I have a Mont Blanc fountain pen that takes little ink cartridges. You put two cartridges in the barrel at the time - one open and attached to the nib, and the other in the back as reserve. The little booklet that comes with the pen says it will only work with Mont Blanc cartridges.
Once, I had no Mont Blanc cartridges left, so I put cartridges from another company in - S.T. Dupont. It was a tight fit, but the pen seemed to work. However, when the first cartridge ran out, I tried to get the reserve one out of the barrel and found that it was completely stuck. Smacking the pen against the desk didn't help at all. In the end, I had to resort to some complicated antics with bent bits of wire to fish the stuck cartridge out of the pen, covering myself in blue ink in the process. The pen wasn't broken for good, but if it had been, I still wouldn't have felt like suing Mont Blanc over it...
Not that I disagree with your point, I just wanted to tell the story:-)
Seriously, breaking someone's machine intentionally is a bit excessive. Past copy-protection schemes were okay in my book because laymen couldn't get past them and people who bothered/could were in the minority: piracy prevention but without excess.
But now the little laymen who don't bother reading the little warning labels are having their iMacs broken? This is affecting the luddites who don't know or care about p2p filesharing and buy all CDs and just assume they'll play in their CD players. Is the industry trying to alienate the people who still trusted it?
What are the possibilities of that happening just by chance
You make a good point. They're basing this assertion on just two small medium-small quakes each, spaced 19 and 26 seconds apart respectively. Little events like that probably happen quite often, and perhaps this observation should not be interpreted as anything at all. Of course, it's also possible that the research actually goes much deeper than the ananova article lets on, and they somehow know the predicted speed and density from their big bang model and these observations are just uncannily perfect. Who knows.
The speed of light is about 185,000 miles per second, or 11,100,000 mph, so these things are moving at 0.1c. Still not inconsiderable, mind you, considering their mass...
Good point. IANAPP (particle physicist), but it seems odd that you would get such a big cluster of strange quarks, considering they each have something like -e/3 charge.
If I may make an unqualified suggestion, any uplets or downlets would probably be too small to cause a significant impact, and bottomlets, toplets, charmedlets are likely too big to be stable. Please can any particle physicists out there explain what's going on?
I'm pretty shocked that since 1999 when he bought the place to restore it, he only managed to raise $100 for renovation!!! Either he's incompetent (which I doubt), or he just hasn't been trying very hard. So why the sudden push now all of a sudden?
Special update! Others not in a coma and likely to survive include Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, George Lucas, Rob Malda and about six billion people around the world! Thank goodness slashdot keeps me informed of who all is not in a coma.
I don't usually troll, but this story just begs for it.
DOE National Energy Research Science Center's (NERSC) IBM SP RS/6000, a distributed memory machine with 2,944 compute processors WINTERMUTE, together with a smaller 160 processor Intel systemNEUROMANCER, will make up a combined 3,328 processor Unix system... And this is only the beginning...expect alien artificial intelligence to be contacted very soon.
Of the eight eggs we injected with cumulus cells, two divided to form early embryos of four cells--and one progressed to at least six cells--before growth stopped
This is fairly typical for any cloning experiment. Frankly, six cells aren't a whole lot, and going from a six-celled embryo to a 100-celled one that can actually produce stem cells is no easy feat. It'll still be quite a long time before this can be used at all.
Clones made in labs always seem to die early. The trick doesn't seem to be so much how to make them, but how to keep them alive.
Plus, we don't know that organs grown from cloned stem-cells wouldn't have a shorter lifetime than regular ones, as clones tend to do - keep in mind that Dolly the sheep died very young.
Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube
Wow, just imagine a trillion Israeli scienists in a test tube. It's a snug fit, but in such close proximity, they still perform a billion operations per second!
I think we should build another DNA computer and put a whole international consortium of scientists into it! Just imagine the results.
For some reason this didn't make the front page, and you know how little attention the science section get. I doubt/.ing is going to be a problem, frankly.
From image 035A72 taken by Viking orbiter: LAT C= +40.90 UL= +41.14 UR= +40.28 LL= +41.52 LR= +40.65
LONG C= 9.52 UL= 8.76 UR= 9.28 LL= 9.77 LR= 10.28
The region is called Cydonia, so you should be able to find it in the gallery. Not that the face will be recognizable, since it was a lighting artifact in the first place.
If you look at the page, you'll see they also gave a writing test. What's odd about it is that they don't give nearly as much information about the results as, say, in mathematics. Whereas for maths they give detailed information about how well (or badly) students scored in specific fields, compared to other grades, national averages and so forth, the results from the writing test are not very interesting. Here are the major findings (right off the site):
Female students had higher average scores than their male peers.
Students eligible for the free/reduced price lunch program had lower average scores than students not eligible for this program.
Generally, the higher the level of parental education reported by students, the higher the average writing scores.
Students who reported saving, or whose teachers saved, their writing work in folders or portfolios had higher average scores than students whose work was not saved.
Students at grades 8 and 12 who were always asked to write more than one draft of a paper had higher average scale scores than did their peers who were sometimes or never asked to do so.
Now, when I was in school, my report card never said "he writes much better when he's had chocolate frosted sugar bombs for breakfast," or "he writes like a girl." Grades are grades, and the above clearly are not. After looking through the report on English, I know just as little as before about whether kids can write. Something interesting to do might be to conduct a writing test on an international level, much along the lines of what was done for maths a year or two ago (in which, by the way, the US failed miserably). This could be used to compare writing levels in different English-speaking countries and actually give us a more objective idea about where we stand compared to the UK or Singapore or South Africa, and so forth.
Not that, were I in charge of education, I'd know what to change based on those results...
Perhaps that will explain what the strange relationship was between the dolphins and the mice. Did the dolphins go to Magarethea? Did the Krikkit robots capture Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon VI? Did the mice help program Zaphod? And...
WHAT WAS THE FINAL QUESTION? PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME PLEASE PLEASE...
I guess in theory you could generate some electricity, but the generator would be moving very very slowly compared to a turbine in any "normal" generator, so you'd likely get much less out of it. And even if you did get electricity, it would be in Antarctica - you'd have to build cables across oceans to get it anywhere useful.
I really doubt there's anything much we can do with an iceberg floating around in Antarctica somewhere. Frankly, I'm not even really sure why it matters at all or what it means. Do you suppose having large icebergs break off is a symptom of global warming? Or does it just happen every once in a while?
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Once, I had no Mont Blanc cartridges left, so I put cartridges from another company in - S.T. Dupont. It was a tight fit, but the pen seemed to work. However, when the first cartridge ran out, I tried to get the reserve one out of the barrel and found that it was completely stuck. Smacking the pen against the desk didn't help at all. In the end, I had to resort to some complicated antics with bent bits of wire to fish the stuck cartridge out of the pen, covering myself in blue ink in the process. The pen wasn't broken for good, but if it had been, I still wouldn't have felt like suing Mont Blanc over it...
Not that I disagree with your point, I just wanted to tell the story :-)
Seriously, breaking someone's machine intentionally is a bit excessive. Past copy-protection schemes were okay in my book because laymen couldn't get past them and people who bothered/could were in the minority: piracy prevention but without excess. But now the little laymen who don't bother reading the little warning labels are having their iMacs broken? This is affecting the luddites who don't know or care about p2p filesharing and buy all CDs and just assume they'll play in their CD players. Is the industry trying to alienate the people who still trusted it?
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious = Super+california+fragmentation+holistic+expiration +alien+doctor+ferocious?
You make a good point. They're basing this assertion on just two small medium-small quakes each, spaced 19 and 26 seconds apart respectively. Little events like that probably happen quite often, and perhaps this observation should not be interpreted as anything at all. Of course, it's also possible that the research actually goes much deeper than the ananova article lets on, and they somehow know the predicted speed and density from their big bang model and these observations are just uncannily perfect. Who knows.
Heh, I'm an idiot. 60 seconds to an hour, yeah right. Wow, time sure flies!
The speed of light is about 185,000 miles per second, or 11,100,000 mph, so these things are moving at 0.1c. Still not inconsiderable, mind you, considering their mass...
If I may make an unqualified suggestion, any uplets or downlets would probably be too small to cause a significant impact, and bottomlets, toplets, charmedlets are likely too big to be stable. Please can any particle physicists out there explain what's going on?
I'm pretty shocked that since 1999 when he bought the place to restore it, he only managed to raise $100 for renovation!!! Either he's incompetent (which I doubt), or he just hasn't been trying very hard. So why the sudden push now all of a sudden?
I don't usually troll, but this story just begs for it.
Been spending too much time by the memepool, have we?
First thing I did when I saw this story was check that it wasn't somehow April 1st again...
...when it's out for Win32.
DOE National Energy Research Science Center's (NERSC) IBM SP RS/6000, a distributed memory machine with 2,944 compute processors WINTERMUTE , together with a smaller 160 processor Intel system NEUROMANCER , will make up a combined 3,328 processor Unix system ... And this is only the beginning... expect alien artificial intelligence to be contacted very soon.
Moron is a good element too.
This is fairly typical for any cloning experiment. Frankly, six cells aren't a whole lot, and going from a six-celled embryo to a 100-celled one that can actually produce stem cells is no easy feat. It'll still be quite a long time before this can be used at all.
Clones made in labs always seem to die early. The trick doesn't seem to be so much how to make them, but how to keep them alive.
Plus, we don't know that organs grown from cloned stem-cells wouldn't have a shorter lifetime than regular ones, as clones tend to do - keep in mind that Dolly the sheep died very young.
I dunno, last time I checked, most of the Earth was still around after the impact. Or did the mice rebuild it?
Wow, just imagine a trillion Israeli scienists in a test tube. It's a snug fit, but in such close proximity, they still perform a billion operations per second!
I think we should build another DNA computer and put a whole international consortium of scientists into it! Just imagine the results.
For some reason this didn't make the front page, and you know how little attention the science section get. I doubt /.ing is going to be a problem, frankly.
From image 035A72 taken by Viking orbiter:
LAT C= +40.90 UL= +41.14 UR= +40.28 LL= +41.52 LR= +40.65
LONG C= 9.52 UL= 8.76 UR= 9.28 LL= 9.77 LR= 10.28
The region is called Cydonia, so you should be able to find it in the gallery. Not that the face will be recognizable, since it was a lighting artifact in the first place.
- Female students had higher average scores than their male peers.
- Students eligible for the free/reduced price lunch program had lower average scores than students not eligible for this program.
- Generally, the higher the level of parental education reported by students, the higher the average writing scores.
- Students who reported saving, or whose teachers saved, their writing work in folders or portfolios had higher average scores than students whose work was not saved.
- Students at grades 8 and 12 who were always asked to write more than one draft of a paper had higher average scale scores than did their peers who were sometimes or never asked to do so.
Now, when I was in school, my report card never said "he writes much better when he's had chocolate frosted sugar bombs for breakfast," or "he writes like a girl." Grades are grades, and the above clearly are not. After looking through the report on English, I know just as little as before about whether kids can write. Something interesting to do might be to conduct a writing test on an international level, much along the lines of what was done for maths a year or two ago (in which, by the way, the US failed miserably). This could be used to compare writing levels in different English-speaking countries and actually give us a more objective idea about where we stand compared to the UK or Singapore or South Africa, and so forth.Not that, were I in charge of education, I'd know what to change based on those results...
It might still be interesting to see the long-term trend assessment that's planned for next year.
Nice idea, except the final answer is 42...
WHAT WAS THE FINAL QUESTION? PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME PLEASE PLEASE...
Think before you mod: is it really offtopic..?
Does anyone have a link to a (non-distorted) mirror?
I really doubt there's anything much we can do with an iceberg floating around in Antarctica somewhere. Frankly, I'm not even really sure why it matters at all or what it means. Do you suppose having large icebergs break off is a symptom of global warming? Or does it just happen every once in a while?