Because for FPS play, twitching out doesn't really require functional myelin cells, just a lot off caffeine to replace the neurotransmitters that you've used up.
Myelin degradation is part of a whole spectrum of neurological diseases. Which makes me wonder about the importance of the TFA's findings - at a very broad level one would expect that chronically sleep deprived people would have a higher incidence of neurodegenerative diseases - something I don't think happens (although that's a WAG of my sleep deprived brain).
Of course, TFA studied utilized some very broad brush assays and basically theorize that when the brain is awake, it tends to repress SOME aspects of myelin precursor production. It does NOT say that pulling all nighters will give you multiple sclerosis.
Interesting, but come back in five years and read the Nature or Science mini review on the subject before snacking on Oligodendrite Precursor laden twinkies.
Is what happens if china funds and develops fusion technology in the next two decades, and using it's plethora of foreign owned companies, patents/trade secrets the technology, thus giving them 30 years of control over cheap ubiquitous energy, while the rest of us fight over the ever dwindling scraps of fossil fuel?
Hell, they might be able to keep it all in-country and just provide energy services from their borders at just cheap enough to bankrupt the competition rates.
WTF are you about, AC?
"Thirty years of cheap, ubiquitous energy" - from fusion? The technology whose demonstrator sites (that don't actually produce power, just consume it) cost tens of billions of dollars? The technology that has yet to create positive amounts of energy in a fashion that doesn't tend to vaporize the surrounding countryside? That 'secret'? Or 'cheap'?
Not to mention the problem of preventing others from borrowing the technology should it ever actually work out. You realize that a Chinese patent isn't the same as an American (or Euopean or African) patent? Should the Chinese actually manage to create contained fusion that is commericially viable their best bet would be to license it and make a bunch of money off of it. Otherwise, somebody will just out and out steal it.
You will note that Overzeetop stated that 'goverment' provided the enumerated services. Not the "US Federal Government", not the Taliban, not the Federation. Perhaps he should have used 'Government' to imply a broader sense of the term but his initial position still stands. Without a functional civil governing system - which can have multiple levels and even some, gasp, redundency, you end up sitting in a dusty field dying of thirst and an number of other unpleasant circumstances.
Mankind has never come up with a good system of governing large numbers of humans that is equitable, sustainable and marginally effecient. But if you'd like to dump the whole process and wither away in Somalia, be my guest.
I like Scalzi - Redshirts was, ah, interesting. Actually reading it a second time helped. Hugo level? Well, it's all opinion and we all know how valuable those are.
The NSA was within a hair's breadth of creating the most impressive cloud based uber-backup / social networking / information-wants-to-be-everywhere system ever devised. Had they had the sense to market it instead of hide it, people would have been all over themselves to sign up.
Google and Microsoft have belatedly figured out that they're competing with the US Government. They didn't like that at all.
You can change the colors on the windows. The dashboard icons are fine for most people.
If you really need to have your UI change, fine. Get a PC. Or switch Linux distributions. I spend the vast majority of my time in applications. The OS is just a wrapper around them and some utilities. It can look the same way until the heat death of the universe occurs as far as I care. In fact, barring any useful additions, it shouldn't change.
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My desk(s) end up looking like the the smart Prawn's shack in 'District 9'. I've never found a way around it. Sure, you can get an Apple installation to look good when you unbox the thing and leave all of the cords in the package, but as soon as you start to do any work the place looks like a colander at the end of a Pastafarian celebration.
Woops. Sorry. The sarcasm / humor tag failed again. Typical Slashdot crap code.
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Even better, a large Wacom 5 tablet. Then you can have everything - fingers, mouse, pen and even an airbrush if you want.
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Kind of as annoying as sitting at the command line and typing "ls" in a Windows command prompt. It's going to happen, only in that case there is no option to switch it off.
I hate doing that. Along with WINDOWS-SPACEBAR and looking for Spotlight in the upper right corner.
Waking up is really tough these days. Autopilot is easier.
Benjamin Franklin was right. It's the Post Office. I mean, does any email provider say they will deliver through rain, sleet, snow or hail? Do you see that on anybody's TOS? Given the uncertainties of the climate these days, you'd be a fool to do it any other way.
Besides, it will slow the government down. That's always a plus.
People have made credible arguments for survival of micro organisms in large chunks of rock. The rock acts as an ablative shield - pieces burn off and protect the rest of the rock by transferring heat. Episodes such as the Late Heavy Bombardment could have dumped enormous chunks of planetary remains on other planets. An organism safely ensconced in meters of rock might well survive the trip.
The molybendum part I'm a bit concerned about. Sounds like a huge leap but I'm unable to come up with a copy of the lecture so all we have is this near useless summary. Remember, this guy is one of the founders of synthetic biology and has been mentioned as a candidate for a Nobel Prize. That doesn't mean he's right by any means, but he's liable to have put a bit more thought into this than the hive mind here.
Wiring harnesses, motors (which like to expire on a regular basis), heaters, electronic black boxes, shock absorbers, CV joints, transmissions, differentials, tires, batteries, hoses, more wires, glass, metal, upholstery, paint, hinges, doors, latches, wires, hoses and more black boxes.
All sorts of things to work on that isn't part of an internal combustion engine. Actually ICEs are pretty damned reliable. My 13 year old truck hasn't had an engine problem yet. The other things listed above have broken / rusted / fallen off from time to time, but the actual engine itself has been rock stable. Yes, an EV probably doesn't have an transmission or differential, but it does have CV joints, wheels and brakes. Entropy wins.
Not to mention that the ICE isn't going anywhere fast. There are going to be vehicles powered by some sort of fossil fuel for a while longer yet.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When computers first attempt to perceive.
Is another man's gold.
Because for FPS play, twitching out doesn't really require functional myelin cells, just a lot off caffeine to replace the neurotransmitters that you've used up.
Although it may be too late, it's pretty clear that you need lots more sleep.
Myelin degradation is part of a whole spectrum of neurological diseases. Which makes me wonder about the importance of the TFA's findings - at a very broad level one would expect that chronically sleep deprived people would have a higher incidence of neurodegenerative diseases - something I don't think happens (although that's a WAG of my sleep deprived brain).
Of course, TFA studied utilized some very broad brush assays and basically theorize that when the brain is awake, it tends to repress SOME aspects of myelin precursor production. It does NOT say that pulling all nighters will give you multiple sclerosis.
Interesting, but come back in five years and read the Nature or Science mini review on the subject before snacking on Oligodendrite Precursor laden twinkies.
Is what happens if china funds and develops fusion technology in the next two decades, and using it's plethora of foreign owned companies, patents/trade secrets the technology, thus giving them 30 years of control over cheap ubiquitous energy, while the rest of us fight over the ever dwindling scraps of fossil fuel?
Hell, they might be able to keep it all in-country and just provide energy services from their borders at just cheap enough to bankrupt the competition rates.
WTF are you about, AC?
"Thirty years of cheap, ubiquitous energy" - from fusion? The technology whose demonstrator sites (that don't actually produce power, just consume it) cost tens of billions of dollars? The technology that has yet to create positive amounts of energy in a fashion that doesn't tend to vaporize the surrounding countryside? That 'secret'? Or 'cheap'?
Not to mention the problem of preventing others from borrowing the technology should it ever actually work out. You realize that a Chinese patent isn't the same as an American (or Euopean or African) patent? Should the Chinese actually manage to create contained fusion that is commericially viable their best bet would be to license it and make a bunch of money off of it. Otherwise, somebody will just out and out steal it.
You will note that Overzeetop stated that 'goverment' provided the enumerated services. Not the "US Federal Government", not the Taliban, not the Federation. Perhaps he should have used 'Government' to imply a broader sense of the term but his initial position still stands. Without a functional civil governing system - which can have multiple levels and even some, gasp, redundency, you end up sitting in a dusty field dying of thirst and an number of other unpleasant circumstances.
Mankind has never come up with a good system of governing large numbers of humans that is equitable, sustainable and marginally effecient. But if you'd like to dump the whole process and wither away in Somalia, be my guest.
So save your libertarian rants for Reddit.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
I like Scalzi - Redshirts was, ah, interesting. Actually reading it a second time helped. Hugo level? Well, it's all opinion and we all know how valuable those are.
I am the Queen of England.
I like to sing and dance.
And if you don't believe me,
I will punch you in the pants.
You just described my dream job....
Except for the coding nonsense....
Not to worry. The water all leaked out.
No. Think about it for a moment.
The NSA was within a hair's breadth of creating the most impressive cloud based uber-backup / social networking / information-wants-to-be-everywhere system ever devised. Had they had the sense to market it instead of hide it, people would have been all over themselves to sign up.
Google and Microsoft have belatedly figured out that they're competing with the US Government. They didn't like that at all.
Three, four, so much for basic counting in the morning....
I'm sort of neutral about Google, but drowning those other three companies in salt water sounds like a net plus to me.
Keep the heat on. Lets put a whole bunch more shrimp on the barbies! (They'll probably go extinct in a couple of decades anyway).
You can change the colors on the windows. The dashboard icons are fine for most people.
If you really need to have your UI change, fine. Get a PC. Or switch Linux distributions. I spend the vast majority of my time in applications. The OS is just a wrapper around them and some utilities. It can look the same way until the heat death of the universe occurs as far as I care. In fact, barring any useful additions, it shouldn't change.
My desk(s) end up looking like the the smart Prawn's shack in 'District 9'. I've never found a way around it. Sure, you can get an Apple installation to look good when you unbox the thing and leave all of the cords in the package, but as soon as you start to do any work the place looks like a colander at the end of a Pastafarian celebration.
What about vegetarians, you insensitive clods?
Woops. Sorry. The sarcasm / humor tag failed again. Typical Slashdot crap code.
Even better, a large Wacom 5 tablet. Then you can have everything - fingers, mouse, pen and even an airbrush if you want.
Kind of as annoying as sitting at the command line and typing "ls" in a Windows command prompt. It's going to happen, only in that case there is no option to switch it off.
I hate doing that. Along with WINDOWS-SPACEBAR and looking for Spotlight in the upper right corner.
Waking up is really tough these days. Autopilot is easier.
Nobody should use email for official anything.
Benjamin Franklin was right. It's the Post Office. I mean, does any email provider say they will deliver through rain, sleet, snow or hail? Do you see that on anybody's TOS? Given the uncertainties of the climate these days, you'd be a fool to do it any other way.
Besides, it will slow the government down. That's always a plus.
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom.
People have made credible arguments for survival of micro organisms in large chunks of rock. The rock acts as an ablative shield - pieces burn off and protect the rest of the rock by transferring heat. Episodes such as the Late Heavy Bombardment could have dumped enormous chunks of planetary remains on other planets. An organism safely ensconced in meters of rock might well survive the trip.
The molybendum part I'm a bit concerned about. Sounds like a huge leap but I'm unable to come up with a copy of the lecture so all we have is this near useless summary. Remember, this guy is one of the founders of synthetic biology and has been mentioned as a candidate for a Nobel Prize. That doesn't mean he's right by any means, but he's liable to have put a bit more thought into this than the hive mind here.
Wiring harnesses, motors (which like to expire on a regular basis), heaters, electronic black boxes, shock absorbers, CV joints, transmissions, differentials, tires, batteries, hoses, more wires, glass, metal, upholstery, paint, hinges, doors, latches, wires, hoses and more black boxes.
All sorts of things to work on that isn't part of an internal combustion engine. Actually ICEs are pretty damned reliable. My 13 year old truck hasn't had an engine problem yet. The other things listed above have broken / rusted / fallen off from time to time, but the actual engine itself has been rock stable. Yes, an EV probably doesn't have an transmission or differential, but it does have CV joints, wheels and brakes. Entropy wins.
Not to mention that the ICE isn't going anywhere fast. There are going to be vehicles powered by some sort of fossil fuel for a while longer yet.