It claims there are multiple cases of Neanderthal DNA being sequenced, and a couple quick google searches seem to indicate there are many other similar situations where DNA was recovered.
So i'm wondering, did this study perhaps prove that if nothing is done to preserve the DNA after death then... surprise! The DNA isn't preserved?
That looks more convenient than my current keyboard, which has the arrow keys on the fourth page of alternate characters. However that keyboard doesn't have Swype/SlideIt type input does it?
And even if you can get to the arrow keys just by opening up the keyboard instead of opening up the keyboard and switching through four different screens, that's still rather unwieldy for navigating through menus where you don't normally have the keyboard open in the first place.
I'm still using my HTC Nexus One, at least for a few more months until the new Nexus phones come out. It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but i'm really going to miss the combination trackball/notification light. The trackball part in particular is an awesome feature that unfortunately doesn't seem to have caught on with anyone, including HTC itself. I was worried about how well fine adjustments of the text cursor was going to work without the trackball, and after getting a Nexus 7 my fears were confirmed. Especially for the far too common case of text boxes that won't let you scroll if the text goes past the edge of the box. And it works really well for menu selection in games/apps that are smart enough to handle the alternate method.
You realize you could have gotten a prepaid plan with T-Mobile with unlimited data and text for just $30 a month, right? Sure, it only comes with 100 minutes of talk, but do you actually talk on the phone that much? (I dunno, maybe you do, i certainly don't though.)
And given that Simple Mobile is just a T-Mobile MVNO reseller, if you actually think T-Mobile is struggling and merging with MetroPCS isn't going to save them, then switching over to Simple Mobile may not help you much.
As for #8, you're doing something wrong. T-Mobile was happy to offer me special deals for signing a contract with them even though i'm a current customer. I keep saying no of course, because i like not being tied down. Of course given that going by #4 you like the idea of not being tied down by a contract i don't see why you care whether or not T-Mobile will give you a discount for signing a contract or not.
First of all, they're pretty much saying that they're going to keep the range of plans they already have, so if those people signed up for that carrier under the current plans, why would they leave after the merger?
Second, it looks like both T-Mobile and MetroPCS have family plans, so the "no family plans" part seems to be just plain wrong.
Bugger, no Kindle editions and the only non-stolen ebooks on Google are NOT FOR SALE IN YOUR COUNTRY. Damned Luddite author.
Uh, what? I just looked for the first book, and you can get the ebook on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
(Can you load B&N epubs on a Kindle? I know i can load Amazon files on my Nook but i've never tried the reverse process, and i know the Kindle is more locked down.)
The reason they get respect is because they do science. They may not be the most accurate and exacting scientists,and they often make mistakes. But they still do science. The have a question, they make a hypothesis, they test the hypothesis, they analyze what happened and make conclusions, and they put the results up for peer review. And more than once they've gone back and revisited something because the result of that peer review was "you did it wrong."
So they do science, and they make it fun, and for a lot of the things they test they don't need the kind of accuracy that "real" scientist do for "real" science. In fact i'd argue that they're at least as accurate as an average kid's science project for school, and are you going to argue that we shouldn't reach kids science in school because clearly they're not able to maintain appropriate levels of accuracy?
We'll never know (barring the unlikely discovery of Pastwatch like technology) but i really wonder about what happened with the first person who had this mutation and actually made use of it. I mean, if they couldn't process vegetables before they never would have thought of them as a food source, would they? So what caused this one person (or group of people) to change their mind? Was there some kind drought or other disaster that prevented them from finding game to kill, but for some reason there was still vegetable material around and they were just desperate enough to eat anything by that point?
When you spot a dupe you're not supposed to complain or even point it out; you're supposed to find the old article and repost the top rated comments under your own name, for a bit of easy instant karma....oh, wait, from the _old_ article! Sorry, missed that part. I'll have to go look for some other comments to steal now.
Read the article. The liners are being crushed by the magnetic field. The whole point of this experiment is that they've found a thickness of liner that will last _just_ long enough to finish crushing the fusible elements together before being completely destroyed itself.
And presumably they can construct the liners for less (both in terms of money and energy) than they feel they will eventually be able to get out of the fusion reaction. It's not like every other method of producing energy doesn't have some kind of upfront cost that needs to be paid. Just as one example, look at how much infrastructure it takes to get a train car full of coal to a coal plant
He did address the GP's point. The GP said "Here's an idea, instead dreaming of the 50% solar cellfor the year 2030, just focus on better manufacturing methods for the 20% cells?".
I agree with you that pursuing all paths of research is good, however the GP didn't say "also", they said "instead." And both you and the GP seem to be missing the point that although cheaper low efficiency cells are good, they can't cover every case. Roofs aren't the only place people want to put solar cells. Sometimes you have a limited area of real estate to work with, at which point the efficiency, i.e. the power density, becomes rather important.
Presumably this is like the contacts in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End". My thought on the matter is that i'd much rather have the glasses. Glasses that beam the image into my eye rather than displaying it on something in front of me would be fine, but i don't want contacts.
Because i can just image the first time they get hacked and they load up, say for example, goatsecx, and refuse to turn off. And you probably can't even close your eyes to shut it out because they're under your eyelids. (I presume the contacts will be designed to stop displaying when your eyes are closed, but that of course will be overridden by the hack.) So such technology will inevitable result in people trying to claw their eyes/and or contacts out of their heads.
"Since the spacecraft are so far out, it takes 17 hours for a radio signal from Voyager 1 to travel to Earth. For Voyager 2, it takes about 13 hours."
So Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1, but despite that (fairly trivial) headstart of a couple weeks, Voyager 1 has traveled almost 30% farther than Voyager 2. Clearly there's some kind of tortoise and hare thing going on here. Perhaps it's time to start reading wikipedia:)
Technically speaking, sentience is different from self awareness. Pets have the ability to feel things, therefore they are sentient. It is admittedly an easy issue to get confused about since fiction has adopted the term in an incorrect form.
"An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night during an electrical storm, causing downtime for numerous customers â" including Netflix"
So the east coast has a big storm, power goes out, and the cloud goes down, and somehow people are drawing the conclusion that stormy weather can have an adverse effect on the cloud? It's possible they're confused about how big a storm is required, the article doesn't address that point, but clearly the idea isn't crazy.
Didn't we have a story in the last couple weeks about Amazon's cloud servers getting taken out by a large storm and the resulting power outage or something like that?
It's almost like the Republicans (or at least some prominent members of their party) pissed a lot of people off by doing something similarin the past. I think there might be some folk wisdom that applies in this case. What was it again?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
Turnabout is fair play?
Don't dish it out if you can't take it?
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
Judge not lest ye be judged?
I don't remember Unlimited plans getting discontinued. I've had one since i joined them about 2.5 years ago. I guess they were throttling speeds after a certain point recently, and now they're not? So they went from Unlimited to "Unlimited" and back again?
Also, i've been tethering devices to my phone for the entire time as well. Of course that's because i got an unlocked Nexus phone so T-Mobile never got the chance to disable the option, but they certainly don't seem to be doing anything on the networking end to prevent tethering.
Sadly they seem to have stopped uploading torrents of them after that point, but it does cover most of the time i had a subscription and was seriously interested in it.
I remember the promotional material they did for the original Final Fantasy. It seemed like that went on forever, but i was a kid so it was probably only one or two issues right before the game came out. Then the next three issues after it came out they did trivia contests. I entered all three, and got second place in one of them!
I won... a neon pink fanny pack. I believe it came stuffed with a t-shirt and some chocolate coins. The t-shirt was kind of crappy, and the coins were quickly consumed. And the neon pink fanny pack was... neon pink and a fanny pack. So kind of the worst prize ever, but i remember the shit out of having actually won something!
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Wikipedia seems to have a page all about doing what this article says is impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA
It claims there are multiple cases of Neanderthal DNA being sequenced, and a couple quick google searches seem to indicate there are many other similar situations where DNA was recovered.
So i'm wondering, did this study perhaps prove that if nothing is done to preserve the DNA after death then... surprise! The DNA isn't preserved?
That looks more convenient than my current keyboard, which has the arrow keys on the fourth page of alternate characters. However that keyboard doesn't have Swype/SlideIt type input does it?
And even if you can get to the arrow keys just by opening up the keyboard instead of opening up the keyboard and switching through four different screens, that's still rather unwieldy for navigating through menus where you don't normally have the keyboard open in the first place.
I'm still using my HTC Nexus One, at least for a few more months until the new Nexus phones come out. It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but i'm really going to miss the combination trackball/notification light. The trackball part in particular is an awesome feature that unfortunately doesn't seem to have caught on with anyone, including HTC itself. I was worried about how well fine adjustments of the text cursor was going to work without the trackball, and after getting a Nexus 7 my fears were confirmed. Especially for the far too common case of text boxes that won't let you scroll if the text goes past the edge of the box. And it works really well for menu selection in games/apps that are smart enough to handle the alternate method.
So it's almost exactly like "bemused", both in the definition and in the tendency of people to think it means something other than what it does.
You realize you could have gotten a prepaid plan with T-Mobile with unlimited data and text for just $30 a month, right? Sure, it only comes with 100 minutes of talk, but do you actually talk on the phone that much? (I dunno, maybe you do, i certainly don't though.)
And given that Simple Mobile is just a T-Mobile MVNO reseller, if you actually think T-Mobile is struggling and merging with MetroPCS isn't going to save them, then switching over to Simple Mobile may not help you much.
As for #8, you're doing something wrong. T-Mobile was happy to offer me special deals for signing a contract with them even though i'm a current customer. I keep saying no of course, because i like not being tied down. Of course given that going by #4 you like the idea of not being tied down by a contract i don't see why you care whether or not T-Mobile will give you a discount for signing a contract or not.
First of all, they're pretty much saying that they're going to keep the range of plans they already have, so if those people signed up for that carrier under the current plans, why would they leave after the merger?
Second, it looks like both T-Mobile and MetroPCS have family plans, so the "no family plans" part seems to be just plain wrong.
Bugger, no Kindle editions and the only non-stolen ebooks on Google are NOT FOR SALE IN YOUR COUNTRY. Damned Luddite author.
Uh, what? I just looked for the first book, and you can get the ebook on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
(Can you load B&N epubs on a Kindle? I know i can load Amazon files on my Nook but i've never tried the reverse process, and i know the Kindle is more locked down.)
The reason they get respect is because they do science. They may not be the most accurate and exacting scientists,and they often make mistakes. But they still do science. The have a question, they make a hypothesis, they test the hypothesis, they analyze what happened and make conclusions, and they put the results up for peer review. And more than once they've gone back and revisited something because the result of that peer review was "you did it wrong."
So they do science, and they make it fun, and for a lot of the things they test they don't need the kind of accuracy that "real" scientist do for "real" science. In fact i'd argue that they're at least as accurate as an average kid's science project for school, and are you going to argue that we shouldn't reach kids science in school because clearly they're not able to maintain appropriate levels of accuracy?
We'll never know (barring the unlikely discovery of Pastwatch like technology) but i really wonder about what happened with the first person who had this mutation and actually made use of it. I mean, if they couldn't process vegetables before they never would have thought of them as a food source, would they? So what caused this one person (or group of people) to change their mind? Was there some kind drought or other disaster that prevented them from finding game to kill, but for some reason there was still vegetable material around and they were just desperate enough to eat anything by that point?
When you spot a dupe you're not supposed to complain or even point it out; you're supposed to find the old article and repost the top rated comments under your own name, for a bit of easy instant karma. ...oh, wait, from the _old_ article! Sorry, missed that part. I'll have to go look for some other comments to steal now.
Read the article. The liners are being crushed by the magnetic field. The whole point of this experiment is that they've found a thickness of liner that will last _just_ long enough to finish crushing the fusible elements together before being completely destroyed itself.
And presumably they can construct the liners for less (both in terms of money and energy) than they feel they will eventually be able to get out of the fusion reaction. It's not like every other method of producing energy doesn't have some kind of upfront cost that needs to be paid. Just as one example, look at how much infrastructure it takes to get a train car full of coal to a coal plant
Like every other part of science and history, no matter how simple the subject appears at first the more you dig into it the more complex it gets?
He did address the GP's point. The GP said "Here's an idea, instead dreaming of the 50% solar cellfor the year 2030, just focus on better manufacturing methods for the 20% cells?".
I agree with you that pursuing all paths of research is good, however the GP didn't say "also", they said "instead." And both you and the GP seem to be missing the point that although cheaper low efficiency cells are good, they can't cover every case. Roofs aren't the only place people want to put solar cells. Sometimes you have a limited area of real estate to work with, at which point the efficiency, i.e. the power density, becomes rather important.
Presumably this is like the contacts in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End". My thought on the matter is that i'd much rather have the glasses. Glasses that beam the image into my eye rather than displaying it on something in front of me would be fine, but i don't want contacts.
Because i can just image the first time they get hacked and they load up, say for example, goatsecx, and refuse to turn off. And you probably can't even close your eyes to shut it out because they're under your eyelids. (I presume the contacts will be designed to stop displaying when your eyes are closed, but that of course will be overridden by the hack.) So such technology will inevitable result in people trying to claw their eyes/and or contacts out of their heads.
I'm seriously disappointed that i just found out about that add-on now, after it's already been broken.
It's possible they're just confused because a number of people seem to mispronounce it as "tenderhooks".
Not only that, but...
:)
"Since the spacecraft are so far out, it takes 17 hours for a radio signal from Voyager 1 to travel to Earth. For Voyager 2, it takes about 13 hours."
So Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1, but despite that (fairly trivial) headstart of a couple weeks, Voyager 1 has traveled almost 30% farther than Voyager 2. Clearly there's some kind of tortoise and hare thing going on here. Perhaps it's time to start reading wikipedia
Technically speaking, sentience is different from self awareness. Pets have the ability to feel things, therefore they are sentient. It is admittedly an easy issue to get confused about since fiction has adopted the term in an incorrect form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience#Philosophy_and_sentience
Okay, found the link: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/30/162250/more-uptime-problems-for-amazon-cloud
"An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night during an electrical storm, causing downtime for numerous customers â" including Netflix"
So the east coast has a big storm, power goes out, and the cloud goes down, and somehow people are drawing the conclusion that stormy weather can have an adverse effect on the cloud? It's possible they're confused about how big a storm is required, the article doesn't address that point, but clearly the idea isn't crazy.
Didn't we have a story in the last couple weeks about Amazon's cloud servers getting taken out by a large storm and the resulting power outage or something like that?
It's almost like the Republicans (or at least some prominent members of their party) pissed a lot of people off by doing something similar in the past. I think there might be some folk wisdom that applies in this case. What was it again?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
Turnabout is fair play?
Don't dish it out if you can't take it?
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?
Judge not lest ye be judged?
Something like that anyways.
I don't remember Unlimited plans getting discontinued. I've had one since i joined them about 2.5 years ago. I guess they were throttling speeds after a certain point recently, and now they're not? So they went from Unlimited to "Unlimited" and back again?
Also, i've been tethering devices to my phone for the entire time as well. Of course that's because i got an unlocked Nexus phone so T-Mobile never got the chance to disable the option, but they certainly don't seem to be doing anything on the networking end to prevent tethering.
Also, it's kind of obligatory:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601117/Nintendo_Power_1988_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601118/Nintendo_Power_1989_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601119/Nintendo_Power_1990_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601120/Nintendo_Power_1991_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601121/Nintendo_Power_1992_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601122/Nintendo_Power_1993_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3601123/Nintendo_Power_1994_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3602630/Nintendo_Power_1995_(Retromags.com)_(.cbr)
Sadly they seem to have stopped uploading torrents of them after that point, but it does cover most of the time i had a subscription and was seriously interested in it.
I remember the promotional material they did for the original Final Fantasy. It seemed like that went on forever, but i was a kid so it was probably only one or two issues right before the game came out. Then the next three issues after it came out they did trivia contests. I entered all three, and got second place in one of them!
I won... a neon pink fanny pack. I believe it came stuffed with a t-shirt and some chocolate coins. The t-shirt was kind of crappy, and the coins were quickly consumed. And the neon pink fanny pack was... neon pink and a fanny pack. So kind of the worst prize ever, but i remember the shit out of having actually won something!
If either Microsoft or Apple buys it i am going to cry.