While i think this discovery is very important in the sense it makes complex space life possible, we still don't know how basic life could evolve in space. The fact is that membranes, though an essential component of actual lifeforms, didn't appear until the chemical reactions that are the basics of life, and it's catalists we're firmly established. At that point, these catalists and it's substrates started to group themselves inside membranes, because there they could have much more density of substrate and be more efficient, and these we're the first cells. So, while membranes help a lot en the efficiency of life, they aren't necesary; To prove life is present in deep space we need to find protein workalikes in space. Membranes are useful, but not primordial.
"This screen ain't big enough for the both of us."
I loved this game, and a new 3D version it's just cool, but what i really want to know is if the tanks can still talk!
Mmmmh can't wait for the download to end...
Hi, this isn't an usual FP, I'ts a FPUWOL!
First Post Using a Winmodem on Linux!! I finally got the damn thing
working! Ok, i'm happy now, go ahead and give me (1- Offtopic), this moment deserves
the sacrifice of some karma.!!
It would be nice to have some cross between wearables and dektop computers, maybe having one of those nice glasses that project images on your retina. Make it cordless, get a cordless keyboard and trackball, and have some different places to work in your workroom(a chair, a sofa, a carpet on the ground, a bed, maybe), then you could work and switch place every 5 min without too much hassle. I bet that would prove good for your body.
(To the parent) You are the physical therapist, do you think it could work?
I'd compile it substituting every string on which appeared any data about microsoft with data about my company(Which would be called Microsofl), and i would start selling it as MS Windows(and on small letters 100% compatible). The package and everything would look the same as the original, but i'd sell it 8$ cheaper.
IF they try to sue me, they'll have to give proof that i've stolen their code, and since it's encrypted(i've compiled it, right?) it's illegal to reverse engineer it...
Yeah, but if you can check and discard possible methods of simulating the protein folding at a decent speed, you'll have more possibilities of finding the right algorithm
I don't know if you can get enough vapour concentration that it would burn, but one time i got drunk very badly with orujo and puked, and then one friend of mine that was playing with a zippo lighted it and threw it into the puke. It started burning though it didn't make a very big fire, and it lasted at least 5 min(I think). Funny thing, and funnier smell...
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank the following companies whose generous donations of the optical components made this project possible on my limited student budget:
Hamamatsu Corporation: Photodiodes, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and integrated-socket high voltage supplies. Andover Corporation: Narrow-band optical filter.
Omega Optical, Inc.: Narrow-band optical filter.
So this article is just another plug from that multiheaded corporate behemoth that is Andover.net!! And Slashdot is only another mere piece of the borg!:P
May i ask a cuestion? have you created this account only to make the joke on the top of the page? I mean, it's pathetic when an AC replies to himself, but going trough the hassle of making a new account... i don't have words....
While i think that's the way to go(don't put all the eggs in the same...), i think that we still we're very far from establishing a self-sufficient base outside the earth... unless life expectation doesn't jump up a lot i don't expect to see it, and i'm 19.
Ok, i've said this before, look here. Short version:
Natural environmental changes happen
Species extingish massively because of them. Eventually biological diversification happens and all is good and fine again.
It happened in the past and it'll happen in the future. Nothing to worry in the grand scheme of things.
Now, Homo Sapiens is an animal species like any other one.
It can get extinguished like any other species
It won't matter in the grand scheme of things, too.
Conclusion: Human race should care about his own future(ok, this last line was a nice non-sequitur, but i'm in a hurry and i think my point is clear enough)
While it is true that such radical climate changes have ocurred in the past, and are part of earth's ecological cycle, and that even if the ones that are ocurring right now are man-generated, you must bear in mind that almost all those environmental shifts have provoked mass extintions, more importantly you have to remember that man is only another species, not the "king of creation", and while probably we can do nothing to seriously disrupt life on earth, we can easily kill ourselves, and it's our sole responsabity not to let that happen.
What i'm trying to say is that it does not matter what is making the global environment change so fast, it doesn't matter if it's a "natural" or "artificial"(btw most people seem to think that these two terms are opposed, while actually "artificial" is only a subset of "natural), but the only thing that matters is that there is happening a global warming at a frightening speed, and that for what we now, much less radical changes in the environment ended in massive(i'm saying 90% of the species or more) extintions. Of course, those extintions happened along many million years(which is still pretty fast in earth terms), but, also, the climate changes happened along millions of years, too; Now the climate changes are hapening millions of times faster, so the acompanying extintions may come along at the same accelerated pace.
Mhhhh yeah, i'm thinking maybe a game could have an entire city built in, many prescripted "quests" that could or could not be interrelated, but that won't be "awaiting" for you, instead would be carried on by a NPC or end in another way, and having a "big one" that would be the central story. There could be also random quests, This way you could have a great story(the big quest, a great ambience(a full city were things actually HAPPEN around, people go work, get robbed, whatever...), and great replayability. Sort of Fallout but with an argument that goes on if you don't do anything, and a more complex world(lots of NPC with AI and history)
I agree strongly with you, story is very important to get a succesful game, but i think that ambientation is also very important; Inmersing the player in a plausible world is at least as important as the argument. In my personal podium of all-time best games, Dreamweb has an assured place, and it wasn't for his argument(too short) or it's graphics(a bit crappy even when it was released), but because i LOVE the world it depicts.
One more thing, how do you make a non-predictable but with great argument game? I haven't seen any game that makes both things great, as one tends to work against the other, so how could it be done? I'm not an avid player, so it could have been done and gone unnoticed by me. Could i be enlightened?
I just posted in another story here something about the moderation system. I think we really need some more customising on what you want to see, i like trolls, but i don't want to see the automated spam, so in fact for me it should be +1 Troll.
But what if i like the posts from, osm or shoeboy? i find them fun, and i like to read them, i like the clever trolls, i just can't see the point on the automated spam that has been posted here lately. I think it could be solved you could set a treshold and a factor for each type of moderation, for example:
Treshold: 4
Insightful: *3
Interesting:*3
Funny: *1
Troll:*2
Flamebait:*(-1)
Spam:*(-5)
and so on...
Then a post moderated funny 1 times, troll 2 time, and flamebait 1 time, would end 1*1+2*2+1*(-1)= 4. This way you could customise what do you want to see very well. Of course, maybe this would put too much strain on the database, i don't know, someone can give an answer about this one?
I have a strong feeling of being trolled, but I'll reply anyways
The article is not about bashing apple and saying microsoft/linux whatever is cool, in fact, it's called anti-apple because it recognizes that apple has(and is) the leader in designing the UIs today. You should give it a read, it points out very well the deficiencies of the actual interfaces, and has some original points. And you shouldn't judge something without even giving a look to it, because some times(many more than you think) you will be wrong, for example, someone reading your post could think that you're an stupid karma-whore or a (stupid, too) troll, and i must admit they're right, however, if they wanted to be sure(you could simply be under massive neural strain induced by too much cofee) they should look at your other posts.
Well, i have read your post, and it looks you're not really a troll, nor dumb, and sometimes you post really insightful things. Too bad, because i wanted to insult you a bit more:) , but it makes a good example about what i said. Now go read the article.
Slashdot Mirror
While i think this discovery is very important in the sense it makes complex space life possible, we still don't know how basic life could evolve in space.
The fact is that membranes, though an essential component of actual lifeforms, didn't appear until the chemical reactions that are the basics of life, and it's catalists we're firmly established. At that point, these catalists and it's substrates started to group themselves inside membranes, because there they could have much more density of substrate and be more efficient, and these we're the first cells.
So, while membranes help a lot en the efficiency of life, they aren't necesary;
To prove life is present in deep space we need to find protein workalikes in space. Membranes are useful, but not primordial.
Are you implying that some disney movie depicts sex between fairies(or between anything at all)?
Mmmmh can't wait for the download to end...
First Post Using a Winmodem on Linux!! I finally got the damn thing working! Ok, i'm happy now, go ahead and give me (1- Offtopic), this moment deserves the sacrifice of some karma.!!
PD: BTW slashdot looks weird on Lynx :P
(To the parent) You are the physical therapist, do you think it could work?
IF they try to sue me, they'll have to give proof that i've stolen their code, and since it's encrypted(i've compiled it, right?) it's illegal to reverse engineer it...
Mmmhhh... Actually it's not that bad idea...
Yeah, but if you can check and discard possible methods of simulating the protein folding at a decent speed, you'll have more possibilities of finding the right algorithm
I don't know if you can get enough vapour concentration that it would burn, but one time i got drunk very badly with orujo and puked, and then one friend of mine that was playing with a zippo lighted it and threw it into the puke. It started burning though it didn't make a very big fire, and it lasted at least 5 min(I think). Funny thing, and funnier smell...
Bah I'm sure any BSD can outperform that... ;P
May i ask a cuestion? have you created this account only to make the joke on the top of the page? I mean, it's pathetic when an AC replies to himself, but going trough the hassle of making a new account... i don't have words....
While i think that's the way to go(don't put all the eggs in the same...), i think that we still we're very far from establishing a self-sufficient base outside the earth... unless life expectation doesn't jump up a lot i don't expect to see it, and i'm 19.
Ok, i've been seeing your sig around and i'm curious... what's the fun on it? I mean, i don't get it, i must be dumb or something, explain please.
- Natural environmental changes happen
- Species extingish massively because of them. Eventually biological diversification happens and all is good and fine again.
- It happened in the past and it'll happen in the future. Nothing to worry in the grand scheme of things.
- Now, Homo Sapiens is an animal species like any other one.
- It can get extinguished like any other species
- It won't matter in the grand scheme of things, too.
Conclusion: Human race should care about his own future(ok, this last line was a nice non-sequitur, but i'm in a hurry and i think my point is clear enough)What i'm trying to say is that it does not matter what is making the global environment change so fast, it doesn't matter if it's a "natural" or "artificial"(btw most people seem to think that these two terms are opposed, while actually "artificial" is only a subset of "natural), but the only thing that matters is that there is happening a global warming at a frightening speed, and that for what we now, much less radical changes in the environment ended in massive(i'm saying 90% of the species or more) extintions. Of course, those extintions happened along many million years(which is still pretty fast in earth terms), but, also, the climate changes happened along millions of years, too; Now the climate changes are hapening millions of times faster, so the acompanying extintions may come along at the same accelerated pace.
But this christmas be sure that they will make money by saying that now comes the 'real' millenium, that last year's was a fake...
You should say something about linux credit cards...
They can call it the "begin" button...
Mhhhh yeah, i'm thinking maybe a game could have an entire city built in, many prescripted "quests" that could or could not be interrelated, but that won't be "awaiting" for you, instead would be carried on by a NPC or end in another way, and having a "big one" that would be the central story. There could be also random quests, This way you could have a great story(the big quest, a great ambience(a full city were things actually HAPPEN around, people go work, get robbed, whatever...), and great replayability.
Sort of Fallout but with an argument that goes on if you don't do anything, and a more complex world(lots of NPC with AI and history)
One more thing, how do you make a non-predictable but with great argument game? I haven't seen any game that makes both things great, as one tends to work against the other, so how could it be done? I'm not an avid player, so it could have been done and gone unnoticed by me. Could i be enlightened?
I just posted in another story here something about the moderation system. I think we really need some more customising on what you want to see, i like trolls, but i don't want to see the automated spam, so in fact for me it should be +1 Troll.
- Treshold: 4
- Insightful: *3
- Interesting:*3
- Funny: *1
- Troll:*2
- Flamebait:*(-1)
- Spam:*(-5)
- and so on...
Then a post moderated funny 1 times, troll 2 time, and flamebait 1 time, would end 1*1+2*2+1*(-1)= 4.This way you could customise what do you want to see very well. Of course, maybe this would put too much strain on the database, i don't know, someone can give an answer about this one?
The article is not about bashing apple and saying microsoft/linux whatever is cool, in fact, it's called anti-apple because it recognizes that apple has(and is) the leader in designing the UIs today.
You should give it a read, it points out very well the deficiencies of the actual interfaces, and has some original points.
And you shouldn't judge something without even giving a look to it, because some times(many more than you think) you will be wrong, for example, someone reading your post could think that you're an stupid karma-whore or a (stupid, too) troll, and i must admit they're right, however, if they wanted to be sure(you could simply be under massive neural strain induced by too much cofee) they should look at your other posts.
Well, i have read your post, and it looks you're not really a troll, nor dumb, and sometimes you post really insightful things. Too bad, because i wanted to insult you a bit more :) , but it makes a good example about what i said. Now go read the article.