Turn off parallax - that did it to mine. There are dozens of articles on that and a few other tweaks. I honestly can't remember exactly what i have done (would be nice to have a list of settings ala plists in iOS but we are not worthy). Interesting that people think that 7 messes up an iPhone 4S. Mine has 64 GB flash which is about 2/3 full. They all have the same amount of RAM, I can't imagine there are substantive differences between various examples of the same model. There are certainly individual tolerances for UI responsiveness, but, aside from the camera app, everything seems to work as well as before. It may use more battery (or the battery may finally be getting to EOL).
I have some issues with the UI designer completely ignoring visual cues, but in general I like the look and the idea behind the tweaks. Mostly.
Idjit. iOS 7 runs fine on my ? 2 year old 4S. You have to turn off a bit of bling (Apple really should do that on anything but the newest machines). But runs perfectly fine. Some of the UI decisions are rather, well, odd. But that happens with every vendor (and I'm looking at YOU Microsoft-and-the-interface-formally-known-as-Metro).
You don;'t have to apply any patches or updates. The worst that happens is that you have a little red number sitting on your screen telling you that there are available updates. You can decide whether or not to do so.
Typically, I wait about a week, see just what Apple managed to break and then update if desired. Easy peasy.
I'd worry about it if you were an E. coli, but organisms higher up on the complexity ladder don't eat naked plasmids. That's a trick for the prokaryotes.
Apparently, we just have to worry about rouge vaccines. And politicians.
Nope. Plasmid transmission can occur with naked DNA. Bacterial cells will preferentially try to suck in DNA and RNA. While it does so mostly to get the building blocks to make new DNA and tries to degrade the nucleic acids into little tasty bits, sometimes whole plasmids (think tiny chromosomes) survive and multiply. Some bacteria preferentially try to ingest plasmid DNA, perhaps as a mechanism for increased gene variability. It's a nice trick. Instead of trying to hack out a point mutation that gives you resistance to a single antibiotic, you can pick up a 'cassette' of several fully functioning antibiotic resistance genes all at once.
Antibacterials don't 'weaken' the immune response. Your body will make whatever antibodies it can to the bacteria irregardless of whether you use antibiotics or not. The antibiotic, if used correctly, will stop / slow down the growth of the bacteria and allow the immune system to help clear the infection. The problem with too frequent or inappropriate use of an antibiotic is that is gives the bugs more chances to develop resistance to the drug.
Antibiotics are not so powerful that the body doesn't see the bacteria. It's not magic juju juice. The immune system is way more complex than you think.
Yeah, pics or that didn't happen. It would be discoverable and too easy of a target for a lawsuit. TFA states that the local government determined the timings and the Good Cop who was profiled would never, ever do anything so nefarious as to decrease the yellow light timing. But, of course, there are lots of different people in a government, some more persuadable than others.
The one factoid that always pisses me off in this discussion is that a brief double red cuts down on T-bone accidents significantly. It would seem that lawyers could just clobber a town on that particular alone.
Yes, chloramphenicol is gaining resurgent use in the US because it hasn't been broadly used for several decades (in the US, it's very popular in developing countries). It's sort of an open secret amongst infectious disease docs who don't want the medical hoi polloi to discover it again (not that most hospitals actually carry it) and start the resistance cycle all over.
Sorry, no. While no apologist for the slimy money fest that is Big Pharma, sometimes the reason we don't have new things is because research is hard. Pharma has spent billions of dollars researching new antibiotics / antivirals / antifungals. It's just that they haven't found much. And yes, they love diseases like ADHD because it can be very lucrative (chronic, common) - but they have other irons in the fire.
If you would read TFA, you would see that ADHD drugs were really discovered serendipitously - that happens quite a bit (think the Viagra story). Lots of subcurrents and issues.
Modern heat pumps are expensive and cranky of maintenance. But you don't heat your entire house with incandescents - the idea is that the 90% waste isn't 'waste' it's being utilized effeciently. And to pay another $10 for an effecient solution makes little sense.
I like the new LEDs, I have them all over the house now. But those were installed with a bit of care - I only expended the money on the larger areas that are lit frequently. Closets, hallways, bathrooms - the analysis just isn't in favor of LEDs or CFLs. The feds should just let the market figure it out. That would also minimize the problem of tens of thousands of shit quality 'effecient' bulbs pushed on the market. With the time constraints the feds created and the associated hoopla, you had every Chinese fifth tier electronics manufacturer trying to get into the game. With predictable results. Lots of people are turned off to the 'effecient' solution since they lasted six months and then died.
You know, jackboots feel pretty much the same whether they're European or Muslim. Neither 'side' has a particularly defensible history. The harder question to answer is how effective a surveillance society actually is. Does monitoring every phone call, watching every street corner help you much?
My guess, given the lack of examples the NSA / FBI / CIA have trotted out is that the answer is 'no'. I'd rather take the chance that somebody will 'slip through' rather than live in a police society. Even counting up every terrorist action everywhere, one doesn't create a particularly dangerous environment. If you want to be rational about this, you would first ban cars, alcohol, cigarettes, guns, knives, kitchen utensils and cell phones. They are arguably more dangerous than 'terrorists'.
But nothing is cooler than slowly moving your spacecraft on a ginormous machine on a beautiful Florida morning. Imagine 'ol Elon sitting up front there just looking out, enjoying the view on his crawler - transporter.
An historical analogy is deep ocean sailing. It was pioneered by several different societies over several thousand years. There were numerous starts and stops as the technology improved and as the business case became clearer (no money, no mission, even for the religious guys). The Portuguese (Magellan) punched the Europe to Pacific routes out but could not hold onto any sort of monopoly for several reasons. The oceans are huge, Portugal went into an economic decline just about the time Magellan was sinking most of his fleet. Spain and Europe quickly copied the technology and had some extra money to toss at intrepid explorers.
So, it's not surprising that the countries that pioneered space exploration (the US and USSR) might lose their hegemony in the future. That's been the topic of Science Fiction for many years. And will likely turn in to fact at some point in the near future.
Yeah, right. Curiosity was dragged up to Mars by lawyers (if only).
The ONLY major issue with NASA is the limited (and bizarre) funding issues. There are lots of other minor issues - bureaucracy, risk aversion, aging workforce. These pale in the face of the minimalist funding that is mostly pork barrel entitlements.
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Turn off parallax - that did it to mine. There are dozens of articles on that and a few other tweaks. I honestly can't remember exactly what i have done (would be nice to have a list of settings ala plists in iOS but we are not worthy). Interesting that people think that 7 messes up an iPhone 4S. Mine has 64 GB flash which is about 2/3 full. They all have the same amount of RAM, I can't imagine there are substantive differences between various examples of the same model. There are certainly individual tolerances for UI responsiveness, but, aside from the camera app, everything seems to work as well as before. It may use more battery (or the battery may finally be getting to EOL).
I have some issues with the UI designer completely ignoring visual cues, but in general I like the look and the idea behind the tweaks. Mostly.
Well, yes. And Samsung should hire the Cyanogen folks. If we were in charge, things would be better.
Much better.
You sound angry. Maybe you should have a nice, relaxing talk with Siri.
What? Don't jailbreak then. I'll bet your toaster doesn't even have an LCD.
Your UID suggests you've been here for a while. What happened? You get married or something?
Its a strange day when people coming from the Linux world are doing a better job at UI design than Apple.
My god, you've got that one right.
Next up. Hell freezes over. Microsoft goes open source.
Idjit. iOS 7 runs fine on my ? 2 year old 4S. You have to turn off a bit of bling (Apple really should do that on anything but the newest machines). But runs perfectly fine. Some of the UI decisions are rather, well, odd. But that happens with every vendor (and I'm looking at YOU Microsoft-and-the-interface-formally-known-as-Metro).
You don;'t have to apply any patches or updates. The worst that happens is that you have a little red number sitting on your screen telling you that there are available updates. You can decide whether or not to do so.
Typically, I wait about a week, see just what Apple managed to break and then update if desired. Easy peasy.
I'd worry about it if you were an E. coli, but organisms higher up on the complexity ladder don't eat naked plasmids. That's a trick for the prokaryotes.
Apparently, we just have to worry about rouge vaccines. And politicians.
Nope. Go take some biology courses. The immune system is quite a bit more complex than you apparently think. And quite a bit more robust.
And yes, antibiotics and antibodies (and T-cells and cytokines and all the rest of the stuff) works in concert.
Nope. Plasmid transmission can occur with naked DNA. Bacterial cells will preferentially try to suck in DNA and RNA. While it does so mostly to get the building blocks to make new DNA and tries to degrade the nucleic acids into little tasty bits, sometimes whole plasmids (think tiny chromosomes) survive and multiply. Some bacteria preferentially try to ingest plasmid DNA, perhaps as a mechanism for increased gene variability. It's a nice trick. Instead of trying to hack out a point mutation that gives you resistance to a single antibiotic, you can pick up a 'cassette' of several fully functioning antibiotic resistance genes all at once.
Pint sized progress!
No. You're being true to your nic.
Antibacterials don't 'weaken' the immune response. Your body will make whatever antibodies it can to the bacteria irregardless of whether you use antibiotics or not. The antibiotic, if used correctly, will stop / slow down the growth of the bacteria and allow the immune system to help clear the infection. The problem with too frequent or inappropriate use of an antibiotic is that is gives the bugs more chances to develop resistance to the drug.
Antibiotics are not so powerful that the body doesn't see the bacteria. It's not magic juju juice. The immune system is way more complex than you think.
They could work on Paul Anca and that Bieber weirdo. Hell, they're not even American
I'm pretty sure we can establish a middle ground somewhere between Somalia and North Korea.
(Looks at map, finds North America pretty much exactly between those two countries).
Been there, done that. Now what?
Yeah, pics or that didn't happen. It would be discoverable and too easy of a target for a lawsuit. TFA states that the local government determined the timings and the Good Cop who was profiled would never, ever do anything so nefarious as to decrease the yellow light timing. But, of course, there are lots of different people in a government, some more persuadable than others.
The one factoid that always pisses me off in this discussion is that a brief double red cuts down on T-bone accidents significantly. It would seem that lawyers could just clobber a town on that particular alone.
Yes, chloramphenicol is gaining resurgent use in the US because it hasn't been broadly used for several decades (in the US, it's very popular in developing countries). It's sort of an open secret amongst infectious disease docs who don't want the medical hoi polloi to discover it again (not that most hospitals actually carry it) and start the resistance cycle all over.
Sorry, no. While no apologist for the slimy money fest that is Big Pharma, sometimes the reason we don't have new things is because research is hard. Pharma has spent billions of dollars researching new antibiotics / antivirals / antifungals. It's just that they haven't found much. And yes, they love diseases like ADHD because it can be very lucrative (chronic, common) - but they have other irons in the fire.
If you would read TFA, you would see that ADHD drugs were really discovered serendipitously - that happens quite a bit (think the Viagra story). Lots of subcurrents and issues.
Modern heat pumps are expensive and cranky of maintenance. But you don't heat your entire house with incandescents - the idea is that the 90% waste isn't 'waste' it's being utilized effeciently. And to pay another $10 for an effecient solution makes little sense.
I like the new LEDs, I have them all over the house now. But those were installed with a bit of care - I only expended the money on the larger areas that are lit frequently. Closets, hallways, bathrooms - the analysis just isn't in favor of LEDs or CFLs. The feds should just let the market figure it out. That would also minimize the problem of tens of thousands of shit quality 'effecient' bulbs pushed on the market. With the time constraints the feds created and the associated hoopla, you had every Chinese fifth tier electronics manufacturer trying to get into the game. With predictable results. Lots of people are turned off to the 'effecient' solution since they lasted six months and then died.
You know, jackboots feel pretty much the same whether they're European or Muslim. Neither 'side' has a particularly defensible history. The harder question to answer is how effective a surveillance society actually is. Does monitoring every phone call, watching every street corner help you much?
My guess, given the lack of examples the NSA / FBI / CIA have trotted out is that the answer is 'no'. I'd rather take the chance that somebody will 'slip through' rather than live in a police society. Even counting up every terrorist action everywhere, one doesn't create a particularly dangerous environment. If you want to be rational about this, you would first ban cars, alcohol, cigarettes, guns, knives, kitchen utensils and cell phones. They are arguably more dangerous than 'terrorists'.
Didn't realize that. Well, that takes most of the fun out of it.
The crawler - transporter is so incredibly cool. Something that big actually moving.
But nothing is cooler than slowly moving your spacecraft on a ginormous machine on a beautiful Florida morning. Imagine 'ol Elon sitting up front there just looking out, enjoying the view on his crawler - transporter.
Eat hot peroxide, Bezos!
The bigger question I have is what else will be found during discovery
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Exactly. If somebody wants to give you a lot of money to do R&D ...
You've got the money, honey - I've got the time.
You're too late. Big Dog is already on your tail.
An historical analogy is deep ocean sailing. It was pioneered by several different societies over several thousand years. There were numerous starts and stops as the technology improved and as the business case became clearer (no money, no mission, even for the religious guys). The Portuguese (Magellan) punched the Europe to Pacific routes out but could not hold onto any sort of monopoly for several reasons. The oceans are huge, Portugal went into an economic decline just about the time Magellan was sinking most of his fleet. Spain and Europe quickly copied the technology and had some extra money to toss at intrepid explorers.
So, it's not surprising that the countries that pioneered space exploration (the US and USSR) might lose their hegemony in the future. That's been the topic of Science Fiction for many years. And will likely turn in to fact at some point in the near future.
Yeah, right. Curiosity was dragged up to Mars by lawyers (if only).
The ONLY major issue with NASA is the limited (and bizarre) funding issues. There are lots of other minor issues - bureaucracy, risk aversion, aging workforce. These pale in the face of the minimalist funding that is mostly pork barrel entitlements.