Actually, if you want to be really specific about it, the Eastern time zone should end about half-way through Ohio. All of Michigan should be in Central time. That's what's causing the most discussion in my neck of the woods (northwestern Indiana), since there seems to be some consensus that since we're near Michigan, we should go to Eastern.
This is the problem with local governments deciding time zones. Everyone has a half-baked reason why we should be eastern, when if you look at the freakin' map, we're clearly central. But, since we want to be on the same time as Detroit, NYC and Boston, we'll end up like Michigan and parts of Kentucky in the Eastern time zone while completely ignoring those pesky scientists screaming about their logic.
Point taken, but that was an extra add-on, correct? Both of the iPods I purchased came with the Firewire power brick. And, given my previous suggestion of a really cheap replacement (which I'm assuming everyone has, possibly two or three extras at this site) for a USB power brick, I don't fault Apple for discontinuing the free power brick in exchange for a larger screen and video playback.
The power charger connects using the FireWire dock connector, not the USB one. No FireWire dock connector cable means that people who would get this would end up with a power brick they weren't able to use. As for a USB version, any $10 powered USB hub will do the trick, so the expense to Apple (eventually passed onto the consumer) for the brick exceeds its value.
First, the ipod was not ready for prime time when it first appeared and yet look at what Apple has accomplished.
Correct. In a market like this, there are two times to get in: too early, when there's minimal content, and too late, when someone else's product has driven content production and specifications. There is no right time. Too early, especially when it's just a piggy-back upgrade on an existing product, is the better alternative.
Better yet, let's see Steve Jobs say, okay, you want variable pricing, we'll hook up with Magnatunes and CDBaby and sell their tracks for 50-75 cents, or something.
I've always wondered why iTunes Music Store never did that. Or, even better, since they've got music files with ratings, use an iRate Radio type of program integrated into iTunes. Get tons of free music that you're predicted to like. The only reason I stopped using iRate radio was that the poor player wasn't iTunes integrated (and difficult to get files integrated) and a lot of the files had ambiguous file names ("Oooh! Unknown Artist, 'song 3'! This track rocks!"), something I'm sure Apple could fix.
I think you're being a little harsh. Let's allow the market decide if the RIAA deserves some of the proceeds from iPod sales.
At the sale of each iPod in the Apple store, ask the customer to donate $1, $10 or $25 directly to the RIAA. Apple will collect the money and (after assessing appropriate handling charges) send them a check.
Will they swing again, or they gonna go for the easy bunt? Bases are loaded, tension is high...
You almost never bunt with two strikes, since a bunt rolling foul would be a third strike. Plus, bunting with the bases loaded makes no sense since it would be a force play at home. Squeezes are nearly impossible on force plays, where the catcher only needs to touch the plate, but are more successful in the absence of a force, when the catcher needs to tag the incoming runner.
Sorry. I have very little to say about the article itself, but your analogy was kind of bugging me.
I'm not so sure. The article says that the application will prevent *sharing* of files, but "sharing" is disabled by scanning files on the hard drive and marking some as illegitimate. But there's no mention of to-be-downloaded files, nor of other files on the Gnutella network. So it may *increase* usage in two ways:
1) Parents allow children to download music off of Limewire since that music now "must be legal".
2) The normal copyright infringers use Limewire to establish plausible deniability. Limewire filters illegal files and the files were downloaded from Limewire (albeit through the unfilitered Gnutella network or using files with publishing authorization that is forged), so the files must be legal and they can't be held accountable since they acted in good faith.
In reality, this is just opening Limewire up to even more liability.
This was my number one frustration with IE. When I want a new browser window (or tab) I want a blank one.
I use Safari, so this might be slightly off-topic, but I agree and disagree with this sentiment. When I create a new tab using OpenApple-T, I want a blank page with the cursor in the URL bar, no history. That is a new, blank page (though I can see where some would like a homepage or the like; it should be user-definable).
However, when I control-click (right-click) and select "open link in new tab" (or use the OpenApple-click shortcut), I want the history to follow along, in case I want to go backwards along the same train of thought.
It seems that the browsers take one of two tracks, either including history all the time or none of the time, without realizing that each has its own important functionality some of the time.
RNA breaks down without RNase. Physically, RNA is much less stable than DNA purely becuase it is not double stranded (in most cases).
Actually, the 2'-hydroxyl (the difference between deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid) is a more significant problem. DNA is not hydrolyzable because it lacks any remaining hyroxyl groups (they're busy making the backbone bonds between the bases), while the sugar backbone in RNA can be hydrolyzed by base (base like NaOH, not like A, C, G, T, U...), cutting the single RNA into two pieces.
OK, I think I see where this is going and where the confusion might lie.
The grandparent (and myself) wanted to point out that mRNA (messenger RNA) is a very old discovery. It was found back in the 1950s. Back then, no one knew how the information got from DNA to protein. Elliot Volkin, among others, found that there was a rapidly renewing (degraded/resynthesized) DNA-like RNA product in the cells. Meanwhile, at the Pasteur Labratories, Jacob and Monod were building a model of the lactose operon that was perfect except for the absence of "X", a short-lived, rapidly renewing intermediate between DNA and protein.
An informal conversation, a Eureka moment and a Nobel prize for Jacob and Monod soon followed.
So, mRNA has been around forever. But, what we're learning about now are the various methods of controlling mRNAs and mRNA levels besides transcriptional (making more/less). For instance, these new siRNAs (small interfering RNAs) and the process of RNAi (RNA interference) are apparently important during, at the very least, development (by turning off genes quickly and specifically) and may be adaptable for medical purposes.
It's now become a hunt to find these short (21-23 nucleotide) sequences, the genes they control and how the whole process occurs, so that we might be able to predict how and why RNAi works.
Well, you see, the non-scientific web poll is basically an anecdote, one person's perspective of what they think or what they've done. And the plural of anecdote is, of course, data. Therefore, if your sample size is large enough, your non-scientific web poll can generate a large set of data that you can describe in scientific terms.
The real reason that the 50-foot tall chicks became extinct is early mammals learned how to use rudimentary tools to activate the Continuum Transfunctioner.
The problem is, IIRC, that Creative applied for the patent in January 2001. The iPod wasn't even on the market until (I think) October 2001.
Yeah, but the patent isn't limited to the iPod or even personal music players, rather "portable devices". Audion 1.5 supported hierarchal menus like this way back in February 2000, 11 months before filing. Here's an excerpt from a commentary by the creator detailing the history of Audion:
Our frantic work on Audion had continued unabated since the release of 1.0. 1.0.1 was released a few weeks after 1.0, then, of course, came 1.2 in November. Finally, on February 22nd, 2000, we updated Audion to version 1.5. This version was a huge one for us with many firsts -- it added the much-requested hierarchical playlists, automatic playlist organization based on ID3 tags, the hilarious and surprisingly effective Karaoke mode, the Alarm Clock, a perennial dorm room favorite, and much more.
Combine Audion with any laptop and you've got the system that Creative patented. And since Audion was *requested* to make this adjustment, you know that it was present elsewhere meaning even more prior art.
We may have thin air on the top of mountains, but the atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1/150th that of sea level on Earth (as measured by Mariner 4). The triple point of water (when water can equally exist as steam, liquid water or ice) is ~.006 atm (~1/150th of 1 atm) and.0098C. Any temperature on Mars above.01C, therefore, will result in water boiling.
If you never got an answer, it is because "the" Buddha (not really a singluar, but rather the one you're thinking of when you're learning about Buddhism) was actually fit and athletic (to achieve his goal in life of understanding suffering he had to walk around and sit at the feet of all the great religious teachers of the time).
The fat Buddha is actually an incorporation into Buddhism of a native (Chinese, I believe) figure called Hotei during the early spread of Buddhism, much like the Europeanization of the image of Jesus as early Christianity spread.
You see, there was a wrong to right, so they sent this "Mighty Mouse" to the fight. And, from what I see of what is planned, he's got this situation well in hand.
There have been enough people using them for long enough to qualify for a serious study of the adverse effects of cell phones on their users' health.
You're assuming that anyone thought to look. In this case, linking an auditory device to an optical decline isn't intuitive. Furthermore, it is very difficult to deconvolute optical damage due to cell phone use from normal optical decline, especially when the customers are older.
Now that the demographics have swung younger (teenagers and college students) and the use has increased (minutes per user per week), it should be possible to track the appearance of declines independent of those that typically occur at an older age.
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Actually, if you want to be really specific about it, the Eastern time zone should end about half-way through Ohio. All of Michigan should be in Central time. That's what's causing the most discussion in my neck of the woods (northwestern Indiana), since there seems to be some consensus that since we're near Michigan, we should go to Eastern.
This is the problem with local governments deciding time zones. Everyone has a half-baked reason why we should be eastern, when if you look at the freakin' map, we're clearly central. But, since we want to be on the same time as Detroit, NYC and Boston, we'll end up like Michigan and parts of Kentucky in the Eastern time zone while completely ignoring those pesky scientists screaming about their logic.
Sorry. That's been simmering for a while.
Point taken, but that was an extra add-on, correct? Both of the iPods I purchased came with the Firewire power brick. And, given my previous suggestion of a really cheap replacement (which I'm assuming everyone has, possibly two or three extras at this site) for a USB power brick, I don't fault Apple for discontinuing the free power brick in exchange for a larger screen and video playback.
The power charger connects using the FireWire dock connector, not the USB one. No FireWire dock connector cable means that people who would get this would end up with a power brick they weren't able to use. As for a USB version, any $10 powered USB hub will do the trick, so the expense to Apple (eventually passed onto the consumer) for the brick exceeds its value.
First, the ipod was not ready for prime time when it first appeared and yet look at what Apple has accomplished.
Correct. In a market like this, there are two times to get in: too early, when there's minimal content, and too late, when someone else's product has driven content production and specifications. There is no right time. Too early, especially when it's just a piggy-back upgrade on an existing product, is the better alternative.
Better yet, let's see Steve Jobs say, okay, you want variable pricing, we'll hook up with Magnatunes and CDBaby and sell their tracks for 50-75 cents, or something.
I've always wondered why iTunes Music Store never did that. Or, even better, since they've got music files with ratings, use an iRate Radio type of program integrated into iTunes. Get tons of free music that you're predicted to like. The only reason I stopped using iRate radio was that the poor player wasn't iTunes integrated (and difficult to get files integrated) and a lot of the files had ambiguous file names ("Oooh! Unknown Artist, 'song 3'! This track rocks!"), something I'm sure Apple could fix.
I think you're being a little harsh. Let's allow the market decide if the RIAA deserves some of the proceeds from iPod sales.
At the sale of each iPod in the Apple store, ask the customer to donate $1, $10 or $25 directly to the RIAA. Apple will collect the money and (after assessing appropriate handling charges) send them a check.
Will they swing again, or they gonna go for the easy bunt? Bases are loaded, tension is high...
You almost never bunt with two strikes, since a bunt rolling foul would be a third strike. Plus, bunting with the bases loaded makes no sense since it would be a force play at home. Squeezes are nearly impossible on force plays, where the catcher only needs to touch the plate, but are more successful in the absence of a force, when the catcher needs to tag the incoming runner.
Sorry. I have very little to say about the article itself, but your analogy was kind of bugging me.
Limewire use will plummet.
I'm not so sure. The article says that the application will prevent *sharing* of files, but "sharing" is disabled by scanning files on the hard drive and marking some as illegitimate. But there's no mention of to-be-downloaded files, nor of other files on the Gnutella network. So it may *increase* usage in two ways:
1) Parents allow children to download music off of Limewire since that music now "must be legal".
2) The normal copyright infringers use Limewire to establish plausible deniability. Limewire filters illegal files and the files were downloaded from Limewire (albeit through the unfilitered Gnutella network or using files with publishing authorization that is forged), so the files must be legal and they can't be held accountable since they acted in good faith.
In reality, this is just opening Limewire up to even more liability.
No, it isn't... JeffLedger's speech recognition software, caught him, doing his impression, of William Shatner.
This was my number one frustration with IE. When I want a new browser window (or tab) I want a blank one.
I use Safari, so this might be slightly off-topic, but I agree and disagree with this sentiment. When I create a new tab using OpenApple-T, I want a blank page with the cursor in the URL bar, no history. That is a new, blank page (though I can see where some would like a homepage or the like; it should be user-definable).
However, when I control-click (right-click) and select "open link in new tab" (or use the OpenApple-click shortcut), I want the history to follow along, in case I want to go backwards along the same train of thought.
It seems that the browsers take one of two tracks, either including history all the time or none of the time, without realizing that each has its own important functionality some of the time.
He took the wrong story. Here's the correct link to the dupe.
RNA breaks down without RNase. Physically, RNA is much less stable than DNA purely becuase it is not double stranded (in most cases).
Actually, the 2'-hydroxyl (the difference between deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid) is a more significant problem. DNA is not hydrolyzable because it lacks any remaining hyroxyl groups (they're busy making the backbone bonds between the bases), while the sugar backbone in RNA can be hydrolyzed by base (base like NaOH, not like A, C, G, T, U...), cutting the single RNA into two pieces.
OK, I think I see where this is going and where the confusion might lie.
The grandparent (and myself) wanted to point out that mRNA (messenger RNA) is a very old discovery. It was found back in the 1950s. Back then, no one knew how the information got from DNA to protein. Elliot Volkin, among others, found that there was a rapidly renewing (degraded/resynthesized) DNA-like RNA product in the cells. Meanwhile, at the Pasteur Labratories, Jacob and Monod were building a model of the lactose operon that was perfect except for the absence of "X", a short-lived, rapidly renewing intermediate between DNA and protein.
An informal conversation, a Eureka moment and a Nobel prize for Jacob and Monod soon followed.
So, mRNA has been around forever. But, what we're learning about now are the various methods of controlling mRNAs and mRNA levels besides transcriptional (making more/less). For instance, these new siRNAs (small interfering RNAs) and the process of RNAi (RNA interference) are apparently important during, at the very least, development (by turning off genes quickly and specifically) and may be adaptable for medical purposes.
It's now become a hunt to find these short (21-23 nucleotide) sequences, the genes they control and how the whole process occurs, so that we might be able to predict how and why RNAi works.
Well, you see, the non-scientific web poll is basically an anecdote, one person's perspective of what they think or what they've done. And the plural of anecdote is, of course, data. Therefore, if your sample size is large enough, your non-scientific web poll can generate a large set of data that you can describe in scientific terms.
The real reason that the 50-foot tall chicks became extinct is early mammals learned how to use rudimentary tools to activate the Continuum Transfunctioner.
The problem is, IIRC, that Creative applied for the patent in January 2001. The iPod wasn't even on the market until (I think) October 2001.
Yeah, but the patent isn't limited to the iPod or even personal music players, rather "portable devices". Audion 1.5 supported hierarchal menus like this way back in February 2000, 11 months before filing. Here's an excerpt from a commentary by the creator detailing the history of Audion:
Our frantic work on Audion had continued unabated since the release of 1.0. 1.0.1 was released a few weeks after 1.0, then, of course, came 1.2 in November. Finally, on February 22nd, 2000, we updated Audion to version 1.5. This version was a huge one for us with many firsts -- it added the much-requested hierarchical playlists, automatic playlist organization based on ID3 tags, the hilarious and surprisingly effective Karaoke mode, the Alarm Clock, a perennial dorm room favorite, and much more.
Combine Audion with any laptop and you've got the system that Creative patented. And since Audion was *requested* to make this adjustment, you know that it was present elsewhere meaning even more prior art.
You are not alone on that one.
We may have thin air on the top of mountains, but the atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1/150th that of sea level on Earth (as measured by Mariner 4). The triple point of water (when water can equally exist as steam, liquid water or ice) is ~.006 atm (~1/150th of 1 atm) and .0098C. Any temperature on Mars above .01C, therefore, will result in water boiling.
Cute story.
If you never got an answer, it is because "the" Buddha (not really a singluar, but rather the one you're thinking of when you're learning about Buddhism) was actually fit and athletic (to achieve his goal in life of understanding suffering he had to walk around and sit at the feet of all the great religious teachers of the time).
The fat Buddha is actually an incorporation into Buddhism of a native (Chinese, I believe) figure called Hotei during the early spread of Buddhism, much like the Europeanization of the image of Jesus as early Christianity spread.
While your kinetic energy might have decreased, the increase in your potential energy should be enough to cover the loss.
All the numbers were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0.
When someone puts images under a heading called 'Images', you expect it to contain images, not a plug-in that Firefox is unable to install.
Is the image (just a TIFF) giving you a problem, or is it before the image loads? Here's a direct link to the image to test.
Homer: "Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?"
Marge: "That's because you were drunk!"
Homer: "And how."
You see, there was a wrong to right, so they sent this "Mighty Mouse" to the fight. And, from what I see of what is planned, he's got this situation well in hand.
There have been enough people using them for long enough to qualify for a serious study of the adverse effects of cell phones on their users' health.
You're assuming that anyone thought to look. In this case, linking an auditory device to an optical decline isn't intuitive. Furthermore, it is very difficult to deconvolute optical damage due to cell phone use from normal optical decline, especially when the customers are older.
Now that the demographics have swung younger (teenagers and college students) and the use has increased (minutes per user per week), it should be possible to track the appearance of declines independent of those that typically occur at an older age.