FF might save your data in a crash, but in doing so it gets tantalizingly *slow*. I usually have 10+ tabs open at any given time, but on the next restart, when FF restarts and tries to open all tabs at once it just slows down and down, quite possibly clogging up the machine in severe cases. The end result: most of the time I'm just hoping for the "well, this is embarrassing" message;-).
At 9:26 in the short version. You clearly see two children in the right front seat in the van. You really don't have to watch carefully, it's pretty damned obvious!
Then at 12:05 after they shot the van one guy says "Ah, yeah, look at that, right through the windshield. Haha!"
It's just cruel, I don't have any other words for it. Very cruel, and the guys that did/ordered/covered this up should be put to trial. You just dont shoot at innocent people trying to help wounded folks. It's inhuman.
I don't think these were marketed in the huge way Apple does with the iPad. Consumer products never grow big unless they are marketed.
The iPad --- and the clones it will undoubtedly spur --- might not be new in the technical sense of the word, but for 99.9% of the world population, it will. Perhaps the world wasn't ready for tablet PCs 10 years ago, as the netbook also has only been vastly popular for the last few years. Ten years ago, people were just getting used to mobile phones equipped with camera's, they couldn't see any need for tablet computers. These days, that's changed. E-book manufacturers make ever greater profits, our mobile phones are basically wearable desktop computers, its only logical that tablet computers are the next big thing. Apple comes with this iPad at precisely the right moment, AND it's got the right sense of marketing.;-)
Neelie Kroes nowadays is the European Commisioner for Digital Agenda. Up until last year, she was European Commisioner for Competition. If she'd be siding up with MS in the "war against everything 'open'", she'd be siding up with her old enemy. She cost MS billions in the six years she was commisioner for competition.;-).
Besides, this Digital Agenda thingy isn't all too bad. It's in favor of open standards, promotes fast internet (with all european bureaucracy, it's actually saying absolute goals to achieve) and innovation. It doesn't mention a single word about propietary software.
The problem with biofuels is indeed that they're not very efficient. They might "solve" parts of the energy consumption problem, but in turn they create a lot of new problems. First of all, you need HUGE plantations to produce that amount of biomass. In fact, you'll need to free up space that would otherwise be used for food. We saw that happen in 2008, when food prices skyrocketed because of shortages. A possible solution would be to build vertical farms, but I haven't seen any of those yet. Secondly, burning those fuels will still generate tons of CO2. So biofuels aren't the solution to the energy problem either imho.
Even if it greatly reduces fuel usage, this still won't solve the energy problem the world faces. New combustion engines aren't the future; renewable energy is.
First of all, viruses aren't cells. Viruses are basically just encapsulated packages of genetic material (can be either DNA or RNA. In the case of HIV it's RNA). Normally, RNA viruses - such as the flu - cannot be really "dormant", since there RNA is translated into protein quite quick. However, HIV is a retrovirus, which means it can transform it's RNA back to DNA. This viral DNA then integrates in the human DNA. It literally squeezes between human genes. And genomic DNA isn't transcribed throughout the whole genome for any given cell. Cell type A might transcribe only region A (this is purely hypothetical, to give an idea) in a given chromosome, but cell type B might transcribe both regions A and B in the same chromosome. So, if HIV were to hide in region B, it can remain dormant forever in cell type A. There is just no way for the cell to know that HIV is there. Only when cell type A matures into cell type B, HIV gets expressed again. Dormant HIV infections would be very hard, if not impossible, to detect for the body's own immune system. Even a treatment for dormant HIV would be very difficult (since the cells do not express any feature of HIV, except for on the DNA level). You'd need to target infected cells on the DNA level, something that is very, very hard to accomplish in living organisms. there are basically two ways I can think of: engineer a toxic molecule to a HIV-specific DNA probe, thus killing all cells that have HIV DNA in them. Or splice out the HIV DNA, but that is even harder, especially when you don't know where the HIV fragments are located in the genome (I guess HIV integrates at multiple places in human DNA, making that option quite impractical).
It's probably just an effect of it's highly eccentric orbit around Mars. On one end (apoapsis) of the orbit, it's 10,000 km from the surface of Mars, on the other end (periapsis) it's just a mere 298 km from Mars. Moving from apoapsis to periapsis might appear like "falling" towards Mars, and since there's a difference in distance: doppler effect. No need to worry immediately;-)
The article sites some numbers, but... what do they actually say? Nothing. You can state a whole list of numbers, but the actual user experience is what counts. Here in EU, I haven't had a single minute of internet downtime for the last 2 full years. Not a single minute. However, my American friends complain quite often about internet downtime, while they pay absurdly large prices. For comparison: I pay €39,99/month for 20MBps (practically it's around 13 MBps) internet, telephone and digital TV (state-funded channels in full HD) in one single package. I wonder if you can get something like that in the US (€40 is about 50 USD). And yet another thing: we have wifi almost everywhere, even in trains (for free!). It's just a matter of time before they'll put wifi in subways and buses. Are these services available in the US? I wonder.
"It's really as if Microsoft deliberately tried to break email interoperability so they can attempt to monopolize it."
Isn't that their market strategy anyway? They did the same with IE, and heck! they're trying the same with Outlook. How surprising!
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FF might save your data in a crash, but in doing so it gets tantalizingly *slow*. I usually have 10+ tabs open at any given time, but on the next restart, when FF restarts and tries to open all tabs at once it just slows down and down, quite possibly clogging up the machine in severe cases. The end result: most of the time I'm just hoping for the "well, this is embarrassing" message ;-).
At 9:26 in the short version. You clearly see two children in the right front seat in the van. You really don't have to watch carefully, it's pretty damned obvious! Then at 12:05 after they shot the van one guy says "Ah, yeah, look at that, right through the windshield. Haha!" It's just cruel, I don't have any other words for it. Very cruel, and the guys that did/ordered/covered this up should be put to trial. You just dont shoot at innocent people trying to help wounded folks. It's inhuman.
I don't think these were marketed in the huge way Apple does with the iPad. Consumer products never grow big unless they are marketed. The iPad --- and the clones it will undoubtedly spur --- might not be new in the technical sense of the word, but for 99.9% of the world population, it will. Perhaps the world wasn't ready for tablet PCs 10 years ago, as the netbook also has only been vastly popular for the last few years. Ten years ago, people were just getting used to mobile phones equipped with camera's, they couldn't see any need for tablet computers. These days, that's changed. E-book manufacturers make ever greater profits, our mobile phones are basically wearable desktop computers, its only logical that tablet computers are the next big thing. Apple comes with this iPad at precisely the right moment, AND it's got the right sense of marketing. ;-)
Neelie Kroes nowadays is the European Commisioner for Digital Agenda. Up until last year, she was European Commisioner for Competition. If she'd be siding up with MS in the "war against everything 'open'", she'd be siding up with her old enemy. She cost MS billions in the six years she was commisioner for competition. ;-).
Besides, this Digital Agenda thingy isn't all too bad. It's in favor of open standards, promotes fast internet (with all european bureaucracy, it's actually saying absolute goals to achieve) and innovation. It doesn't mention a single word about propietary software.
The problem with biofuels is indeed that they're not very efficient. They might "solve" parts of the energy consumption problem, but in turn they create a lot of new problems. First of all, you need HUGE plantations to produce that amount of biomass. In fact, you'll need to free up space that would otherwise be used for food. We saw that happen in 2008, when food prices skyrocketed because of shortages. A possible solution would be to build vertical farms, but I haven't seen any of those yet. Secondly, burning those fuels will still generate tons of CO2. So biofuels aren't the solution to the energy problem either imho.
Even if it greatly reduces fuel usage, this still won't solve the energy problem the world faces. New combustion engines aren't the future; renewable energy is.
First of all, viruses aren't cells. Viruses are basically just encapsulated packages of genetic material (can be either DNA or RNA. In the case of HIV it's RNA). Normally, RNA viruses - such as the flu - cannot be really "dormant", since there RNA is translated into protein quite quick. However, HIV is a retrovirus, which means it can transform it's RNA back to DNA. This viral DNA then integrates in the human DNA. It literally squeezes between human genes. And genomic DNA isn't transcribed throughout the whole genome for any given cell. Cell type A might transcribe only region A (this is purely hypothetical, to give an idea) in a given chromosome, but cell type B might transcribe both regions A and B in the same chromosome. So, if HIV were to hide in region B, it can remain dormant forever in cell type A. There is just no way for the cell to know that HIV is there. Only when cell type A matures into cell type B, HIV gets expressed again. Dormant HIV infections would be very hard, if not impossible, to detect for the body's own immune system. Even a treatment for dormant HIV would be very difficult (since the cells do not express any feature of HIV, except for on the DNA level). You'd need to target infected cells on the DNA level, something that is very, very hard to accomplish in living organisms. there are basically two ways I can think of: engineer a toxic molecule to a HIV-specific DNA probe, thus killing all cells that have HIV DNA in them. Or splice out the HIV DNA, but that is even harder, especially when you don't know where the HIV fragments are located in the genome (I guess HIV integrates at multiple places in human DNA, making that option quite impractical).
It's probably just an effect of it's highly eccentric orbit around Mars. On one end (apoapsis) of the orbit, it's 10,000 km from the surface of Mars, on the other end (periapsis) it's just a mere 298 km from Mars. Moving from apoapsis to periapsis might appear like "falling" towards Mars, and since there's a difference in distance: doppler effect. No need to worry immediately ;-)
The article sites some numbers, but... what do they actually say? Nothing. You can state a whole list of numbers, but the actual user experience is what counts. Here in EU, I haven't had a single minute of internet downtime for the last 2 full years. Not a single minute. However, my American friends complain quite often about internet downtime, while they pay absurdly large prices. For comparison: I pay €39,99/month for 20MBps (practically it's around 13 MBps) internet, telephone and digital TV (state-funded channels in full HD) in one single package. I wonder if you can get something like that in the US (€40 is about 50 USD). And yet another thing: we have wifi almost everywhere, even in trains (for free!). It's just a matter of time before they'll put wifi in subways and buses. Are these services available in the US? I wonder.
"It's really as if Microsoft deliberately tried to break email interoperability so they can attempt to monopolize it." Isn't that their market strategy anyway? They did the same with IE, and heck! they're trying the same with Outlook. How surprising!