Xupiter did install itself on my home pc 2 months ago. I did not click any may-i-install buttons. I don't think i had default settings, but i know i have it set to ask to install new software
As a sidenote, Ad-aware was totally successful in removing Xupiter, just make sure you upgrade to the latest version using RefUpdate.
The person riding is not rigid and is not bolted to the segway. If/when there is a collision, that person will be thrown off and will basically be the same as a person bumping into you while running. The weight of the segway is in the base, and that is low to the ground. It will not be a 70 pound rock heading at your chest, it will be a 10 year old child stepping on your foot.
The point here is not that it won't hurt if you get hit, it is that it isn't any less safe than a person riding a bike/roller blades/scooter and hitting you, or a person running into you. Don't forget, the person on the Segway doesn't want to hit you either. You have to trust them just like you trust on coming cars not to swerve into your lane. The segway will supposedly be quick stopping and more agile than a bike or scooter, so people should be pretty good riding them safely. I just want people to give them a chance; there is no need to ban them before they even come out!
My best 3 mile race is 15:13, and when i'm in shape i can run 10 miles in an hour during a workout. Too bad i've been a lazy slob lately, so i'm usually about 7 min/mile for half an hour.
I'm really a middle distance runner, 800 meters was my event. My best time in high school was 1:57.
sorry for being offtopic...I just couldn't resist re-living my running days:-)
You are forgetting about loss of function mutations. Today's flightless birds are more likely the result of losing the ability to fly than of a stopping point on the way to developing flight.
As some birds grew bigger, they no longer had the strength or wingspan to lift themselves off the ground, so they continued to evolve into today's ostriches. Or, flight was no longer needed because predators were scarce and food was plentiful in a certain area, so chickens stopped flying and evolved to put their energy into being fat, laying lots of eggs, and not spending much energy on maintaining wings.
Looking at current animals for ideas about evolution is great, but remember that groups of organims with great diversity, like birds, are all evolving; they are not stopping points. Kind of like how all dogs started from a generic wolf-like form and humans have bred them into Pomeranians and St. Bernards.
Don't think so narrowly! There are genes that control the production of every vitamin, they are just reporting on the one that was published. Using what they figured out, they can find the genes for Vit. E or B or whatever they want and over express those. So maybe you'll get extra vit. E in your carrots and extra vit. A in your beef and nothing will taste any more tart.
Not necessarily! Organisms express different genes at different times in their life cycle in order to adapt to their environment or gain function.
For example, humans produce a different form of hemoglobin while in the womb. This different hemoglobin protein has a higher affinity for oxygen, so it can effectively absorb oxygen from the mothers blood. This gene is not as good after you are born because it holds on to the oxygen too tightly and can't efficiently deliver it to the organs. The gene shuts off after you are born so that you are more adapted to your environment.
So...the strawberries may turn on production of the vitamin C gene because they need it to do the actual ripening of the fruit or something.
My computer monitor displays much more detail than the TV even at comparable resolutions due to its vastly superior contrast. TVs are bright but they always seem to have poor contrast-on a nice TV it is still almost impossible to see when you play games like Gotham racing on the X-box and drive under a bridge or play a night race.
God help you if you smash into anything and bust your headlights!
I think using someone's wireless connection is more like trespassing. You really aren't taking anything, it is more like hanging out on their land. You are taking up space, and you aren't allowed to be there. As long as you aren't altering the person's files, hacking their machine, or taking their data, you really aren't stealing anything.
Using all their bandwidth is like having a kegger in somebody's woods. They (or the police) have to come along and chase you off.
The methane ice can't weigh too much more than the water on top of it. You only have to lift the difference between the mass of the ice and the mass of the water, so the energy to raise the ice is probably much less than that obtained from the bubbles.
The commercial value of methane, environmental consequences, and the depth of the deposits are probably the biggest hurdles to harvesting this resource.
Also what about the fact that infrared rays probably won't penetrate the baloon and make it to the mirrors?
I bet it is extremely difficult to build the heavy platform on top of a balloon so that the balloon does not obstruct the view. A little wind to unbalance the load, and the thing does a catastrophic flip, dumping your telescope on the ground.
I am surprised they don't use a satellite though, I would think it is damn expensive to run a 747 as opposed to just the one time launch fee and then relatively low maintenance cost for a satellite.
Or if he wants more power, get a GameCube and one of the 5" LCD screens. they also have a battery that will let you run both for an hour and a half. The screen comes with tiny built in speakers and a headphone jack, so it is an all in one solution. price: $150 for gamecube, $120 for Screen, $40 for battery, then you can rent games.
PC games are great, but console games are good when you are away from an internet connection.
enjoy!
Ian
Do you drink milk? Have you gotten Mad Cow Disease?
Obviously the answer is no. Mad Cow and the related diseases in humans are thought to be caused by prions, simple proteins that are produced by your own cells machinery through alternative splicing of the RNA transcript. The prion is a promoter of the incorrect alternative splice and therefore, if you eat the brains of the infected person, you eat the prion and incorrect splicing begins in your brain too.
So milk (or blood for that matter) with human proteins could be entirely harmless. It is *possible* to make proteins that would be harmful, but there are so many FDA tests and requirements that a drug must pass that it is unlikely there would be negative accidental consequences. The proteins they are harvesting from the milk are immunoglobulins, commonly known as antibodies, and are basically completely harmless to you anyway.
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man, get it straight... :-)
As a sidenote, Ad-aware was totally successful in removing Xupiter, just make sure you upgrade to the latest version using RefUpdate.
The point here is not that it won't hurt if you get hit, it is that it isn't any less safe than a person riding a bike/roller blades/scooter and hitting you, or a person running into you. Don't forget, the person on the Segway doesn't want to hit you either. You have to trust them just like you trust on coming cars not to swerve into your lane. The segway will supposedly be quick stopping and more agile than a bike or scooter, so people should be pretty good riding them safely. I just want people to give them a chance; there is no need to ban them before they even come out!
I'm really a middle distance runner, 800 meters was my event. My best time in high school was 1:57.
sorry for being offtopic...I just couldn't resist re-living my running days :-)
Human powered top speed: 80.6 mph
and after some quick calculations
60/((9.7*16)/60)
Human top speed on foot: 23 mph
12.5 mph doesn't seem so dangerous to me, it is about 3 times faster than I walk comfortably, and slightly faster than when i jog.
As some birds grew bigger, they no longer had the strength or wingspan to lift themselves off the ground, so they continued to evolve into today's ostriches. Or, flight was no longer needed because predators were scarce and food was plentiful in a certain area, so chickens stopped flying and evolved to put their energy into being fat, laying lots of eggs, and not spending much energy on maintaining wings.
Looking at current animals for ideas about evolution is great, but remember that groups of organims with great diversity, like birds, are all evolving; they are not stopping points. Kind of like how all dogs started from a generic wolf-like form and humans have bred them into Pomeranians and St. Bernards.
think on! -clan maclellan
Don't think so narrowly! There are genes that control the production of every vitamin, they are just reporting on the one that was published. Using what they figured out, they can find the genes for Vit. E or B or whatever they want and over express those. So maybe you'll get extra vit. E in your carrots and extra vit. A in your beef and nothing will taste any more tart.
For example, humans produce a different form of hemoglobin while in the womb. This different hemoglobin protein has a higher affinity for oxygen, so it can effectively absorb oxygen from the mothers blood. This gene is not as good after you are born because it holds on to the oxygen too tightly and can't efficiently deliver it to the organs. The gene shuts off after you are born so that you are more adapted to your environment.
So...the strawberries may turn on production of the vitamin C gene because they need it to do the actual ripening of the fruit or something.
"Eat your fruit young man!" -granny
Enjoy life! Join the Millions!
...umm, yeah...what are these bad uses you speak of? pr0n? are you mormon or something?
Damn it Harry!
hehe, pr0n...
My computer monitor displays much more detail than the TV even at comparable resolutions due to its vastly superior contrast. TVs are bright but they always seem to have poor contrast-on a nice TV it is still almost impossible to see when you play games like Gotham racing on the X-box and drive under a bridge or play a night race.
God help you if you smash into anything and bust your headlights!
Using all their bandwidth is like having a kegger in somebody's woods. They (or the police) have to come along and chase you off.
This is a great line:
love that software known as Java!
The commercial value of methane, environmental consequences, and the depth of the deposits are probably the biggest hurdles to harvesting this resource.
Also what about the fact that infrared rays probably won't penetrate the baloon and make it to the mirrors?
I bet it is extremely difficult to build the heavy platform on top of a balloon so that the balloon does not obstruct the view. A little wind to unbalance the load, and the thing does a catastrophic flip, dumping your telescope on the ground.
I am surprised they don't use a satellite though, I would think it is damn expensive to run a 747 as opposed to just the one time launch fee and then relatively low maintenance cost for a satellite.
just my two cents,
J
Or if he wants more power, get a GameCube and one of the 5" LCD screens. they also have a battery that will let you run both for an hour and a half. The screen comes with tiny built in speakers and a headphone jack, so it is an all in one solution. price: $150 for gamecube, $120 for Screen, $40 for battery, then you can rent games. PC games are great, but console games are good when you are away from an internet connection. enjoy! Ian
some tasty Mad Cow links:
http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/prion_evol.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madcow/prions.html
enjoy!
Do you drink milk? Have you gotten Mad Cow Disease?
Obviously the answer is no. Mad Cow and the related diseases in humans are thought to be caused by prions, simple proteins that are produced by your own cells machinery through alternative splicing of the RNA transcript. The prion is a promoter of the incorrect alternative splice and therefore, if you eat the brains of the infected person, you eat the prion and incorrect splicing begins in your brain too.
So milk (or blood for that matter) with human proteins could be entirely harmless. It is *possible* to make proteins that would be harmful, but there are so many FDA tests and requirements that a drug must pass that it is unlikely there would be negative accidental consequences. The proteins they are harvesting from the milk are immunoglobulins, commonly known as antibodies, and are basically completely harmless to you anyway. later