Nature is actually quite fond of electric motors (you have lots of them in every cell in the form of ATP Synthase, and they're used by bacteria to drive flagella etc.) but has apparently not found them useful for maneuvering around inside a cell.
G.
Apart from from myosin 1 an ATP powered 'motor' that moves intra cellular vesicles around within almost every cell!
Oh and they use ATP so are ATP hydrolysers not synthases
The other effects like jitters and palpitations is probably harmful to the heart in the long term
Caffeine (at high) doses can cause heart problems much more acutely. We have shown that 0.3mM caffeine (equivalent to ~2.3g*) can modify the activity of a protein in the heart sufficiently to mimic the effect of herditary mutations capable of causing fatal arrhythmias and that effect is quick (within mins).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18518861
*Based on an average water volume of a 70kg man = 40L, caffeine = 194g/mole and all caffeine being absorbed.
A couple of months ago whilst visiting Calgary I found a new looking pink Blackberry bold on the street. The phone was fully charged and locked. With a lock it was impossible to contact the owner as I couldn't access the phone to try calling a contact. I just waited and the next day the phone rang. I explained I had found the phone etc and the owner's company sent a courier to pick it up. I was a little disappointed that at no point did anyone thank me for picking up the phone and waiting in for the courier but ah well the phone got back home. The thing is though it made me realise that the only thing the lock on the phone did was prevent me from calling a contact on the phone. If I had wanted to keep it I would have done as a poster above commented and wipe the phone clean. I suppose some phones have sensitive information on them but for the rest of us do we need to lock them if all it does is stop honest people from trying to return them to the rightful owner?
500,000,000 downloads... 300,000,000 minutes... 0.6 minutes played per download?
These numbers must include trials and people re-downloading on new phones. I'd be more interested in the number who have PURCHASED Angry Birds.
300,000,000 PER DAY.....not everyone who downloaded it will play it everyday!?
As another Otago researcher I attended a presentation by the lead researcher a couple of weeks ago. Although the science was cool his presentation style really sold the show and it’s a shame you can’t see him in action. What made me laugh was that he seemed most proud that he had proved his elementary school teacher was wrong. A fact that is also repeated in the article linked above.
(March 23, 2010) We asked Best Buy’s media relations department last week why Best Buy’s Geek Squad offers a fictional 3D glasses syncing service? (link to our original story). Below is the corporate response.
“I wanted to address any lingering confusion about the characterization of services support in the Best Buy Samsung 3DTV offer that was advertised in yesterday’s (March 21) insert. We by no means intended to confuse our customers or offer fraudulent services. The offer is new to our stores, and our own employees were trained on it just this past week.
Let me clarify the services that are included with this offer. Geek Squad will:
1. Set up and connect your TV + up to 5 components (Blu Ray, Cable Box, Satellite Box, etc )
2. Add your internet enabled Blu ray/Gaming Console or internet enabled TV to your existing wireless network so you can access online content such as Netflix and Pandora.
3. Make sure your 3D glasses work – some solutions we sell need TV settings adjusted so that 3D glasses are enabled – there are both 3D and non 3D settings for viewing
4. Review and teach you how to use all of your new gear.
We have some customers who aren’t quite sure how the 3D glasses work, or that the glasses automatically sync with their new 3D TVs. So we wanted to convey that they can depend on Geek Squad to answer their questions during installation and set-up. There is no additional charge for this – and the Geek Squad 3D installation and networking services are included in the total price of this offer.
You know we’re as enthusiastic about 3D as you are, and equally committed to help educate consumers about how to get the most from this home entertainment experience.”
I understand Intel can't go unpunished but the consumers are going to be the ones ultimately paying these fines. I guess it will help AMD as their performance:price ratio is already good. An increase in Intel chip price can only increase this in AMD's favor. I just wish AMD would get some of the fine as compensation, so that they can use it to invest in increasing their performance to match the new icore7 chips.
"I know! I mean, it's not like Nazi/Adult Baby BDSM parties are actually illegal. What do I care if my personal pictures of myself dressed as Hitler in diaper getting spanked by a fat cross dressing Eva Braun get distributed over the web? Sheesh, some people are SO whiney!"
Well it didn't work out too well for Max Mosley did it?
Thats kind of the purpose of the article, if you read it. They compare using charged particle beams to traditional radiotherapy treatment and comment that using particle beams allows the raditation to be better focused on the tumour (in this case a spinal tumour), leading to less death of surrounding tissue.
I appreciate that touch screens are faster to use in some situations compared to a mouse, and in some situations (public access terminals in a cinema etc.) they are better but for the average consumer are touch screens necessary. Most people out there have been brought up with the mouse and are very adapt at using it. Other than the coolness factor (akin to having the fastest graphics card available to play doom3 at 200fps) is there a real market/need for touch screens for general consumers? Especially comparing the price of a mouse/LCD monitor vs touch screen?
Now I know the dual lens part is the newsworthy component here, but I also though it would be neat having a consealed 5x optical zoom as described in the post. Unfortunately it seems it only has the compact digital camera industry standard of 3x.
There's just way too many variables to look at, in addition to the two you point out, vehicle and age. What about weather, tyres etc. Would you rather have no-speed limits so people can drive past your house a 100mph?.....reducing speed has been shown on many occasions to help reduce road fatalities. Plus you could use your argument with lots of things, such as why are certain drugs a crime?
Finally,how often do you really need to speed up to "avoid an accident", couldn't slowing down be a better option?
So this is what you gey if you mix Topgun with Days of Thunder, can't wait to see the planes "rubbing" and being pushed-off after a fuel stop to save those vital seconds!
Why is a run-of-the-mill game given front page space. I doesn't sound much different than any other FPS (apart from the bizzare scenario), and Zonk (the self-poster) only gives it 6/10. Is this the quietest news day-ever of was Zonk just desperate to post something?
I find it hard to believe the line about the security, it seems like it's been put there to add impact to an otherwise not that important story. I work in university labs, granted not with things like the plague, but anywhere animal use takes place there is pretty good security. This is perhaps not a result of the dangers of the animals escaping but rather to stop animal-rights activists from getting in. Yes, it could be better, but the McDonalds quote is just flamebait IMHO.
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Nature is actually quite fond of electric motors (you have lots of them in every cell in the form of ATP Synthase, and they're used by bacteria to drive flagella etc.) but has apparently not found them useful for maneuvering around inside a cell.
G.
Apart from from myosin 1 an ATP powered 'motor' that moves intra cellular vesicles around within almost every cell!
Oh and they use ATP so are ATP hydrolysers not synthases
The other effects like jitters and palpitations is probably harmful to the heart in the long term
Caffeine (at high) doses can cause heart problems much more acutely. We have shown that 0.3mM caffeine (equivalent to ~2.3g*) can modify the activity of a protein in the heart sufficiently to mimic the effect of herditary mutations capable of causing fatal arrhythmias and that effect is quick (within mins). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18518861
*Based on an average water volume of a 70kg man = 40L, caffeine = 194g/mole and all caffeine being absorbed.
With a lock it was impossible to contact the owner as I couldn't access the phone to try calling a contact.
Just curious - did you pop the battery to look for contact info on the inside of the battery bay?
Yes, but nothing there, I copied down the SIM number and was going to contact the sevice provider to see if they kept a record but they phoned 1st.
A couple of months ago whilst visiting Calgary I found a new looking pink Blackberry bold on the street. The phone was fully charged and locked. With a lock it was impossible to contact the owner as I couldn't access the phone to try calling a contact. I just waited and the next day the phone rang. I explained I had found the phone etc and the owner's company sent a courier to pick it up. I was a little disappointed that at no point did anyone thank me for picking up the phone and waiting in for the courier but ah well the phone got back home. The thing is though it made me realise that the only thing the lock on the phone did was prevent me from calling a contact on the phone. If I had wanted to keep it I would have done as a poster above commented and wipe the phone clean. I suppose some phones have sensitive information on them but for the rest of us do we need to lock them if all it does is stop honest people from trying to return them to the rightful owner?
500,000,000 downloads... 300,000,000 minutes... 0.6 minutes played per download? These numbers must include trials and people re-downloading on new phones. I'd be more interested in the number who have PURCHASED Angry Birds.
300,000,000 PER DAY.....not everyone who downloaded it will play it everyday!?
Right at the end of the video. Now you can have a weeping angel moving through your very own lounge!
This is really going to test those who are allergic to wifi......who is thinking of the children!
As another Otago researcher I attended a presentation by the lead researcher a couple of weeks ago. Although the science was cool his presentation style really sold the show and it’s a shame you can’t see him in action. What made me laugh was that he seemed most proud that he had proved his elementary school teacher was wrong. A fact that is also repeated in the article linked above.
Best Buy Responds To “3D Glasses Syncing Service”
(March 23, 2010) We asked Best Buy’s media relations department last week why Best Buy’s Geek Squad offers a fictional 3D glasses syncing service? (link to our original story). Below is the corporate response.
“I wanted to address any lingering confusion about the characterization of services support in the Best Buy Samsung 3DTV offer that was advertised in yesterday’s (March 21) insert. We by no means intended to confuse our customers or offer fraudulent services. The offer is new to our stores, and our own employees were trained on it just this past week.
Let me clarify the services that are included with this offer. Geek Squad will:
1. Set up and connect your TV + up to 5 components (Blu Ray, Cable Box, Satellite Box, etc )
2. Add your internet enabled Blu ray/Gaming Console or internet enabled TV to your existing wireless network so you can access online content such as Netflix and Pandora.
3. Make sure your 3D glasses work – some solutions we sell need TV settings adjusted so that 3D glasses are enabled – there are both 3D and non 3D settings for viewing
4. Review and teach you how to use all of your new gear.
We have some customers who aren’t quite sure how the 3D glasses work, or that the glasses automatically sync with their new 3D TVs. So we wanted to convey that they can depend on Geek Squad to answer their questions during installation and set-up. There is no additional charge for this – and the Geek Squad 3D installation and networking services are included in the total price of this offer.
You know we’re as enthusiastic about 3D as you are, and equally committed to help educate consumers about how to get the most from this home entertainment experience.”
Not really the fastest thing to travel on land. There have been unmanned rocket sleds going as fast as mach 8.5.
Maybe we just need to cycle our subject line more often...............or encourage more people to join SETI to increase the size of the botnet!
The forgotten language....... For numerical stuff it still works great.
I liked the show... but they they still need some thinking writers. Why not use a "Keno" to close the hatch?!
They mentioned in the show there was a "safety mechanism" which they suggested required a person to be in the ship/room to close the door.
oops got the double nn in the title there!
I understand Intel can't go unpunished but the consumers are going to be the ones ultimately paying these fines. I guess it will help AMD as their performance:price ratio is already good. An increase in Intel chip price can only increase this in AMD's favor. I just wish AMD would get some of the fine as compensation, so that they can use it to invest in increasing their performance to match the new icore7 chips.
But they are exactly like the TV shows (Spooks/MI-5)
"I know! I mean, it's not like Nazi/Adult Baby BDSM parties are actually illegal. What do I care if my personal pictures of myself dressed as Hitler in diaper getting spanked by a fat cross dressing Eva Braun get distributed over the web? Sheesh, some people are SO whiney!"
Well it didn't work out too well for Max Mosley did it?
Thats kind of the purpose of the article, if you read it. They compare using charged particle beams to traditional radiotherapy treatment and comment that using particle beams allows the raditation to be better focused on the tumour (in this case a spinal tumour), leading to less death of surrounding tissue.
I appreciate that touch screens are faster to use in some situations compared to a mouse, and in some situations (public access terminals in a cinema etc.) they are better but for the average consumer are touch screens necessary. Most people out there have been brought up with the mouse and are very adapt at using it. Other than the coolness factor (akin to having the fastest graphics card available to play doom3 at 200fps) is there a real market/need for touch screens for general consumers? Especially comparing the price of a mouse/LCD monitor vs touch screen?
Now I know the dual lens part is the newsworthy component here, but I also though it would be neat having a consealed 5x optical zoom as described in the post. Unfortunately it seems it only has the compact digital camera industry standard of 3x.
There's just way too many variables to look at, in addition to the two you point out, vehicle and age. What about weather, tyres etc. Would you rather have no-speed limits so people can drive past your house a 100mph?.....reducing speed has been shown on many occasions to help reduce road fatalities. Plus you could use your argument with lots of things, such as why are certain drugs a crime? Finally ,how often do you really need to speed up to "avoid an accident", couldn't slowing down be a better option?
It was only a kerosine leak that burnt, the official website claims the engine itself was barely damaged.
So this is what you gey if you mix Topgun with Days of Thunder, can't wait to see the planes "rubbing" and being pushed-off after a fuel stop to save those vital seconds!
Why is a run-of-the-mill game given front page space. I doesn't sound much different than any other FPS (apart from the bizzare scenario), and Zonk (the self-poster) only gives it 6/10. Is this the quietest news day-ever of was Zonk just desperate to post something?
I find it hard to believe the line about the security, it seems like it's been put there to add impact to an otherwise not that important story. I work in university labs, granted not with things like the plague, but anywhere animal use takes place there is pretty good security. This is perhaps not a result of the dangers of the animals escaping but rather to stop animal-rights activists from getting in. Yes, it could be better, but the McDonalds quote is just flamebait IMHO.