If you plan on taking a standardized test... according to most authorities on the matter, viruses are not considered life because they can't reproduce without a host cell. I won't engage any philisophical debates here, I'm just saying how your answer would be scored on a test.
You want to see Reductionism, take a Biochemistry class. Anyway these 'bots aren't so small, they're talking a few hundred micrometers. The average eukaryotic cell is 3 to 30 micrometers (not counting muscle cells, which are huge), so the best this could probably do is to manipulate a small cluster of cells, presumably cancerous tumors(or benign ones for that matter). Don't buy into the Hollywood image of science, 99% of biotechnologists have a heart and wouldn't use their tools for evil. The 1% that would are weeded out as quacks and never get promoted beyond lab tech.
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I told all my friends (that's right, all 2 of them... *snicker*) that I won't even SEND email to an AOL account. It's a double boycott - I won't use AOL, and I won't support the computing habits of those who do.
Do we really want to send skilled people back to places like China or other countries that are outright hostile to us? Bad idea. There was a scramble for scientists in W.W.II, I recall, and it was damn lucky we got some talent out of fleeing German and Polish scientists before it was too late. They helped us with weapons systems, code breaking, and even economics. Wassily Leontief was a Russian economist who escaped out of Berlin. His input-output tables (an application of linear algebra) made a major contribution toward maximizing our war production economy. We need talent, so write to your elected dweebs and tell them!
My idea is to scan a DVD into Photoshop, then resize it way the hell down and burn it onto a cd. Or even better, just photocopy the disc, cut out the circles, and glue or tape them onto some of your old AOL promo discs. Try it, it works!
If mars' atmosphere is like earth's at 100,000 feet - ummm, that's pretty thin. And is that mars' pressure at its surface or at a considerable altitude? My point is they're going to need a fairly huge balloon. Then again gravity on mars is less, or so I've heard.
This graph seems misleading to me, if you don't know your scales. It's plotted on a log scale (right?). If we could graph that whole thing on a normal scale, wouldn't it look quite different? Anyways they're using subjective terms, like "thoroughly searched". Come on, my room is thoroughly clean according to me, but ask my roomates what they think...
I agree, without dwelling on romantic Star Trek-like ideas, life could exist in ways we haven't discovered. The crushing pressure inside a planet (any planet) is lethal to us, but perhaps the chemistry that goes on (maybe even inside a sun) allows for life forms that we can barely imagine.
It sounds like you're looking for the most basic record keeping program, just a matter of choosing your favorite data structure. I could practically post the code right here!
I don't know what state he lives in, but in my state any employee is protected by a "whistle blower" law that says you can't be harassed, threatened, or retaliated against in any way for ratting out your employer's wrongdoings. I hope that he would explore his rights and sue the hell out of them.
Say what you want about the film, but the soundtrack was really good. For us AC/DC fans, it fed us with the deep, meaningful song "Big Gun", which at least kept us going until the Ballbreaker album came out. The other songs are good too:
01. Big Gun - AC/DC
02. What The Hell Have I - Alice In Chains
03. Angry Again - Megadeth
04. Real World - Queensryche
05. Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard
06. Poison My Eyes - Anthrax
07. Dream On - Aerosmith
08. A Little Bitter - Alice In Chains
09. Cock The Hammer - Cypress Hill
10. Swim - Fishbone
11. Last Action Hero - Tesla
12. Jack The Ripper - Michael Kamen And The Los Angeles Rock And Roll Ensemble Featuring Buckethead Kamen
Could someone tell me about the theory of gravity waves? All I know is they may travel much faster than light if they exist and could be used to communicate. Some physics professor and his dad were working on the theory at a university in California. Interestingly, the guy was once a bass player for Iron Butterfly (the band). Anyways he got so into the theory, he became scared and paranoid that governments were after him, so he drove his car into a canyon and killed himself. That's all I know about gravity waves.
Anime is analogous to Dungeons and Dragons from the Early Eighties, which makes sense in that Star Blazers, which qualifies as probably the first big Anime series, is from that time as well. And all the Anime geeks were into Magic the Gathering when I was in school, which is pretty recent.
It's just one big beautiful evolution, and what amazes me is it's the same everywhere you go. I've moved several times, and the new people I meet are always exactly like the old group I used to know, down to each individual! It's almost creepy. Each year through college I'd see the new group of freshman forming cliques and it's like damn, that could have me and my friends I'm looking at! Geek culture rules though.
My life became a joke for a short time and my major was Hotel, Restaurant, Travel Administration (basically just a management major). The first day in the introductory course, they showed us a 20 minute promotional video for T.G.I.Friday's. I shit you not. It was simply accepted from the start that corporations like Hilton and Sheraton would be our overlords.
Years later I'm getting my degree in Biology (thank God), and I have to say that there are both selfless and selfish professors that I know. Despite their salary and side projects with other companies, they are always bragging about patents they've made for some weird mouse gene or anti-body product. Well I should be drunk when I talk about this crap, so I'll stop right there:)
yes, the simplest argument seems to make the most sense here. MP3 is itself a market force. Cost to manufacture: $0 (all you do is click a few places on your computer). If a recording company goes out-of-business, it's not because of piracy but rather because of the free market system. (So get a new job, something different!)
When cars started driving down the roads that horse riders built, did the breeders get upset and try to ban the automobile?
Besides nano machines, this allows for the creation of unique compounds by caging atoms or molecules within such closed structures. The endless trillions of possible combinations are going to yield exotic things that should be really exciting.
I don't dare challenge the need for such a computer (the people who will build and use it are 10 times smarter than me), but I wonder if it would be good to research faster algorithms. Remember the 3-D environment that some 20 year-old made that runs on the power of a Gameboy? If you need a powerful machine for most computing needs, that just tells me that your OS or whatever program your running was poorly made (anything by microsoft right?).
So without going offtopic, are there any proven conspiracies to make poorly coded (slow) programs just to make you go buy a faster computer? Maybe Compaq is causing cancer to sell the computers that will help cure it! (Maybe I'm an idiot! *smack*)
The irony is that they layed claim to 1984 to appear as some kind of freedom-oriented company.
The great thing about evil is it destroys itself. Even if Apple becomes the #1 computer in the world, everyone will hate them sufficiently to bring them down at their own game. Just look at microsoft.
How do these space probes keep from overheating? A car's radiator disperses heat with the airflow from its motion, but there's no air in space!
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In chemistry, organic simply refers to the anything involving carbon. Don't confuse it with biochemistry, although there is some overlap. Plastics are organic materials.
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If you plan on taking a standardized test... according to most authorities on the matter, viruses are not considered life because they can't reproduce without a host cell. I won't engage any philisophical debates here, I'm just saying how your answer would be scored on a test.
UGH! Did I just confuse muscle cells with nerve cells? OK time to put the beer down and open up a textbook...
You want to see Reductionism, take a Biochemistry class. Anyway these 'bots aren't so small, they're talking a few hundred micrometers. The average eukaryotic cell is 3 to 30 micrometers (not counting muscle cells, which are huge), so the best this could probably do is to manipulate a small cluster of cells, presumably cancerous tumors(or benign ones for that matter). Don't buy into the Hollywood image of science, 99% of biotechnologists have a heart and wouldn't use their tools for evil. The 1% that would are weeded out as quacks and never get promoted beyond lab tech.
Trust me, you'll puke on your keyboard.
I told all my friends (that's right, all 2 of them... *snicker*) that I won't even SEND email to an AOL account. It's a double boycott - I won't use AOL, and I won't support the computing habits of those who do.
Do we really want to send skilled people back to places like China or other countries that are outright hostile to us? Bad idea. There was a scramble for scientists in W.W.II, I recall, and it was damn lucky we got some talent out of fleeing German and Polish scientists before it was too late. They helped us with weapons systems, code breaking, and even economics. Wassily Leontief was a Russian economist who escaped out of Berlin. His input-output tables (an application of linear algebra) made a major contribution toward maximizing our war production economy. We need talent, so write to your elected dweebs and tell them!
My idea is to scan a DVD into Photoshop, then resize it way the hell down and burn it onto a cd. Or even better, just photocopy the disc, cut out the circles, and glue or tape them onto some of your old AOL promo discs. Try it, it works!
Yes but Metallica has Lars. Lars, dude. Lars...
So clear a grilling area on your laptop and cook up some breakfast on your way to work! I heard that iBooks are dishwasher-safe.
If mars' atmosphere is like earth's at 100,000 feet - ummm, that's pretty thin. And is that mars' pressure at its surface or at a considerable altitude? My point is they're going to need a fairly huge balloon. Then again gravity on mars is less, or so I've heard.
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This graph seems misleading to me, if you don't know your scales. It's plotted on a log scale (right?). If we could graph that whole thing on a normal scale, wouldn't it look quite different? Anyways they're using subjective terms, like "thoroughly searched". Come on, my room is thoroughly clean according to me, but ask my roomates what they think...
I agree, without dwelling on romantic Star Trek-like ideas, life could exist in ways we haven't discovered. The crushing pressure inside a planet (any planet) is lethal to us, but perhaps the chemistry that goes on (maybe even inside a sun) allows for life forms that we can barely imagine.
I wonder if it will be looted long before its intended time of return.
It sounds like you're looking for the most basic record keeping program, just a matter of choosing your favorite data structure. I could practically post the code right here!
I don't know what state he lives in, but in my state any employee is protected by a "whistle blower" law that says you can't be harassed, threatened, or retaliated against in any way for ratting out your employer's wrongdoings. I hope that he would explore his rights and sue the hell out of them.
Say what you want about the film, but the soundtrack was really good. For us AC/DC fans, it fed us with the deep, meaningful song "Big Gun", which at least kept us going until the Ballbreaker album came out. The other songs are good too: 01. Big Gun - AC/DC 02. What The Hell Have I - Alice In Chains 03. Angry Again - Megadeth 04. Real World - Queensryche 05. Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard 06. Poison My Eyes - Anthrax 07. Dream On - Aerosmith 08. A Little Bitter - Alice In Chains 09. Cock The Hammer - Cypress Hill 10. Swim - Fishbone 11. Last Action Hero - Tesla 12. Jack The Ripper - Michael Kamen And The Los Angeles Rock And Roll Ensemble Featuring Buckethead Kamen
Could someone tell me about the theory of gravity waves? All I know is they may travel much faster than light if they exist and could be used to communicate. Some physics professor and his dad were working on the theory at a university in California. Interestingly, the guy was once a bass player for Iron Butterfly (the band). Anyways he got so into the theory, he became scared and paranoid that governments were after him, so he drove his car into a canyon and killed himself. That's all I know about gravity waves.
Anime is analogous to Dungeons and Dragons from the Early Eighties, which makes sense in that Star Blazers, which qualifies as probably the first big Anime series, is from that time as well. And all the Anime geeks were into Magic the Gathering when I was in school, which is pretty recent.
It's just one big beautiful evolution, and what amazes me is it's the same everywhere you go. I've moved several times, and the new people I meet are always exactly like the old group I used to know, down to each individual! It's almost creepy. Each year through college I'd see the new group of freshman forming cliques and it's like damn, that could have me and my friends I'm looking at! Geek culture rules though.
My life became a joke for a short time and my major was Hotel, Restaurant, Travel Administration (basically just a management major). The first day in the introductory course, they showed us a 20 minute promotional video for T.G.I.Friday's. I shit you not. It was simply accepted from the start that corporations like Hilton and Sheraton would be our overlords.
:)
Years later I'm getting my degree in Biology (thank God), and I have to say that there are both selfless and selfish professors that I know. Despite their salary and side projects with other companies, they are always bragging about patents they've made for some weird mouse gene or anti-body product. Well I should be drunk when I talk about this crap, so I'll stop right there
yes, the simplest argument seems to make the most sense here. MP3 is itself a market force. Cost to manufacture: $0 (all you do is click a few places on your computer). If a recording company goes out-of-business, it's not because of piracy but rather because of the free market system. (So get a new job, something different!)
When cars started driving down the roads that horse riders built, did the breeders get upset and try to ban the automobile?
Besides nano machines, this allows for the creation of unique compounds by caging atoms or molecules within such closed structures. The endless trillions of possible combinations are going to yield exotic things that should be really exciting.
I don't dare challenge the need for such a computer (the people who will build and use it are 10 times smarter than me), but I wonder if it would be good to research faster algorithms. Remember the 3-D environment that some 20 year-old made that runs on the power of a Gameboy? If you need a powerful machine for most computing needs, that just tells me that your OS or whatever program your running was poorly made (anything by microsoft right?).
So without going offtopic, are there any proven conspiracies to make poorly coded (slow) programs just to make you go buy a faster computer? Maybe Compaq is causing cancer to sell the computers that will help cure it! (Maybe I'm an idiot! *smack*)
The irony is that they layed claim to 1984 to appear as some kind of freedom-oriented company.
The great thing about evil is it destroys itself. Even if Apple becomes the #1 computer in the world, everyone will hate them sufficiently to bring them down at their own game. Just look at microsoft.
Man I have my best thoughts when I'm drinking!
How do these space probes keep from overheating? A car's radiator disperses heat with the airflow from its motion, but there's no air in space!
In chemistry, organic simply refers to the anything involving carbon. Don't confuse it with biochemistry, although there is some overlap. Plastics are organic materials.