Because if we can stop them from sending around doc or docx documents (or orther stuff that you need Windows only software for), maybe I can work quietly without my boss and collegues telling me to start using Windows because it is "better" (which they prove by the fact that I can't read/edit their documents normally)
It depends on the definition of centre. If by centre you mean centre of mass, that is the same as saying: "we define the centre to be the place where gravity is zero".
Just looking at it won't hurt anyone. It's what you do after it that counts, and that depends on the data.
Of course, notifying a company of their mistake is nice so they can make improvements in the future. Where I come from, people help each other instead of even thinking about "putting them at legal risk". Unfortunately though, it is also my experience that most companies don't care.
There are a lot of potential uses, not the least of which is they can more easily study how additional components in the membrane (ex: proteins) affect its properties.
To do that you can simply order or purify actual natural lipids. The research is not without merit but I doubt that it will help to study "natural" membranes. It may have other uses though.
I read the actual article and the authors have used a chemical reaction (that is not the same as the one used in nature), to make lipids (but not the actual ones that nature makes). Once they got the lipids the bilayer forms itself, but that is nothing new.
The reaction is carried out in water, and the substrates are not reactive unless a catalyst is added, which leads them to claim that this is more "natural" than a standard chemical reaction. Using the word "life" or "nature" in this context is IMHO not appropriate.
Why don't you look it up? Does every word need to be explained? Show some initiative. Do you want ECDC and EU explained as well? And maybe you also want some of the "difficult" words that are not abbreviated explained? What about pneumonia? And do you/really/ know what "infection" means exactly?
(...) most of the time it's us, the humans, who cause a species to go extinct, not the species itself.
But it IS the species itself in that case, because it did not adapt to our presence and our behavior. Which is perfectly fine. Who ever got the idea that we are "better" or "higher" than nature, and that it is therefore up to us to decide which species get extinct and which ones don't? It is all part of nature, and we are nature as much as any other animal. We will probably kill ourselves because of that, and that will be the best thing that ever happened on this planet.
Of course, that whole stem-cell species revival program could also be called part of nature. And it probably is. But we would have to understand a lot more about ecology and the influence species have on each other before even thinking that we can make a sensible decision about reintroduction of a species.
Did I just read that a scientist said: 'Think about the number of studies that had to be published for people to realize smoking is bad for you,' ?
I really don't think that the number of studies published is why people realize that smoking is bad. Politics doesn't work that way, and people certainly don't. I hope I do not need to explain this, but please let me know if you do not understand, and I'd be happy to do so.
This is a poor test, but not for any of the reasons in the above 4 posts. Slashdot commenters, you disappoint me.
To properly test this, luggage of all sizes and shapes should be tested, and more than once for every item. Also, it should be compared against exactly the same luggage that is sent using the traditional system without RFID tags.
Why don't they just ask exam questions that require an actual understanding of the subject instead?
Oh wait, the teachers don't understand it well enough themselves.
I am not a lawyer, but the USA have proven often enough that they think they can do whatever they want for "national security", no matter whether it is legal or not.
Windows tries to make things easier for the average user by guessing what this average user wants to do and than doing that instead of what you meant to ask it to do. This mostly works, because most users are average or close to average (see also: Gaussian distribution).
However, if you are not an average user (p0.10), and you want your computer to actually do what you tell it to, that is a lot more difficult in Windows than in Linux (IMHO). So if you ask me, I am indeed one of the users that uses Linux because I think Windows is too complex.
That just indicates the terms of service need to be changed. There is nothing wrong with young children using a website. Does 4chan have terms of service?
It is easy to say that the US should not interfere with other countries, but: "with great power comes great responsibility".
Like it or not: the US are the world police. They have a big army and lots of fancy military equipment, and most of the time I believe they are really trying to do what is best for everybody, and prevent bloodshed etc. etc. With an army as big as theirs, they have a moral obligation to intervene when people are being killed for no apparent reason (or for "bad" reasons, whatever that means). It is however not so easy to decide when to intervene, because it is often not clear what exactly "good" and "bad" reasons are: wars and international politics are not as straightforward as movies (I wish they were. It would either make the movies more interesting or the politics easier to understand).
And yes, they will sometimes decide to intervene when it should not have been done. That is always easy to say afterwards. How many times have you made wrong decisions in your personal life (or in your MMORPG if you prefer)? Often enough, I bet. The consequences may be smaller in case of personal decisions, but should that be a reason for a country to sit back and do nothing? No.
Depending on how exactly these processors will look like, they may be very interesting for speeding up scientific computations. The fastest computer in the world at this moment is already GPU based, and such a CPU/GPU hybrid can possibly be even more efficient by removing the slow communication between CPU and GPU.
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Why do you need to sell it to people?
Because if we can stop them from sending around doc or docx documents (or orther stuff that you need Windows only software for), maybe I can work quietly without my boss and collegues telling me to start using Windows because it is "better" (which they prove by the fact that I can't read/edit their documents normally)
It depends on the definition of centre. If by centre you mean centre of mass, that is the same as saying: "we define the centre to be the place where gravity is zero".
Just looking at it won't hurt anyone. It's what you do after it that counts, and that depends on the data. Of course, notifying a company of their mistake is nice so they can make improvements in the future. Where I come from, people help each other instead of even thinking about "putting them at legal risk". Unfortunately though, it is also my experience that most companies don't care.
First, have a look at the data. Then decide.
There are a lot of potential uses, not the least of which is they can more easily study how additional components in the membrane (ex: proteins) affect its properties.
To do that you can simply order or purify actual natural lipids. The research is not without merit but I doubt that it will help to study "natural" membranes. It may have other uses though.
I read the actual article and the authors have used a chemical reaction (that is not the same as the one used in nature), to make lipids (but not the actual ones that nature makes). Once they got the lipids the bilayer forms itself, but that is nothing new. The reaction is carried out in water, and the substrates are not reactive unless a catalyst is added, which leads them to claim that this is more "natural" than a standard chemical reaction. Using the word "life" or "nature" in this context is IMHO not appropriate.
This is interesting chemistry, but has not got much to do with life or realistic cell membranes.
Why don't you look it up? Does every word need to be explained? Show some initiative. Do you want ECDC and EU explained as well? And maybe you also want some of the "difficult" words that are not abbreviated explained? What about pneumonia? And do you /really/ know what "infection" means exactly?
(...) most of the time it's us, the humans, who cause a species to go extinct, not the species itself.
But it IS the species itself in that case, because it did not adapt to our presence and our behavior. Which is perfectly fine. Who ever got the idea that we are "better" or "higher" than nature, and that it is therefore up to us to decide which species get extinct and which ones don't? It is all part of nature, and we are nature as much as any other animal. We will probably kill ourselves because of that, and that will be the best thing that ever happened on this planet. Of course, that whole stem-cell species revival program could also be called part of nature. And it probably is. But we would have to understand a lot more about ecology and the influence species have on each other before even thinking that we can make a sensible decision about reintroduction of a species.
I would love to have my theoretical gadgets powered with theoretical electricity from these theoretical shoe inserts.
Did I just read that a scientist said: 'Think about the number of studies that had to be published for people to realize smoking is bad for you,' ?
I really don't think that the number of studies published is why people realize that smoking is bad. Politics doesn't work that way, and people certainly don't. I hope I do not need to explain this, but please let me know if you do not understand, and I'd be happy to do so.
I wonder what happens if somebody wants to take a bag full of RFID tags as luggage.
This is a poor test, but not for any of the reasons in the above 4 posts. Slashdot commenters, you disappoint me.
To properly test this, luggage of all sizes and shapes should be tested, and more than once for every item. Also, it should be compared against exactly the same luggage that is sent using the traditional system without RFID tags.
1. 0.0000001
2. 0.0000000001
3. 0.000000000000000000000000001
4. ???
5. Profit!
Didn't anybody tell you that you have to make off-site backups?
Why don't they just ask exam questions that require an actual understanding of the subject instead? Oh wait, the teachers don't understand it well enough themselves.
I am not a lawyer, but the USA have proven often enough that they think they can do whatever they want for "national security", no matter whether it is legal or not.
Windows tries to make things easier for the average user by guessing what this average user wants to do and than doing that instead of what you meant to ask it to do. This mostly works, because most users are average or close to average (see also: Gaussian distribution). However, if you are not an average user (p0.10), and you want your computer to actually do what you tell it to, that is a lot more difficult in Windows than in Linux (IMHO). So if you ask me, I am indeed one of the users that uses Linux because I think Windows is too complex.
That just indicates the terms of service need to be changed. There is nothing wrong with young children using a website. Does 4chan have terms of service?
What part of "responsibility" is it that you do not understand? I never said that might == right. Might is fine if used responsibly: to do right.
It is easy to say that the US should not interfere with other countries, but: "with great power comes great responsibility".
Like it or not: the US are the world police. They have a big army and lots of fancy military equipment, and most of the time I believe they are really trying to do what is best for everybody, and prevent bloodshed etc. etc. With an army as big as theirs, they have a moral obligation to intervene when people are being killed for no apparent reason (or for "bad" reasons, whatever that means). It is however not so easy to decide when to intervene, because it is often not clear what exactly "good" and "bad" reasons are: wars and international politics are not as straightforward as movies (I wish they were. It would either make the movies more interesting or the politics easier to understand).
And yes, they will sometimes decide to intervene when it should not have been done. That is always easy to say afterwards. How many times have you made wrong decisions in your personal life (or in your MMORPG if you prefer)? Often enough, I bet. The consequences may be smaller in case of personal decisions, but should that be a reason for a country to sit back and do nothing? No.
I've got a mouse with a battery that lasts for hours, and can be used on any surface because of its dark field laser technology. That should do it.
Depending on how exactly these processors will look like, they may be very interesting for speeding up scientific computations. The fastest computer in the world at this moment is already GPU based, and such a CPU/GPU hybrid can possibly be even more efficient by removing the slow communication between CPU and GPU.
Be that as it may, not having daylight savings time makes people spend more time in the dark, which may also cause depression.
I am not sure if I should be worried of relieved now that we get Chinese instead of American spying equipment inside our processors.