But it gives us all something to laugh at while we wait for the real manned mission to Mars! As to the Mars Society I think they're more interested in publicity than actually doing proper experiments as to whether living on Mars would be feasible.
Here's a link to the original story - original story. In it mutation is not mentioned at all - which makes me think it was added when the article was re-written at Reuters - then the mistake added. Strangely the/. headline is the original Observer one & not the Reuters one.
I think what this is a case of is journalists who don't know much about science trying to use scientific words in the wrong way. Either that or they're misquoting a press release, or writing deliberately alarmist headlines for some reason.
Sorry that first post of mine didn't make sense I cut a bit from the middle & forgot to re-read it - what it meant to say was that a physical mutation would be a cancer - this is just people's habits changing as to which finger (or thumb) they choose to use.
Google give you the option of viewing a pdf file as either a cached html file or a cached pdf file - I suppose that doesn't affect people who follow a direct link but for those people (the vast majority) who go to websites from search engines it does.
Could it be all those bits and bobs of junk orbiting the earth finally have caused a major satellite to malfunction? I mean they've been saying for years that eventually all the little bits could cause loads of satellites to break up - but nobody believed them.
The great throwdini beat you by 7 minutes in naming it though - can't remember whether I watched the whole film now or not. As to remembering the characters name - well it was so long ago I saw it I really have no idea.
Yes that was it. When that's the most thrilling part of the film - watching somebody move Chinese characters into a picture - that purports to be a thriller it says a lot about the film!
Oh there's more - the retina scan, the facial recognition scan, the palm print, handwriting recognition - the list just goes on and on! As to the people who use their favourite football team or a popular name as a password well they deserve to have their account compromised and their network privileges revoked for being so stupid!
with Patrick Stewart in where each day he had to put these strange Chinese characters into a picture otherwise the government secrets he knew would be e-mailed to hundreds of newspapers. Can anyone remember what it was called? As for thumbprint technology the hardware is still very expensive.:o\
Note he said less than half a second - that just means he must have between a 0 and 1.28Tb mp3 collection. All these figures people are coming up for it are just guesses.
It seems a common business plan on the web to get people to sign up for a free service, then a few years later annnounce its no longer free. At least some of the customers will be willing to pay for the mere sake of it being inconvienient to change. As advertising revenue falls it seems more websites are switching to the subscription model/ other revenue sources in an effort to bring money in. The problem with the offer it free, then charge for it plan is that it can cause a lot of resentment from people who think everything on the web should be free. As to StarOffice etc - why can't people just stick with the version they've downloaded already?
Well with Linux distributions getting larger and larger I'm not surprised they've had to restrict downloads - and with all the bad press abuot Microsoft recently more and more people are changing OS.
I bet it'd be expensive though - and there are plenty of ways of getting information out even through electrically conductive concrete. I mean just off the top of my head there's tape recorders for a start which wouldn't be affected.
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But it gives us all something to laugh at while we wait for the real manned mission to Mars! As to the Mars Society I think they're more interested in publicity than actually doing proper experiments as to whether living on Mars would be feasible.
Here's a link to the original story - original story. In it mutation is not mentioned at all - which makes me think it was added when the article was re-written at Reuters - then the mistake added. Strangely the /. headline is the original Observer one & not the Reuters one.
But they are talking about a change of the use of the thumb in the article - not a physical change in it.
I think what this is a case of is journalists who don't know much about science trying to use scientific words in the wrong way. Either that or they're misquoting a press release, or writing deliberately alarmist headlines for some reason.
Sorry that first post of mine didn't make sense I cut a bit from the middle & forgot to re-read it - what it meant to say was that a physical mutation would be a cancer - this is just people's habits changing as to which finger (or thumb) they choose to use.
A physical mutation would mean a cancerous growth - what I think this is is people's habits being changed as to which finger (or thumb) they use.
How about Come to Wayne County, and see the Martians*
* Martians means people pretending to be Martians and by no means means real Martians
different gravity conditions? - that's always intrigued me more than what patch of desert they use to simulate Mars.
How about putting "At least this one works" on the next one? :o)
"newest and most sophisticated" you just *know* what's coming next must be bad news!
Google give you the option of viewing a pdf file as either a cached html file or a cached pdf file - I suppose that doesn't affect people who follow a direct link but for those people (the vast majority) who go to websites from search engines it does.
Could it be all those bits and bobs of junk orbiting the earth finally have caused a major satellite to malfunction? I mean they've been saying for years that eventually all the little bits could cause loads of satellites to break up - but nobody believed them.
The great throwdini beat you by 7 minutes in naming it though - can't remember whether I watched the whole film now or not. As to remembering the characters name - well it was so long ago I saw it I really have no idea.
P.S. Here's a clue - their initials are B.G. and their first name is William.
Yes that was it. When that's the most thrilling part of the film - watching somebody move Chinese characters into a picture - that purports to be a thriller it says a lot about the film!
Oh there's more - the retina scan, the facial recognition scan, the palm print, handwriting recognition - the list just goes on and on! As to the people who use their favourite football team or a popular name as a password well they deserve to have their account compromised and their network privileges revoked for being so stupid!
with Patrick Stewart in where each day he had to put these strange Chinese characters into a picture otherwise the government secrets he knew would be e-mailed to hundreds of newspapers. Can anyone remember what it was called? As for thumbprint technology the hardware is still very expensive. :o\
Note he said less than half a second - that just means he must have between a 0 and 1.28Tb mp3 collection. All these figures people are coming up for it are just guesses.
I want one :o) - but no seriously can anybody think of a practical use for a tb/sec connection?
If people start using more than two acronyms per a sentence I start getting a H.E.A.D.A.C.H.E. trying to work out what it is they mean.
not with ASCII porn - with that your bandwidth really doesn't matter.
The phrase "Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own" springs to mind.
It seems a common business plan on the web to get people to sign up for a free service, then a few years later annnounce its no longer free. At least some of the customers will be willing to pay for the mere sake of it being inconvienient to change. As advertising revenue falls it seems more websites are switching to the subscription model/ other revenue sources in an effort to bring money in. The problem with the offer it free, then charge for it plan is that it can cause a lot of resentment from people who think everything on the web should be free. As to StarOffice etc - why can't people just stick with the version they've downloaded already?
Well with Linux distributions getting larger and larger I'm not surprised they've had to restrict downloads - and with all the bad press abuot Microsoft recently more and more people are changing OS.
I bet it'd be expensive though - and there are plenty of ways of getting information out even through electrically conductive concrete. I mean just off the top of my head there's tape recorders for a start which wouldn't be affected.