Dude, calm down. I didn't read anything about noise in cheesekeeper's post. The larger-form-function PowerMac has room to put nine (allegedly, I haven't heard one up close yet) quiet fans in, but how the hell can you fit x number of fans into the small form-factor of a notebook. That's why it's a big engineering project.
Fortunately, as soon as I recieved the call, I alerted the appropriate government authorities, and I'm sure that our boys in Los Alamos have their spatiotemporal specialists on the job right now.
If not, we may have to...consider...activating Task Force Crimson Bravo, although I'm sure I'm as loathe to do that as you are.
I got a Fela Kuti album (Confusion/Gentleman) that has four songs, all of which are close to or over 10 minutes in length (one's like 25 minutes long or something), for 3.96.
Admittedly, Fela Kuti may not be exactly super-popular, but maybe that's the point.
I do hope they fix the "Partial Album" problem though, it's a real PITA. I am curious to know whether that's a licensing or technological issue.
it was a lot better the second time around because I had a better memory of who the different characters were and who did what and why. You just have to read it really slowly (with a dictionary at hand, preferably), and probably several times through. On the first read it was tough to pick out the narrative threads that advance the story and seperate them from the passages that just sort of describe wartime/aftermath conditions in general. Also, the jumps between storylines and descriptions and thoughts of the characters are fairly abrupt so it takes a while to figure out what you're reading. There are like 27 different narrative threads that don't seem related at all but they do interact, sort of like sine waves at 27 different frequencies sometimes having zero-points together.
Ok, so I knew you were talking about your son, but at the same time, I thought, "Wow, is there really a son command? I don't even know what section 4 of the man pages is about."
And to top that off, to check that out, I had to type man son.
Yeah, after eating no food for a while, donating plasma and blood and shuffling into the theater ("Frodo movie good!" slapping down a twenty at the ticket window and walking away) he can have a completely immersive experience at the movies.
"What's that Aragorn?! That man with a cell phone is an agent of Mor(rr)dor(rr)?"
"Yes, most noble and brave hobbit, PovRayMan! Girt thyself with this knife of Westernesse! Wrest the One RingTone from he who hath obviously not watched the dancing Coke(TM) bottle commanding that all cell phones should be shut off!"
Fortunately, in his weakened condition he should be easy to fend off, and the ushers can take him in the back room and feed him some Junior Mints. ("That will be $5.50, please!")
Enzymes by definition don't get consumed in chemical reactions.
Well, assuming perfect catalysis, no denaturation/degradation, this is true, but those aren't necessarily good assumptions. (Textbook simplified definition vs. real life behavior). In living things, proteins get made and destroyed all the time. I don't really know much about the system they're using here, but even though it should be a lot less complex than the cellular environment, things are still going to degrade over time. Diamonds aren't forever either.
Hell, man, haven't you seen "Boogie Nights"? If anybody does ask you that, all you have to do is say, "Naw, baby! Like Dirk Diggler." And then whip out your big 12", uh, ruler.
Yeah, yeah, it's a theory, but the definition of a theory in scientific terms is much stronger and implies a greater sense of importance than the definition in everyday english. e.g. the theory of gravity. If the theory of evolution was on such a weak footing as you imply, somebody would have become really famous for disproving it and coming up with something better.
As to your alleged evolutionist infuriation, I can't speak to that, as I wasn't there. However...I don't think that protein-coding sequences of DNA care where they are on the DNA sequence, so long as there are promoters and represssors nearby (regions of dna sequence that other proteins can bind to, to increase or decrease the translation/transcription amounts). DNA sequences are not fixed--there's mutation and recombination and so things can move around. DNA replication is not perfect, as you would expect with such long sequences.
And saying that there are no evolutionary relationships at the genetic level is completely false. There are a lot of differences, to be sure, but I've sat through too many talks where people have done protein sequence alignments from different proteins from different organisms and have pointed out the evolutionarily conserved, functionally important residues. There can be a lot of mutations that don't really affect how well a protein works (or if it does affect how well the protien works, if the protein works well enough the mutation might be accepted) and these can accumulate.
when people give you crap about "Hey, jackass, why's your car covered in tinfoil?" you can say "fuck you, man, I'm locking in the juices!" which should satisfy them for all of two seconds.
When they say, "Huh, what juices!?", you point behind them and say, "Oh, my god!!! A roquefort monster!!!!" As nobody knows what roquefort is ("let's see now, we got your yellow cheese, your white cheese, your swiss cheese, and your american cheese, that covers it") they will have to turn and look to see what this thing is. Take this opportunity to punch them in the back of the head and then run away in your tinfoil covered car. They won't be able to track you!
Don't worry, I'm sure he's just cashing out so that he can replenish the money bin that he rolls around in. After all, old boy, why roll around in soiled money when you can get it fresh from the mint?
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Wait a minute, how the hell did you post?! Not ASCII "by means of an alpha-numeric input device"? Oh! You have ViaVoice set for Unicode. Gotcha.
Dude, calm down. I didn't read anything about noise in cheesekeeper's post. The larger-form-function PowerMac has room to put nine (allegedly, I haven't heard one up close yet) quiet fans in, but how the hell can you fit x number of fans into the small form-factor of a notebook. That's why it's a big engineering project.
Fortunately, as soon as I recieved the call, I alerted the appropriate government authorities, and I'm sure that our boys in Los Alamos have their spatiotemporal specialists on the job right now.
If not, we may have to...consider...activating Task Force Crimson Bravo, although I'm sure I'm as loathe to do that as you are.
1998 called. I think it wants its joke back.
Leela: "You can't just sit here in the dark, listening to classical music!"
'Ghash!' muttered Gandalf, 'I wonder if that is what they meant: that the lower levels are on fire? Still we can only go on.'
'Ai! ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Billrog! A Billrog is come!'
I got a Fela Kuti album (Confusion/Gentleman) that has four songs, all of which are close to or over 10 minutes in length (one's like 25 minutes long or something), for 3.96.
Admittedly, Fela Kuti may not be exactly super-popular, but maybe that's the point.
I do hope they fix the "Partial Album" problem though, it's a real PITA. I am curious to know whether that's a licensing or technological issue.
it was a lot better the second time around because I had a better memory of who the different characters were and who did what and why. You just have to read it really slowly (with a dictionary at hand, preferably), and probably several times through. On the first read it was tough to pick out the narrative threads that advance the story and seperate them from the passages that just sort of describe wartime/aftermath conditions in general. Also, the jumps between storylines and descriptions and thoughts of the characters are fairly abrupt so it takes a while to figure out what you're reading. There are like 27 different narrative threads that don't seem related at all but they do interact, sort of like sine waves at 27 different frequencies sometimes having zero-points together.
Ok, so I knew you were talking about your son, but at the same time, I thought, "Wow, is there really a son command? I don't even know what section 4 of the man pages is about."
And to top that off, to check that out, I had to type man son.
We subsidise highways and air travel. Why can't we subsidize amtrak?
Yeah, after eating no food for a while, donating plasma and blood and shuffling into the theater ("Frodo movie good!" slapping down a twenty at the ticket window and walking away) he can have a completely immersive experience at the movies.
"What's that Aragorn?! That man with a cell phone is an agent of Mor(rr)dor(rr)?"
"Yes, most noble and brave hobbit, PovRayMan! Girt thyself with this knife of Westernesse! Wrest the One RingTone from he who hath obviously not watched the dancing Coke(TM) bottle commanding that all cell phones should be shut off!"
Fortunately, in his weakened condition he should be easy to fend off, and the ushers can take him in the back room and feed him some Junior Mints. ("That will be $5.50, please!")
wait, if it's a self-referral, wouldn't the submitter be a masochist?
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Well, assuming perfect catalysis, no denaturation/degradation, this is true, but those aren't necessarily good assumptions. (Textbook simplified definition vs. real life behavior). In living things, proteins get made and destroyed all the time. I don't really know much about the system they're using here, but even though it should be a lot less complex than the cellular environment, things are still going to degrade over time. Diamonds aren't forever either.
Wewease Wodewick!!!
Hell, man, haven't you seen "Boogie Nights"? If anybody does ask you that, all you have to do is say, "Naw, baby! Like Dirk Diggler." And then whip out your big 12", uh, ruler.
What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?
nyaah!
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But anyway, it's 'controversy'.
Did your brother have an accident with a contriceptive and a time machine?
The White House will remain white, but all the plaster will be replaced with translucent white plastic.
The capitol dome will be redone in anodized aluminum. It will also have firewire.
You forgot the sterno.
And the Mad Dog 20/20 and Boone's Farm...
Yeah, yeah, it's a theory, but the definition of a theory in scientific terms is much stronger and implies a greater sense of importance than the definition in everyday english. e.g. the theory of gravity. If the theory of evolution was on such a weak footing as you imply, somebody would have become really famous for disproving it and coming up with something better.
As to your alleged evolutionist infuriation, I can't speak to that, as I wasn't there. However...I don't think that protein-coding sequences of DNA care where they are on the DNA sequence, so long as there are promoters and represssors nearby (regions of dna sequence that other proteins can bind to, to increase or decrease the translation/transcription amounts). DNA sequences are not fixed--there's mutation and recombination and so things can move around. DNA replication is not perfect, as you would expect with such long sequences.
And saying that there are no evolutionary relationships at the genetic level is completely false. There are a lot of differences, to be sure, but I've sat through too many talks where people have done protein sequence alignments from different proteins from different organisms and have pointed out the evolutionarily conserved, functionally important residues. There can be a lot of mutations that don't really affect how well a protein works (or if it does affect how well the protien works, if the protein works well enough the mutation might be accepted) and these can accumulate.
Actually it reduces the problem to "which came first? The self-replicating heterogeneous polymer sequence or the metabolic reaction cycle?"
But unfortunately, that's much harder to remember, glavin.
when people give you crap about "Hey, jackass, why's your car covered in tinfoil?" you can say "fuck you, man, I'm locking in the juices!" which should satisfy them for all of two seconds.
When they say, "Huh, what juices!?", you point behind them and say, "Oh, my god!!! A roquefort monster!!!!" As nobody knows what roquefort is ("let's see now, we got your yellow cheese, your white cheese, your swiss cheese, and your american cheese, that covers it") they will have to turn and look to see what this thing is. Take this opportunity to punch them in the back of the head and then run away in your tinfoil covered car. They won't be able to track you!
Except by following the shiny reflection.
Don't worry, I'm sure he's just cashing out so that he can replenish the money bin that he rolls around in. After all, old boy, why roll around in soiled money when you can get it fresh from the mint?