Make it so they can be disabled on the "Customize Stories on the Homepage" part of the user prefs. Seriously, how many Piquepaille blogspams are there compared to Apache stories? Personally, I'd leave them on, but the icon or whatever would be a warning - even though there's usually no substance to the "story", sometimes there are worthwhile posts within the comments. Hopefully, this would also improve said comments, since complaints about these blog posts would no longer be justified.
However, even if strains with mutant forms of M2 can be virulent and not be recognized by antigens resulting from this vaccine, the possibilities are probably going to be more limited than the eternally shuffled deck of HA and NA proteins. Hopefully. This doesn't sound too good, though:
There was almost no impact of the different M2 mutations on viral fitness, as assessed on the basis of the size of viral plaques generated in the absence of drug and of virus titers following MDBK infection at a low MOI (Fig. 1 and 2). These findings are in agreement with a previous report showing that influenza A/H3N2 recombinant viruses can undergo multiple cycles of replication without M2 ion channel activity (15). In that study, recombinants containing the M2 gene of A/Udorn/307/72 (H3N2) with V27T, A30P, and S31N mutations were found to replicate as efficiently as the recombinant WT in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. Also, a recombinant mutant which had no detectable M2 ion channel activity due to a deletion in the transmembrane domain of the protein (M2-del29-31) exhibited replication efficiency in vitro similar to that of the WT virus (15).
But it's another story whether these strains would succeed in the wild.
By the way, the resistance of H5N1 to amantadine seems primarily due to China giving it to chickens. Wonderful. But the U.S. and Canada still give low-dose antibiotics in livestock feed, so I guess we don't have a drumstick to stand on.
Ah, I was wondering if there was a reason a similar Opera widget couldn't be made...have you e-mailed Opera about these limitations? It'd be great if they could improve the functionality enough for a complete port to be possible.
Wow, they finally fixed it? Well, "fixed" in that you just have to enter a line in the console mode, after you've found out what that line is. And this apt-get install of network-manager-gnome...that doesn't actually require an internet connection to install the necessary files to...connect to the internet...right?
SimplyMEPIS is great for desktops and comes as a LiveCD/installer that allows you to try it out first. It's easy to try, and easy to install if you like it.
I guess you don't care about encryption if you have an old enough laptop, but it makes Ubuntu a pain with a new one. I'm using SUSE 10.2 because wireless isn't as horriblybroken as it is in every other distro I've tried. And before anyone says anything about the package manager bug - that was fixed. WPA has been a thorn in the side of Ubuntu and other distros for years.
I suspect many of the people who have seen it and are fans of it watched the DVDs... I watched a couple of the shows, but I didn't really understand what was going on, since it was shown out of order and at random timeslots. There seemed to be a lot of hype afterwards around when the boxset was came out, and - while I hadn't really like the show - I figured I'd borrow it and give the show a chance. Watching each episode in order was a completely different experience.
Power options - Advanced - When I close the lid of my portable computer: Do nothing (screen turns off, actually), Stand by, Hibernate.
You can set it to hibernate if you wish...it takes 10 seconds.
You are also wrong regarding hibernate...on my Toshiba if I close the lid while hibernating, the hibernate completes and the laptop powers off - the lights go out. When I lift the lid it loads properly from hibernate.
I wrote papers in university that took roughly that time in pages/month that were worth almost a whole course worth of credits...quantity doesn't equal effort, or quality.
Of course, this is Microsoft, so it's probably 8500 pages of diarrhea.
It's a semi-Toughbook... Panasonic sells a bunch of laptops that they call Toughbooks that are only semi-rugged... the case is metal instead of plastic and the hard drive has some shock protection, etc., but it's nothing like the massively armored ones that are nearly invulnerable. I think this one isn't even spillproof.
It was a 12.1" one, compare to the 15" CF-51... despite the hard-drive supposedly being surrounded by the shock-absorbing protective stuff, even its seeks would send out shrill rattles amplified by the magnesium case. I didn't expect the optical drive on such a tiny laptop to be quiet, but the sheer grinding racket it made was alarming, not to mention painful. Thankfully, I wasn't dumb enough to buy a $3000 laptop from a place without a decent return policy.
The bigger laptop mentioned in the article might be better (if heavier), but only comes with a 1.44" floppy drive and a DVD/CD-RW drive - from looking around, it appears that an optional DVD-Multi drive can be bought, but only as a separate item - not an upgrade. What year is this, again? The lack of a memory card reader is a bit annoying, too, though buying one for the expansion card slot wouldn't cost too much.
But on my 24" widescreen LCD in front of me, I've just turned Cleartype off, and then on again. There is no way I could read without Cleartype on this thing.
Heh, the reverse is true for me - I tried it on the 24" 1920x1200 LCD on my desktop just before posting, and every second until I could change the setting back was painful. My eyes kept trying to focus the blurry text... it was like using an old low-quality CRT, the kind that always gave me headaches.
1. Fonts. Linux weenies delude themselves that fonts under Xorg are just fine nowadays. BZZT. Compared to XP with cleartype the quality of font rendering in Xorg is laughable. Importing the XP fonts into a Linux system makes no difference, because they just do not look as good.
You're joking, right? Cleartype looks blurry and awful. I've yet to see a Linux distro that has fonts as painful to read as "Cleartype", just as I've yet to see a Linux distro with fonts as sharp and clear as the standard Windows font smoothing/fonts out of the box. This tutorial helped me enormously, though.
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"Perhaps it's that the absorption of IR due to CO2 concentration is nearly at saturation and has been for quite a while."?
More carbon dioxide = more greenhouse effect. Period.
Make it so they can be disabled on the "Customize Stories on the Homepage" part of the user prefs. Seriously, how many Piquepaille blogspams are there compared to Apache stories? Personally, I'd leave them on, but the icon or whatever would be a warning - even though there's usually no substance to the "story", sometimes there are worthwhile posts within the comments. Hopefully, this would also improve said comments, since complaints about these blog posts would no longer be justified.
However, even if strains with mutant forms of M2 can be virulent and not be recognized by antigens resulting from this vaccine, the possibilities are probably going to be more limited than the eternally shuffled deck of HA and NA proteins. Hopefully. This doesn't sound too good, though:
There was almost no impact of the different M2 mutations on viral fitness, as assessed on the basis of the size of viral plaques generated in the absence of drug and of virus titers following MDBK infection at a low MOI (Fig. 1 and 2). These findings are in agreement with a previous report showing that influenza A/H3N2 recombinant viruses can undergo multiple cycles of replication without M2 ion channel activity (15). In that study, recombinants containing the M2 gene of A/Udorn/307/72 (H3N2) with V27T, A30P, and S31N mutations were found to replicate as efficiently as the recombinant WT in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. Also, a recombinant mutant which had no detectable M2 ion channel activity due to a deletion in the transmembrane domain of the protein (M2-del29-31) exhibited replication efficiency in vitro similar to that of the WT virus (15).
But it's another story whether these strains would succeed in the wild.
By the way, the resistance of H5N1 to amantadine seems primarily due to China giving it to chickens. Wonderful. But the U.S. and Canada still give low-dose antibiotics in livestock feed, so I guess we don't have a drumstick to stand on.
Ah, I was wondering if there was a reason a similar Opera widget couldn't be made...have you e-mailed Opera about these limitations? It'd be great if they could improve the functionality enough for a complete port to be possible.
Ever heard of a planet called Venus? Do you think the 450C temperatures are due to something other than massive amounts of carbon dioxide?
2) I tried looking up iFrames, but I'm not really sure what that's about. I can get Privoxy to block pretty much any ad, though.
What plug-ins do you have that keep you using Firefox? I use Opera pretty much exclusively...I'm curious to see if I'm missing something.
Wow, they finally fixed it? Well, "fixed" in that you just have to enter a line in the console mode, after you've found out what that line is. And this apt-get install of network-manager-gnome...that doesn't actually require an internet connection to install the necessary files to...connect to the internet...right?
Not quite so easy. Hardly impossible, but something so basic should be automatically configured when installing in the first place.
SimplyMEPIS is great for desktops and comes as a LiveCD/installer that allows you to try it out first. It's easy to try, and easy to install if you like it.
I guess you don't care about encryption if you have an old enough laptop, but it makes Ubuntu a pain with a new one. I'm using SUSE 10.2 because wireless isn't as horribly broken as it is in every other distro I've tried. And before anyone says anything about the package manager bug - that was fixed. WPA has been a thorn in the side of Ubuntu and other distros for years.
I suspect many of the people who have seen it and are fans of it watched the DVDs... I watched a couple of the shows, but I didn't really understand what was going on, since it was shown out of order and at random timeslots. There seemed to be a lot of hype afterwards around when the boxset was came out, and - while I hadn't really like the show - I figured I'd borrow it and give the show a chance. Watching each episode in order was a completely different experience.
Power options - Advanced - When I close the lid of my portable computer: Do nothing (screen turns off, actually), Stand by, Hibernate.
You can set it to hibernate if you wish...it takes 10 seconds.
You are also wrong regarding hibernate...on my Toshiba if I close the lid while hibernating, the hibernate completes and the laptop powers off - the lights go out. When I lift the lid it loads properly from hibernate.
I wrote papers in university that took roughly that time in pages/month that were worth almost a whole course worth of credits...quantity doesn't equal effort, or quality.
Of course, this is Microsoft, so it's probably 8500 pages of diarrhea.
It's a semi-Toughbook... Panasonic sells a bunch of laptops that they call Toughbooks that are only semi-rugged... the case is metal instead of plastic and the hard drive has some shock protection, etc., but it's nothing like the massively armored ones that are nearly invulnerable. I think this one isn't even spillproof.
It was a 12.1" one, compare to the 15" CF-51... despite the hard-drive supposedly being surrounded by the shock-absorbing protective stuff, even its seeks would send out shrill rattles amplified by the magnesium case. I didn't expect the optical drive on such a tiny laptop to be quiet, but the sheer grinding racket it made was alarming, not to mention painful. Thankfully, I wasn't dumb enough to buy a $3000 laptop from a place without a decent return policy.
The bigger laptop mentioned in the article might be better (if heavier), but only comes with a 1.44" floppy drive and a DVD/CD-RW drive - from looking around, it appears that an optional DVD-Multi drive can be bought, but only as a separate item - not an upgrade. What year is this, again? The lack of a memory card reader is a bit annoying, too, though buying one for the expansion card slot wouldn't cost too much.
Though the government may stop giving you tax breaks for doing so.
But on my 24" widescreen LCD in front of me, I've just turned Cleartype off, and then on again. There is no way I could read without Cleartype on this thing.
Heh, the reverse is true for me - I tried it on the 24" 1920x1200 LCD on my desktop just before posting, and every second until I could change the setting back was painful. My eyes kept trying to focus the blurry text... it was like using an old low-quality CRT, the kind that always gave me headaches.
Oh, wait... it's available as a LiveCD. I'll give it a try when Bittorrent is finished, then. :)
WPA works great. I couldn't get it to work with NetworkManager and FC5, but with FC6 it "just worked."
Good to know, I'll give Fedora a try the next time I do a Linux install.
I meant SUSE 10.1 Reloade^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "Remastered". I haven't tried Fedora, yet.
1. Fonts. Linux weenies delude themselves that fonts under Xorg are just fine nowadays. BZZT. Compared to XP with cleartype the quality of font rendering in Xorg is laughable. Importing the XP fonts into a Linux system makes no difference, because they just do not look as good.
You're joking, right? Cleartype looks blurry and awful. I've yet to see a Linux distro that has fonts as painful to read as "Cleartype", just as I've yet to see a Linux distro with fonts as sharp and clear as the standard Windows font smoothing/fonts out of the box. This tutorial helped me enormously, though.
Does that mean it uses apt-get to download and install the network manager?
At least they fixed it. Being able access the internet kinda takes priority, since it is difficult to download updates without a connection.
SUSE does, Ubuntu does not. SUSE only requires a couple clicks and entering the network ID/password, while even the instructions for getting WPA running on Ubuntu are daunting. How does Fedora compare?