That is the technical term. But I agree with jandrese - having the Reaction Control System box pulled out and hung in space above the nose cone would be way cool. Pieces parts!
For laptops, the performance increase is incredible and obvious. I've replaced spinning drives in two MacBooks and a MacPro. The latter was pretty damned fast anyway and going from a 7500 RPM drive to the SSD did make a difference, but not the absolute stunning level of performance increase that I've noticed in the laptops. That might be because, as Macs, they're on the slow end of high performance (they're both circa 2007) and came with pretty sluggish hard drives to boot.
But it's night and day. For my MacBook Pro, I replaced the optical drive with a 1 TB 5400 RPM drive and I can boot off that as well - seems to take forever to boot and switch applications. I'll never go back.
And dissect his brain. Really, it would be interesting to see what a 12 year old math genius' functional MRI looks like. Probably lots of glucose uptake in certain regions. (Unlike mine which has glucose intake concentrated near the doughnut).
No, this is a major accident, and the reactor safeties have performed quite well considering the amount of damage sustained.
And we still have a potential generation-spanning disaster on our hands.
That, friends, is the big problem with nukes. You blow up a coal plant (or an oil refinery) - a bunch of deaths, a bunch of fines, wailing and gnashing of teeth and then a few years later, there is a new plant or refinery. You trash a nuc plant - just a few 'holes' leaking radiation and you've quarantined a multi kilometer radius for decades. Maybe not so bad in the middle of the Ukraine. In the middle of a densely populated industrialized country, pretty bad.
Worse, may be the fallout, to use a phrase, of the accident. Harbors shut down, transportation affected, economies trashed. Bet they didn't put those little problems in their threat matrix when getting permission to site the plant.
So long as a nuclear plant can catastrophically fail, you will have the potential (and the likelihood) of very, very long term effects. Oopsie. Remember, Murphy was an optimist.
The samples are also a bit odd - there's almost no overlap in age or weight between the two groups (it would seem - I may be reading this wrong but the means given are way the christ different between the user and non-user groups, and no real argument is presented as to why we'd expect linear relationships of the various parameters clear up through the differing ages).
Bingo. If you're going to use a whole 24 person sample you'd best make sure they were really, really closely matched. Like twins. Otherwise you can get skewed 'baselines'.
This is just another awful bit of medical research. No statistical power at all. Good for getting a few rises from the Internet and maybe a grant or two.
Would you mind, Mr. Big Label Representative, if I ask, pardon for jumping in, what the bloody hell does your label have to do with _my_ music collection? May I suggest you shove your bloody greed up your stinking bottom, sir?
Because what Google will do is have a canonical copy of everything and link it to you. YOU won't store the file. It won't be like Dropbox. Google will store the file and know exactly when you access it.
We are not anyone's target demographic unless they are selling something that is extremely technical that comes with both sarcastic and pedantic documentation that no one will read.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Nothing new here. Putting the Manned Spacegraft Center (err Lyndon B. Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center) in a pestilential swamp outside of Houston instead of the perfectly fine pestilential swamps outside the Kennedy Space Flight Center increased costs for Apollo and the Shuttle significantly. NASA is spread all over the country in large part to 'spread the wealth'. Same with the military except you have some justification for not putting all your targets in one place.
No, if your doing something commercial and you don't have a lawyer reviewing contracts, you're doing it wrong. Reasonable efforts might be some defense, but if you have skin in the game (and more importantly if you expect others to put money in), you'd best have your butt covered.
One would hope that Senators would refrain from publicizing personal opinions that might lead to inappropriate legislation. When they are described as $Senator_x rather than $Inconsequential_Person_x their opinions carry additional weight as public figures. Sucks to be them in some senses, but they do lose the opportunity to be 'private' citizens.
Exactly. Not every newsworthy item is quite as obvious as an island destroying tsunami. And even for big events, the best reporting is going to be done by people that have been on the ground, understand the issues, people, politics, geography and the myriad of other details that separates good reporting from Fox News. NYT does have articles like that. It does have reporters on the ground. And that costs lots of money.
I had actually planned on getting a subscription, but I rather doubt I will unless they change it. They're charging for an premium product, but not really delivering. The separate charges for different devices is incredibly stupid. I rather suspect (since they have yet to mention it) that it will contain advertising. And I'm sorry, the NYT has pretty annoying stop action/ overly gaudy / overly large / Flash ads (when I turn off ad block, that is). And NYT breaks every browser that I've ever used (albeit with NoScript and Adblock).
Maybe they will see the light, but I rather doubt it. I suspect that they will call it a success for a while then either collapse or change something.
Look up "The RNA Hypothesis" and for some fun videos: Try these lectures.
TL;DR - DNA was probably not the original genomic material, it was probably RNA. And there is an increasing body of experimental evidence that creates a plausible series of links between likely prebiotic conditions on earth and the subsequent appearance of self replicating chemical entities that could then evolve into Life As We Know It.
Lots of big jumps between the Primordial Ooze and Dancing with the Stars but the general framework is really possible and very interesting.
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That is the technical term. But I agree with jandrese - having the Reaction Control System box pulled out and hung in space above the nose cone would be way cool. Pieces parts!
They even have a native Linux x86/x86_64 client under development. http://www.spotify.com/se/download/previews/
Too bad it doesn't work in the US. Sigh. Maybe Russia will want Alaska back as long as we leave Sarah Palin in Arizona.
For laptops, the performance increase is incredible and obvious. I've replaced spinning drives in two MacBooks and a MacPro. The latter was pretty damned fast anyway and going from a 7500 RPM drive to the SSD did make a difference, but not the absolute stunning level of performance increase that I've noticed in the laptops. That might be because, as Macs, they're on the slow end of high performance (they're both circa 2007) and came with pretty sluggish hard drives to boot.
But it's night and day. For my MacBook Pro, I replaced the optical drive with a 1 TB 5400 RPM drive and I can boot off that as well - seems to take forever to boot and switch applications. I'll never go back.
More than that, it's how a person uses the faculties they've got and the ability of the person to re-purpose areas for other uses.
Seems like you've been pretty well and truly stuck here at Slashdot. Just sayin.
So, where on this rather depressing pantheon do you put people who don't use spell checkers?
And dissect his brain. Really, it would be interesting to see what a 12 year old math genius' functional MRI looks like. Probably lots of glucose uptake in certain regions. (Unlike mine which has glucose intake concentrated near the doughnut).
No, this is a major accident, and the reactor safeties have performed quite well considering the amount of damage sustained.
And we still have a potential generation-spanning disaster on our hands.
That, friends, is the big problem with nukes. You blow up a coal plant (or an oil refinery) - a bunch of deaths, a bunch of fines, wailing and gnashing of teeth and then a few years later, there is a new plant or refinery. You trash a nuc plant - just a few 'holes' leaking radiation and you've quarantined a multi kilometer radius for decades. Maybe not so bad in the middle of the Ukraine. In the middle of a densely populated industrialized country, pretty bad.
Worse, may be the fallout, to use a phrase, of the accident. Harbors shut down, transportation affected, economies trashed. Bet they didn't put those little problems in their threat matrix when getting permission to site the plant.
So long as a nuclear plant can catastrophically fail, you will have the potential (and the likelihood) of very, very long term effects. Oopsie. Remember, Murphy was an optimist.
The samples are also a bit odd - there's almost no overlap in age or weight between the two groups (it would seem - I may be reading this wrong but the means given are way the christ different between the user and non-user groups, and no real argument is presented as to why we'd expect linear relationships of the various parameters clear up through the differing ages).
Bingo. If you're going to use a whole 24 person sample you'd best make sure they were really, really closely matched. Like twins. Otherwise you can get skewed 'baselines'.
/This morning's rant
This is just another awful bit of medical research. No statistical power at all. Good for getting a few rises from the Internet and maybe a grant or two.
I make close to 6 figures using real languages.
Most of us don't count the digits to the right of the decimal point.
Would you mind, Mr. Big Label Representative, if I ask, pardon for jumping in, what the bloody hell does your label have to do with _my_ music collection? May I suggest you shove your bloody greed up your stinking bottom, sir?
Because what Google will do is have a canonical copy of everything and link it to you. YOU won't store the file. It won't be like Dropbox. Google will store the file and know exactly when you access it.
I keep waiting for our Charleton Heston Moment, but I fear it may never come.
He's dead, Jim.
That's not exactly the kind of wording one would use to bestow "glowing praise", is it?
Well, for a comment about Microsoft on Slashdot, it's pretty close.
We are not anyone's target demographic unless they are selling something that is extremely technical that comes with both sarcastic and pedantic documentation that no one will read.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Nothing new here. Putting the Manned Spacegraft Center (err Lyndon B. Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center) in a pestilential swamp outside of Houston instead of the perfectly fine pestilential swamps outside the Kennedy Space Flight Center increased costs for Apollo and the Shuttle significantly. NASA is spread all over the country in large part to 'spread the wealth'. Same with the military except you have some justification for not putting all your targets in one place.
So folks like you get a WHOOSH! through your brain?
(Think about it again, slowly this time)
Looks like the closely packed parallel universes are colliding again. We got a Time Cube infestation here, folks.
No, if your doing something commercial and you don't have a lawyer reviewing contracts, you're doing it wrong. Reasonable efforts might be some defense, but if you have skin in the game (and more importantly if you expect others to put money in), you'd best have your butt covered.
Slashdot <blinks> I'll be in my room.
Of course you will. This is Slashdot.
They're called breeder reactors and already exist. They just happen to be illegal in the united states.
Like that stops anybody. We just need to set up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Breeder Reactors and we've got it made.
There are certain geological ingredients required to create a volcano. Simply drilling a little hole won't do it.
Damn. There goes that idea. Back to the thermite.
I never realized that "good" was a synonym for "buggy, bloated, restrictive piece of shit."
You must be new here.
Your English teacher is / was / will be disappoint.
One would hope that Senators would refrain from publicizing personal opinions that might lead to inappropriate legislation. When they are described as $Senator_x rather than $Inconsequential_Person_x their opinions carry additional weight as public figures. Sucks to be them in some senses, but they do lose the opportunity to be 'private' citizens.
Exactly. Not every newsworthy item is quite as obvious as an island destroying tsunami. And even for big events, the best reporting is going to be done by people that have been on the ground, understand the issues, people, politics, geography and the myriad of other details that separates good reporting from Fox News. NYT does have articles like that. It does have reporters on the ground. And that costs lots of money.
I had actually planned on getting a subscription, but I rather doubt I will unless they change it. They're charging for an premium product, but not really delivering. The separate charges for different devices is incredibly stupid. I rather suspect (since they have yet to mention it) that it will contain advertising. And I'm sorry, the NYT has pretty annoying stop action/ overly gaudy / overly large / Flash ads (when I turn off ad block, that is). And NYT breaks every browser that I've ever used (albeit with NoScript and Adblock).
Maybe they will see the light, but I rather doubt it. I suspect that they will call it a success for a while then either collapse or change something.
Look up "The RNA Hypothesis" and for some fun videos: Try these lectures.
TL;DR - DNA was probably not the original genomic material, it was probably RNA. And there is an increasing body of experimental evidence that creates a plausible series of links between likely prebiotic conditions on earth and the subsequent appearance of self replicating chemical entities that could then evolve into Life As We Know It.
Lots of big jumps between the Primordial Ooze and Dancing with the Stars but the general framework is really possible and very interesting.