Let me see if I understand the process they've found:
1. Genetically engineer a mouse to respond to a drug 2. Administer the drug 3. ??? 4. Profit!^W Publish how you have discovered a cure for aging. (Non-GMO humans need not apply. Side effects may include premature death.)
How many people does it take to colonize this star system? Apparently more than the 6 Billion we have on Earth, since we haven't even bothered to get off this damn rock.
Send people to Mars first, then worry about Alpha Centauri (which is a terrible place to send people to anyway. The only thing there is a backwaters galactic planning council office)
That, plus the fact that you need to find a buyer willing to pay for your item during the 7-day window that you've run your auction, and who's willing to wait until next Tuesday to get it.
eBay is terrible for low-volume items for this reason. (I personally flooded the eBay market for SGI Indigo workstations a while ago -- the first two sold, the rest of them never did)
Google suggests you don't post your username & password to GitHub. The locksmith's union suggests you don't tape your key to your front door. The TSA suggests you DO write your combination on your luggage.
FTFY. Or at least that you use the same key that everybody else does.
Feel free to continue open access, but place a social stigma on using the equipment without recording your use.
For example, imagine that when you sit down at the desk, a light goes on that says "Thanks for logging in" (if you have). Now, tomorrow, you find three other people in the lab who don't have the sign lit. You say "Hey, I can see that you didn't sign in to indicate that you're using the system-- here, let me help you"
Another way to encourage self-policing from the users is to tie maintenance or upgrades to the logged use of the system. Say "Sorry, we're not going to upgrade that oscilloscope because nobody logs that they use it. We're going to spend grant money on the bench power supply in room 6B that has lots of log entries."
Put these two things together, and the people who care about using the equipment will help you keep the other users under control.
Water-borne pathogens in the kingdom Animalia are usually called "predators" rather than "pathogens". But yes, pathogens such as A. Mississippiensis can be filtered from the water with an appropriately-sized tree branch.
The one feature I wish it had was a USB-HID (I'd even settle for a BT/HID) emulator so that it could act as a USB keyboard to type when I have my phone plugged in. Unfortunately, none of the phone platforms will allow you to do that (easily)
We're all familiar with Schrodinger's cat thought-experiment, right? A quantum phenomenon may or may not kill a cat in a sealed box.
This article seems to suggest that the meta-experiment-- Lock a grad student in a sealed box with the boxed cat, and have him observe the condition-- has implications about the nature of time.
Consider instructing the grad student to write a PhD thesis based on what he observes of the lifespan of the cat (check on it every minute). When we (the unentangled observer) open the box, we may find either a complete or partially-written thesis, or a live cat. The quantum state of the box-grad-box-cat system is in the superposition of states that correspond to the progress of time within that system, but that progress is completely unobservable from outside the box, regardless of how God-like the outside observer is.
Now compare the state probabilities recorded by two outside observers in relative motion. They will not agree on the amount of time that has elapsed inside the box, but must agree on the probabilities involved (otherwise there would be a preferred reference frame). So they would have to agree that time in the box doesn't exist.
Unfortunately, I don't have the background to make this thought experiment mathematically rigorous for publication.
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
The same way you would transfer your Windows (7 or XP)-based data to your new Windows (8) OS: Pay a knowledgeable techie to do it, or try to find all of the places that an application may have squirreled away your data, copy it to some sort of removable media (CD, DVD, or USB) and hope that the new version of the equivalent software can recognize that the data's there.
it's significantly easier to parse javascript source, determine its validity and generate machine code from it
Hahahahahaha. Considering that it is quite common now for DOM elements (other than <script>) to contain javascript source, often encoded in ParseInteger with an arbitrarily-chosen base value, then passed to eval(), you clearly don't understand what "javascript source" is these days.
It all comes down to the ability to run arbitrary untrusted code downloaded from the Internet, thinking that some sort of "sandbox" will protect you. Don't.
Now that NASA has demonstrated that the rover technology in Curiosity works, why aren't we sending more of them up?
The Skycrane landing had never been attempted before, but Curiosity landed intact. The analysis machines are working well, and are delivering good results from the rocks that are within 2 meters of the probe, but what about the rest of the planet? At the end of Curiosity's time on mars, we will have less than a square kilometer of the surface explored in detail.
Why don't we send a few (dozen) more up to explore other valleys? This is like trying to figure out the Earth's geology by driving from Chicago to Gary, IN. (and only looking out the right side of the car)
And if you don't require 386 support frankly a $25 ARM thumbstick will give you much more work per watt while being even lower powered than the Bobcat or Atom.
Even if you do, your ARM thumbstick can probably emulate the 386 instruction set at a faster rate than the original chips, via Bochs or QEMU.
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Yep, "Feature PCs" (like the Smartphone/Featurephone distinction)
Windows Live 8.1 Update 1 Service Pack 1 R2.
Let me see if I understand the process they've found:
1. Genetically engineer a mouse to respond to a drug
2. Administer the drug
3. ???
4. Profit!^W Publish how you have discovered a cure for aging. (Non-GMO humans need not apply. Side effects may include premature death.)
How many people does it take to colonize this star system? Apparently more than the 6 Billion we have on Earth, since we haven't even bothered to get off this damn rock.
Send people to Mars first, then worry about Alpha Centauri (which is a terrible place to send people to anyway. The only thing there is a backwaters galactic planning council office)
--Joe
Don't worry, there's 2048 other games to consume your time.
That, plus the fact that you need to find a buyer willing to pay for your item during the 7-day window that you've run your auction, and who's willing to wait until next Tuesday to get it.
eBay is terrible for low-volume items for this reason. (I personally flooded the eBay market for SGI Indigo workstations a while ago -- the first two sold, the rest of them never did)
In related news...
Google suggests you don't post your username & password to GitHub.
The locksmith's union suggests you don't tape your key to your front door.
The TSA suggests you DO write your combination on your luggage.
FTFY. Or at least that you use the same key that everybody else does.
Feel free to continue open access, but place a social stigma on using the equipment without recording your use.
For example, imagine that when you sit down at the desk, a light goes on that says "Thanks for logging in" (if you have). Now, tomorrow, you find three other people in the lab who don't have the sign lit. You say "Hey, I can see that you didn't sign in to indicate that you're using the system-- here, let me help you"
Another way to encourage self-policing from the users is to tie maintenance or upgrades to the logged use of the system. Say "Sorry, we're not going to upgrade that oscilloscope because nobody logs that they use it. We're going to spend grant money on the bench power supply in room 6B that has lots of log entries."
Put these two things together, and the people who care about using the equipment will help you keep the other users under control.
--Joe
Water-borne pathogens in the kingdom Animalia are usually called "predators" rather than "pathogens". But yes, pathogens such as A. Mississippiensis can be filtered from the water with an appropriately-sized tree branch.
The one feature I wish it had was a USB-HID (I'd even settle for a BT/HID) emulator so that it could act as a USB keyboard to type when I have my phone plugged in. Unfortunately, none of the phone platforms will allow you to do that (easily)
"The technology behind the T-1000 assassin in the Terminator movies might as well be science fiction"
Might it? Might it really?
Or it might be pop-media drivel written to draw money from moviegoers without any actual science or fiction (much less both)
I hope this does[n't] end up like the last debate between science and creationism:
http://www.websitesonadime.com...
--Joe
We're all familiar with Schrodinger's cat thought-experiment, right? A quantum phenomenon may or may not kill a cat in a sealed box.
This article seems to suggest that the meta-experiment-- Lock a grad student in a sealed box with the boxed cat, and have him observe the condition-- has implications about the nature of time.
Consider instructing the grad student to write a PhD thesis based on what he observes of the lifespan of the cat (check on it every minute). When we (the unentangled observer) open the box, we may find either a complete or partially-written thesis, or a live cat. The quantum state of the box-grad-box-cat system is in the superposition of states that correspond to the progress of time within that system, but that progress is completely unobservable from outside the box, regardless of how God-like the outside observer is.
Now compare the state probabilities recorded by two outside observers in relative motion. They will not agree on the amount of time that has elapsed inside the box, but must agree on the probabilities involved (otherwise there would be a preferred reference frame). So they would have to agree that time in the box doesn't exist.
Unfortunately, I don't have the background to make this thought experiment mathematically rigorous for publication.
And you want to turn the police over to private contractors?
Sure, why not? Look at how well it works in shopping malls.
There are lots of large metallic objects in the middle of the road. They're called CARS!
Yeah, but "people would be up in Intels" doesn't have the same ring to it.
If Apple did this, people would be up in arms!
Both Apple and Samsung use ARM CPUs.
Now, if this had been a Surface (non-RT) tablet, people would be up in Atoms!
You should consider leaving your mom's basement more often. Windows Phone is the fastest growing phone OS right now
Yes, and if two people buy phones tomorrow, it'll have doubled in growth for 2 days in a row.
Another question: how would you transfer your Windows-based data to this Linux OS without being a knowledgeable techie?
The same way you would transfer your Windows (7 or XP)-based data to your new Windows (8) OS: Pay a knowledgeable techie to do it, or try to find all of the places that an application may have squirreled away your data, copy it to some sort of removable media (CD, DVD, or USB) and hope that the new version of the equivalent software can recognize that the data's there.
Yup. And running a full marathon is pointless and irrelevant - any one could run 26.2 miles on a couple of months, half a mile at a time.
Besides, if it's that far, you might as well drive.
It's a more polite way to say Read The f***ing Google.
it's significantly easier to parse javascript source, determine its validity and generate machine code from it
Hahahahahaha. Considering that it is quite common now for DOM elements (other than <script>) to contain javascript source, often encoded in ParseInteger with an arbitrarily-chosen base value, then passed to eval(), you clearly don't understand what "javascript source" is these days.
It all comes down to the ability to run arbitrary untrusted code downloaded from the Internet, thinking that some sort of "sandbox" will protect you. Don't.
--Joe
Now that NASA has demonstrated that the rover technology in Curiosity works, why aren't we sending more of them up?
The Skycrane landing had never been attempted before, but Curiosity landed intact. The analysis machines are working well, and are delivering good results from the rocks that are within 2 meters of the probe, but what about the rest of the planet? At the end of Curiosity's time on mars, we will have less than a square kilometer of the surface explored in detail.
Why don't we send a few (dozen) more up to explore other valleys? This is like trying to figure out the Earth's geology by driving from Chicago to Gary, IN. (and only looking out the right side of the car)
--Joe
True, but how many of us actually make squirrels fly, anyway?
Well, it takes 75000 rounds to stop a freight train.
And if you don't require 386 support frankly a $25 ARM thumbstick will give you much more work per watt while being even lower powered than the Bobcat or Atom.
Even if you do, your ARM thumbstick can probably emulate the 386 instruction set at a faster rate than the original chips, via Bochs or QEMU.
--Joe