If you ever wanted to know when the Year of Linux Desktop will come, you now have an answer. It will come when Microsoft does what you think they'll do. Otherwise, it won't happen.
Now, I don't think MS is that stupid... But I'm wiling to be convinced I'm wrong.
Yeah, things would be slightly different if you assume entire clusters are made of antimatter. There are plenty of galaxy colisions on the sky, and none of them emmit the gamma (for closer ones) or X-ray (for distant ones) radiation we'd expect.
But even with the cluster hypotesis (and assuming that earlier anihilations made enough pressure to completely separate the intergalatic matter from the intergalatic anti-matter) we'd have a problem, because there are cluster margers at the sky. Also, the simulations of the formation of the Universe give excelent results, what means that our theories proabably aren't that far off, and those results require that there is no anti-matter anywhere.
Anyway, I still thing the absense of X-ray comming from the intergalatic media is the best evidence for that. You see, the radiation shouldn't be strong enough to pressure matter and anti-matter apart; as you said, the intergalatic space is very empty. But we should be able to detect that radiation; since there isn't any difuse X-ray radiation at the sky, anything makes a difference.
Is it possible that dark matter, dark energy, black holes and the Oort cloud don't exist at all
For dark matter and dark energy, yes, it is quite possible. But that possibility is becoming smaller near daily, with new observations. For black holes and the Oort cloud, no, and you should get more recent news.
There is a theory based upon known laws of electricity, that can explain the all observations without resorting to these esoteric constructs
No, there isn't. There is a theory pushed by some people that tries. It could even explain the rotation of galaxies, if you accept breaking several other theories that work well, but that's it. If you get a working theory someday that replaces dark energy with electricity, please tell me, I'm looking for a moto perpetual.
And yet, virtually anyone who administers a public website can tell you that SC's original figures are complete crap.
It is virtualy impossible for the figures of any public site to agree with the agregated share of browsers (whatever it is). Unless, of course, you are Google, but even then, you'll probably miss some IE users that didn't change their search bar.
If it is all that, ask for that fine, and prohibit him from going back into the country. Why do Sweden need to force him back into the country to face the penalty of being prohibited to get back in the country?
Ok, I actualy didn't know the cavendish banana was the most common store variety. Around here most people (that includes me) simply don't like it, altough it is tasty when coocked. It is interesting that I never saw that fungus in action, I always assumed it plagued some varieties of banana that we don't plant here at Brazil, but we do plant it. Maybe it simply didn't reach here yet.
The psyllid - hey, I'm learning dificult english words fast here:) - that carriers the citrus greening gets insecticide resistance like much any other kind of insect. But that is not even the biggest problem, if you use large spectrum insectice, it is likely that the infestation will come back, and larger. People are all the time developping new insecticides, but biological control is the cheaper and best way to deal with it, unless the situation is already out of control.
The resistent cacao doesn't constitute a variety. Some plants simply don't get the plague, but they tend to produce a little less. Things are quite new on that front, and cacao takes some time to mature, maybe in the future we'll get trees that produce as much as the normal ones, but are resistant to it, or maybe not.
Anyway, your point stays. You are right. A bigger variety of foods will not only make our culture more resilient, it will also make them more resistent (monocultures are a great hatchery of plagues), more stable economicaly, may improve productivity (as one chooses the best culture for each land), and will be more tasty too, or at least have a more diverse taste.
1) There are commercial varieties of bananas resitent to that fungus, but some of them aren't. We are looking at the reduction of the diversity of bananas, not its extinction. But the fungus doen't spread as fast as it can for some reason (that I don't know), so not even that may happen.
2) There are again several varietes of commercial citrus resistent to that plague. Also, it is easy to cross-breed citrus, so there are new resistent varieties appearing all the time. Finally, the insect that spreads the plague is easily controlled, you just can't spray conventional insecticides, and its predators will take care of the rest. If they don't, you can add more predators or spray targeted insecticides.
3) Not all trees of the chocolate fruit (what is its name in english?) are vunerable to their plage. Also, there are several biological tools to fight it that involve mostly not having a monoculture.
You probably won't make grey goo on a bio lab. The things that come out of those labs are normaly digestable by current life, and vunerable to antibodies.
Go look for those instructions at a physics lab. You have better odds there.
Sorry, I haven't looked at your application long enough to have any concrete idea about it. At first glance your idea(|team) sucks, but I didn't lose my time looking for the details, so I can't tell them to you. I have only a gut feeling, but it is enough to reject you (the rules for acceptance are more stringent).
I can understand why it would break some people. I can also understand why the VC is afraid the answer would burn bridges. Altough, yes, it is better to know that than any wish whashy excuse.
My understanding is that very large companies are doing this to save money rather than to snoop on your https sessions.
Yes, there is probably not even one big company that created such a system to soop bank passwords... But do you know everybody that works at IT? Do you know everybody that has access to the proxy servers, to the server rooms (yes, that may include consultants and outsourced people) or that just has enough access to the overall network to stay hidden while owning the proxy?
It's the former. They seem to be unable to create something that improves the humanity anymore, they just shoot for things with some front reward, but with huge long term costs.
Also, when discussing patents, keep in mind that they are exactly what is stopping the groups interested in creating the hightly nutritive varieties, or the big yield crops (you know, the kind of thing that people say GM makes possible) from deploying their crops, or sometimes from even start their research.
For a very long time, they were the best source of fertilizers in the world. They created the Green Revolution toghether with Bayer.
Nowadays they are mostly a leech living out of government interventions (patents and other startup destrying laws) and monopoly abuse. But they still bring some savings from scale on fertilizers and defensives.
Monsanto's soy doesn't have more yield than the traditional beans. It is only cheaper to produce, if your weeds don't become resistent to roundup, and you don't ever intent to plant anything that isn't Monsanto's soy in that land.
And, at the third sequential year with the same crop (remember, you'll never be able to change your crop), yields start to get even lower.
Monsanto doesn't have a monopoly over any crop at Brazil. In fact, Embrapa (AKA, the government) has a near complete monopoly on nearly all the crops.
Monsanto didn't even make a dent at the market before their GMOs and all the publicity that came with them. Now they are at the single digits for soy beans, but their genes have spreaded everywhere.
Well, it seems you don't live at Brazil. For the best or the worst, there aren't that many guns around here. And the criminals are the ones writting the penal laws, so self defense is quite restricted.
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Somebody at MS has just discovered that Android can run dozens of thousands of cores, and they can't be left behind.
That's bad. I recomend that all two of them go to Balmer's room and complain. Maybe next time MS will buy some upgreadable phones for them.
How does Windows Phone 8 relates to Windows 8 for phones? Is that still another iteration of an OS that will die in (by MS's predictions) half a year?
People will want locked hardware until somebody releases a software that require root access. Then they sudenly don't want it anymore.
We've been through that cycle several times. It's like the clould/local dicotomy, or the specialized hardware/emulated by CPU.
If you ever wanted to know when the Year of Linux Desktop will come, you now have an answer. It will come when Microsoft does what you think they'll do. Otherwise, it won't happen.
Now, I don't think MS is that stupid... But I'm wiling to be convinced I'm wrong.
Yeah, things would be slightly different if you assume entire clusters are made of antimatter. There are plenty of galaxy colisions on the sky, and none of them emmit the gamma (for closer ones) or X-ray (for distant ones) radiation we'd expect.
But even with the cluster hypotesis (and assuming that earlier anihilations made enough pressure to completely separate the intergalatic matter from the intergalatic anti-matter) we'd have a problem, because there are cluster margers at the sky. Also, the simulations of the formation of the Universe give excelent results, what means that our theories proabably aren't that far off, and those results require that there is no anti-matter anywhere.
Anyway, I still thing the absense of X-ray comming from the intergalatic media is the best evidence for that. You see, the radiation shouldn't be strong enough to pressure matter and anti-matter apart; as you said, the intergalatic space is very empty. But we should be able to detect that radiation; since there isn't any difuse X-ray radiation at the sky, anything makes a difference.
For dark matter and dark energy, yes, it is quite possible. But that possibility is becoming smaller near daily, with new observations. For black holes and the Oort cloud, no, and you should get more recent news.
No, there isn't. There is a theory pushed by some people that tries. It could even explain the rotation of galaxies, if you accept breaking several other theories that work well, but that's it. If you get a working theory someday that replaces dark energy with electricity, please tell me, I'm looking for a moto perpetual.
It is virtualy impossible for the figures of any public site to agree with the agregated share of browsers (whatever it is). Unless, of course, you are Google, but even then, you'll probably miss some IE users that didn't change their search bar.
Oh, no.
You are moving fast, and the direction is correct. But you are still far, far away from a third world country.
If it is all that, ask for that fine, and prohibit him from going back into the country. Why do Sweden need to force him back into the country to face the penalty of being prohibited to get back in the country?
Ok, I actualy didn't know the cavendish banana was the most common store variety. Around here most people (that includes me) simply don't like it, altough it is tasty when coocked. It is interesting that I never saw that fungus in action, I always assumed it plagued some varieties of banana that we don't plant here at Brazil, but we do plant it. Maybe it simply didn't reach here yet.
The psyllid - hey, I'm learning dificult english words fast here :) - that carriers the citrus greening gets insecticide resistance like much any other kind of insect. But that is not even the biggest problem, if you use large spectrum insectice, it is likely that the infestation will come back, and larger. People are all the time developping new insecticides, but biological control is the cheaper and best way to deal with it, unless the situation is already out of control.
The resistent cacao doesn't constitute a variety. Some plants simply don't get the plague, but they tend to produce a little less. Things are quite new on that front, and cacao takes some time to mature, maybe in the future we'll get trees that produce as much as the normal ones, but are resistant to it, or maybe not.
Anyway, your point stays. You are right. A bigger variety of foods will not only make our culture more resilient, it will also make them more resistent (monocultures are a great hatchery of plagues), more stable economicaly, may improve productivity (as one chooses the best culture for each land), and will be more tasty too, or at least have a more diverse taste.
1) There are commercial varieties of bananas resitent to that fungus, but some of them aren't. We are looking at the reduction of the diversity of bananas, not its extinction. But the fungus doen't spread as fast as it can for some reason (that I don't know), so not even that may happen.
2) There are again several varietes of commercial citrus resistent to that plague. Also, it is easy to cross-breed citrus, so there are new resistent varieties appearing all the time. Finally, the insect that spreads the plague is easily controlled, you just can't spray conventional insecticides, and its predators will take care of the rest. If they don't, you can add more predators or spray targeted insecticides.
3) Not all trees of the chocolate fruit (what is its name in english?) are vunerable to their plage. Also, there are several biological tools to fight it that involve mostly not having a monoculture.
4) Now, I know nothing about wheat.
You probably won't make grey goo on a bio lab. The things that come out of those labs are normaly digestable by current life, and vunerable to antibodies.
Go look for those instructions at a physics lab. You have better odds there.
Bah. Those millions of years of evolution where spent making those virus less lethal, not more.
The self destruct is for the DATA. Insurance companies normaly don't cover it, and it is recomended that one keeps backups anyway.
The hard truth:
I can understand why it would break some people. I can also understand why the VC is afraid the answer would burn bridges. Altough, yes, it is better to know that than any wish whashy excuse.
Yes, there is probably not even one big company that created such a system to soop bank passwords... But do you know everybody that works at IT? Do you know everybody that has access to the proxy servers, to the server rooms (yes, that may include consultants and outsourced people) or that just has enough access to the overall network to stay hidden while owning the proxy?
It's the former. They seem to be unable to create something that improves the humanity anymore, they just shoot for things with some front reward, but with huge long term costs.
Also, when discussing patents, keep in mind that they are exactly what is stopping the groups interested in creating the hightly nutritive varieties, or the big yield crops (you know, the kind of thing that people say GM makes possible) from deploying their crops, or sometimes from even start their research.
Say that after your crop lost 30% of its value because it got a positive for GMO testing.
And yes, the devaluing is severe, mostly because lots of European countries that won't accept it anymore.
For a very long time, they were the best source of fertilizers in the world. They created the Green Revolution toghether with Bayer.
Nowadays they are mostly a leech living out of government interventions (patents and other startup destrying laws) and monopoly abuse. But they still bring some savings from scale on fertilizers and defensives.
Monsanto's soy doesn't have more yield than the traditional beans. It is only cheaper to produce, if your weeds don't become resistent to roundup, and you don't ever intent to plant anything that isn't Monsanto's soy in that land.
And, at the third sequential year with the same crop (remember, you'll never be able to change your crop), yields start to get even lower.
Great!
Monsanto doesn't have a monopoly over any crop at Brazil. In fact, Embrapa (AKA, the government) has a near complete monopoly on nearly all the crops.
Monsanto didn't even make a dent at the market before their GMOs and all the publicity that came with them. Now they are at the single digits for soy beans, but their genes have spreaded everywhere.
Too bad for Monsanto then. Their seeds being sterile was a condition for their use to be aproved at Brazil.
I could never understand how they are able to ever sue somebody.
Well, it seems you don't live at Brazil. For the best or the worst, there aren't that many guns around here. And the criminals are the ones writting the penal laws, so self defense is quite restricted.