If you're going to fund, as a matter of public policy, one set of delusions (homeopathy) associated with "cures", then you should also fund others: Scientology audits, "laying on of hands", reliquaries and trips to Lourdes, animist totem pouches, ad nauseum. Otherwise, it is government support of a particular set of religious beliefs
130,000 years ago the Mediterranean basin was dry.
It only refilled after the sea levels rose as the last Ice Age maximum melted off and restored some water to the oceans. Best evidence is that was within the last 20000 years.
There are four flavors of 4096 byte-sectored drives:
4096 physical/logical - the bookkeeping parts of the file system cause read/modify write cycles because they are nearly always less than 4096 bytes, but the performance hit is relatively small; parted is badly broken. If they're less than 2TiB, then you can use an MBR, otherwise the kernel is broken for partition sizes.
4096 physical/512 logical; LBA 0 aligned "off by one" with physical block 0 - created to deal with stupid BIOS (and Win XP, where some drivers rely on it), mostly work fine with the default tools, but still have the bookkeeping issues. Because Win Vista/7 and OS X use GPT AND don't worry about "track" boundaries, they work better than Linux.
4096 physical/512 logical; LBA 0 aligned with physical block 0 - works great with Win Vista/7 and OS X, but the Linux installers are still aligning on the bogus track boundary, and not asking the physical/logical alignment. Performance, without some very smart tweaking by the person doing the formatting REALLY stinks.
4096 physical/512 logical, but are reporting 512 physical (usually aligned 0 for 0) - again to deal with BIOS/Win XP. Basically, treat ALL drives produced starting with 2010 as having 4K sectors, aligned 0 for 0, unless they explicitly report otherwise, and use the same human-intervention-required layout as above.
Currently, the tools are the most pressing issue, since they are really broken in this respect, but there are kernel issues, as well, with drives larger that 2TiB and 4096-byte sectors.
The blog misquotes the LA Times article (which originally misquoted the study), and the summary parrots the blog.
May be a bit of junk science, too, but it's hard to tell since I can't find the original study.
If the quotes in the corrected LA Times article are accurate, then the researchers are simply full of it. They describe an 46% increased risk of death by all causes, which is patent nonsense. Everyone's risk (unless there's a secret medical facility I can't access) of death from all causes is 100%.
I'm not saying that there definitely is not a correlation, perhaps even a causal relationship, between sitting for too long in front of the tube and some decrease in life expectancy. However, there may be a step function here where at four hours of sitting the body makes metabolic changes that don't happen at 3.5 (or 2.9, or some such).
What about sitting at the symphony, ballet, office, or while reading books (or journals)? Why specifically call out the "telly time"? Even then, is there any difference between consistently watching sports (football vs cricket?), drama, comedy (laughter is good for you, remember), game shows, and soaps? Maybe too much passive watching (of any or all TV programming) simply rots some part of your brain and that signals your body to quit wasting time and space.
What about meal and "euphemism" breaks? How is that figured into the study?
It's not the weight. I can easily do that distance around here (some long hills), although my commute is about 33.
It's that I have no place (shower) to become tolerable to my co-workers for the rest of the day.
With an electric (not the silly Sanyo, but a proper one with a decent CG, and the drive to the rear wheel, if I can ever find one), I can "ride" to work and pedal home. Dragging the extra weight of the batteries would be even better exercise (for that trip) than just a bicycle.
The A-37 is a "buff" T-37 trainer. It's not so much that you need the weapons, but the stronger engines, larger fuel tanks, and the hard points for luggage (pilots used a have a pod for assignment changes). Strip the armor during a refurb and the performance should be better, too. Lots of them sold into South America and Southeast Asia.
The FB-111 gets you supersonics. It was the first US jet to do at (well, near) sea level in sustained flight. Has a pressurized cockpit, too. Might be able to get one from the Aussies.
If you're in business to make money, open a brokerage, casino, or bank.
Otherwise, while you would like to make enough profit to keep the doors open, you're in the business of producing a product. Make a good (-enough) one keep satisfy the customers and get some repeat business.
In case no one's figured it out by now, Wall Street doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about the latter, and will happily destroy the entire US economy (except them, of course) to do the former.
Does Agnes Cleaners work for anyone with a medical condition that requires a cleaning support staff? That service may even be paid for in whole or part by a public (Medicare) or private health insurer.
Poor service in far too many cases, hardware locked into service providers, limitations on use contrary to the advertising (and, sometimes, contract), but the chumps/marks/"customers" can't really complain, 'cause the major carriers own enough of the government to stifle any redress.
Get used to it; it isn't going to get any better.
Yeah, it may be a troll/whine, but until the tech "fanboys" (us) go cold turkey and stop buying the contracts, there's not even a hope of change (and, yes, I have).
There was a much better explanation in one of the short stories published in Nature: the reindeer generate a standing probability wave that encompasses the entire planet for 24 hours.
This gets rid of all of the low-tech problems of propulsion, control, and atmospheric friction.
Most of the packages are open source. They provide customization services and some specialized tools, as well as support (sort of the original Cygnus business model).
If you really want drivers to pay attention, mandate some C4 and a metal casing in place of the steering wheel air bag, such that any event that would have triggered the air bag instead sets off the grenade. Require older cars to be retrofitted or destroyed. Publicize the consequences of hitting something widely.
Every transaction will be traceable by the "benevolent" power-that-be; not for anything but the purest of motives, of course.
Just from the absolutely ludicrous statement "... the board will be especially concerned that the needs of elderly and vulnerable people are met", which anyone with enough functional brain cells to form a synapse can tell is pure propaganda, you should know that there is another agenda entirely.
Not if the intelligent life out there has any capability to stop us.
There must be intelligent life in the universe, because none of them have contacted us yet. Joy-riding adolescent hooligans do not count, regardless of what they're riding, driving, or, flying.
"... Surprisingly, both men and women perceived men being smarter across generations -- both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and their grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. And if there are children, both men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters."
The use of "believe is correct; the use of "think" is not.
The number of humans that can actually think, as opposed to rationalize, compared to the total number of humans, appears to be statistically insignificant.
Google is a business, and, in particular, an American business.
The only "morals" are to maximize shareholder profits.
If that means caving in to public outcry or government pressure, they will do that.
If it means subverting elections (Exxon, in Chile), bribing government officials (Boeing, in the tanker deal), or blowing up villages in India (Union Carbide, in Bhopal), they will do that, too. As long as it doesn't cost the shareholders more than it saves or gains, it is "the right thing to do".
To determine how what proportion each leg contributed to a frog's jumping distance, a scientist trained a frog to jump on command. He then measured the distance with all legs, and remeasured after successively removing one leg at a time.
His conclusion: that since the frog, with all legs removed, did not jump after hearing the command, that the frog was now deaf.
Bacteria do, however, exchange DNA with nearby organisms, not necessarily of the same species. Some DNA has been incorporated into "infected" hosts, or picked up through plant root systems, and bacteria shuffle DNA between themselves, as well.
There's more to knowledge than just mis-quoting some Wikipedia article, since the one you referenced does, in fact, describe gene transfer (BTW, use the URL tags).
I have a Samsung 191T that I bought for my wife many years ago. One of my test criteria was that it should display well at other-than-native (1280x1024) resolution. Star Craft looks quite good on it. I recently returned a 1920x1200 LCD because it couldn't even handle 800x600 (literally complaining in a big box, center screen, that the signal was out of range while displaying the image).
It looks as though LCDs have become like "winmodem"s or super cheap ink-jet printers, which rely on the host system to do anything useful with an image, in order to cut the price to a minimum.
Anyone know of an LCD (particularly 24" 1920x{1080,1200} that isn't junk at other than native resolution?
I've seen that some GPUs have scaling drivers; maybe that would work?
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If you're going to fund, as a matter of public policy, one set of delusions (homeopathy) associated with "cures", then you should also fund others: Scientology audits, "laying on of hands", reliquaries and trips to Lourdes, animist totem pouches, ad nauseum. Otherwise, it is government support of a particular set of religious beliefs
Oh! Wait! This is Great Britain. Never mind.
130,000 years ago the Mediterranean basin was dry.
It only refilled after the sea levels rose as the last Ice Age maximum melted off and restored some water to the oceans. Best evidence is that was within the last 20000 years.
There are four flavors of 4096 byte-sectored drives:
4096 physical/logical - the bookkeeping parts of the file system cause read/modify write cycles because they are nearly always less than 4096 bytes, but the performance hit is relatively small; parted is badly broken. If they're less than 2TiB, then you can use an MBR, otherwise the kernel is broken for partition sizes.
4096 physical/512 logical; LBA 0 aligned "off by one" with physical block 0 - created to deal with stupid BIOS (and Win XP, where some drivers rely on it), mostly work fine with the default tools, but still have the bookkeeping issues. Because Win Vista/7 and OS X use GPT AND don't worry about "track" boundaries, they work better than Linux.
4096 physical/512 logical; LBA 0 aligned with physical block 0 - works great with Win Vista/7 and OS X, but the Linux installers are still aligning on the bogus track boundary, and not asking the physical/logical alignment. Performance, without some very smart tweaking by the person doing the formatting REALLY stinks.
4096 physical/512 logical, but are reporting 512 physical (usually aligned 0 for 0) - again to deal with BIOS/Win XP. Basically, treat ALL drives produced starting with 2010 as having 4K sectors, aligned 0 for 0, unless they explicitly report otherwise, and use the same human-intervention-required layout as above.
Currently, the tools are the most pressing issue, since they are really broken in this respect, but there are kernel issues, as well, with drives larger that 2TiB and 4096-byte sectors.
You ARE joking, right?
NT, Win9x (and 2K) don't have a verification "feature".
OTOH, how may original XBox customers are about to lose access to all content with an on-line component?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/05/1727233/
To provide a URL, it's a bit cleaner to use:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.894824v1
The blog misquotes the LA Times article (which originally misquoted the study), and the summary parrots the blog.
May be a bit of junk science, too, but it's hard to tell since I can't find the original study.
If the quotes in the corrected LA Times article are accurate, then the researchers are simply full of it. They describe an 46% increased risk of death by all causes, which is patent nonsense. Everyone's risk (unless there's a secret medical facility I can't access) of death from all causes is 100%.
I'm not saying that there definitely is not a correlation, perhaps even a causal relationship, between sitting for too long in front of the tube and some decrease in life expectancy. However, there may be a step function here where at four hours of sitting the body makes metabolic changes that don't happen at 3.5 (or 2.9, or some such).
What about sitting at the symphony, ballet, office, or while reading books (or journals)? Why specifically call out the "telly time"? Even then, is there any difference between consistently watching sports (football vs cricket?), drama, comedy (laughter is good for you, remember), game shows, and soaps? Maybe too much passive watching (of any or all TV programming) simply rots some part of your brain and that signals your body to quit wasting time and space.
What about meal and "euphemism" breaks? How is that figured into the study?
It's not the weight. I can easily do that distance around here (some long hills), although my commute is about 33.
It's that I have no place (shower) to become tolerable to my co-workers for the rest of the day.
With an electric (not the silly Sanyo, but a proper one with a decent CG, and the drive to the rear wheel, if I can ever find one), I can "ride" to work and pedal home. Dragging the extra weight of the batteries would be even better exercise (for that trip) than just a bicycle.
You either want an A-37 or an FB-111.
The A-37 is a "buff" T-37 trainer. It's not so much that you need the weapons, but the stronger engines, larger fuel tanks, and the hard points for luggage (pilots used a have a pod for assignment changes). Strip the armor during a refurb and the performance should be better, too. Lots of them sold into South America and Southeast Asia.
http://www.a-37.org/a37.htm
The FB-111 gets you supersonics. It was the first US jet to do at (well, near) sea level in sustained flight. Has a pressurized cockpit, too. Might be able to get one from the Aussies.
http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/f111_aardvark.htm
If you're in business to make money, open a brokerage, casino, or bank.
Otherwise, while you would like to make enough profit to keep the doors open, you're in the business of producing a product. Make a good (-enough) one keep satisfy the customers and get some repeat business.
In case no one's figured it out by now, Wall Street doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about the latter, and will happily destroy the entire US economy (except them, of course) to do the former.
Does Agnes Cleaners work for anyone with a medical condition that requires a cleaning support staff? That service may even be paid for in whole or part by a public (Medicare) or private health insurer.
HIPAA!
Poor service in far too many cases, hardware locked into service providers, limitations on use contrary to the advertising (and, sometimes, contract), but the chumps/marks/"customers" can't really complain, 'cause the major carriers own enough of the government to stifle any redress.
Get used to it; it isn't going to get any better.
Yeah, it may be a troll/whine, but until the tech "fanboys" (us) go cold turkey and stop buying the contracts, there's not even a hope of change (and, yes, I have).
There was a much better explanation in one of the short stories published in Nature: the reindeer generate a standing probability wave that encompasses the entire planet for 24 hours.
This gets rid of all of the low-tech problems of propulsion, control, and atmospheric friction.
I saw these people at a Linux Expo earlier this year.
http://www.xtuple.com/
Most of the packages are open source. They provide customization services and some specialized tools, as well as support (sort of the original Cygnus business model).
If you really want drivers to pay attention, mandate some C4 and a metal casing in place of the steering wheel air bag, such that any event that would have triggered the air bag instead sets off the grenade. Require older cars to be retrofitted or destroyed. Publicize the consequences of hitting something widely.
bank notes / cash
depends on your locale.
Every transaction will be traceable by the "benevolent" power-that-be; not for anything but the purest of motives, of course.
Just from the absolutely ludicrous statement "... the board will be especially concerned that the needs of elderly and vulnerable people are met", which anyone with enough functional brain cells to form a synapse can tell is pure propaganda, you should know that there is another agenda entirely.
Not if the intelligent life out there has any capability to stop us.
There must be intelligent life in the universe, because none of them have contacted us yet. Joy-riding adolescent hooligans do not count, regardless of what they're riding, driving, or, flying.
In-n-Out (California burger place) pays more than that for entry level restaurant staff!
There better be some spectacular benefits in what you get to work on, opposite sex (whichever that is) opportunities, something ... at your place.
"... Surprisingly, both men and women perceived men being smarter across generations -- both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and their grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. And if there are children, both men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters."
The use of "believe is correct; the use of "think" is not.
The number of humans that can actually think, as opposed to rationalize, compared to the total number of humans, appears to be statistically insignificant.
A cheap, simple, easily fabricated cage around the prop solves this for the pirates.
Design it so the rope/net just slides below the prop. It'll add some drag, slowing them down a bit, which may help, but a larger engine solves that.
Just another corp' making money from fear, while providing no real protection.
Google is a business, and, in particular, an American business.
The only "morals" are to maximize shareholder profits.
If that means caving in to public outcry or government pressure, they will do that.
If it means subverting elections (Exxon, in Chile), bribing government officials (Boeing, in the tanker deal), or blowing up villages in India (Union Carbide, in Bhopal), they will do that, too. As long as it doesn't cost the shareholders more than it saves or gains, it is "the right thing to do".
To determine how what proportion each leg contributed to a frog's jumping distance, a scientist trained a frog to jump on command. He then measured the distance with all legs, and remeasured after successively removing one leg at a time.
His conclusion: that since the frog, with all legs removed, did not jump after hearing the command, that the frog was now deaf.
"Tasks accomplished: fixed timestamp rounding error in autofocus subroutine"
vs.
"Tasks accomplished: designed/implemented autofocus subroutine"
Bacteria do, however, exchange DNA with nearby organisms, not necessarily of the same species. Some DNA has been incorporated into "infected" hosts, or picked up through plant root systems, and bacteria shuffle DNA between themselves, as well.
There's more to knowledge than just mis-quoting some Wikipedia article, since the one you referenced does, in fact, describe gene transfer (BTW, use the URL tags).
On the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#Growth_and_reproduction, search for the word "conjugation", for example, which will be in the "Genetics" section.
I have a Samsung 191T that I bought for my wife many years ago. One of my test criteria was that it should display well at other-than-native (1280x1024) resolution. Star Craft looks quite good on it. I recently returned a 1920x1200 LCD because it couldn't even handle 800x600 (literally complaining in a big box, center screen, that the signal was out of range while displaying the image).
It looks as though LCDs have become like "winmodem"s or super cheap ink-jet printers, which rely on the host system to do anything useful with an image, in order to cut the price to a minimum.
Anyone know of an LCD (particularly 24" 1920x{1080,1200} that isn't junk at other than native resolution?
I've seen that some GPUs have scaling drivers; maybe that would work?