How does stating that they contain no enzymes, as a pointed difference compared to viruses, and that they are in fact smaller than enzymes, being a single protein the size of enzyme subunits, indicate ignorance?
That they do not contain cars, giraffes, or happiness is not relevant to whether or not a decent comparison can be made between prions and viruses. Lack of genetic material and being simpler than viral components like enzymes, however, is relevant.
Pay attention to context when pointing out irrelevancies.
Prions aren't structurally similar to viruses, they are much smaller and contain no genetic material or enzymes. Any given viral enzyme is already much larger and more complicated than a prion.
The whole smart ass thing about evolution might get a few chuckles, but people might think he was serious. His statement that there is no probable evolutionary link is more accurate and helpful than a flamebait joke would have been.
XP tailors how much RAM it will use depending on how much you have. Having used XP with 256 MB through 1 GB of RAM, it usually stays at about a third of your available RAM.
I agree that Vista will almost certainly run on lower specs than people fear, but since the only reason most will upgrade is eye candy, they may have to splurge if they want it all turned on.
No, if there was interbreeding a subset of Europeans would have Neandertal DNA. There's no reason to think it would have spread to all of the old world, let alone the new world, until modern travel.
Blood is constantly regenerated; blood cancers are caused by cancer in the bone marrow, which is where new blood cells are generated. Bone marrow transplants are for cancer patients whose bone marrow has been killed in order to eliminate the cancer. Being able to regenerate it might be handy, but if your own marrow became cancerous once, it might be of a higher liklihood to become cancerous again.
The argument is still somewhat questionable; not because it doesn't make sense that subpopulations might develop more pronounced traits in specific regards, just that it is hard to demonstrate that this is nature over nurture, since culture also fragments similarly. Given that the anthropologists trying to catelog genetic markers in the Old World (in order to understand ancient migration patterns) are already racing against the clock as modernized travel muddies what few genetic differences we have, a highly mobile society like that in the modern West does not seem, to me, to lend itself to fragmentation, even in a self-selection matter like Silicon Valley.
As I microbiologist, I can say that science doesn't pay well, either. I've been trying to decide what I want to study in graduate school, and it may be much better to get into education than stay in science. As a teacher I'd have benefits, job security, and holidays off versus being employed as a microbiologist, where all I get is a technician's paycheck and labcoat with my name stitched on it.
Whether or not there are genes that influence behaviors and whether or not human races are different enough to categorize such genes by race-linked traits are different questions.
Sure, there are a few genes that effect cognition. However, when ingroup variance is greater than differences between groups, race as an indicator of said traits, as the grandparent implies with the subpopulation adaptation stuff, is unhelpful.
In Star Trek, shields blocked transporters. If the enemy didn't have shields up, there's no need to beam the torpedo aboard anyway. You almost never see point defense in Star Trek battles.
Legally, yes. Practically, not anymore. In the scenario, the fellow wouldn't even be able to know which pay sites had his pictures unless he paid to view the content or hacked his way in. There's way too many sites for that to work, and even if it did, that stuff might find its way onto a P2P network.
I would assume that they want his source code so they can defeat his program, not because it makes all the other copies disapppear. They don't have to disappear if they don't work anymore.
I've also read theories that humans may have brought disease via themselves or human-associated species which decimated the megafauna more than hunting. While hunting could have a strong effect, disease would be much more pronounced and devestating.
Trip can return in a movie or expansion on the series, as long as it takes place in the long time span they gave themselves between the Terra Prime thing and the coda where he is killed.
FarCry handles large, lush environments much better than HL2. HL2 was very fun, but not all that visually impressive in scope or scale. The textures were generally ugly, such as the rubble texture. FarCry's models don't look as good as HL2's, but the environments are easily grander in scale.
Similarly, guns are always very rattly when they get moved around. That and no matter what you're shooting, say, some Argon, it will explode in a huge fireball if you use enough bullets.
A simple solution might be to buy the cheapest PCI card you can find and put your second monitor on that one. I would get annoyed enough to do so in your situation.
I know my Dad and I groan whenever time travel is used in Star Trek. Whether it was the awful Voyager finale or when something as cliche as Nazis showed up...
I suppose with Enterprise gone, Battlestar Galactica will be the staple of father-son-scifi-beer night.
Depends on the creationism, really. Young Earth Creationism is quite certainly a lie. Old Earth Creationism is less obviously a lie, and probably just some misunderstanding. Theistic evolutionism/scientific creationism is possibly true and/or True(tm).
There is a difference between realizing that we cannot know everything and claiming that we cannot know anything. Science, being tentative, is like that. We know evolution mostly explains life as we know it. We don't know all of the details, or the role any deities may have played, but we can be reasonably certain. All empirical facts are tentative, yet we needn't recoil at calling them facts.
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None of that is required by law. If Wal Mart wants to stop selling M video games to kids, fine, but why get the government involved?
How does stating that they contain no enzymes, as a pointed difference compared to viruses, and that they are in fact smaller than enzymes, being a single protein the size of enzyme subunits, indicate ignorance?
That they do not contain cars, giraffes, or happiness is not relevant to whether or not a decent comparison can be made between prions and viruses. Lack of genetic material and being simpler than viral components like enzymes, however, is relevant.
Pay attention to context when pointing out irrelevancies.
I don't trim back the fat too much, so I suppose what I've been seeing may be it managing the RAM usage of the applications along with itself.
Prions aren't structurally similar to viruses, they are much smaller and contain no genetic material or enzymes. Any given viral enzyme is already much larger and more complicated than a prion. The whole smart ass thing about evolution might get a few chuckles, but people might think he was serious. His statement that there is no probable evolutionary link is more accurate and helpful than a flamebait joke would have been.
I think it depends on age bracket. Most of my compatriots in their lower twenties play XBox console games. Later twenties seem to prefer PS2.
Nintendo was the top dog not long ago, and then megacorp Sony took the reigns. I wouldn't overestimate market stability.
XP tailors how much RAM it will use depending on how much you have. Having used XP with 256 MB through 1 GB of RAM, it usually stays at about a third of your available RAM.
I agree that Vista will almost certainly run on lower specs than people fear, but since the only reason most will upgrade is eye candy, they may have to splurge if they want it all turned on.
No, if there was interbreeding a subset of Europeans would have Neandertal DNA. There's no reason to think it would have spread to all of the old world, let alone the new world, until modern travel.
Blood is constantly regenerated; blood cancers are caused by cancer in the bone marrow, which is where new blood cells are generated. Bone marrow transplants are for cancer patients whose bone marrow has been killed in order to eliminate the cancer. Being able to regenerate it might be handy, but if your own marrow became cancerous once, it might be of a higher liklihood to become cancerous again.
The argument is still somewhat questionable; not because it doesn't make sense that subpopulations might develop more pronounced traits in specific regards, just that it is hard to demonstrate that this is nature over nurture, since culture also fragments similarly. Given that the anthropologists trying to catelog genetic markers in the Old World (in order to understand ancient migration patterns) are already racing against the clock as modernized travel muddies what few genetic differences we have, a highly mobile society like that in the modern West does not seem, to me, to lend itself to fragmentation, even in a self-selection matter like Silicon Valley.
As I microbiologist, I can say that science doesn't pay well, either. I've been trying to decide what I want to study in graduate school, and it may be much better to get into education than stay in science. As a teacher I'd have benefits, job security, and holidays off versus being employed as a microbiologist, where all I get is a technician's paycheck and labcoat with my name stitched on it.
Whether or not there are genes that influence behaviors and whether or not human races are different enough to categorize such genes by race-linked traits are different questions. Sure, there are a few genes that effect cognition. However, when ingroup variance is greater than differences between groups, race as an indicator of said traits, as the grandparent implies with the subpopulation adaptation stuff, is unhelpful.
Liability insurance probably would mandate hard coded safety mechanisms, I would expect.
In Star Trek, shields blocked transporters. If the enemy didn't have shields up, there's no need to beam the torpedo aboard anyway. You almost never see point defense in Star Trek battles.
Legally, yes. Practically, not anymore. In the scenario, the fellow wouldn't even be able to know which pay sites had his pictures unless he paid to view the content or hacked his way in. There's way too many sites for that to work, and even if it did, that stuff might find its way onto a P2P network.
Diluting wine with water wasn't done because the water was safe, it was done to purify the water.
I would assume that they want his source code so they can defeat his program, not because it makes all the other copies disapppear. They don't have to disappear if they don't work anymore.
I've also read theories that humans may have brought disease via themselves or human-associated species which decimated the megafauna more than hunting. While hunting could have a strong effect, disease would be much more pronounced and devestating.
Additionally, a lightsabre has no cutting edge. Any part of the blade in any direction is equally destructive.
Trip can return in a movie or expansion on the series, as long as it takes place in the long time span they gave themselves between the Terra Prime thing and the coda where he is killed.
FarCry handles large, lush environments much better than HL2. HL2 was very fun, but not all that visually impressive in scope or scale. The textures were generally ugly, such as the rubble texture. FarCry's models don't look as good as HL2's, but the environments are easily grander in scale.
Similarly, guns are always very rattly when they get moved around. That and no matter what you're shooting, say, some Argon, it will explode in a huge fireball if you use enough bullets.
AP articles usually are the same no matter where you end up reading them...
A simple solution might be to buy the cheapest PCI card you can find and put your second monitor on that one. I would get annoyed enough to do so in your situation.
I know my Dad and I groan whenever time travel is used in Star Trek. Whether it was the awful Voyager finale or when something as cliche as Nazis showed up...
I suppose with Enterprise gone, Battlestar Galactica will be the staple of father-son-scifi-beer night.
Depends on the creationism, really. Young Earth Creationism is quite certainly a lie. Old Earth Creationism is less obviously a lie, and probably just some misunderstanding. Theistic evolutionism/scientific creationism is possibly true and/or True(tm).
There is a difference between realizing that we cannot know everything and claiming that we cannot know anything. Science, being tentative, is like that. We know evolution mostly explains life as we know it. We don't know all of the details, or the role any deities may have played, but we can be reasonably certain. All empirical facts are tentative, yet we needn't recoil at calling them facts.