This is a big step in Russia's attempt to re-establish itself as a world naval super-power, after a decade of budget cuts."
Great, that's what the world needs right now, another arms race. What with the US deciding to ignore the AMB treaty and now this, the whole world is going crazy again.
America will be provoked into replying. This is bad. Russia barely has the infrastructure to support it's ailing nuclear warheads, and stop them firing off at the states, let alone getting locked into an arms race with the states again. They came of pretty badly last time, what makes them think it will be better this time?
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This was going to be first post, but my computer crashed. Thank you Microsoft. Oh well, I have negative karma anyway.
If you're gonna have a Beowolf Cluster in your home, and want it to run at a decent speed, I'd suggest you go with fibre. We have it at work, and damn it's fast.
Just Curious. It has warnings on the outside of the box saying do not open. Then it has big yellow stickers on the inside that probably say danger, blah, blah, blah. The question is: If you open it you're either:
A) Qualified as a technician, and therefore don't need the warnings, or
B) Think you're smart enough not to need warnings anyway.
The reason why they can't just measure this from the ground is simple. You can't put a measuring station everywhere. This thing can look over the whole planet and get data. I work on a project that is involved in the global change of ozone. We use balloon flights, ground based instruments (Dobsons, Lidars etc) and TOMS on Satellites. Dobsons give us the best data, but they can only measure it in a vertical column above us, with satellites, we can get the data for the whole globe (excluding areas of polar darkness). That can be much more useful that point based satellites, and it also gives us a much better picture of the ozone hole. We couldn't do that with ground-based instruments.
I did this at home there's some vague information in the manual that comes with it. It's something like you have to be root. Then run the setup with the '-net' switch. This installs it once, and each user runs an install. This sets up some basic files, but doesn't require all of the binaries to be installed for each user.
The formula for the acceleration due to cetripedal (centrifugal, it's not the same, but you get the right answer) force is a = v^2/r, where a = acceleration, v = velocity and r = radius of rotation. If we assume a = 10 (m/s/s, not feet), then we get 10 = v^2/r.
Lets make r a value such as 100m. To get acceleration due to gravity on earth as centripedal force, you would require a velocity of about 31m/s(131km/h, 81 mph) going around in a circle.
That's quite fast to be travelling in two dimensions (going forward and laterally), I don't think it's possible without getting too dizzy.
We're not even half way to a complete gene map. Honestly we only have an idea of a small amount of the genes in the human body and what they code for.
You have to be very careful to distinguish the genome from a genetic map. The genome is a nucleotide series consisting of 4 bases (A,T,G&C) that takes into account everything that codes for each protein that makes up a person. It is made up of introns (which code for proteins) and exons (which are labelled as 'junk' DNA, but are really sequences not coding for any protein.) There are abount 3 billion bases in the human DNA sequence.
A genetic map however, is a map of all of the genes coded for in each chromosome. What scientists are able to do is to figure out where the protein is coded for in the gene and add it to a 'genetic map'.
Venter and Collins announced they had produced a draft of the genome, nobody would even come close to a draft of the genetic map many tens of years yet.
I live in the Northern Hemisphere (where we know how to take care of our ozone layer).
For the record, most of the ozone depleting agents have come from the northern hemisphere. The reason that there is an ozone hole in the southern hemisphere (or it's more pronounced anyway) is that there are special conditions, which are described above which only occur in the Antarctic which accelerate ozone depletion.
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Great, that's what the world needs right now, another arms race. What with the US deciding to ignore the AMB treaty and now this, the whole world is going crazy again.
America will be provoked into replying. This is bad. Russia barely has the infrastructure to support it's ailing nuclear warheads, and stop them firing off at the states, let alone getting locked into an arms race with the states again. They came of pretty badly last time, what makes them think it will be better this time?
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This was going to be first post, but my computer crashed. Thank you Microsoft. Oh well, I have negative karma anyway.
What else can you say but wow! These pictures are breathtaking. I'm glad I got in so early before this site got slashdotted.
If you're gonna have a Beowolf Cluster in your home, and want it to run at a decent speed, I'd suggest you go with fibre. We have it at work, and damn it's fast.
A) Qualified as a technician, and therefore don't need the warnings, or
B) Think you're smart enough not to need warnings anyway.
So why two warnings, what a waste of money.
The reason why they can't just measure this from the ground is simple. You can't put a measuring station everywhere. This thing can look over the whole planet and get data. I work on a project that is involved in the global change of ozone. We use balloon flights, ground based instruments (Dobsons, Lidars etc) and TOMS on Satellites. Dobsons give us the best data, but they can only measure it in a vertical column above us, with satellites, we can get the data for the whole globe (excluding areas of polar darkness). That can be much more useful that point based satellites, and it also gives us a much better picture of the ozone hole. We couldn't do that with ground-based instruments.
Ha. I remember that flood. I was on a camp about 1 1/2 hrs from queenstown, and had to be evacuated by the air force.
"You can check your home, work, mobile, fax or modem number against their compositional database by logging on to www.magnus-opus.com."
Not I can't. I have a dial in account, and that'd be breaking copyright to dial in...
I did this at home there's some vague information in the manual that comes with it. It's something like you have to be root. Then run the setup with the '-net' switch. This installs it once, and each user runs an install. This sets up some basic files, but doesn't require all of the binaries to be installed for each user.
Surely someone you know has it on a CD that comes with a magazine??? I've got about 5 copies floating around at home.
Check out http://archimedes.stanford.edu/
The formula for the acceleration due to cetripedal (centrifugal, it's not the same, but you get the right answer) force is a = v^2/r, where a = acceleration, v = velocity and r = radius of rotation. If we assume a = 10 (m/s/s, not feet), then we get 10 = v^2/r.
Lets make r a value such as 100m. To get acceleration due to gravity on earth as centripedal force, you would require a velocity of about 31m/s(131km/h, 81 mph) going around in a circle.
That's quite fast to be travelling in two dimensions (going forward and laterally), I don't think it's possible without getting too dizzy.
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/research/bec/
You have to be very careful to distinguish the genome from a genetic map. The genome is a nucleotide series consisting of 4 bases (A,T,G&C) that takes into account everything that codes for each protein that makes up a person. It is made up of introns (which code for proteins) and exons (which are labelled as 'junk' DNA, but are really sequences not coding for any protein.) There are abount 3 billion bases in the human DNA sequence.
A genetic map however, is a map of all of the genes coded for in each chromosome. What scientists are able to do is to figure out where the protein is coded for in the gene and add it to a 'genetic map'.
Venter and Collins announced they had produced a draft of the genome, nobody would even come close to a draft of the genetic map many tens of years yet.
For the record, most of the ozone depleting agents have come from the northern hemisphere. The reason that there is an ozone hole in the southern hemisphere (or it's more pronounced anyway) is that there are special conditions, which are described above which only occur in the Antarctic which accelerate ozone depletion.