Its a promoter sequence, it signifies where a gene begins, AFAIK. There are variations on this, though, but I know that this is the common sequence in bacteria.
Sure there is! There are sections of millions of repeated ATATATATAT.... The reason?? Simple statistics. If a mutation is going to happen, you'd rather it be there than in the gene for hemoglobin, now wouldn't you?
There are actually still multiple theories about the dimensionality of space, the most common being 8, ten and 17. (See twistor theory, some older string theories that are still being investigated.
I am sorry yours does not work, but my All-in-Wonder Pro works wonders on my Via chipset AMD motherboard! Just because you can't get it to work doesn't mean no one else can. (You might try to find some motherboard drivers depending on your mobo.)
I understand why eclipses happen, and the pattern or the earth, moon and sun and all that stuff, but one question no one has ever been able to answer me: Why isn't there an eclipse every month?. The moon revolves around once a month, and therefore must pass in front of the earth every month, right? I have read several astronomy books, even textbooks, and they don't address this simple question. Also, some guy posted there was going to be a lunar eclipse too tonight. Sorry, but I don't think the two can happen at once, as the moon has to be on one side of the earth for one, and on the complete opposite for the other. Let me know if I am wrong here. Ever notice when the moon gets kind of orange? Well that's a really weak version of a lunar eclipse. Those happen often, though I've never seen a complete one. And yes it is a little eerie that the Persieds(sp?) and a solar eclipse are happening at the same time.
Its actually the other way around. Americans consider 1 billion 1000 millions, while many other countries consider 1 billion 1 million millions. That's why you will see many British authors (say Steven Hawking) saying 5 thousand million instead of 5 billion.
Is usually not the password or the security system. Its the people who use them. For example , at work I have people everyday who tell me their passwords because they don't have the time of day to stay and login as Administrator on their NT boxes while I fix their dumbass problems. Further more, many passwords can ge guessed due to their simplicicty (almost half are the reverse of their login or their login + #). Of course, this is to be expected since the human brain is meant to generate and remember patterns, not random characters. Perhaps even more unbelievable is the fact that almost any employee can call the helpdesk and have their password reset. With _no_ ID check.
On top of that, the real problem is not people getting into a system with passwords. The real security problem is the idiot things people can do while logged in as a high security user. Its amazing what they do. Many people, mostly experienced techs (with high priviledges on the system), login outside the firewall and the secuity features therein, and access high risk sites (not pr0n but warez and other sites due to high access speeds). Therefore, the password security and access standards don't need to be revised, the user's intelligence does.
Wrong my friend. Any location in three space can be determined by three intersecting spheres. You only need three satalites to determind position and altitude.
This would be a great application for a distributed computing application, lots of computers indexing the web, and after they finish that, they can revisit sites for broken, moved and changed content sites... First post?
I chose AMD because I fancied not tossing my motherboard and case. I run on a 450 MHz AMD-K6-2, with the 3d-now! extensions (of course). I can tell you from experience that the FFT that Seti@Home uses routine on an AMD SUCKS. It takes forever to do a single block of data, and I calculated it would eventually take something like 70 hours to complete the block. I was disappointed. Granted the floating-point on AMD's aren't great, but they aren't THAT bad. That was part of AMD's purpose to include 3D-NOW!, to handle floating-point better. The fact that they are unwilling to optimize the code just plain makes me angry. It puts those with alternative processors at a disadvantage, when the users themselves are willing and able to fix it. That is the reason I love RC5: it runs well no moatter what processor you use, it's optimized for almost every one, and if you want to optimize it further, distributed.net allows you too. Just because Seti@Home claims they will run out of blocks of data, it does not matter. If they do, perhaps other programs will see the need to contribute.. perhaps the ACTUAL SETI program.... (this is not actually run by SETI, but by an affiliated group). We could all get a lot more done if we simply all did our best to get what 'needs' to be done done, and worry about the next source for our work when we get there (a la RC5).
Second.. I remember the first Super Soakers. I actually busted mine because I pumped it too full:-) Those things got even better if you pumped them under water... Just as much pressure w/ increased water capacity. I love those, I wonder if there is a water-gun club at my college I am going to? I have to say though that some of the guns recently are just plain ridiculous in terms of size. In a real fight they are too cumbersome and for the small increase in distance it is not that efficient. Furthermore, the smaller streams sting more. My ideal gun would be like a double barreled one, one big and one small for selective snipping. In case you can't tell, I take my water guns seriously:-)
How much space could OS's address in an HDD. I know 95A (eek.. I mentioned something from Macroshit!) had a limit of 2 gigs or something... Do similar limits exist for other os'es for HDD's I am talking IDE hear, but obviously there is no way that a HDD of these sizes could be anything but SCSI....).
I think we better realize that the theaters are not only being pressured by people like Jon Katz and the libertarians out there, but by the moralists and the religious people out there who want to protect their children from these movies. I am not here to say what is right and what is wrong.
The movie theatres are first and foremost bound BY LAW regarding the admittance of minors into movies rated for mature audiences, and can get in very big trouble with the industry and the government if they do not comply, I am sure. Perhaps even worse is the kickback they would receive from the parents and religious community.
There are certainly more people who would welome more stringent policies like those evidenced in Jon Katz's article that those who espouse his view. Which comes to a simple choice, who would you rather alienate, the majority or the minority. It is a simple business decision. While I agree with Jon Katz's ideals, the simple fact is it is more profitable for them to operate in this manner, and they are, after all, one of the largest industries in the world. They are out to make money.
---"Absolute power corrupts absolutely," advice from a former Dictatorial Emperor. (This sig brought to you from a FFIII lover.
Plank's constant describes the relationship between the energy of a photon and its wavelength. From this, a finite amount of time is derived, called the Plank time. This is the ultimate smallest discreet unit of time, the speed at which quantum fluctuations happen. It is something on the order of 5e-44. Now this is rather fast. However, this is only the speed limit for a single gate, assuming that it uses a single atom and changes a single quantum state. However, we run into more considerations with multiple gates and parallel processing. We also run into the problem of the bottlenecks of the system that runs it. In the final analysis, it is not how fast the processor can run, but how fast the surrounding equipment can run the processor.
Obviously you have no sense of the true nature of people! Power corrupts those who have it. Once they have the power to monitor the "criminals" (in quotes due to the wide range of definitions by differeing people), what is to stop them from monitoring you and me? What is to stop them from returning to McCarthyism where anyone even suspected of anything is prosecuted. My God, man, you must have not ever paid attention in history class, and never heard the quote "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Who is to decide who gets monitored and who does not? The politicians? What a horrible idea, they would surely use it to spy on their enemies without any qualms. The military? They would like nothing better than for every person in America to be monitored. The CIA? The worst of all. The people? dream on. They would never give that power to the people, it would be too unwieldy. If you believe that this is a good idea, then you have no right to any privacy what so ever, and you join the masses of our country every day who are deluded and increase the power of the government.
So you think it is all bloated and bad, huh? The problem is not the coders, its the language. The compilers really aren't that efficient. If you want really fast, really small programs, I guess we could all learn Assembly, or better yet, we could write directly to binary code. Yeah, that's it!
I for one liked this article for one simple reason: it addressed what many Linux users simply refuse to acknowledge. Linux is simply not ready for the common people. I don't use Linux, but I support everything about it. Open software is the answer to bloat and antiquated computing; when people get fed up with a way of doing things or something is outdated, the user base will replace it. Bravo. However, for the average user, even intelligent ones, learning to use Linux requires extensive reading, which most people simply don't have time for. Let me repeat, I love what Linux is about, and think that it is a great OS. But all you crazed Linux fanatics have to realize that right now, it is simply not ready for the majority of users. It can be the best OS in the world, but if the learning curve is not steep enough, then people simply will not use it. This is not meant to be flamebait.
You must look at his accomplishments prior to WWII. He was one of the greatest leaders ever. He managed to bring the country out of the worst inflationary depressions ever seen in the world, and picked up the shambles of his country to build a successful, thriving country prior to his atempt at world domination. By al accounts, he was one of the most effective leaders and influential men the world had ever seen. He was also a master politician. I am not agreeing with what he did by a long shot. Hitler had many qualities that make a great leader, and it is too bad that they just hapopened to be used to start the most costly and devastating wars on humanity that the world has ever seen.
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Its a promoter sequence, it signifies where a gene begins, AFAIK. There are variations on this, though, but I know that this is the common sequence in bacteria.
Sure there is! There are sections of millions of repeated ATATATATAT.... The reason?? Simple statistics. If a mutation is going to happen, you'd rather it be there than in the gene for hemoglobin, now wouldn't you?
There are actually still multiple theories about the dimensionality of space, the most common being 8, ten and 17. (See twistor theory, some older string theories that are still being investigated.
I am sorry yours does not work, but my All-in-Wonder Pro works wonders on my Via chipset AMD motherboard! Just because you can't get it to work doesn't mean no one else can. (You might try to find some motherboard drivers depending on your mobo.)
I understand why eclipses happen, and the pattern or the earth, moon and sun and all that stuff, but one question no one has ever been able to answer me: Why isn't there an eclipse every month?. The moon revolves around once a month, and therefore must pass in front of the earth every month, right? I have read several astronomy books, even textbooks, and they don't address this simple question. Also, some guy posted there was going to be a lunar eclipse too tonight. Sorry, but I don't think the two can happen at once, as the moon has to be on one side of the earth for one, and on the complete opposite for the other. Let me know if I am wrong here. Ever notice when the moon gets kind of orange? Well that's a really weak version of a lunar eclipse. Those happen often, though I've never seen a complete one. And yes it is a little eerie that the Persieds(sp?) and a solar eclipse are happening at the same time.
Be sure to read all the side stuff too, there are a lot of jokes in this one! It's like a bizarro-slashdot.
Its actually the other way around. Americans consider 1 billion 1000 millions, while many other countries consider 1 billion 1 million millions. That's why you will see many British authors (say Steven Hawking) saying 5 thousand million instead of 5 billion.
Any idea if they will be doing this at the show in Atlanta too??
103 Celsius = 217 Fahrenheit
150 Celsius = 302 Fahrenheit
Physics can be useful you know.... no matter what you thought in high school.
Is usually not the password or the security system. Its the people who use them. For example , at work I have people everyday who tell me their passwords because they don't have the time of day to stay and login as Administrator on their NT boxes while I fix their dumbass problems. Further more, many passwords can ge guessed due to their simplicicty (almost half are the reverse of their login or their login + #). Of course, this is to be expected since the human brain is meant to generate and remember patterns, not random characters. Perhaps even more unbelievable is the fact that almost any employee can call the helpdesk and have their password reset. With _no_ ID check.
On top of that, the real problem is not people getting into a system with passwords. The real security problem is the idiot things people can do while logged in as a high security user. Its amazing what they do. Many people, mostly experienced techs (with high priviledges on the system), login outside the firewall and the secuity features therein, and access high risk sites (not pr0n but warez and other sites due to high access speeds). Therefore, the password security and access standards don't need to be revised, the user's intelligence does.
Wrong my friend. Any location in three space can be determined by three intersecting spheres. You only need three satalites to determind position and altitude.
This would be a great application for a distributed computing application, lots of computers indexing the web, and after they finish that, they can revisit sites for broken, moved and changed content sites... First post?
With all the high-tech gadgets at those companies, it is a wonder that they haven't sneaked a web-cam into the lactation rooms... Got Milk??
But when my computer is MY work, my, hobby, i don't like it when a program doesn't use it and makes it look like crap....
I would like to know how to get the console based wone rather than the GUI, cuz the GUI sucks on my comp! (See my other post further down.)
I chose AMD because I fancied not tossing my motherboard and case. I run on a 450 MHz AMD-K6-2, with the 3d-now! extensions (of course). I can tell you from experience that the FFT that Seti@Home uses routine on an AMD SUCKS. It takes forever to do a single block of data, and I calculated it would eventually take something like 70 hours to complete the block. I was disappointed. Granted the floating-point on AMD's aren't great, but they aren't THAT bad. That was part of AMD's purpose to include 3D-NOW!, to handle floating-point better. The fact that they are unwilling to optimize the code just plain makes me angry. It puts those with alternative processors at a disadvantage, when the users themselves are willing and able to fix it. That is the reason I love RC5: it runs well no moatter what processor you use, it's optimized for almost every one, and if you want to optimize it further, distributed.net allows you too. Just because Seti@Home claims they will run out of blocks of data, it does not matter. If they do, perhaps other programs will see the need to contribute.. perhaps the ACTUAL SETI program.... (this is not actually run by SETI, but by an affiliated group). We could all get a lot more done if we simply all did our best to get what 'needs' to be done done, and worry about the next source for our work when we get there (a la RC5).
First... shut up first-post lamers.
:-) Those things got even better if you pumped them under water... Just as much pressure w/ increased water capacity. I love those, I wonder if there is a water-gun club at my college I am going to? I have to say though that some of the guns recently are just plain ridiculous in terms of size. In a real fight they are too cumbersome and for the small increase in distance it is not that efficient. Furthermore, the smaller streams sting more. My ideal gun would be like a double barreled one, one big and one small for selective snipping. In case you can't tell, I take my water guns seriously :-)
Second.. I remember the first Super Soakers. I actually busted mine because I pumped it too full
How much space could OS's address in an HDD. I know 95A (eek.. I mentioned something from Macroshit!) had a limit of 2 gigs or something... Do similar limits exist for other os'es for HDD's I am talking IDE hear, but obviously there is no way that a HDD of these sizes could be anything but SCSI....).
I think we better realize that the theaters are not only being pressured by people like Jon Katz and the libertarians out there, but by the moralists and the religious people out there who want to protect their children from these movies.
I am not here to say what is right and what is wrong.
The movie theatres are first and foremost bound BY LAW regarding the admittance of minors into movies rated for mature audiences, and can get in very big trouble with the industry and the government if they do not comply, I am sure. Perhaps even worse is the kickback they would receive from the parents and religious community.
There are certainly more people who would welome more stringent policies like those evidenced in Jon Katz's article that those who espouse his view. Which comes to a simple choice, who would you rather alienate, the majority or the minority. It is a simple business decision. While I agree with Jon Katz's ideals, the simple fact is it is more profitable for them to operate in this manner, and they are, after all, one of the largest industries in the world. They are out to make money.
---"Absolute power corrupts absolutely," advice from a former Dictatorial Emperor. (This sig brought to you from a FFIII lover.
Plank's constant describes the relationship between the energy of a photon and its wavelength. From this, a finite amount of time is derived, called the Plank time. This is the ultimate smallest discreet unit of time, the speed at which quantum fluctuations happen. It is something on the order of 5e-44. Now this is rather fast. However, this is only the speed limit for a single gate, assuming that it uses a single atom and changes a single quantum state. However, we run into more considerations with multiple gates and parallel processing. We also run into the problem of the bottlenecks of the system that runs it. In the final analysis, it is not how fast the processor can run, but how fast the surrounding equipment can run the processor.
Obviously you have no sense of the true nature of people! Power corrupts those who have it. Once they have the power to monitor the "criminals" (in quotes due to the wide range of definitions by differeing people), what is to stop them from monitoring you and me? What is to stop them from returning to McCarthyism where anyone even suspected of anything is prosecuted. My God, man, you must have not ever paid attention in history class, and never heard the quote "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Who is to decide who gets monitored and who does not? The politicians? What a horrible idea, they would surely use it to spy on their enemies without any qualms. The military? They would like nothing better than for every person in America to be monitored. The CIA? The worst of all. The people? dream on. They would never give that power to the people, it would be too unwieldy. If you believe that this is a good idea, then you have no right to any privacy what so ever, and you join the masses of our country every day who are deluded and increase the power of the government.
But what if the beam misses the power station here on earth? What if it blows up all the surrounding arcologies??
So you think it is all bloated and bad, huh? The problem is not the coders, its the language. The compilers really aren't that efficient. If you want really fast, really small programs, I guess we could all learn Assembly, or better yet, we could write directly to binary code. Yeah, that's it!
I for one liked this article for one simple reason: it addressed what many Linux users simply refuse to acknowledge. Linux is simply not ready for the common people. I don't use Linux, but I support everything about it. Open software is the answer to bloat and antiquated computing; when people get fed up with a way of doing things or something is outdated, the user base will replace it. Bravo. However, for the average user, even intelligent ones, learning to use Linux requires extensive reading, which most people simply don't have time for. Let me repeat, I love what Linux is about, and think that it is a great OS. But all you crazed Linux fanatics have to realize that right now, it is simply not ready for the majority of users. It can be the best OS in the world, but if the learning curve is not steep enough, then people simply will not use it. This is not meant to be flamebait.
You must look at his accomplishments prior to WWII. He was one of the greatest leaders ever. He managed to bring the country out of the worst inflationary depressions ever seen in the world, and picked up the shambles of his country to build a successful, thriving country prior to his atempt at world domination. By al accounts, he was one of the most effective leaders and influential men the world had ever seen. He was also a master politician. I am not agreeing with what he did by a long shot. Hitler had many qualities that make a great leader, and it is too bad that they just hapopened to be used to start the most costly and devastating wars on humanity that the world has ever seen.