talk of 'computer viruses' carries all of the portent and weight of polio, anthrax, German Measles and tuberculosis. Invoking these mysterious and deadly images is more colorful than tech speak, even if most of the so-called viruses are closer to the common cold than the black plague.
viruses named:
polio
common cold
German Measles
bacteria passed off as viruses:
anthrax
tuberculosis
black plague
The target market actually is geeks who like Linux, and those who (to paraphrase an earlier poster) would buy a block of wood if it had a linux sticker on it - though the Agenda is definitely quite usable, and worth it just for the terminal (and the ability to telnet, and remote-display,...)
Somebody configured one as a webserver long ago, though I don't know whether it was Apache.
The reason this article is significant is not that it's the first to suggest that sauropods held their necks horizontally - that is, as you say, old news. However, it supports that theory, making specific reference to calculations of blood pressure and required heart size, et al.
As one example, this fluff piece on the Diplodocus at the Carnegie museum gives the reasoning for displaying the new dinosaur statue with a horizontal neck as being based on the ability of the shoulder and neck to withstand vertical stress. (though it turns out that they had to raise the head a bit to keep kids from climbing on it)
I would think it would be harder to hold their neck straight out rather than up. How do they know that they didn't have bigger hearts that could handle pumping the blood up there? Or maybe some additional smaller hearts to help it along. Maybe I missed the point
To quote from the abstract:
Recent data on ventricular wall stress indicate that their left ventricles would have weighed 15 times those of similarly sized whales. Such dimensionally, energetically and mechanically disadvantageous ventricles were highly unlikely in an endothermic sauropod. Accessory hearts or a siphon mechanism, with sub-atmospheric blood pressures in the head, were also not feasible.
Take the total number of gallons of fuel used by cars ina year, divide it by the number of dollars spent on road infrastructure, you now have a tax rate in $/gal.
... there is such a thing, but it's an elusive beast. Would someone post a link to a download site if I promise only to use it for good, and never for evil? (namely, checking that pages display well in it before I unleash them on the web at large)
In case noone's beaten me to it, here's an English-to-k1dd13 translation script (actually, come to think of it, it should work for any language in the Roman alphabet). Enjoy.
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viruses named:
polio
common cold
German Measles
bacteria passed off as viruses:
anthrax
tuberculosis
black plague
*sigh*.
The target market actually is geeks who like Linux, and those who (to paraphrase an earlier poster) would buy a block of wood if it had a linux sticker on it - though the Agenda is definitely quite usable, and worth it just for the terminal (and the ability to telnet, and remote-display, ...)
Somebody configured one as a webserver long ago, though I don't know whether it was Apache.
The Mac does this automatically, I believe.
The reason this article is significant is not that it's the first to suggest that sauropods held their necks horizontally - that is, as you say, old news. However, it supports that theory, making specific reference to calculations of blood pressure and required heart size, et al.
As one example, this fluff piece on the Diplodocus at the Carnegie museum gives the reasoning for displaying the new dinosaur statue with a horizontal neck as being based on the ability of the shoulder and neck to withstand vertical stress. (though it turns out that they had to raise the head a bit to keep kids from climbing on it)
Full text isn't available (to us lowly nonsubscribers) but the abstract is here
I would think it would be harder to hold their neck straight out rather than up. How do they know that they didn't have bigger hearts that could handle pumping the blood up there? Or maybe some additional smaller hearts to help it along. Maybe I missed the point
To quote from the abstract:
already happened.
Take the total number of gallons of fuel used by cars ina year, divide it by the number of dollars spent on road infrastructure, you now have a tax rate in $/gal.
Actually, you have a tax rate in gal/$.
... there is such a thing, but it's an elusive beast. Would someone post a link to a download site if I promise only to use it for good, and never for evil? (namely, checking that pages display well in it before I unleash them on the web at large)
get it here.