How can you know what kind of weather occurred in Peru over the last 150 years?
The fact that this Peruvian desert had no precipitation left it as one of the few places on earth with sodium nitrate prior to WWI. Europeans imported it for fertilizer and explosives. Germany had to devise a way to synthesize nitrate for their war efforts.
So yes, many people historically were aware of the lack of precipitation in that Peruvian desert and what the recorded precipitation was by the locals due to it being an extremely rare event.
What was their original model / projection? Has anyone else verified it? And if so, what measures will they be taking to supplement their water supply?
They weren't projecting. Scientists were projecting glacier melt rate worldwide. They're all melting.
Verification so far is watching the glaciers melt faster.
What measures will a mountain dwelling people take to supplement their loss of glacial water supply? They will lose their way of life, same as anyone else in a permanent drought, say in an extreme example Texas continues it's drought pattern. All it will take is a few more years to destroy life there as they know it.
But they can always hope rains will return. People dependent on glaciers that vanished have no such hope. Their total ancestral way of life will also have vanished.
Is it possible this is just more reactionary knee-jerk fear-mongering bullshit due to a larger-than-normal rainfall in Peru this past year?
One thing that wasn't normal this past year was a three foot snowfall on a high desert in Peru that hadn't had any significant precipitation in over 150 years.
Not saying it has anything to do with the glaciers melting faster. Just responding to your hypothetical about abnormal precipitation in Peru this past year.
If they didn't have the money to do it, and you were told that you wouldn't be paid for it, why would you expect to be paid for it?
In addition to this insightful question, TFS says both that "you had significant downtime" due to it sounds like you're saying you have everything running so smoothly, yet add at end that "all source code was written on your personal equipment and time". Normally this means at home or otherwise off work premises, but there's all kind of gray areas in what you're saying and how you're saying it.
You imply that if you have no administration problems your paid time becomes your own time because of "duties mapped out for you at hiring". You don't mention what becomes of your "team's" time during this hiatus.
And after all that, with as many PHP open source help ticket systems out there, would your employer be better served by using a community supported help ticket system?
You're proposing something that's quite secure, but not *really* secure.
I take it you don't know much about the IBM i OS. It's "really" secure. Used by hundreds of thousands of business and government organizations around the world.
In addition, whitelisting IP address ranges that can access network eliminates the source of most attacks, And using a security device along with password eliminates the rest.
You act like systems can't be secure but we have real businesses that successully fend off the constant attacks, It starts with IBM i OS though. POSIX compliance isn't inherently unsecure. But it does provide IBM i OS compatibility with Unix.
Second, I think the argument that has been mentioned a few times already, regarding the assertion that the "low-hanging fruit" of science has already been discovered, thus making any significant leaps more difficult, is baloney. One hundred years ago I'm sure they were saying the same thing.
Well the guy at the Patent Office did anyway.
I agree, low hanging fruit? Relativity was not low hanging fruit, and it was entirely a mental exercise AFAIK for those who blamed difference in experimental apparatus required.
No need to write the OS, it's been done. IBM iOS formerly i5/OS formerly AS/400. POSIX compliant, has the UNIX shell built in, all major languages, C++, Java, PHP, and yes RPG and COBOL. Apache and Websphere web serving. Also white list IP address ranges allowed access at entrance points to network.
Don't know the details of network administration, but PC's would be SELinux and not directly accessible from outside network for port scanning, etc.
This would be extremely secure network. It's there, it would make stealing data from servers a thing of the past. It would make a lot of expensive vendors very unhappy though.
I wonder why the article said they were looking at the retroviral protease structure to see if they could find a way to block it? That was purported to be the importance of solving this structural problem. That and understanding how it works.
However, if the players are figuring out how to use the results, that would be incredibly embarrassing.
The players would have to be molecular biochemists (or similar) to figure out how to use the resulting structure, and the researchers have already started figuring out how to use it. They may identify a site on the surface for which they can create a compound that will attach and block the enzyme.
This is all very difficult, and that would be an astounding achievement, but there is nothing embarrassing about any of this. It took a lot of effort to identify the molecular chains of the enzyme and programming efforts to enable manipulation of molecular chains into 3D structures.
- kudos to researchers for bringing in gamers to gain some understanding on solving tghis problem
- kudos to the FoldIt programmers for making this 3D structure puzzle a solvable problem. They also constantly refined the puzzle based on feedback from the gamers.
- Not mentioned so far is the incredible importance of finding a workable structure to the retroviral protease enzyme, and that the researchers noted the structure may provide the opportunity to be blocked. If so that would appear to this layman of a nearly universal cure for viruses that insert DNA into chromosomes. I may be overstating that but I don't think it's limited to AIDS.
- There are many other puzzles to be solved for cellular components from what I read. This is clearly one of utmost importance, but I imagine there are others to solve now.
- This reminds me from what I read of the widespread efforts of laymen participation in solving important mathematical puzzles in the 1500's to 1800's.
- I don't know about this having a real useful impact to primary education, other than wow interest factor, but seems to be something that could be ongoing challenges, real "games" to solve if you will, for some time to come. There are innumerable puzzles to be solved at this level.
Now that he has 1 billions modified T-cells, possibly double that now, how do they plan on getting them out, or make the body accept them?
They gradually diminished on their own as the targets disappeared.
This is a great article in explaining what happened. Something on this was posted a couple of weeks ago and most responses were jokes about getting AIDS to kill cancer. In any event I never did see what the explanation was until now.
On a further note, so I don't have to start a new post and get a rejection that I didn't wait several minutes before posting again, there were several references in TFA about dangers to life from contents of killed cancer cells. I am wondering whether the technique used to filter T-cells from the blood could be used to filter or chemically reduce those toxins in the blood after the injection of modified T-cells until the danger passes.
I see now that this works by identifying a protein on the cell types that became cancerous, in this case B type immune cells, and also difficulty or impossibility of identifying a unique protein for other types of cells. As great as this is, it may only work for this type of cancer because of the unique protein on those type of immune cells.
Hopefullly they can find something prevalent in cancer cells to target with this.
I wish somebody would take FF 3.6 and create a fork. The FF developers have lost their marbles.
yes, I'm reading through all this looking for where that may happen. Somebody said stuck on 3.6. No, I'm not stuck on 3.6, I'm not changing to something I don't want.
So far I've avoided clicking on update to version 4 popups. This is probably meant to make that no longer possible. You'll get whatever they want you to get.
If someone forks 3.6 and adds enhancements in a sane way, I will be sticking with that.
The world's financial systems are built on that assumption i.e. anyone who lends money expects to make a profit on the loan, after inflation if applicable.
I humbly submit that is just a very silly premise. Yes, every lender expects a profit, and many recieve losses instead. There is nothing built in enough in what we do that requires growth to survive. We in fact are currently undergoing substantial regression in growth even as we speak.
If this is what passes for accepted economic theory, no wonder everything is so screwed up.
He's simply saying that our economy depends on the assumption of growth, but growth can't reasonably be expected to continue forever.
I don't believe there's any basis for saying that we depend on the assumption of growth. There is growth, and we may or may not be able to deal with it before it turns into disaster, but not dependent on it at all. If population and energy use stayed static we'd be just fine.
These have been around for quite a long time; tractors replacing large groups of field workers, factories replacing blacksmiths, steam engines replacing human muscle -- in all cases it's true that the employment for unskilled manual labour was decimated, however many more jobs opened up in higher-level areas, and the average income and quality of life was raised for all.
Actually not quite a long time, it's only been about 70 years in the US since large scale migration off the farms to cities, and much of the economic activity was fueled by unsustainable debt which we are just now starting to face.
You free market types are in uncharted territory, sure that what we did for the last 70 years will just keep on happening, even though you have no idea doing what.
Just faith that your philosophy is right. And it isn't.
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How can you know what kind of weather occurred in Peru over the last 150 years?
The fact that this Peruvian desert had no precipitation left it as one of the few places on earth with sodium nitrate prior to WWI. Europeans imported it for fertilizer and explosives. Germany had to devise a way to synthesize nitrate for their war efforts.
So yes, many people historically were aware of the lack of precipitation in that Peruvian desert and what the recorded precipitation was by the locals due to it being an extremely rare event.
Unfortunately (for me), when I suck at making projections I lose contracts because my salary is not subsidized.
The data is changing. Carbon is increasing faster. The projections were more accurate when they were made given the info at the time.
And if they overproject, people like you say even nastier things than above.
What was their original model / projection? Has anyone else verified it? And if so, what measures will they be taking to supplement their water supply?
They weren't projecting. Scientists were projecting glacier melt rate worldwide. They're all melting.
Verification so far is watching the glaciers melt faster.
What measures will a mountain dwelling people take to supplement their loss of glacial water supply? They will lose their way of life, same as anyone else in a permanent drought, say in an extreme example Texas continues it's drought pattern. All it will take is a few more years to destroy life there as they know it.
But they can always hope rains will return. People dependent on glaciers that vanished have no such hope. Their total ancestral way of life will also have vanished.
Is it possible this is just more reactionary knee-jerk fear-mongering bullshit due to a larger-than-normal rainfall in Peru this past year?
One thing that wasn't normal this past year was a three foot snowfall on a high desert in Peru that hadn't had any significant precipitation in over 150 years.
Not saying it has anything to do with the glaciers melting faster. Just responding to your hypothetical about abnormal precipitation in Peru this past year.
Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke.
You can replace "earlier than expected" with "faster than previously projected" if that helps. Most people don't need the help to understand it.
If they didn't have the money to do it, and you were told that you wouldn't be paid for it, why would you expect to be paid for it?
In addition to this insightful question, TFS says both that "you had significant downtime" due to it sounds like you're saying you have everything running so smoothly, yet add at end that "all source code was written on your personal equipment and time". Normally this means at home or otherwise off work premises, but there's all kind of gray areas in what you're saying and how you're saying it.
You imply that if you have no administration problems your paid time becomes your own time because of "duties mapped out for you at hiring". You don't mention what becomes of your "team's" time during this hiatus.
And after all that, with as many PHP open source help ticket systems out there, would your employer be better served by using a community supported help ticket system?
My god. We have some dufus complaining about lack of "meaningful" bug reports who bemoans lack of a sufficient YSOD screen capture.
And he complains about others not being meaningful? You got to be kidding me. Google tells me the PC kiddies call this Yellow Screen of Death.
This guy is complaining that when his program blows up the user it blew up on didn't do a good enough screen capture for him?
wow. Slashdot must pay a bounty for dumb questions to drive traffic.
You're proposing something that's quite secure, but not *really* secure.
I take it you don't know much about the IBM i OS. It's "really" secure. Used by hundreds of thousands of business and government organizations around the world.
In addition, whitelisting IP address ranges that can access network eliminates the source of most attacks, And using a security device along with password eliminates the rest.
You act like systems can't be secure but we have real businesses that successully fend off the constant attacks, It starts with IBM i OS though. POSIX compliance isn't inherently unsecure. But it does provide IBM i OS compatibility with Unix.
Second, I think the argument that has been mentioned a few times already, regarding the assertion that the "low-hanging fruit" of science has already been discovered, thus making any significant leaps more difficult, is baloney. One hundred years ago I'm sure they were saying the same thing.
Well the guy at the Patent Office did anyway.
I agree, low hanging fruit? Relativity was not low hanging fruit, and it was entirely a mental exercise AFAIK for those who blamed difference in experimental apparatus required.
No need to write the OS, it's been done. IBM iOS formerly i5/OS formerly AS/400. POSIX compliant, has the UNIX shell built in, all major languages, C++, Java, PHP, and yes RPG and COBOL. Apache and Websphere web serving. Also white list IP address ranges allowed access at entrance points to network.
Don't know the details of network administration, but PC's would be SELinux and not directly accessible from outside network for port scanning, etc.
This would be extremely secure network. It's there, it would make stealing data from servers a thing of the past. It would make a lot of expensive vendors very unhappy though.
There were two hacked servers at MIT, I noted their IP addresses when they tried to spam my little website weeks apart.
Thanks. I'll take another look at that.
I wonder why the article said they were looking at the retroviral protease structure to see if they could find a way to block it? That was purported to be the importance of solving this structural problem. That and understanding how it works.
However, if the players are figuring out how to use the results, that would be incredibly embarrassing.
The players would have to be molecular biochemists (or similar) to figure out how to use the resulting structure, and the researchers have already started figuring out how to use it. They may identify a site on the surface for which they can create a compound that will attach and block the enzyme.
This is all very difficult, and that would be an astounding achievement, but there is nothing embarrassing about any of this. It took a lot of effort to identify the molecular chains of the enzyme and programming efforts to enable manipulation of molecular chains into 3D structures.
Several items to note on this:
- kudos to researchers for bringing in gamers to gain some understanding on solving tghis problem
- kudos to the FoldIt programmers for making this 3D structure puzzle a solvable problem. They also constantly refined the puzzle based on feedback from the gamers.
- Not mentioned so far is the incredible importance of finding a workable structure to the retroviral protease enzyme, and that the researchers noted the structure may provide the opportunity to be blocked. If so that would appear to this layman of a nearly universal cure for viruses that insert DNA into chromosomes. I may be overstating that but I don't think it's limited to AIDS.
- There are many other puzzles to be solved for cellular components from what I read. This is clearly one of utmost importance, but I imagine there are others to solve now.
- This reminds me from what I read of the widespread efforts of laymen participation in solving important mathematical puzzles in the 1500's to 1800's.
- I don't know about this having a real useful impact to primary education, other than wow interest factor, but seems to be something that could be ongoing challenges, real "games" to solve if you will, for some time to come. There are innumerable puzzles to be solved at this level.
Now that he has 1 billions modified T-cells, possibly double that now, how do they plan on getting them out, or make the body accept them?
They gradually diminished on their own as the targets disappeared.
This is a great article in explaining what happened. Something on this was posted a couple of weeks ago and most responses were jokes about getting AIDS to kill cancer. In any event I never did see what the explanation was until now.
On a further note, so I don't have to start a new post and get a rejection that I didn't wait several minutes before posting again, there were several references in TFA about dangers to life from contents of killed cancer cells. I am wondering whether the technique used to filter T-cells from the blood could be used to filter or chemically reduce those toxins in the blood after the injection of modified T-cells until the danger passes.
I see now that this works by identifying a protein on the cell types that became cancerous, in this case B type immune cells, and also difficulty or impossibility of identifying a unique protein for other types of cells. As great as this is, it may only work for this type of cancer because of the unique protein on those type of immune cells.
Hopefullly they can find something prevalent in cancer cells to target with this.
I wish somebody would take FF 3.6 and create a fork. The FF developers have lost their marbles.
yes, I'm reading through all this looking for where that may happen. Somebody said stuck on 3.6. No, I'm not stuck on 3.6, I'm not changing to something I don't want.
So far I've avoided clicking on update to version 4 popups. This is probably meant to make that no longer possible. You'll get whatever they want you to get.
If someone forks 3.6 and adds enhancements in a sane way, I will be sticking with that.
I know you are being funny, but I still must correct your misuse. intents and purposes There, now carry on with your willful butchery.
Then correct all of them. You are being far too selective.
That wasn't me by the way. But was a pretty good post, now rated +5 Funny.
For all intensive purposes
For all intents and purposes...
Good job. Now for extra points find all the rest of the misused words in that post. There are several.
"The idiom is "Dog eat dog", not doggy dog."
whooooosh!
The world's financial systems are built on that assumption i.e. anyone who lends money expects to make a profit on the loan, after inflation if applicable.
I humbly submit that is just a very silly premise. Yes, every lender expects a profit, and many recieve losses instead. There is nothing built in enough in what we do that requires growth to survive. We in fact are currently undergoing substantial regression in growth even as we speak.
If this is what passes for accepted economic theory, no wonder everything is so screwed up.
I don't know about all that, but we neither are dependent on growth nor must have a communal society.
I disagree with both of these theorists.
He's simply saying that our economy depends on the assumption of growth, but growth can't reasonably be expected to continue forever.
I don't believe there's any basis for saying that we depend on the assumption of growth. There is growth, and we may or may not be able to deal with it before it turns into disaster, but not dependent on it at all. If population and energy use stayed static we'd be just fine.
I would agree with that.
Thanks for the info.
These have been around for quite a long time; tractors replacing large groups of field workers, factories replacing blacksmiths, steam engines replacing human muscle -- in all cases it's true that the employment for unskilled manual labour was decimated, however many more jobs opened up in higher-level areas, and the average income and quality of life was raised for all.
Actually not quite a long time, it's only been about 70 years in the US since large scale migration off the farms to cities, and much of the economic activity was fueled by unsustainable debt which we are just now starting to face.
You free market types are in uncharted territory, sure that what we did for the last 70 years will just keep on happening, even though you have no idea doing what.
Just faith that your philosophy is right. And it isn't.
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