I have a laptop with "Windows Hello", which is a terrible name for their version of FaceID. It actually works very well after going through some sort of machine learning curve. My phone is too old to have such a feature, but my wife liked it enough to ask if we could do it with the webcam on the desktop. No-go there without a new webcam, as only some support it. I looked into it only briefly, but I believe in addition to some security features, it used infrared or similar spectrum to ensure it was looking at a real face and not a simulacrum. I would imagine that Apple may be doing something similar with their hardware.
Different use cases for different users... in a lab you're not going to want to carry anything more than the laptop itself from room to room, the peripherals all get left at the desk with the laptop dock, and you're not going to accept anything without a numpad because typing in some data with the top of the keyboard is the road to madness.
With a HDD I can envision how they can pull the platter and do forensics on it, do you know how they take a peak in an SSD's memory at a professional service? It didn't occur to me until just now that I had no idea how they'd do it.
Probably some nationalistic fervor going on, too. I'd be surprised if there aren't scams in circulation already purporting to be legal defense funds to protect the President from impeachment.
Thanks for the perspective! I was confused about how it would be useful if it only changed color with normal DNA. It seemed like that would require unusual preparation of the suspected cancer to ensure it was not contaminated with non-target DNA.
Mostly because it'll be very bad for human civilization. It'll be good for jellyfish, insects that survive the current collapse will be less constrained on size with the higher O2. The rest of the wild megafauna (down to 7% or so of total mammalian biomass vs humans + livestock) that have survived the anthropocene so far will probably go extinct, which will be sort of good for trees, because not all of them are going to survive with their ranges being much less contiguous than they were during historical temperature shifts (which also were slower paced). Basically anything small, short lived, and that reproduces in large numbers will be what has a good time of it. Anything that requires more stability in its ecosystem (rule of thumb: larger than a dog) will fare poorly, especially specialist species. It's like asking about the positive effects of your town burning down... the soil carbon content has increased, I guess?
Are you talking about the shape of the earth changing with the shift in mass? You'd still see sea level rise everywhere , just more in the equator than nearer the poles.
Yeah it is kind of glaring sometimes that Windows has some theme settings and then Office just does whatever it feels like. Even the versions of Office that have themes don't let you just match the OS theme. So, while it seems like an easy/stupid fix for corporate culture they clearly haven't been sharing notes in the past.
It is rising and has risen. What is under discussion is the rate. What do you expect to happen when Greenland's ice sheet melts, exactly, other than sea level rise? You may also have failed to notice plate tectonics, as far as other slow yet observable processes go.
Any concern requiring a coordinated response is used to obtain political power, otherwise joint action will be confused. See also: the military, agricultural subsidies, transportation infrastructure. What remains to be seen is if we can affect action with less than a WWII style national mobilization, which would be preferable to avoid, or if we'll just continue to ignore the problem until even such an action would be ineffectual, build some protein farms, and live out Bladerunner 2049.
The worse it gets the more fields of research start seeing trends. For example, in microbiology/epidemiology we're seeing that climate change has changed where various disease vectors can live. The entomologists are noting vastly decreased biomass of insects, and so on. So, as things continue to get worse, you will see more impacts from a greater variety of scientists discussed, with increasingly dire predictions of a worse case scenario. So it goes from "it is getting warmer" from the climatologists, to "the ocean is acidifying" from the marine biologists, "diseases are spreading" from the microbiologists. In between, any armchair guy can correlate these things and decide that the earth will snowball into Venus. He may be wrong about the scale, but something less like desertification of the equatorial regions wouldn't exactly be a good thing. Also, if you're familiar with chemical titration, you'll be aware that systems can buffer changes to a degree, and then further inputs will affect change in the system linearly instead. As various buffer systems get overwhelmed, the pace of change will increase.
I'm impressed that capsaicin of any concentration is sufficient to send someone to critical care, let alone a 9 oz leak hospitalizing 24. I realize bears are tough enough that they do things like eat bee hives without concern for the stings, but if you empty this thing at a bear and end up coughing your lungs out on the ground until the bear recovers then I'm not sure what the product is supposed to accomplish apart from giving you some seasoning for the bear's meal.
You're right about the 'refill anxiety', but I'm not sure that your fuel efficiency will necessarily be just as good once the car ages 8 years as it was when all those seals and sensors were new.
Well, it would presumably support Office365 and all its webapps. Perhaps that might not be super useful for a general purpose PC, but for a light duty workstation it could do well.
Somebody could make one, but few would want to pay for it at first, and once you got traction, the major players would just add 'corporate mode' and eat your lunch after stealing your best ideas in whatever way was least likely to lose them a case in patent court.
They probably met with the phones/apps, so they're probably just closing the loop and exchanging 23andMe data to calculate what their offspring would be like.
I don't know if his stat is correct, but I do know that only a small fraction of species ever get around to being named. Think of all of the species specific parasites you can think of, then imagine that each species has a variety of those, and then each named extinction becomes quite a few total extinctions.
To quote myself from above: You don't have to wipe out all mosquito species to eliminate the ones that spread human disease... I think there are only 6 or so that bite humans. Many of them would be considered invasive species in the Americas. These techniques are actually more selective than spraying and draining wetlands, which are the historical methods of mosquito control.
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Hemocytometer counts, colonies on agar counts... but yes, the equipment could always be better.
I have a laptop with "Windows Hello", which is a terrible name for their version of FaceID. It actually works very well after going through some sort of machine learning curve. My phone is too old to have such a feature, but my wife liked it enough to ask if we could do it with the webcam on the desktop. No-go there without a new webcam, as only some support it. I looked into it only briefly, but I believe in addition to some security features, it used infrared or similar spectrum to ensure it was looking at a real face and not a simulacrum. I would imagine that Apple may be doing something similar with their hardware.
Sounds like you'd have been better off to setup a corporation of some sort that employed you?
Different use cases for different users... in a lab you're not going to want to carry anything more than the laptop itself from room to room, the peripherals all get left at the desk with the laptop dock, and you're not going to accept anything without a numpad because typing in some data with the top of the keyboard is the road to madness.
With a HDD I can envision how they can pull the platter and do forensics on it, do you know how they take a peak in an SSD's memory at a professional service? It didn't occur to me until just now that I had no idea how they'd do it.
Probably some nationalistic fervor going on, too. I'd be surprised if there aren't scams in circulation already purporting to be legal defense funds to protect the President from impeachment.
You have 90% of your stocks in one company?? You've realized this is a bad idea, but are only going to correct that to 50%?
Thanks for the perspective! I was confused about how it would be useful if it only changed color with normal DNA. It seemed like that would require unusual preparation of the suspected cancer to ensure it was not contaminated with non-target DNA.
Mostly because it'll be very bad for human civilization. It'll be good for jellyfish, insects that survive the current collapse will be less constrained on size with the higher O2. The rest of the wild megafauna (down to 7% or so of total mammalian biomass vs humans + livestock) that have survived the anthropocene so far will probably go extinct, which will be sort of good for trees, because not all of them are going to survive with their ranges being much less contiguous than they were during historical temperature shifts (which also were slower paced). Basically anything small, short lived, and that reproduces in large numbers will be what has a good time of it. Anything that requires more stability in its ecosystem (rule of thumb: larger than a dog) will fare poorly, especially specialist species. It's like asking about the positive effects of your town burning down... the soil carbon content has increased, I guess?
Are you talking about the shape of the earth changing with the shift in mass? You'd still see sea level rise everywhere , just more in the equator than nearer the poles.
Yeah it is kind of glaring sometimes that Windows has some theme settings and then Office just does whatever it feels like. Even the versions of Office that have themes don't let you just match the OS theme. So, while it seems like an easy/stupid fix for corporate culture they clearly haven't been sharing notes in the past.
It is rising and has risen. What is under discussion is the rate. What do you expect to happen when Greenland's ice sheet melts, exactly, other than sea level rise? You may also have failed to notice plate tectonics, as far as other slow yet observable processes go.
Any concern requiring a coordinated response is used to obtain political power, otherwise joint action will be confused. See also: the military, agricultural subsidies, transportation infrastructure. What remains to be seen is if we can affect action with less than a WWII style national mobilization, which would be preferable to avoid, or if we'll just continue to ignore the problem until even such an action would be ineffectual, build some protein farms, and live out Bladerunner 2049.
The worse it gets the more fields of research start seeing trends. For example, in microbiology/epidemiology we're seeing that climate change has changed where various disease vectors can live. The entomologists are noting vastly decreased biomass of insects, and so on. So, as things continue to get worse, you will see more impacts from a greater variety of scientists discussed, with increasingly dire predictions of a worse case scenario. So it goes from "it is getting warmer" from the climatologists, to "the ocean is acidifying" from the marine biologists, "diseases are spreading" from the microbiologists. In between, any armchair guy can correlate these things and decide that the earth will snowball into Venus. He may be wrong about the scale, but something less like desertification of the equatorial regions wouldn't exactly be a good thing. Also, if you're familiar with chemical titration, you'll be aware that systems can buffer changes to a degree, and then further inputs will affect change in the system linearly instead. As various buffer systems get overwhelmed, the pace of change will increase.
I'm impressed that capsaicin of any concentration is sufficient to send someone to critical care, let alone a 9 oz leak hospitalizing 24. I realize bears are tough enough that they do things like eat bee hives without concern for the stings, but if you empty this thing at a bear and end up coughing your lungs out on the ground until the bear recovers then I'm not sure what the product is supposed to accomplish apart from giving you some seasoning for the bear's meal.
Exactly, if you can 'prove' someone is lying with my black box of pseudoscience in a court of law then that gives you a lot of leverage.
You're right about the 'refill anxiety', but I'm not sure that your fuel efficiency will necessarily be just as good once the car ages 8 years as it was when all those seals and sensors were new.
There are electric cars parked outside my office right now... mine is still an ICE but I don't imagine I'll be likely to replace it with one.
Well, it would presumably support Office365 and all its webapps. Perhaps that might not be super useful for a general purpose PC, but for a light duty workstation it could do well.
Somebody could make one, but few would want to pay for it at first, and once you got traction, the major players would just add 'corporate mode' and eat your lunch after stealing your best ideas in whatever way was least likely to lose them a case in patent court.
What problem cited in the article does that solve? If you have a bank account, you have a debit card, cashless is no problem for you.
I doubt enough people work on their own cars to affect sales in that way.
They probably met with the phones/apps, so they're probably just closing the loop and exchanging 23andMe data to calculate what their offspring would be like.
I don't know if his stat is correct, but I do know that only a small fraction of species ever get around to being named. Think of all of the species specific parasites you can think of, then imagine that each species has a variety of those, and then each named extinction becomes quite a few total extinctions.
To quote myself from above: You don't have to wipe out all mosquito species to eliminate the ones that spread human disease... I think there are only 6 or so that bite humans. Many of them would be considered invasive species in the Americas. These techniques are actually more selective than spraying and draining wetlands, which are the historical methods of mosquito control.