Why not make this a good opportunity to teach her how to read -- you're never too young to learn. If she encounters something she can't read, read it for her, or you can sit next to her as she plays the game. It's a great way to get kids to read without making them feel like it's a chore. The animation of the scenarios can help her understand what she's reading too.
To answer your question, I believe the new Super Mario would be a good choice.
This idea is based on the assumption of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics -- the idea that wave-functions exist as superpositions of multiple states and that they're collapsed into discrete states upon observation. First, is an observer only a human being, an animate object or inanimate object? Seems to me that many inanimate systems self-propagate themselves through time, relying on the continuous collapse of wave functions -- without people looking at them. Second, in my mind the Copenhagen interpretation is impossible to prove because you can never really know what the wavefunction is doing before the observation, and this is why it's an interpretation. In this case, you couldn't know if the universe could actually be older than than it is, without our observation. At least this is my view as a statistical quantum mechanicist.
call the restaurant and ask
and you get the number for the restaurant by googling for it -- more conveniently on your phone than at home, before you leave. Besides, even if I had a portable phone with numbers to my favourite restaurants, many of these don't speak English as a first language. Looking it up on a map is pretty easy and unambiguous.
It's not a simple problem, I agree, but I don't think the solution has to be very complicated either. For example, the NIH has much experience in maintaining large, secure, open databases.
I do think the scientific community would get behind an NIH initiative to publish papers through the NIH. The NIH employs tens of thousands of people, and thousands of IT people.
More importantly, tons of profitable websites exist that disseminate information that costs a lot of money to publish. Open journals can be ad supported like any other website. There are probably other solutions that may work better, but it's not an insurmountable ideal.
More importantly, it's not a matter of convenience. It's a matter of principle.
Publishers make cash from advertisers, from readers (subscription costs) and even the authors (charges for publications, color figures). As an academic and NIH scientist, I find it appalling that NIH funded research isn't openly accessible to the public -- I further believe that all academic publications should be free, but that's a different topic. NIH and NSF (National Science Foundation) research is really the property of the people that pay for it -- the public -- and authors have been somewhat powerless to change this broken system. We're required to adhere to the policies of high-impact journals as well as sign over copyrights in many cases.
I hope this is the beginning of new open policy for academic reports. At the very least it belongs to the US public (or whichever gov't funds the research), and at best, it belongs to the public in general. With digital costs being a fraction of printed costs, there's really no reason this shouldn't happen.
A laser that disrupted covalent bonds in proteins would most certainly be detrimental to human cells too. There's nothing special about the covalent bonds of virus proteins over human proteins. What is special is the tertiary structure packing of coat proteins.
I'm also not convinced that the process will be completely reversible as you suggest. Monomer coat protein could very easily dilute into very low concentrations once the virus is disassembled by destabilizing the complexed state (i.e. the intact virus).
Nonetheless, I have concerns too. I would think that tissue penetration of the radiation would be quite poor. Tissue is more invisible to X-rays than lower frequency radiation. Presumably, this method uses lower frequency radiation -- I couldn't see it mentioned in the story. These pulses may break viruses down in solution, but getting it to deep tissue is another matter entirely.
Ideally, entertaining documentation should supplement standard documentation. However, I can appreciate that writing documentation can be very boring, and this would cause the doc writers (probably the programmers) to procrastinate on making the docs complete and timely -- especially when they're not payed. If this motivates the documentation writers (and secondarily, motivates the readers), then I'm in favour
I really hope this pushes ATI to push feature development and improve their QA on the drivers so that performance and features are maintained between releases.
This is a good solution for the corporate world. In academia this could be problematic because grants are very limited. Academic institutions have access to J-1 visa (visiting scholars), but these are very restrictive and require the scholar to return after 5 years. Besides, who would want valuable research money being used for this purpose?
I'm of the opinion that research scholar and professor visas shouldn't be restricted.
"The posting of private material on publicly available FTP servers"
$ ftp ftp.usmilitary.com
220 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (ftp.usmilitary.com): guest
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: guest@guest.com
ftp>
Thankfully, they caught on and learned their lesson : "the SRA anonymous ftp server has been shutdown indefinitely. In the coming months, a new secure ftp site will be introduced that will replace the functionality of this site."
$sftp guest@sftp.usmilitary.com
Connecting to sftp.usmilitary.com...
Password: guest@guest.com
sftp>
in no way affects system performance
The concern is not system performance. It's system reliability.
Keep in mind the probability of encountering this issue is low
The probability may be low if it is expected that no one will exploit these issues, which according to Theo de Raadt, may not be the case. Is this fix available to all platforms?
Could this be a case for a product recall? A compromised OS could be considered a safety risk, and they're shipping a defective product. Some of these issues seem quite serious, requiring special treatment for bugged CPUs in the code.
This won't eliminate that process (at least yet). These are not a suitable replacement for citations of peer-reviewed journals, and as a member of the scientific community, I would expect worthwhile submission through this system to be processed through the formal peer-reviewed system.
this system is good for at least two reasons, in my mind:
1. eliminates abstract citations, which are nearly worthless because they're not archived : i.e. citing conversation, manuscripts in progress, "results not shown."
2. can save time for the authors if the rest of the community thinks the study is a waste of time by modding down articles. Mind you, this will probably not deter scientists trying to pad their publication lists.
However, I'm in favor of having publicly available peer-reviewed journals. This is a necessary first step to that -- the only requirement now is the participation of "peers" and credibility of the journals. (chicken and the egg problem)
A year ago it was announced that an alternative paid service through TechnoVera was available to replace Zap2It with part of the funds going back to OSS and mythtv -- and no periodic surveys. Couldn't users switch to this service? -- or is it no longer available? (I've never used this service myself.. any users care to respond?)
Yes, I've discovered how to disable notifications too. More specifically, I'd like to minimize profile page obfuscation for the viewer by allowing the viewer to disable these applications completely. (i.e. not just the notifications, but not display them on users' pages.)
The solution is simple in my mind, for both facebook and myspace. They should allow logged viewers to disable various "features" on user pages. For example, I could go without the "Ask a question" or "Emote" applets on facebook, which post notices to everyone in your friends list. In myspace, I could deal without the non-default backgrounds and background music. To make this feature really useful, there should be an option to automatically disable any new application and to specify which ones are allowed manually.
I agree. Facebook's simplicity was key in its success (in my mind), and now it feels like a heightened form of spam. I've enjoyed using facebook, but this is becoming a deal breaker for me.. unless they allow me to automatically turn this crap off.
1. 200 proof isn't that expensive, and we get it at a fraction of that cost. Denatured would be cheaper.
2. no more than 10-20ml is needed. (half a dollar's worth).
3. using ethanol as a disinfenctant is common practice in microbiological labs (my workplace). Typically, 70% diluted with ddH2O is used, but I'm a bit lazy.
4. propanol (rubbing alcohol, isopropanol) is a household disinfectant that can be picked up at Duane Reade.
hope this answers your question.
I rinse my keyboard with 200 proof Ethanol and let it try for an hour or so. Propanol is easily accessible and would work too. Soap is conductive, as another poster pointed out. Besides, who has a week to let their 30 dollar keyboard dry?
Marketing dept guy #1: How the hell are we going to sell this LBMS?
Marketing dept guy #2: Hmm.. Our customers are all sexually frustrated geeks. Let's put Elvira(R) on there. She's sexy and the kids seem to like her.
Marketing dept guy #1: That's a great idea.
(Marketing dept prepares a mock-up. Marketing dept guy #1 reads off the text)
Marketing dept guy #1: "The most overwhelming aspect of CASE is the several hundred...LBMS will address these issues. Their Project Engineer(TM) and On-line Method(TM) toolsets will reduce development backlog."
Marketing dept guy #2: Wow, that sounds boring as hell. It'd sound way cooler if we made Elvira(R) say it. Try this:
"The scariest thing about CASE is the several hundred...So how's about calling LBMS in... heh heh...Texas. Let them show you how their totally automated Project Engineer(TM) and On-Line Method(TM) toolsets can cut through development backlog." signed, Elvira(R)
Marketing dept guy #1: You're a genius. That sounds way more interesting. I've got wood.
Disclaimer : I'm not a plant biologist. I'm a physical biochemist.
The process of biochemically detecting neighboring organisms is not new. Bacteria use quorum sensing biochemical pathways to "communicate" various things about environment such as population density -- molecules are exchanged and recognized in the extracellular environment.
What is interesting here is that presummably there are different signals for siblings and non-siblings. A more interesting result, in my opinion, would be to find the biochemical connection to this selective quorum sensing. The answer could be complicated : it could include libraries of biochemicals (in varying concentrations) and differences in bacterial flora between plants.
My figure was for a low resolution human. If you're tracking molecules, then it would be in the thousands of yottabytes (based on a 70kg human and the MW of water). We'd definitely need an upgrade in transmission protocol.
on a serious note.. simply replacing "old" molecules with "fresh" molecules wouldn't make you younger. You'd have to go through and change various molecules, like removing the effects of oxidative damage and replace damaged/"erroneous" bases in DNA.
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Keeping accurate clocks synchronized is great and all..that is until accidental light-speed travel makes the whole thing pointless.
Why not make this a good opportunity to teach her how to read -- you're never too young to learn. If she encounters something she can't read, read it for her, or you can sit next to her as she plays the game. It's a great way to get kids to read without making them feel like it's a chore. The animation of the scenarios can help her understand what she's reading too.
To answer your question, I believe the new Super Mario would be a good choice.
This idea is based on the assumption of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics -- the idea that wave-functions exist as superpositions of multiple states and that they're collapsed into discrete states upon observation. First, is an observer only a human being, an animate object or inanimate object? Seems to me that many inanimate systems self-propagate themselves through time, relying on the continuous collapse of wave functions -- without people looking at them. Second, in my mind the Copenhagen interpretation is impossible to prove because you can never really know what the wavefunction is doing before the observation, and this is why it's an interpretation. In this case, you couldn't know if the universe could actually be older than than it is, without our observation. At least this is my view as a statistical quantum mechanicist.
and you get the number for the restaurant by googling for it -- more conveniently on your phone than at home, before you leave. Besides, even if I had a portable phone with numbers to my favourite restaurants, many of these don't speak English as a first language. Looking it up on a map is pretty easy and unambiguous.
It's not a simple problem, I agree, but I don't think the solution has to be very complicated either. For example, the NIH has much experience in maintaining large, secure, open databases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
I do think the scientific community would get behind an NIH initiative to publish papers through the NIH. The NIH employs tens of thousands of people, and thousands of IT people.
More importantly, tons of profitable websites exist that disseminate information that costs a lot of money to publish. Open journals can be ad supported like any other website. There are probably other solutions that may work better, but it's not an insurmountable ideal.
More importantly, it's not a matter of convenience. It's a matter of principle.
Publishers make cash from advertisers, from readers (subscription costs) and even the authors (charges for publications, color figures). As an academic and NIH scientist, I find it appalling that NIH funded research isn't openly accessible to the public -- I further believe that all academic publications should be free, but that's a different topic. NIH and NSF (National Science Foundation) research is really the property of the people that pay for it -- the public -- and authors have been somewhat powerless to change this broken system. We're required to adhere to the policies of high-impact journals as well as sign over copyrights in many cases.
I hope this is the beginning of new open policy for academic reports. At the very least it belongs to the US public (or whichever gov't funds the research), and at best, it belongs to the public in general. With digital costs being a fraction of printed costs, there's really no reason this shouldn't happen.
A laser that disrupted covalent bonds in proteins would most certainly be detrimental to human cells too. There's nothing special about the covalent bonds of virus proteins over human proteins. What is special is the tertiary structure packing of coat proteins. I'm also not convinced that the process will be completely reversible as you suggest. Monomer coat protein could very easily dilute into very low concentrations once the virus is disassembled by destabilizing the complexed state (i.e. the intact virus). Nonetheless, I have concerns too. I would think that tissue penetration of the radiation would be quite poor. Tissue is more invisible to X-rays than lower frequency radiation. Presumably, this method uses lower frequency radiation -- I couldn't see it mentioned in the story. These pulses may break viruses down in solution, but getting it to deep tissue is another matter entirely.
Ideally, entertaining documentation should supplement standard documentation. However, I can appreciate that writing documentation can be very boring, and this would cause the doc writers (probably the programmers) to procrastinate on making the docs complete and timely -- especially when they're not payed. If this motivates the documentation writers (and secondarily, motivates the readers), then I'm in favour
Most of their recent releases will either fix/patch bugs, support newer cards, break previous features or increase/decrease performance -- including this one. For example, version 8.31.5 broke suspend and cpu usage for video has increased in recent versions. Support for AIGLX still hasn't been included.
I really hope this pushes ATI to push feature development and improve their QA on the drivers so that performance and features are maintained between releases.
This is a good solution for the corporate world. In academia this could be problematic because grants are very limited. Academic institutions have access to J-1 visa (visiting scholars), but these are very restrictive and require the scholar to return after 5 years. Besides, who would want valuable research money being used for this purpose?
I'm of the opinion that research scholar and professor visas shouldn't be restricted.
Frankly, I'm in favor of having all of my advertising porn themed.
"The posting of private material on publicly available FTP servers"
$ ftp ftp.usmilitary.com
220 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (ftp.usmilitary.com): guest
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: guest@guest.com
ftp>
Thankfully, they caught on and learned their lesson : "the SRA anonymous ftp server has been shutdown indefinitely. In the coming months, a new secure ftp site will be introduced that will replace the functionality of this site."
$sftp guest@sftp.usmilitary.com
Connecting to sftp.usmilitary.com...
Password: guest@guest.com
sftp>
paq8hp12. when decompressed, it also serves as the source code for the program.
The concern is not system performance. It's system reliability.
Keep in mind the probability of encountering this issue is low
The probability may be low if it is expected that no one will exploit these issues, which according to Theo de Raadt, may not be the case. Is this fix available to all platforms?
Could this be a case for a product recall? A compromised OS could be considered a safety risk, and they're shipping a defective product. Some of these issues seem quite serious, requiring special treatment for bugged CPUs in the code.
This won't eliminate that process (at least yet). These are not a suitable replacement for citations of peer-reviewed journals, and as a member of the scientific community, I would expect worthwhile submission through this system to be processed through the formal peer-reviewed system.
:
this system is good for at least two reasons, in my mind
1. eliminates abstract citations, which are nearly worthless because they're not archived : i.e. citing conversation, manuscripts in progress, "results not shown."
2. can save time for the authors if the rest of the community thinks the study is a waste of time by modding down articles. Mind you, this will probably not deter scientists trying to pad their publication lists.
However, I'm in favor of having publicly available peer-reviewed journals. This is a necessary first step to that -- the only requirement now is the participation of "peers" and credibility of the journals. (chicken and the egg problem)
A year ago it was announced that an alternative paid service through TechnoVera was available to replace Zap2It with part of the funds going back to OSS and mythtv -- and no periodic surveys. Couldn't users switch to this service? -- or is it no longer available? (I've never used this service myself.. any users care to respond?)
Yes, I've discovered how to disable notifications too. More specifically, I'd like to minimize profile page obfuscation for the viewer by allowing the viewer to disable these applications completely. (i.e. not just the notifications, but not display them on users' pages.)
The solution is simple in my mind, for both facebook and myspace. They should allow logged viewers to disable various "features" on user pages. For example, I could go without the "Ask a question" or "Emote" applets on facebook, which post notices to everyone in your friends list. In myspace, I could deal without the non-default backgrounds and background music. To make this feature really useful, there should be an option to automatically disable any new application and to specify which ones are allowed manually.
I agree. Facebook's simplicity was key in its success (in my mind), and now it feels like a heightened form of spam. I've enjoyed using facebook, but this is becoming a deal breaker for me.. unless they allow me to automatically turn this crap off.
To answer you question :
1. 200 proof isn't that expensive, and we get it at a fraction of that cost. Denatured would be cheaper.
2. no more than 10-20ml is needed. (half a dollar's worth).
3. using ethanol as a disinfenctant is common practice in microbiological labs (my workplace). Typically, 70% diluted with ddH2O is used, but I'm a bit lazy.
4. propanol (rubbing alcohol, isopropanol) is a household disinfectant that can be picked up at Duane Reade. hope this answers your question.
I rinse my keyboard with 200 proof Ethanol and let it try for an hour or so. Propanol is easily accessible and would work too. Soap is conductive, as another poster pointed out. Besides, who has a week to let their 30 dollar keyboard dry?
Marketing dept guy #1 : How the hell are we going to sell this LBMS?
: Hmm.. Our customers are all sexually frustrated geeks. Let's put Elvira(R) on there. She's sexy and the kids seem to like her.
: That's a great idea.
: "The most overwhelming aspect of CASE is the several hundred...LBMS will address these issues. Their Project Engineer(TM) and On-line Method(TM) toolsets will reduce development backlog."
: Wow, that sounds boring as hell. It'd sound way cooler if we made Elvira(R) say it. Try this :
... heh heh ...Texas. Let them show you how their totally automated Project Engineer(TM) and On-Line Method(TM) toolsets can cut through development backlog." signed, Elvira(R)
: You're a genius. That sounds way more interesting. I've got wood.
Marketing dept guy #2
Marketing dept guy #1
(Marketing dept prepares a mock-up. Marketing dept guy #1 reads off the text)
Marketing dept guy #1
Marketing dept guy #2
"The scariest thing about CASE is the several hundred...So how's about calling LBMS in
Marketing dept guy #1
Disclaimer : I'm not a plant biologist. I'm a physical biochemist.
The process of biochemically detecting neighboring organisms is not new. Bacteria use quorum sensing biochemical pathways to "communicate" various things about environment such as population density -- molecules are exchanged and recognized in the extracellular environment.
What is interesting here is that presummably there are different signals for siblings and non-siblings. A more interesting result, in my opinion, would be to find the biochemical connection to this selective quorum sensing. The answer could be complicated : it could include libraries of biochemicals (in varying concentrations) and differences in bacterial flora between plants.
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My figure was for a low resolution human. If you're tracking molecules, then it would be in the thousands of yottabytes (based on a 70kg human and the MW of water). We'd definitely need an upgrade in transmission protocol.
on a serious note.. simply replacing "old" molecules with "fresh" molecules wouldn't make you younger. You'd have to go through and change various molecules, like removing the effects of oxidative damage and replace damaged/"erroneous" bases in DNA.