At intermediate stations, the Shinkansen typically stops less than a minute (maybe even like 30s), so you can see it's not that hard to get the total time lost due to a stop under 5 minutes.
Really? What about old people? People in wheelchairs, etc.? Do they have catapults that toss these unfortunate slow folk into and out of the train at these stops? Surely you jest.
Why is the first public broadcast of remastered footage of an American moon trip being broadcast in Australia. This makes no sense.
Why do we keep getting stupid questions from people who have obviously not bothered to RTFA? No, I'm not going to tell you either, it's too early in the morning to be nice.
And 3G, don't forget that. As long as you don't run Safari, you're fine. I use my iPhone 'moderately' - half dozen calls per day and perhaps a dozen emails and hitting several apps multiple times per day. It will run two days without a charge - gets pretty low, but it will do it. My old BB 8830 would run for four or five days however. But I'm never that far away from a USB cord and I need to sleep on a regular basis.
No, you have it backwards. Yet another bad analogy... These viral sequences have been embedded in the bird DNA by mechanisms carried by the viruses. That's why they were first found in retroviruses (that do this sort of thing for a living). The bird DNA isn't 'making' the virus. In fact, the viruses are not coding for proteins due to numerous mutations that hit that part of the genome over time. Since the DNA is silent, the mutations don't affect anything and there is no selection for an active virus (or active anything).
While it's theoretically possible that more mutations could recreate functional proteins, the odds of that would be astoundingly low. You could also envision some sort of chromosomal rearrangement that would re create something biologically active, but again that is very, very unlikely. It is a bit more likely (although there is no current evidence of this) that small bits of viral DNA would code for some controlling RNA or small protein that would interact with bird DNA in some way. The state of the art isn't able to tease things apart at this level. But the bird genome isn't 'creating' a virus. This would be like asking a word processing program written for CP/M then transferred by paper tape to a TRS 80, then transferred by modem a computer running OS X to start decoding video streams. Not going to happen.
I sense a business opportunity here folks. What about this line of reasoning: If $idiot_text_addled_driver did not have to actually control their vehicle, they could do whatever the hell they wanted to in the front seat. (No, I'm not going there).
While we could, in theory, make completely autonomous vehicles, it's not likely to happen for a very long time. Even the military UAVs are actually flown by a human somewhere in Nevada. OK, we're winding down the war in Afghanistan (right?) and we need to keep those highly trained video game operators^Hpilots doing something. It would be relatively easy to dump the UAV control package into a plain ol car. Charge $idiot_text_addled_driver for the privilege of having their vehicle controlled by someone that is remotedly (pun intended) capable of doing it. Safety, convenience and additional cost rolled up into one high tech package. What's not to like?
On second thought, I just re invented the chauffeur. Oops.
That's just because the bible doesn't include a command line interface.
Oh, I don't know about that. God says "Do this" and people either jump to it or frogs / lightening / scary angels / Baptists will dump down on their heads. Sounds like a command to me.
You're just jealous because when you type something into your wimpy command line interface, you just get a little 'beep'.
The good news here... let me correct myself: the great news here is that Pan-STARRS found this thing at all! From that distance, an object this small is really hard to see, and no other asteroid survey could've found it. That means that as time goes on, Pan-STARRS will find lots and lots of threatening objects.
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He's going to be a lot of fun at parties towards the end of 2012...
No, it's not a humorous article, given that it's exactly how mainstream science reporting looks like.
No, it's sad and ironic (which will give rise to several more replies concerning the etymology of 'ironic', one of which will include the concept of an ironing board, which, ironically, no one on Slashdot has ever seen.
Then somebody is going to get upset about my use of commas. And short sentences.
China is out since they are supporting Iran, and Russia is profiting from Iran as well. With the usual suspects out, it's time to look at Iran's enemies for this.
Don't rule out either China or Russia. Yes, they 'support' Iran in some limited sense but they both have their own (differing) views of how things should play out. Neither might be terribly interested in a nuclear armed Iran. Of course, the Russians would be playing a very fine line both building and destroying the plant - however, there may well be many forces at work in both countries that are at odds with other groups inside their own country.
It's not like the US isn't both simultaneously supporting and seeking to destabilize the same regime in Afghanistan (Karzi's fruit loop of a family).
Interestingly, the photographer (or at least someone logging in under his name) states that the photo is real. Hard to tell. It's in English, but that isn't all that surprising given that the contractor is Russian and the Iranians don't necessarily speak Russian - English would be the usual 'common' language. It does seem to be a water treatment process, but nuclear reactors located in the middle of nowhere might include such functions.
The fun part about the picture is the popup "Your software license has expired". A commenter on the blog noted that use of non licensed software was common before the system was completed and turned over to the customer. Maybe we should alert the Iranian version of the Business Software Alliance and arrange for an 'inspection'.
Actually Siemens is a pretty globally dispersed corporation, although you are correct in that it's based out of Germany. So they're dancing to many drummers.
Bog, I remember those places as a kid. My father used to drag me around every time we went into the city to visit relatives (fortunately infrequently). Lots of great stuff, very seedy even in the 60's.
And I'm still sad that all I've got is Radio Shack. I'm sorry, the Internet just doesn't cut it for walking along dusty aisles looking at stuff that you have no idea what function it's supposed accomplish but might be fun to take home and see what you can do with it.
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Really? What about old people? People in wheelchairs, etc.? Do they have catapults that toss these unfortunate slow folk into and out of the train at these stops? Surely you jest.
Why do we keep getting stupid questions from people who have obviously not bothered to RTFA? No, I'm not going to tell you either, it's too early in the morning to be nice.
Because if you did that, fart apps would be +5 insightful. Now you're in trouble, aren't you?
And 3G, don't forget that. As long as you don't run Safari, you're fine. I use my iPhone 'moderately' - half dozen calls per day and perhaps a dozen emails and hitting several apps multiple times per day. It will run two days without a charge - gets pretty low, but it will do it. My old BB 8830 would run for four or five days however. But I'm never that far away from a USB cord and I need to sleep on a regular basis.
No, you have it backwards. Yet another bad analogy... These viral sequences have been embedded in the bird DNA by mechanisms carried by the viruses. That's why they were first found in retroviruses (that do this sort of thing for a living). The bird DNA isn't 'making' the virus. In fact, the viruses are not coding for proteins due to numerous mutations that hit that part of the genome over time. Since the DNA is silent, the mutations don't affect anything and there is no selection for an active virus (or active anything).
While it's theoretically possible that more mutations could recreate functional proteins, the odds of that would be astoundingly low. You could also envision some sort of chromosomal rearrangement that would re create something biologically active, but again that is very, very unlikely. It is a bit more likely (although there is no current evidence of this) that small bits of viral DNA would code for some controlling RNA or small protein that would interact with bird DNA in some way. The state of the art isn't able to tease things apart at this level. But the bird genome isn't 'creating' a virus. This would be like asking a word processing program written for CP/M then transferred by paper tape to a TRS 80, then transferred by modem a computer running OS X to start decoding video streams. Not going to happen.
Set up video cams on intersections and sell the video rights to the resulting disaster. Yes, that would be a business.
Put it up on YouTube and $Profit.
I sense a business opportunity here folks. What about this line of reasoning: If $idiot_text_addled_driver did not have to actually control their vehicle, they could do whatever the hell they wanted to in the front seat. (No, I'm not going there).
While we could, in theory, make completely autonomous vehicles, it's not likely to happen for a very long time. Even the military UAVs are actually flown by a human somewhere in Nevada. OK, we're winding down the war in Afghanistan (right?) and we need to keep those highly trained video game operators^Hpilots doing something. It would be relatively easy to dump the UAV control package into a plain ol car. Charge $idiot_text_addled_driver for the privilege of having their vehicle controlled by someone that is remotedly (pun intended) capable of doing it. Safety, convenience and additional cost rolled up into one high tech package. What's not to like?
On second thought, I just re invented the chauffeur. Oops.
Oh, I don't know about that. God says "Do this" and people either jump to it or frogs / lightening / scary angels / Baptists will dump down on their heads. Sounds like a command to me.
You're just jealous because when you type something into your wimpy command line interface, you just get a little 'beep'.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
Stop that! I thought he was on to something good.
Not fair smoking something that good and gloating about it.
I see what you did there.
(emphasis mine)
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He's going to be a lot of fun at parties towards the end of 2012
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You both forgot about the ironing boards.
And I think it's either time to mention a singularity or at least Time Cube.
No, it's sad and ironic (which will give rise to several more replies concerning the etymology of 'ironic', one of which will include the concept of an ironing board, which, ironically, no one on Slashdot has ever seen.
Then somebody is going to get upset about my use of commas. And short sentences.
This could get ugly.
Either get your humor meter re calibrated, up your Prozac or just go look at the useful instructional video.
I'll bite.
Pics, or it didn't happen.
It was Johannesburg. I saw the video.
Don't rule out either China or Russia. Yes, they 'support' Iran in some limited sense but they both have their own (differing) views of how things should play out. Neither might be terribly interested in a nuclear armed Iran. Of course, the Russians would be playing a very fine line both building and destroying the plant - however, there may well be many forces at work in both countries that are at odds with other groups inside their own country.
It's not like the US isn't both simultaneously supporting and seeking to destabilize the same regime in Afghanistan (Karzi's fruit loop of a family).
Interestingly, the photographer (or at least someone logging in under his name) states that the photo is real. Hard to tell. It's in English, but that isn't all that surprising given that the contractor is Russian and the Iranians don't necessarily speak Russian - English would be the usual 'common' language. It does seem to be a water treatment process, but nuclear reactors located in the middle of nowhere might include such functions.
The fun part about the picture is the popup "Your software license has expired". A commenter on the blog noted that use of non licensed software was common before the system was completed and turned over to the customer. Maybe we should alert the Iranian version of the Business Software Alliance and arrange for an 'inspection'.
More like middle finger drives.
Actually Siemens is a pretty globally dispersed corporation, although you are correct in that it's based out of Germany. So they're dancing to many drummers.
Bog, I remember those places as a kid. My father used to drag me around every time we went into the city to visit relatives (fortunately infrequently). Lots of great stuff, very seedy even in the 60's.
And I'm still sad that all I've got is Radio Shack. I'm sorry, the Internet just doesn't cut it for walking along dusty aisles looking at stuff that you have no idea what function it's supposed accomplish but might be fun to take home and see what you can do with it.
And what's with this? Ten minutes after posting and four posts. What are you people doing? Actually looking at TFA?