With any of those options, and such a small number of books, why not just organize the shelves. Seperate the shelves by category and then organize each shelf by author.
IMHO coming sorting books and comming up with a catagorization system is one of the
pleasures of having a large paper libaray, I recall Alastair Cooke kept his US books
organized by state with all the Florida books kept bottom right etc
Hmm if the shape memory only needs heat to contract and cold expand it would be possible to build
a steam powered mecha! House the muscle coils in ceramic and direct alternating steam and
water to drive them dumping the excess heat via a radiator.
I was interviewing and Googled on the candidates names. It was quite hard to prove that,
say, the John Smith we were interviewing was the same John Smith who was posting to the
Neo-nazi forums. A picture gives proof positive that its its you!
Is is just me that thinks selling media for 2x the cost of a hard drive (if you calculate $/gig) stupid?
You keep valuable data on a single hard disk drive? Blueray drives are more comparable
with tape drives when your looking at ~$1000 for a 50Gb native capacity drive and $35 per tape.
Granted they don't yet have the proven reliability and will never be as solid as a tape backup.
However they have the potential to become much much cheaper bringing them into the range of domestic backup solutions. I normally burn two DVD backups(1) and post one to my parents Blu-ray means I have to
burn five times fewer disks
Fuel cell technology got a boost recently when international air flight regulators changed rules that banned passengers from carrying flammable methanol onto aircraft.
Regulations that oddly do not ban the taking of flammable liter bottles of 120+ proof cask strength whiskey aboard. Theres about 1.5 tons of alcohol aboard a passenger 747
Of course, in WW2, it was the misuse of enigma that made it particularily easy to break --- It might only take one weather report to learn the daily subkey. Had Enigma been properly used, it would probably have been nearly unbreakable with WW2 era technology.
One tactic they used was 'Gardening' where they sent out bombers to mine a particular
sea area, then sit back and wait for standard message reporting the new minefield
Delicate electronics don't tend to survive being hit with a hammer. You don't have to get it off the car, all you have to do is disable it. I'd be curious to see how smash proof this thing is.
I think a hammer would be going a fit far I suspect it would be possible to block the GPS signal with a yfew layers of tinfoil.
A tangental question: What do people use to backup nowadays? Everyone says to backup early and often, but what do ordinary everyday people actually use?
I think the answer is 'ordinary' people don't make backups. The make occasional copys of their data and hope for the best.
and I don't blame them... its very very easy to run up 20Gb of archives and there are few consumer devices that
make backing it up easy (ie easy as in you stick a cartridge last thing at night and its finished by morning)
Personally I have an archive server and external hard disk, the server uses rsync to mirror copys of the
archive tree on two internal and one extrenal hard disk and uses the --backup option to keep a version
history of altered files. here is a rather good page on the subject. I also do regular full and incremental DVD backups
I rather liked the look of the new
iomega rev drive a 35Gb removable disk system. However I understand that the cassette are basically
little hard disk drives complete with motor and read heads this is great in that it keeps the dust out but
I may as well use a USB hard disk as the cassette has all the same weaknesses. I'm currently pinning my
hopes on blueray. The burned disks may only be stable for a few years but I'll be doing a full backup every month or so anyway and the backups only exist to recover from total disk failure
I don't have a biology degree but it seems to me that there might be faster ways of creating strains more efficient at harvesting/reducing CO2. I have seen lectures given where Alzheimer's susceptible genes were spliced into the genes of mice neurons using a strain of the herpes virus that had previously infected neurons of Alzheimer's patients [nih.gov].
It should be possible to modify algae (plants require quite specialised protocols to deal with the
thick cell wall) however why bother? messing round with a cells metabolism is a hairy subject
simply upregulating the 'CO2 fixing' enzymes can easily result in a slower growing algae (because of complex
knock on effects on other processes in the cell). Also fast growing GM algae in a pretty open system will have the greens jumping up and down...
The smart solution is to let evolution take over, in a mixed popupation of algae in a high nutrent
enviroment, the fastest growing strain should take over. Shine a UV light on it to keep the mutation
rate up and you can develop a prefectly natural algae population optimized to the local enviroment
without even having to walk into the lab.
How much family history have people lost already due to dead hard disks, and not realising the need to continuously back up and format shift?
Perhaps its not as black as you think... Photo printers are cheap and easy to use
and people are beginning to realize that the photos are no use sitting on the HDD.
>>Tomatoes are vegetables, according to the U.S. Supreme Court (Nix vs Hedden, 1893).
>That's as maybe, but that's not the definition used by intelligent people in the rest of the world.
I recall it was more to do with money than intelligence... fruit was taxed, vegetables was not taxed Nix or Hedden imported tomatoes!
True - I didn't think of that side of it. But isn't that a EULA violation?? Windows isn't *supposed* to be used where public safety could be put at risk. At least, the EULA *used* to say something like that.
The EULA just means that air traffic control can't sue Microsoft
What EULA cannot be sent down to Hells contracts department along with a 'Read it and weep' note?
One that doesn't just spread itself, but after 20 minutes of attempting to spread itself decides to stop all of your services and then wipe the data off your hard drive.
Hmmm it would be easy to go one better than that, how about having the worm count
sucessfull infections, if it reaches its quota go into trash mode. If it hasn't
go into stealth mode for a day or so and pass the time putting single bit errors to user files (with a small chance that is goes into full trash mode anyway).
I agree its only a matter of time before we see a The Nightmare worm... I'm off to do my backups...
It's not the radiation you need to worry about. Radiation falls off according to the inverse square law. Unless you were standing next to the plant itself, you weren't in much danger. The *real* problem is the radioisotopes. If they escape the plant (which is what happened in Chernobyl's rather spectacular boiler explosion) they will make their way into the food and water supplies, and - by extension - into our bodies. Those radioisotopes would then proceed to give you cancer from the inside out.
... so your saying little radiation got out, just radioisotopes? Of course, radioisotopes are not at all radioactive and don't emit any form of dangerous radiation at all do they
<snip>
Which is the sad part about the lack of public education on everything nuclear. The plant was not a "bomb" waiting to destroy your neighborhood. Had TMI gone through a spectacular failure, you would have been able to evacuate without too much difficulty. The local resources would have been contaminated, but otherwise you would have been reasonably safe.
Where did the OP say bomb?? All he talked about was the fear of having to leave ones home without notice never to return... which is pretty horriffic for anyone
that was my first thought... However as other posters have pointed out Carbon monoxide is
a product of incomplete burning of carbon, any carbon. And since its still burning its producing heat, consider a biofuel plant that takes in plant matter, partly burns it, feeds the carbon monoxide to the bugs and uses the 'waste' heat to power the hydrogen refinary and compression processes
I wish I could link it but slashdot's stupid URL system and their shoddy HTML make it impossible.
ToysRus in Canada has buckets of 1000 lego peices for $9.99 to $29.99 there are about 5-6 diffrent buckets there. NOT SETS.
Of course, the OP did not mention the huge positive effects accelerated PCR will have on research (particularly in molecular biology and biochemistry).
Speaking as a Molecular Biologist I really hate the idea of 5 minute PCR, the hour or
two a PCR takes gave a nice rhythm to the day. Get in, set up PCR, pour the electrophoresis gel (to analyse the PCR products) read a paper and/or slashdot, load gel, have lunch while gel runs, read gel, fall sobbing to the floor as the experement fails again. Spend an hour or so trying to work out whats going wrong set up another (debugging) PCR to run over night go down the pub and drink to forget....
A lunar rover is going to move at several feet per second.
To melt together the surface grains at the speed of a lunar rover is going to require several megawatts of continuous power.
If the power requirement is governed by the speed of the rover. Drive _very_ slowly. Better still build a robot do the job.
later in TFA its says the dust can be fused with solar power which suggests
the power requirements are not quite as steep as you suggest.
"Taylor is not the only person focusing on lunar dust. Alex Freundlich, a physicist at the University of Houston, US, has come up with a different idea. Using simulated moon dust and a vacuum chamber, he has shown that it is possible to melt dust into a solid platform by focusing the Sun's rays through optical fibres."
Why do so many people think it's so awesome to be a kid? Being a kid sucks! Life doesn't get good until you get into college. It sounds to me like this kid is skipping the crappy parts of growing up.
No he will be going through exactly the same crappy bits only more so as he will be doing it
with people two to three times his age, to whom he is at the very best an oddity and since he is off
the menu as a drinking and/or sex partner is not going to be high on anyones befrend list.
Slashdot Mirror
Its not as if the NCBI is the only ones publishing genomes. taking a few examples from our useful links page
Its Google is not even doing something new type in a human gene (say ABCA1and you will get taken to the gene data pages anyway
The only reason why they picked on Google is that it would get headlines, now move along nothing to see here
IMHO coming sorting books and comming up with a catagorization system is one of the pleasures of having a large paper libaray, I recall Alastair Cooke kept his US books organized by state with all the Florida books kept bottom right etc
Hmm if the shape memory only needs heat to contract and cold expand it would be possible to build a steam powered mecha! House the muscle coils in ceramic and direct alternating steam and water to drive them dumping the excess heat via a radiator.
I was interviewing and Googled on the candidates names. It was quite hard to prove that, say, the John Smith we were interviewing was the same John Smith who was posting to the Neo-nazi forums. A picture gives proof positive that its its you!
You keep valuable data on a single hard disk drive? Blueray drives are more comparable with tape drives when your looking at ~$1000 for a 50Gb native capacity drive and $35 per tape. Granted they don't yet have the proven reliability and will never be as solid as a tape backup. However they have the potential to become much much cheaper bringing them into the range of domestic backup solutions. I normally burn two DVD backups(1) and post one to my parents Blu-ray means I have to burn five times fewer disks
(1) and test the local copy every six months
Regulations that oddly do not ban the taking of flammable liter bottles of 120+ proof cask strength whiskey aboard. Theres about 1.5 tons of alcohol aboard a passenger 747
... they start selling services to phone spammers.
One tactic they used was 'Gardening' where they sent out bombers to mine a particular sea area, then sit back and wait for standard message reporting the new minefield
I think a hammer would be going a fit far I suspect it would be possible to block the GPS signal with a yfew layers of tinfoil.
I think the answer is 'ordinary' people don't make backups. The make occasional copys of their data and hope for the best.
and I don't blame them... its very very easy to run up 20Gb of archives and there are few consumer devices that make backing it up easy (ie easy as in you stick a cartridge last thing at night and its finished by morning)
Personally I have an archive server and external hard disk, the server uses rsync to mirror copys of the archive tree on two internal and one extrenal hard disk and uses the --backup option to keep a version history of altered files. here is a rather good page on the subject. I also do regular full and incremental DVD backups
I rather liked the look of the new iomega rev drive a 35Gb removable disk system. However I understand that the cassette are basically little hard disk drives complete with motor and read heads this is great in that it keeps the dust out but I may as well use a USB hard disk as the cassette has all the same weaknesses. I'm currently pinning my hopes on blueray. The burned disks may only be stable for a few years but I'll be doing a full backup every month or so anyway and the backups only exist to recover from total disk failure
The data doubles every 10 months computing power doubles every 18 months were going to hit a problem sooner or later...
It should be possible to modify algae (plants require quite specialised protocols to deal with the thick cell wall) however why bother? messing round with a cells metabolism is a hairy subject simply upregulating the 'CO2 fixing' enzymes can easily result in a slower growing algae (because of complex knock on effects on other processes in the cell). Also fast growing GM algae in a pretty open system will have the greens jumping up and down...
The smart solution is to let evolution take over, in a mixed popupation of algae in a high nutrent enviroment, the fastest growing strain should take over. Shine a UV light on it to keep the mutation rate up and you can develop a prefectly natural algae population optimized to the local enviroment without even having to walk into the lab.
Perhaps its not as black as you think... Photo printers are cheap and easy to use and people are beginning to realize that the photos are no use sitting on the HDD.
>That's as maybe, but that's not the definition used by intelligent people in the rest of the world.
I recall it was more to do with money than intelligence... fruit was taxed, vegetables was not taxed Nix or Hedden imported tomatoes!
The EULA just means that air traffic control can't sue Microsoft
What EULA cannot be sent down to Hells contracts department along with a 'Read it and weep' note?
Hmmm it would be easy to go one better than that, how about having the worm count sucessfull infections, if it reaches its quota go into trash mode. If it hasn't go into stealth mode for a day or so and pass the time putting single bit errors to user files (with a small chance that is goes into full trash mode anyway).
I agree its only a matter of time before we see a The Nightmare worm... I'm off to do my backups ...
Slammer brought down air traffic windows desktops, I think that would have an impact on air travel.
"Firstly, regularly change system passwords that employ both letters and numerals."
...resulting in a new security breach know as PostIt snatching
... so your saying little radiation got out, just radioisotopes? Of course, radioisotopes are not at all radioactive and don't emit any form of dangerous radiation at all do they
<snip> Which is the sad part about the lack of public education on everything nuclear. The plant was not a "bomb" waiting to destroy your neighborhood. Had TMI gone through a spectacular failure, you would have been able to evacuate without too much difficulty. The local resources would have been contaminated, but otherwise you would have been reasonably safe.Where did the OP say bomb?? All he talked about was the fear of having to leave ones home without notice never to return... which is pretty horriffic for anyone
that was my first thought... However as other posters have pointed out Carbon monoxide is a product of incomplete burning of carbon, any carbon. And since its still burning its producing heat, consider a biofuel plant that takes in plant matter, partly burns it, feeds the carbon monoxide to the bugs and uses the 'waste' heat to power the hydrogen refinary and compression processes
Biochemists songbook The Horror is not to be underestermeated (I bought the cassette 10 years ago... some songs live with me still <sob>)
here Let me help you
Speaking as a Molecular Biologist I really hate the idea of 5 minute PCR, the hour or two a PCR takes gave a nice rhythm to the day. Get in, set up PCR, pour the electrophoresis gel (to analyse the PCR products) read a paper and/or slashdot, load gel, have lunch while gel runs, read gel, fall sobbing to the floor as the experement fails again. Spend an hour or so trying to work out whats going wrong set up another (debugging) PCR to run over night go down the pub and drink to forget....
Hmmm Now I remember why I got into Bioinformatics
If the power requirement is governed by the speed of the rover. Drive _very_ slowly. Better still build a robot do the job.
later in TFA its says the dust can be fused with solar power which suggests the power requirements are not quite as steep as you suggest.
"Taylor is not the only person focusing on lunar dust. Alex Freundlich, a physicist at the University of Houston, US, has come up with a different idea. Using simulated moon dust and a vacuum chamber, he has shown that it is possible to melt dust into a solid platform by focusing the Sun's rays through optical fibres."
No he will be going through exactly the same crappy bits only more so as he will be doing it with people two to three times his age, to whom he is at the very best an oddity and since he is off the menu as a drinking and/or sex partner is not going to be high on anyones befrend list.