I take your point and IANAPSE (Professional Sound Engineer) - but I was thinking along the lines of recording live concerts without a permit, where you are likely to have the microphone sticking out of the cuff of your jacket, or clipped to your t-shirt, rather than taking a line level signal from the sound engineer's mixing board.
In that situation, does it really help to have a 24-bit/192 KHz recording of you clothes rustling and your neighbour's coughs?:-)
I can do pretty much the same with my Archos Jukebox Recorder and an amplified microphone. With on-the fly VBR MP3 encoding direct to a 20GB hard disc, space is not an issue. And it fits in a pocket.
I am signed up with the Telephone Preference Service and phone spam is practically a thing of the past. The occasional call I do get ends in abject apologies when I tell them (politely) that the number they have just called is on the list.
There is also the Mailing Preference Service, which does the same for junk mail - or at least junk mail addressed to me. Stuff sent to "The Occupier" and leaflets delivered in bulk by the postman are not halted.
If only Spam could be dealt with as effectively...
I can't believe that nobody else has wondered why anyone would want to garnish an Oscar. Would it look particularly good with a sprig of parsley? I presume the poster meant garner.
As usual, we (the British) and the US are two nations separated by a common language.
UK Pavement = US Sidewalk US Pavement = UK Metalled Road (or more generically, a paved surface, presumably because most US roads are poured slabs of concrete, unlike the tarmacadam surface prevalent in the UK).
Don't even get me started on bonnet/hood, boot/trunk, nappy/diaper, tap/faucet...:-p
Also linked from the Inquirer, these make use of the cheap and highly integrated mini-itx motherboards from Via Technologies. The case is a bit wacky but the motherboards are great for making little silent boxes for use as a firewall or low-end desktop machine.
IAAB (I am a biologist) and while this is very interesting, it is more likely that the Nature site is down due to the fact that the mouse genome is published in the current issue and has been made available for free to researchers in the field.
Absolutely - Miller and Urey showed that a few examples of a particular class of biological compound could be formed under very specific conditions.
Other theories point to the catalytic properties of clays (see here) and their role in the polymerisation of nucleotides (the subunits of nuclic acids such as RNA and DNA).
Then there's the formation of phospholipid bilayers to give a cell membrane - though that's not too much of a stretch given the propensity of these molecules to form micelles when mixed with water. Of course you have to have the lipids in the first place.
The point is that in the sequence:
1. Create Life 2. ??? 3. Profit
the ??? is actually a whole bunch of things that have to come together in the right way and so it may take a while - about 4.6e9 years so far on this rock we call home. Of course we may be able to speed things up a little but it is still a non-trivial exercise.
In the '50s they put some simple chemicals (methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water) in a sealed vessel and added energy (as electrical discharges). They found about 2% of the material formed amino acids.
Strictly speaking, most antibiotics are bacteriostatic (meaning that they prevent bacteria from growing and dividing), rather than bacteriocidal. But you are right - the idea is to keep cell numbers down to a level that the immune system can deal with
The highly reduced (in the chemical, redox sense) organic carbon will be oxidised to CO2 and disappear up the chimney.
But remember that bones contain already oxidised inorganic carbon as carbonate (effectively, limestone), which will remain, and which can be reduced by heat and pressure in the absence of oxygen, to pure atomic carbon. Get the conditions right and voila, diamonds.
That said, wouldn't it be cooler to be turned into buckyballs?
"Two years ago, Accra lacked a single Internet café. Now the city boasts more than 600 of them,"
Not quite true. I was working in Ghana from 1995 to 1998 putting science equipment and Win 3.1 486 machines into schools to provide local science resource centres for the Ministry of Education and there was public internet access (albeit mostly for ex-pats) at a German-owned bar called Aquarius in Accra.
By 1998 there were several internet cafes in Ghana including ones in Navrongo and Tamale in the much poorer north of the country.
I had a dial-up account (my first) with Africaonline which was pretty much only usable for email.
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I take your point and IANAPSE (Professional Sound Engineer) - but I was thinking along the lines of recording live concerts without a permit, where you are likely to have the microphone sticking out of the cuff of your jacket, or clipped to your t-shirt, rather than taking a line level signal from the sound engineer's mixing board.
:-)
In that situation, does it really help to have a 24-bit/192 KHz recording of you clothes rustling and your neighbour's coughs?
I can do pretty much the same with my Archos Jukebox Recorder and an amplified microphone. With on-the fly VBR MP3 encoding direct to a 20GB hard disc, space is not an issue. And it fits in a pocket.
Do you really have deadly cauliflower-like organisms in your water supply? Perhaps you meant "coliforms".
I am signed up with the Telephone Preference Service and phone spam is practically a thing of the past. The occasional call I do get ends in abject apologies when I tell them (politely) that the number they have just called is on the list.
There is also the Mailing Preference Service, which does the same for junk mail - or at least junk mail addressed to me. Stuff sent to "The Occupier" and leaflets delivered in bulk by the postman are not halted.
If only Spam could be dealt with as effectively...
Scooby: Qruick, Shraggy! Search on Roogle for "Amusement Park Owner"
Shaggy: Like, as soon as I finish this sandwich, Scooby.
It's a "contraction" of (h)amateur.
I can't believe that nobody else has wondered why anyone would want to garnish an Oscar. Would it look particularly good with a sprig of parsley? I presume the poster meant garner.
Didn't I follow the same link from the earlier Rendezvous with Rama story?
As usual, we (the British) and the US are two nations separated by a common language.
... :-p
UK Pavement = US Sidewalk
US Pavement = UK Metalled Road (or more generically, a paved surface, presumably because most US roads are poured slabs of concrete, unlike the tarmacadam surface prevalent in the UK).
Don't even get me started on bonnet/hood, boot/trunk, nappy/diaper, tap/faucet
That's because the misread it as the BSoD licence and thought it fitted their products perfectly.
Also linked from the Inquirer, these make use of the cheap and highly integrated mini-itx motherboards from Via Technologies. The case is a bit wacky but the motherboards are great for making little silent boxes for use as a firewall or low-end desktop machine.
IAAB (I am a biologist) and while this is very interesting, it is more likely that the Nature site is down due to the fact that the mouse genome is published in the current issue and has been made available for free to researchers in the field.
Dang that voice-recognition software!
Absolutely - Miller and Urey showed that a few examples of a particular class of biological compound could be formed under very specific conditions.
Other theories point to the catalytic properties of clays (see here) and their role in the polymerisation of nucleotides (the subunits of nuclic acids such as RNA and DNA).
Then there's the formation of phospholipid bilayers to give a cell membrane - though that's not too much of a stretch given the propensity of these molecules to form micelles when mixed with water. Of course you have to have the lipids in the first place.
The point is that in the sequence:
1. Create Life
2. ???
3. Profit
the ??? is actually a whole bunch of things that have to come together in the right way and so it may take a while - about 4.6e9 years so far on this rock we call home. Of course we may be able to speed things up a little but it is still a non-trivial exercise.
Because we need to be very sure they wash their hands both before and after the go to the bathroom.
No they haven't! Miller and Urey made amino acids. That's a very long way from creating even the simplest entity anyone would consider alive.
You are thinking of the Miller-Urey Experiment.
In the '50s they put some simple chemicals (methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water) in a sealed vessel and added energy (as electrical discharges). They found about 2% of the material formed amino acids.
Strictly speaking, most antibiotics are bacteriostatic (meaning that they prevent bacteria from growing and dividing), rather than bacteriocidal. But you are right - the idea is to keep cell numbers down to a level that the immune system can deal with
I always thought that was "remove Boy Scouts from horses' hooves".
Don't forget the BFG9000! He forgot the BFG9000!
Umm - wouldn't that be punctuated equilibrium?
Sorry, that link should have been ReturnPath - please excuse my incompetence - just had a wisdom tooth removed and I'm not entirely with it.
Try ReturnPath
The highly reduced (in the chemical, redox sense) organic carbon will be oxidised to CO2 and disappear up the chimney. But remember that bones contain already oxidised inorganic carbon as carbonate (effectively, limestone), which will remain, and which can be reduced by heat and pressure in the absence of oxygen, to pure atomic carbon. Get the conditions right and voila, diamonds. That said, wouldn't it be cooler to be turned into buckyballs?
Not quite true. I was working in Ghana from 1995 to 1998 putting science equipment and Win 3.1 486 machines into schools to provide local science resource centres for the Ministry of Education and there was public internet access (albeit mostly for ex-pats) at a German-owned bar called Aquarius in Accra.
By 1998 there were several internet cafes in Ghana including ones in Navrongo and Tamale in the much poorer north of the country.
I had a dial-up account (my first) with Africaonline which was pretty much only usable for email.