"Work on such a system should start as soon as possible, since CO2 levels leaped up 2 ppm in the past two years as global warming becomes more of a reality."
Please study statistics. Please realize that a sample over 2 years when Earth existed for billions of years don't mean a thing. Global warming may be a reality, as it may be caused by humans, or part of a natural cycle, or part of a natural cycle human activity accelerated.
In my book, 2 ppm over 2 years, considering error and all, isn't a good reason to start producing these plants 'as soon as possible'.
AOL completely killed any glimpse of hope Netscape had to win the 'browser war'... imagine if Firefox came with AIM, ads that pop up everywhere, installed 2-3 advertising gimmicks, put links everywhere about itself... and didn't have any features over IE. I completely stopped using Netscape, which was by far my favorite browser at the time, when they released the AOL version (6 I think?).
Netscape is dead, long live Netscape! (in Firefox's form!)
I just don't say myself saying "But it has voice acting made by Christopher Lee! I MUST buy it!".
In my opinion, it would have been money better spent elsewhere. Like reducing the horrible monthly price they ask for this. And I don't even talk about the time investment required to 'do good' in these games... I saw numerous friends lose their life (job, wife, friends) to EQ1, playing 6pm-3am everyday. For 20$ (CAN) by month, I'll pass my turn, thanks.
Of course, if he (they?) did it for free (which I doubt), then I have nothing about this...
It's a point of view. Under this concept, the only simple organisms would be bacterial, because even eukaryotic cells could be seen as 'superorganisms', harboring components of bacterial origins (mitochondrions) we can't live without.
And I guess, under this point of view, that even Earth itself could be seen as a very large, living and breathing 'superorganism'... not unlike environmentalists see it, actually.
Am I the only one with no compulsive need to open each and every funny.exe files I receive, even from people I know? Send me jokes on my email with 40cc repeatetly might get you an ignore, even if you're a good friend. Same for 'funny' executables... Jokes as text or images I can understand... maybe I'm just too serious, sometimes. I can't believe people STILL don't pay attention to extensions?
But 400 chinese porn sites? Add me to your MSN, quick!
I don't understand how things would change if, somehow, they would win their case. OK, P2P apps are declared illegal. Majority of people who trade on these networks already know it's illegal, and do it anyway. Sure, it'll let them sue the p2p apps developpers... but they should know it's the modern version of Hydra : you cut off a head, it grows up 2 better ones. Do they really think they can get out of this without changing their (failing) business model? At least they seem to get the message lately, with all the online music stores... at last.
Many cells express extracellular factors involved in regulation, growth, etc. These can be cytokines (protein-based molecules) or chemokines (small non-proteic molecules). So this discovery is not that surprising, but cool nonetheless. The 'article' (4 lines?) don't give much details, and Science magazine is subscription only... I wonder if they identified the said molecule. Would be interesting to see if it's something we already knew but involved in a process we didn't suspect, or something new altogether. Will have to go to my University library to get details I guess:(
You don't have to give yourself all the trouble of defeating security to be a chess star on Internet. Just run a copy of fritz on another computer while you 'play'... instant skill!
This is why is stopped playing online. Nothing beats a real game of chess, in front of a real person anyway. Reactions from your opponent are almost as important as in poker!
OK, 260 millions US$ to scan... $60,000 of space (a terabyte) according to the article... put it online... BANDWITH costs estimates? Oops... forgot about that I guess!
"Brewster Kahle's idea is to scan as many books as possible and put them online so everyone has access to that huge amount of knowledge."
Not a simple computer, a server (as stated in the article). Furthermore, he ran a CPU (energy) intensive (and useless, in my opinion) program on a computer he didn't own, consuming power. Imagine all state employees start doing the same thing. A simple warning would have been enough; he served as an example. Sad in a way...
I'll refer you to an excellent article(FULL free text on pubmed as a bonus) at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/18/10214. Table 2 is of great interest; it displays probabilities of sexual-mediated infection for every kind of partner, male to female or female to male (sadly, male/male is absent from the list). Notice the sad looking rate of infection (0.04) in normal partners (HIV-1 is a lousy virus, efficiency speaking... thank god!). The rates are a lot smaller in delta32 individuals (table show data for homo or heterozygotes), especially in transmission from a non-acutely (first stages of the disease, where the virus replicate a lot, then fade for 10-20 years before destroying the immune system) infected partner.
Other means of infection include of course intraveinous drug, which can transmit a T-tropic virus which is fully infectious in these individuals (infect T cells but not macrophages) and blood transfusions (in the 80s, mainly).
If only I had moderation points:( Mod up this guy, he's right on target.
The phrase you highlighted bothers me too... hope it's coming from a misinterpretation from the reporter (which according to my experience, happens a lot). It just doesn't make any sense... and I'm working on AIDS, I should know:)
Education goes a long way in preventing AIDS, just look at Northern America numbers vs Africa... of course, the problem of poverty is interwined with lack of education...
China is a special case... being communist, with the tendency to leak only the information it wants, it can cause certain problems. Some think that the epidemic is well underway back there, see : http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,1 3673,501031215-557111,00.html... Chances are that we're only seing the tip of the iceberg.
First, it's been know for ages, so it's not a new mutation.
The specific 'mutation' involve CCR5, a coreceptor of HIV-1. An uncommun deletion called CCR5delta32 make it so that M-tropic HIV-1 can't enter CCR5+ cells in homozygote individuals (2 copies of the mutant gene). Heterozygotes (having a functional CCR5 and a mutated one) show less resistance to infection (70% resistance, estimated).
HIV-1 can exhibit a tropism (T-tropic) for another coreceptor, CXCR4, for which no mutation is known, so total immunity isn't exact; we can talk about resistance at best. M-tropic viruses are associated with de novo infection, and a switch to T-tropism is thought to be a turning point in the degeneration to AIDS (but not always).
Even CCR5delta32 individuals can be infected (althought have far less risk than you and me). Even then, the infection progress far more slowly than in normal individuals... they're called long term non-progressors. Won't develop AIDS in their lifetime, but still infectious, which can be dangerous...
Don't think we'll have fluids computers someday... electron > H20. Instead, I think that such things could be used in microfluidics chips(yeah I know, kinda obvious), especially in biotechnology-related applications. Pretty cool progress is made in this field... someday, we may have a 'lab-on-a-chip' to diagnose a bunch of diseases with a drop of blood, or analyse samples quickly (mission to Mars?).
I don't get the point of these portable DVD players... most of the time, they're the price (or cost more!) than a laptop that you could use to do MORE than listen to video... Anyway, I don't even see a purpose for them. To listen to videos... in your car? Maybe? Someone care to explain?
MAYBE it would outperform an orbital telescope... but th available sky to look at would be pretty limited, no? Being based in Antartic and all... I doubt too it would be easy to maintain in the winter, where there is NO light for 6 months, at minus 60 something Celcius...
And comparing a 16m telescope to a 2.4m one is not exactly comparing apples to apples either...
More useful features, nice interface and CUSTOMIZABLE! Extensions are so good... but we'll have to see if it's too much for a simple end user.
My favorite one : WeatherFox! (URL:http://weatherfox.mozdev.org/). Crafteh (wish I knew his real name) developped this beauty following my suggestion on the MozillaZine forum and did an AWESOME job. Weather prediction anywhere in the world in your status bar... soooo usefull! Use it!
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"Work on such a system should start as soon as possible, since CO2 levels leaped up 2 ppm in the past two years as global warming becomes more of a reality."
Please study statistics. Please realize that a sample over 2 years when Earth existed for billions of years don't mean a thing. Global warming may be a reality, as it may be caused by humans, or part of a natural cycle, or part of a natural cycle human activity accelerated.
In my book, 2 ppm over 2 years, considering error and all, isn't a good reason to start producing these plants 'as soon as possible'.
AOL completely killed any glimpse of hope Netscape had to win the 'browser war'... imagine if Firefox came with AIM, ads that pop up everywhere, installed 2-3 advertising gimmicks, put links everywhere about itself... and didn't have any features over IE. I completely stopped using Netscape, which was by far my favorite browser at the time, when they released the AOL version (6 I think?).
Netscape is dead, long live Netscape! (in Firefox's form!)
They actually use these as substitutes when parts of their WiFi network go down... Fast, mobile, cute and powerfull, can we ask for something more? :)
I just don't say myself saying "But it has voice acting made by Christopher Lee! I MUST buy it!".
In my opinion, it would have been money better spent elsewhere. Like reducing the horrible monthly price they ask for this. And I don't even talk about the time investment required to 'do good' in these games... I saw numerous friends lose their life (job, wife, friends) to EQ1, playing 6pm-3am everyday. For 20$ (CAN) by month, I'll pass my turn, thanks.
Of course, if he (they?) did it for free (which I doubt), then I have nothing about this...
The name doesn't help... "Tutorial D" doesn't sound advanced at all...
Try proposing to your boss to replace your mySQL database with "Tutorial D" for... no good reasons? Will happen. Soon. Right?
It's a point of view. Under this concept, the only simple organisms would be bacterial, because even eukaryotic cells could be seen as 'superorganisms', harboring components of bacterial origins (mitochondrions) we can't live without.
And I guess, under this point of view, that even Earth itself could be seen as a very large, living and breathing 'superorganism'... not unlike environmentalists see it, actually.
Am I the only one with no compulsive need to open each and every funny.exe files I receive, even from people I know? Send me jokes on my email with 40cc repeatetly might get you an ignore, even if you're a good friend. Same for 'funny' executables... Jokes as text or images I can understand... maybe I'm just too serious, sometimes. I can't believe people STILL don't pay attention to extensions?
But 400 chinese porn sites? Add me to your MSN, quick!
I don't understand how things would change if, somehow, they would win their case. OK, P2P apps are declared illegal. Majority of people who trade on these networks already know it's illegal, and do it anyway. Sure, it'll let them sue the p2p apps developpers... but they should know it's the modern version of Hydra : you cut off a head, it grows up 2 better ones. Do they really think they can get out of this without changing their (failing) business model? At least they seem to get the message lately, with all the online music stores... at last.
Many cells express extracellular factors involved in regulation, growth, etc. These can be cytokines (protein-based molecules) or chemokines (small non-proteic molecules). So this discovery is not that surprising, but cool nonetheless. The 'article' (4 lines?) don't give much details, and Science magazine is subscription only... I wonder if they identified the said molecule. Would be interesting to see if it's something we already knew but involved in a process we didn't suspect, or something new altogether. Will have to go to my University library to get details I guess :(
You don't have to give yourself all the trouble of defeating security to be a chess star on Internet. Just run a copy of fritz on another computer while you 'play'... instant skill!
This is why is stopped playing online. Nothing beats a real game of chess, in front of a real person anyway. Reactions from your opponent are almost as important as in poker!
OK, 260 millions US$ to scan... $60,000 of space (a terabyte) according to the article... put it online... BANDWITH costs estimates? Oops... forgot about that I guess!
"Brewster Kahle's idea is to scan as many books as possible and put them online so everyone has access to that huge amount of knowledge."
The plan IS to put it online, after all...
Not a simple computer, a server (as stated in the article). Furthermore, he ran a CPU (energy) intensive (and useless, in my opinion) program on a computer he didn't own, consuming power. Imagine all state employees start doing the same thing. A simple warning would have been enough; he served as an example. Sad in a way...
I'll refer you to an excellent article(FULL free text on pubmed as a bonus) at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/18/10214. Table 2 is of great interest; it displays probabilities of sexual-mediated infection for every kind of partner, male to female or female to male (sadly, male/male is absent from the list). Notice the sad looking rate of infection (0.04) in normal partners (HIV-1 is a lousy virus, efficiency speaking... thank god!). The rates are a lot smaller in delta32 individuals (table show data for homo or heterozygotes), especially in transmission from a non-acutely (first stages of the disease, where the virus replicate a lot, then fade for 10-20 years before destroying the immune system) infected partner.
Other means of infection include of course intraveinous drug, which can transmit a T-tropic virus which is fully infectious in these individuals (infect T cells but not macrophages) and blood transfusions (in the 80s, mainly).
If I was to broadcast my 'privacy' unsecured 10 miles around... could I really complain of privacy intrusion and identity theft? Yeah right...
If only I had moderation points :( Mod up this guy, he's right on target.
:)
1 3673,501031215-557111,00.html... Chances are that we're only seing the tip of the iceberg.
The phrase you highlighted bothers me too... hope it's coming from a misinterpretation from the reporter (which according to my experience, happens a lot). It just doesn't make any sense... and I'm working on AIDS, I should know
Education goes a long way in preventing AIDS, just look at Northern America numbers vs Africa... of course, the problem of poverty is interwined with lack of education...
China is a special case... being communist, with the tendency to leak only the information it wants, it can cause certain problems. Some think that the epidemic is well underway back there, see : http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,
But now they have to worry about Hepatitis... because they're more susceptible to severe infection by this lovely virus! See8 01.html
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv_hcv_co_inf/020
First, it's been know for ages, so it's not a new mutation.
The specific 'mutation' involve CCR5, a coreceptor of HIV-1. An uncommun deletion called CCR5delta32 make it so that M-tropic HIV-1 can't enter CCR5+ cells in homozygote individuals (2 copies of the mutant gene). Heterozygotes (having a functional CCR5 and a mutated one) show less resistance to infection (70% resistance, estimated).
HIV-1 can exhibit a tropism (T-tropic) for another coreceptor, CXCR4, for which no mutation is known, so total immunity isn't exact; we can talk about resistance at best. M-tropic viruses are associated with de novo infection, and a switch to T-tropism is thought to be a turning point in the degeneration to AIDS (but not always).
Even CCR5delta32 individuals can be infected (althought have far less risk than you and me). Even then, the infection progress far more slowly than in normal individuals... they're called long term non-progressors. Won't develop AIDS in their lifetime, but still infectious, which can be dangerous...
Don't think we'll have fluids computers someday... electron > H20. Instead, I think that such things could be used in microfluidics chips(yeah I know, kinda obvious), especially in biotechnology-related applications. Pretty cool progress is made in this field... someday, we may have a 'lab-on-a-chip' to diagnose a bunch of diseases with a drop of blood, or analyse samples quickly (mission to Mars?).
Tell me when you'll consider a 5 inches screen worthwile to watch, because at 200$, I'm not!
I don't get the point of these portable DVD players... most of the time, they're the price (or cost more!) than a laptop that you could use to do MORE than listen to video... Anyway, I don't even see a purpose for them. To listen to videos... in your car? Maybe? Someone care to explain?
Hmmmm new wallpaper... :) Imagine your whole house (exterior and interior!) with wallpaper like that...!
:( Slow news day they say?
Interesting stuff, but sadly nothing new really
Big news for you, it won't hit the bargain bins for a long time. Considering the original Half-life sold at full price for what... 4-5 years?
MAYBE it would outperform an orbital telescope... but th available sky to look at would be pretty limited, no? Being based in Antartic and all... I doubt too it would be easy to maintain in the winter, where there is NO light for 6 months, at minus 60 something Celcius...
And comparing a 16m telescope to a 2.4m one is not exactly comparing apples to apples either...
More useful features, nice interface and CUSTOMIZABLE! Extensions are so good... but we'll have to see if it's too much for a simple end user.
My favorite one : WeatherFox! (URL:http://weatherfox.mozdev.org/). Crafteh (wish I knew his real name) developped this beauty following my suggestion on the MozillaZine forum and did an AWESOME job. Weather prediction anywhere in the world in your status bar... soooo usefull! Use it!
Yeah right, 3% of US Mainland, which needs to be
:)
A- Flat
B- Extra Windy, in an appropriate climate
C- Unpopulated
D- Not TOO far from populated areas.
And as someone mentionned, if you concentrate too much, you could (theorically) alter local climate.
Ecological? Will someone think of the BIRDS?