Actually when MD's first came out, they did release pre-recorded MD's to help it catch on. Too bad it didn't. I havent seen any pre-recorded disks (even though it talks about them in the manual that came with mine), but I hear they are more popular in Europe...
If the antibiotics weren't airborne, then how could the bacteria on the "clean" side help out the bacteria that were being killed? They're saying that the bacteria on the non-effected side sent "survival" signs to tell the dieing bacteria to "turn on genes"... why would the non-effected bacteria have this "special knowledge" that the dieing bacteria didnt?
This situation isn't convincing enough for me to believe that bacteria are communication to eachother...
1. For the airborne "messages" to be sent, I'm assuming that the E.coli cultures were in open air, and not in water. So each side of the divider was pretty much in the same system.
2. If "pheremones" were able to cross through the gap, then the antibiotics should have been able to also.
Now it is a simple problem of ratio...
If you have an ammount of antibiotics x, and another number of E.coli y, then you will have the ratio of antibiotits to bacterium x/y. If x is a large number compared to y, then the E.coli have small chance of survival... more "poision" per cell. But if you were increase y, then the ammount of "poision" per cell decreases in the system, thus improving the chance for each individual cell to survive.
Either they're disregarding this possibility, or there wasn't enough information given in the article.
Wow... ethernet cards are on sale from 100 bucks to 36 bucks.... but a gigabit switch is around 1,600 bucks!
You go ahead and buy that NIC, but it'll be a while before some l33t h4x0r geek buys that $1600 switch for his lan party...... well.... i do know a couple morons....
So what happens to this non-zero energy? Theoretically, it is used to produce a particle--anti-particle pair which live for a very short time, otherwise it would violate energy conservation, then annihilate each other. These are the 'virtual' particles...
Only it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of water)
Well... first off... every chemical reaction has entropy. Order is either hightened, or lowered. What you should have said is that it is exothermic, but even then, the point that it requires a bit of energy is just saying that it needs a little boost to get the reaction going (forgot the exact term for this... its like a spark plug in a combustion engine).
So there's no combustion on mars... doesn't mean that there is no water.... When do you think all the water on earth was created? During its own creation. In the creation of a planet, there is a ton of abundant energy going around... plenty for the creation of water. So why couldn't mars be the same? Sure, there is a lot of iron on the surface of mars, but just like on earth, there could be underground caverns full of water. Last time i checked, that is what they wanted to search for next...
Another source for water is metorites, comets, and other small chunks floating around in space that enter our atmosphere (and mars too).
then explain... are you going to use the fact that we can't measure the spin of an electron at the same time as the position?...if so, i feel sorry for you...
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Time travel is something our minds do on a daily basis, you can imagine future events, sometimes you are right and sometimes you are wrong, traveling into the future allows you to travel into a POSSIBLE future, but no future is THE absolute future,
Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.
Exactly WHAT about time is dynamic?
There is no way for anything in this universe to be random (causing something to by dynamic... to have multiple possible outcomes). Subatomic particles don't just appear and dissappear... that would go against the law of conservation of energy. Something would have to CAUSE them to appear somewhere (if that even happens)... so the thought of parallel universes being created does not go by the rules of physics...
Explain to me how you can just blow up for no reason what-so-ever... because you say it can happen in a parallel universe.
So there is an absolute future.... it is controlled by the past...
If you could travel back in time... be sure to stay a couple trillion lightyears away from yourself, just to make sure you don't interfere with anything effecting you from taking that step into the time machine and going back in time... once again.
Circulating laser beams in the right way, by slowing them down and shooting them through anything from fiber-optic cable to special crystals, might create a similar distortion that could theoretically transport someone through different times, Mallett believes
So take some fiberoptic cable, hook your computers network connection through it, create a loop in it, and pingflood someone... that'll be a good test...
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There could be a problem with time travel though. We are not certian that there are actual parallel universes/timelines. The big problem is, I think, called the Grandfather Effect. Assuming that there is only one universe or timeline, if he does go back in time, but accidently goes back too far, he'll cause the entire future (relative to the time he traveled to) to change, thus stopping him from creating the time machine, or even being born. I know... this happened in Back to the Future, but if this would actually happen (...and if it were possible), some theorise that the universe would, in a sense, cave in on itself, blow up, stop... do something to distroy itself or time. Time would contradict itself... ans be distroyed...
I am not saying that I believe in this, but it is something to think about... trying to save his daddy's life could destroy the universe.
You can not rule this out... for this is all still theory.
that just shows how horrible that copywrite protection law is...
you can now copywrite the scratches on your desk because you could run a needle across it and call it music?? Another extreme, but the same principle...
The point was that the sprinklers were shut off.... raising a question as to why, who did it, and could the towers still have been standing if they were on?
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Actually when MD's first came out, they did release pre-recorded MD's to help it catch on. Too bad it didn't. I havent seen any pre-recorded disks (even though it talks about them in the manual that came with mine), but I hear they are more popular in Europe...
Blank discs costing $5 to $12, and the first music players, for $300 to $370, will hit stores at the end of May.
...do you really want to spend that much to listen to britney?
whats wrong with advertisement? ...its common busniness practice.
Those companies have to get some sort of income off their AIM Bots..... but personally, I just have fun swearing at SmarterChild and calling it names.
If the antibiotics weren't airborne, then how could the bacteria on the "clean" side help out the bacteria that were being killed? They're saying that the bacteria on the non-effected side sent "survival" signs to tell the dieing bacteria to "turn on genes"... why would the non-effected bacteria have this "special knowledge" that the dieing bacteria didnt?
This situation isn't convincing enough for me to believe that bacteria are communication to eachother...
1. For the airborne "messages" to be sent, I'm assuming that the E.coli cultures were in open air, and not in water. So each side of the divider was pretty much in the same system.
2. If "pheremones" were able to cross through the gap, then the antibiotics should have been able to also.
Now it is a simple problem of ratio...
If you have an ammount of antibiotics x, and another number of E.coli y, then you will have the ratio of antibiotits to bacterium x/y. If x is a large number compared to y, then the E.coli have small chance of survival... more "poision" per cell. But if you were increase y, then the ammount of "poision" per cell decreases in the system, thus improving the chance for each individual cell to survive.
Either they're disregarding this possibility, or there wasn't enough information given in the article.
Maybe I'm insane to even think about mirroring a /.'ed article on my home cable-modem link
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Yea, you're pretty f*ckin insane... heh...
well at least its not a link on the main page
If you followed the links on pricewatch, you'd see that only ONE port is a gigabit port.... and even then it's probably an uplink port...
Keep dreaming for you l33t gigabit lan party...
Wow... ethernet cards are on sale from 100 bucks to 36 bucks.... but a gigabit switch is around 1,600 bucks!
You go ahead and buy that NIC, but it'll be a while before some l33t h4x0r geek buys that $1600 switch for his lan party...... well.... i do know a couple morons....
you still dont see......
So what happens to this non-zero energy? Theoretically, it is used to produce a particle--anti-particle pair which live for a very short time, otherwise it would violate energy conservation, then annihilate each other. These are the 'virtual' particles...
look at the grammer...
http://research.spinweb.com/_uft/000000ee.htm
Only it turns out that water on Mars is an impossibility. Combining H2 with O is an entropic process, meaning it requires quite a bit of energy (specifically E = Lf*m where Lf is the heat of fusion of water)
Well... first off... every chemical reaction has entropy. Order is either hightened, or lowered. What you should have said is that it is exothermic, but even then, the point that it requires a bit of energy is just saying that it needs a little boost to get the reaction going (forgot the exact term for this... its like a spark plug in a combustion engine).
So there's no combustion on mars... doesn't mean that there is no water.... When do you think all the water on earth was created? During its own creation. In the creation of a planet, there is a ton of abundant energy going around... plenty for the creation of water. So why couldn't mars be the same? Sure, there is a lot of iron on the surface of mars, but just like on earth, there could be underground caverns full of water. Last time i checked, that is what they wanted to search for next...
Another source for water is metorites, comets, and other small chunks floating around in space that enter our atmosphere (and mars too).
but there still is a cause for the creation of the virtual particle.....
then explain... are you going to use the fact that we can't measure the spin of an electron at the same time as the position? ...if so, i feel sorry for you...
Time travel is something our minds do on a daily basis, you can imagine future events, sometimes you are right and sometimes you are wrong, traveling into the future allows you to travel into a POSSIBLE future, but no future is THE absolute future,
Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.
Exactly WHAT about time is dynamic?
There is no way for anything in this universe to be random (causing something to by dynamic... to have multiple possible outcomes). Subatomic particles don't just appear and dissappear... that would go against the law of conservation of energy. Something would have to CAUSE them to appear somewhere (if that even happens)... so the thought of parallel universes being created does not go by the rules of physics...
Explain to me how you can just blow up for no reason what-so-ever... because you say it can happen in a parallel universe.
So there is an absolute future.... it is controlled by the past...
If you could travel back in time... be sure to stay a couple trillion lightyears away from yourself, just to make sure you don't interfere with anything effecting you from taking that step into the time machine and going back in time... once again.
Circulating laser beams in the right way, by slowing them down and shooting them through anything from fiber-optic cable to special crystals, might create a similar distortion that could theoretically transport someone through different times, Mallett believes
So take some fiberoptic cable, hook your computers network connection through it, create a loop in it, and pingflood someone... that'll be a good test...
There could be a problem with time travel though. We are not certian that there are actual parallel universes/timelines. The big problem is, I think, called the Grandfather Effect. Assuming that there is only one universe or timeline, if he does go back in time, but accidently goes back too far, he'll cause the entire future (relative to the time he traveled to) to change, thus stopping him from creating the time machine, or even being born. I know... this happened in Back to the Future, but if this would actually happen (...and if it were possible), some theorise that the universe would, in a sense, cave in on itself, blow up, stop... do something to distroy itself or time. Time would contradict itself... ans be distroyed...
I am not saying that I believe in this, but it is something to think about... trying to save his daddy's life could destroy the universe.
You can not rule this out... for this is all still theory.
It may take a little hacking at, but I'm pretty sure somebody'll figure out a way (if they haven't already done so) to rip the audio off it.
...you can get audio from anything if you're willing to go through analogue... no "hacking" needed...
i hope to god that we'll have better weapons to deflect asteroids by that time.....
...but also we have the common sense not to use those weapons on our own people...
the apocalypse is here!!! we're all gonna die!!!
yes... windows media player and IE really speed up my computers performance... removing them would horribly hinder my experience on the computer....
that just shows how horrible that copywrite protection law is...
you can now copywrite the scratches on your desk because you could run a needle across it and call it music?? Another extreme, but the same principle...
WTF??? TROLL??? Damn.... some people take things the wrong way entirely...
So next time a mother tells her son to "Get inside!", a few dozen lawyers from Intel will show up at her door instead.
Gotta love it...
The point was that the sprinklers were shut off.... raising a question as to why, who did it, and could the towers still have been standing if they were on?