that there is no way the courts will let it stand if they have any sanity left.
Aside from the much lower price of the phone compared to Apple and RIM products, there is the issue of the plan. If people in the developing world could afford the all-you-can-eat plans like we can in the US and Europe, then price would not be an issue because they would just get phones 'on contract'
The majority of phones sold in these situations are on pay-per-use plans. They get a good deal per megabyte and they use way less. Given the low cost of the plan, the upfront cost of the phone can be a major deterrent.
I'm sorry if mr '93 escort wagon' doesn't like articles with a positive outlook on android, but what the author of this article covers is indisputably a result of an open ecosystem like Android. Notice I said open ecosystem, not open-source ecosystem; what really matters is that manufacturers have easy access to the OS at a low price. This is what Android is great at.
To summarize their results with a little more rigor; these deep sea organisms use hydrogen as an electron donor for the fixation of carbon (in the form of dissolved bicarbonate). There is little to suggest at this moment that the scientists have a ready method for using these enzymes to produce electric flow. For example, we have known the complete cycle of electrons in photosynthesis yet no solar panels are enzyme based. So I would be cautious of using the term 'fuel cell' which implies the production of electricity.
Please note that the scientists themselves never made the claim that the clams had a 'hydrogen fuel cell' and the discovery of an organism that uses hydrogen gas as an electron donor is a significant one.
Actually this will work directly against Microsoft. Unlike Google which gives away Android, Microsoft sells Windows Phone OS. This means that Microsoft is economically liable for patent infringement damages if Google chooses to litigate, and the ITC could rule specifically against windows phone OS instead of having to target phone manufacturers (Google partners in this case). Obviously the goal here isn't to sue Microsoft, although it may come to that, the goal is to use the threat of litigation to get them to stop collecting patent licencing fees.
My thought is that Google will use a mutually assured destruction approach. Rather than threatening to sue for licencing fees, they could threaten to sue with the intent of stopping all imports of phones/OS's containing infringing IP; no company is going to go against a Motorola patent trove in an all-or-nothing legal battle. Even a single low level (infrastructure level) tech patent from Motorola slipping past the defenses could mean a year or more of redesign/rewrite work to get a product selling again in the US.
Biosafety clearance is a complicated subject and ease of transmission can have as much to do with a high level as virulence. I just looked it up and both HIV and influenza are both BSL 2 (fairly low, but not trivially so)
I was going to post that exact quote. Oh well, you beat me to it.
For reference, HIV is a ssRNA virus, meaning that this treatment has the potential to be effective.
The double-stranded portion of the acronym DRACO is referring to double stranded transcription products contained within the host cells, not the nucleic acids contained within the viral capsid. I imagine that they did not used HIV because it requires high bio-hazard clearance to work with compared to the many of the viruses used in the study (although the fact that they used H1N1 makes me question my own logic).
Many sciences are experiencing this trend. A branch of biochemistry known as metabolomics is a growing field right now (in which I happen to be participating). Using tools like liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry we can get hundreds of megabytes of data per hour. Even worse is the fact that a large percentage of that data is explicitly relevant to a metabolomic profile. The only practical way of analyzing all of this information is through computational analysis, either through statistical techniques used to condense and compare the data, or though searches on painstakingly generated metabolomic libraries.
That is just my corner of the world, but I imagine that many of the low hanging fruits of scientific endeavor have already been picked, going forward, I believe that the largest innovations will come from the people willing to tackle data sets that a generation ago would be seen as insurmountable.
You aren't entirely correct there. The fact that you pay for goods and services with money is what gives it value. You got that part right.
But currency is not linked to 'sum of goods and services'. If it was linked, then money could be printed and the amount of goods/services available would increase. Sadly this is not the case, as post WWI Germany found. Money only has value because we think it has value. Furthermore the value a dollar has is equal to what we collectively think it is worth. This is as true for government issued currency as it is for bitcoins.
Yo dawg, I herd u like trademarks, so I trademarked your trademark so you can get a trademark law suit when you try to trademark my trademarked trademark.
Except the "dangers" of cell phone radiation aren't unknown. Acording to the largest, longest, and most methodologically sound study on the matter, there is no elevated risk of cancer due to cell phone radiation.
This deal is for schools, not students. If you follow the original article, it leads to a speculative piece written yesterday. Turns out there was a grain of truth in it, but again, the 20$/month deal is for schools.
Slashdot, once again, turned into failblog for a day.
Microsoft could have just kept servicing windows XP forever, and nobody would complain, but slowly, MacOS and other innovative competitors would take over. Change is painful and ruffles a lot of feathers. The change to Vista is testament to that, but very few people using windows 7 right now will complain that XP was better. Windows XP is outdated and stale just like conventional Linux desktop environments.
Yes, Canonical will take a lot of flak for their bold decision. And yes, Unity is still rough on the edges. But if they want Ubuntu to continue to be in the lead of user friendly distributions (or newb distros, as you called them), then they need to be willing to upgrade and revise. Unity will get smoother in the next few releases, and when we all look back I am sure that it will have been worth it.
As somebody who stopped using Ubuntu about two years ago, I welcome the changes. I installed and am using 11.04 on my eeePC (formerly untouched by linux). If there are more out there like me, then the user-base for Ubuntu will continue to grow.
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Since the primary OS will be Debian based we can assume support for C, C++, Python, Perl, and Bash scripting. But I have heard that you would need to get Oracle involved if you wanted a Java SE JDK since the RPi is Arm based. Can you comment on whether or not this is true and, if so, have you or are you in the process of obtaining the ability to develop Java on this platform?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
Paul Ehrlich, famous for writing the population bomb, entered a wager with Julian L. Simon that used the price of some indicator comodidy metals to gauge resource scarcity as a predicted result of overpopulation. Anyways, historically speaking, Simon came out the winner when the index prices fell between 1980 and 1990.
That being said, and my own personal admiration for the free market being laid out in the open, I do believe that there will be a decade where the proverbial Ehrlich's will come out on top. It is simple physics; the high concentration deposits of minerals will be depleted and we will all be left wondering what to do. It is certainly scary that in 13 years the population can rise by 1 billion.
Yet some thought it would be Google knocking at our door with black suits and badges.
The government will _pour_ money, not poor.
I don't imagine you have ever run a business or been in close proximity to someone who has. To you, businesses are like the engine in your car; you don't really understand every little thing, but you expect it to work cause somebody smarter than you designed it.
Even small businesses spend a significant portion of their time complying with government regulations and fearing fines due to the obscure regulations they overlooked. Ever wonder why only big businesses are a significant supplier of jobs? It is because only big businesses can afford to hire accountants to figure out the maze known as payroll. Yes, some exceptional individuals have figured out the taxes/regulations such that they can have employees in their small business, but this is not the norm. If the tax code was significantly simplified, perhaps more small businesses would be willing to hire.
It's OK though, as long as we keep extending unemployment benefits, nobody even needs jobs ;)
Speaking of green jobs; since the recession began I have heard many politicians and pundits say something along the line of "Our district will create jobs and prosperity by leading in the green business revolution"
How has that worked out? I think that our politicians are under some assumption that no other country in the world has engineers working on this problem. That China will sit idly by as we make efficient and lucrative clean energy products. The fact is that we cannot become proffitable just by changing industries, we need a climate where businesses are able to to succeed in any industry. We need less regulation, more efficient regulation (ie; less paperwork for compliance), and more efficient taxation. We also could do with a little tort reform and maybe some tarrif reform mixed in there.
If politicians (many of whom are lawyers and assume people like filling out pages and pages of EPA forms) took one minute to realise negative impact of the procedural overhead caused by all of these convoluted and redundant regulations perhaps we would have a chance at a business revolution. Many of these agencies use violations of these regulations as a revenue gathering device, this only serves to discourage business expansion and job creation.
To recap, I am not saying that we need to kill all business regulation, but we need to cut it down to the point where any person of average intelligence could understand them and reach compliance easily while still having time left in the day to run a business. Same general thought applies to tax law.
While Apple had to Photoshop the Galaxy Tab to fool the courts into thinking it looked like an iPad, your source was much more clever. They strategicly tilted the galaxy tab when comparing it to the iPad to shorten the apparent aspect ratio to closer match the iPad.
Do Apple lawyers write their articles? Probably not, cause whoever did that was much more clever than Apple lawyers.
Almost as weird as a couple of bicycle mechanics making the first powered flying machine.
First off, if it is n-butanol that is being produced, the water solubility of n-butanol (at 25 C) would only allow a ~6% concentration, thus the rest would float to the surface and would be easily skimmed off in a moderately pure state. Now I don't know the temperature dependence of the solubility so perhaps this wouldn't be practical at fermentation temperatures.
Similar research is being done by Dr. Shota Atsumi et. al; they produced an organism with an engineered metabolic pathway which can produce isobutyraldehyde. This compound has a lower boiling point such that at the elevated temperatures of fermentation it is easily distilled from the culture without having to kill or filter the bacteria. Again, the issue of culture toxicity due to the metabolic product is avoided through in situ purification of the product.
True, but the shape of the isodensity surface is so closely related (the square of the wave function) that imaging one can pretty much validate the other. Also, while in the journal article they show the MO, the actual comparison between the image and MO theory is on the basis of electron density.
Thank goodness that they pointed that out, otherwise Apple could sue to prevent Samsung lawyers from actually coming to court, given that they would be infringing on Apple's patent on the human form. Realistically though, Apple would just need to collect licencing fees from all new mothers.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=6BsWAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
Let's see, Apple's patent contains no more substance than the movie; it is just a bunch of pictures of a hypothetical device (it doesn't even look much like the current iPad). It is so generic that there is no way the courts will let it stand if they have any sanity left.
Aside from the much lower price of the phone compared to Apple and RIM products, there is the issue of the plan. If people in the developing world could afford the all-you-can-eat plans like we can in the US and Europe, then price would not be an issue because they would just get phones 'on contract'
The majority of phones sold in these situations are on pay-per-use plans. They get a good deal per megabyte and they use way less. Given the low cost of the plan, the upfront cost of the phone can be a major deterrent.
I'm sorry if mr '93 escort wagon' doesn't like articles with a positive outlook on android, but what the author of this article covers is indisputably a result of an open ecosystem like Android. Notice I said open ecosystem, not open-source ecosystem; what really matters is that manufacturers have easy access to the OS at a low price. This is what Android is great at.
To summarize their results with a little more rigor; these deep sea organisms use hydrogen as an electron donor for the fixation of carbon (in the form of dissolved bicarbonate). There is little to suggest at this moment that the scientists have a ready method for using these enzymes to produce electric flow. For example, we have known the complete cycle of electrons in photosynthesis yet no solar panels are enzyme based. So I would be cautious of using the term 'fuel cell' which implies the production of electricity.
Please note that the scientists themselves never made the claim that the clams had a 'hydrogen fuel cell' and the discovery of an organism that uses hydrogen gas as an electron donor is a significant one.
Actually this will work directly against Microsoft. Unlike Google which gives away Android, Microsoft sells Windows Phone OS. This means that Microsoft is economically liable for patent infringement damages if Google chooses to litigate, and the ITC could rule specifically against windows phone OS instead of having to target phone manufacturers (Google partners in this case). Obviously the goal here isn't to sue Microsoft, although it may come to that, the goal is to use the threat of litigation to get them to stop collecting patent licencing fees.
My thought is that Google will use a mutually assured destruction approach. Rather than threatening to sue for licencing fees, they could threaten to sue with the intent of stopping all imports of phones/OS's containing infringing IP; no company is going to go against a Motorola patent trove in an all-or-nothing legal battle. Even a single low level (infrastructure level) tech patent from Motorola slipping past the defenses could mean a year or more of redesign/rewrite work to get a product selling again in the US.
Biosafety clearance is a complicated subject and ease of transmission can have as much to do with a high level as virulence. I just looked it up and both HIV and influenza are both BSL 2 (fairly low, but not trivially so)
I was going to post that exact quote. Oh well, you beat me to it.
For reference, HIV is a ssRNA virus, meaning that this treatment has the potential to be effective.
The double-stranded portion of the acronym DRACO is referring to double stranded transcription products contained within the host cells, not the nucleic acids contained within the viral capsid. I imagine that they did not used HIV because it requires high bio-hazard clearance to work with compared to the many of the viruses used in the study (although the fact that they used H1N1 makes me question my own logic).
I think people voted this article up just to plant the suggestion.
Many sciences are experiencing this trend. A branch of biochemistry known as metabolomics is a growing field right now (in which I happen to be participating). Using tools like liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry we can get hundreds of megabytes of data per hour. Even worse is the fact that a large percentage of that data is explicitly relevant to a metabolomic profile. The only practical way of analyzing all of this information is through computational analysis, either through statistical techniques used to condense and compare the data, or though searches on painstakingly generated metabolomic libraries.
That is just my corner of the world, but I imagine that many of the low hanging fruits of scientific endeavor have already been picked, going forward, I believe that the largest innovations will come from the people willing to tackle data sets that a generation ago would be seen as insurmountable.
You aren't entirely correct there. The fact that you pay for goods and services with money is what gives it value. You got that part right.
But currency is not linked to 'sum of goods and services'. If it was linked, then money could be printed and the amount of goods/services available would increase. Sadly this is not the case, as post WWI Germany found. Money only has value because we think it has value. Furthermore the value a dollar has is equal to what we collectively think it is worth. This is as true for government issued currency as it is for bitcoins.
Take a look at either of these articles if you are still clinging to the notion that your money has real value
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money
Got you covered man, check your inbox
Are you complaining that google+ doesn't have a 'wall'? Thats like complaining that MacOS doesn't have a start button.
G+ != facebook
Yo dawg, I herd u like trademarks, so I trademarked your trademark so you can get a trademark law suit when you try to trademark my trademarked trademark.
Except the "dangers" of cell phone radiation aren't unknown. Acording to the largest, longest, and most methodologically sound study on the matter, there is no elevated risk of cancer due to cell phone radiation.
http://www.rfcom.ca/programs/interphone.shtml
perhaps they haven't read the report.
You are right about the K-12 thing
This deal is for schools, not students. If you follow the original article, it leads to a speculative piece written yesterday. Turns out there was a grain of truth in it, but again, the 20$/month deal is for schools.
Slashdot, once again, turned into failblog for a day.
Linux for the rest of us is bleeding edge.
Microsoft could have just kept servicing windows XP forever, and nobody would complain, but slowly, MacOS and other innovative competitors would take over. Change is painful and ruffles a lot of feathers. The change to Vista is testament to that, but very few people using windows 7 right now will complain that XP was better. Windows XP is outdated and stale just like conventional Linux desktop environments.
Yes, Canonical will take a lot of flak for their bold decision. And yes, Unity is still rough on the edges. But if they want Ubuntu to continue to be in the lead of user friendly distributions (or newb distros, as you called them), then they need to be willing to upgrade and revise. Unity will get smoother in the next few releases, and when we all look back I am sure that it will have been worth it.
As somebody who stopped using Ubuntu about two years ago, I welcome the changes. I installed and am using 11.04 on my eeePC (formerly untouched by linux). If there are more out there like me, then the user-base for Ubuntu will continue to grow.