I've been using the betas and RCs for a while now, and I've noticed that for some reason, Firefox is using an unusual amount of CPU cycles. When a Firefox window is open, FF uses 15-20% CPU (on my SantaRosa 2GHz MacBook Pro) continuously. When the window is closed (but FF is still running) the usage drops down to 1-2%
I don't think this happened with FF2. Any idea why this might be so, and if there are any workarounds?
New definition: "...more adequate explanations..."
It's a two pronged attack -
a)'adequate' is a completely subjective word, and the 'adequateness' of any explanation can be arbitrarily judged depending on your own bias (esp. important in this case, where ultimately, origin of life is being considered)
b) by removing 'natural' they've opened the door for 'supernatural' explanations to sneak in.
IMO, the rest of the stuff about "...observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation..." has just been put in to give the appearance of a scientifically rigorous definition, and take the focus off the real changes.
From the FA - Well in such case I have a brilliant idea.
Why don't all the website owners that feel cheated by those who use Adblock put a clear, visible banner that says it's illegal to view this website with advertising stripped off?
As soon as I see one of those, I will put their hostname in the proxy's blacklist forever. Problem solved.
I just tried to access a site today (on Mozilla with Adblock, sever filtering...), and got this -
"Your web browser, software on your computer or some other event (like you have image loading turned off) is preventing some or all of our banner ads from being displayed on our pages correctly. In order to access our content, you must either allow us to display ads on our pages (by turning on image loading and/or disabling ad-blocking) or purchasing a paid ad-free subscription to this site."
An interesting developement... wonder how soon mainline sites will start doing this...
Because if you think of it- a human body is nothing more than a fantasticaly complex machine.
In fact, if you really think about it, the most important problem associated with aging is not the loss of physical faculties. I'd say we've got most of the physical [as opposed to mental] diseases more or less beat, if you project from life expectancy and health data, within the next few decades, humans [at least in the developed world] will routinely cross 100-120 yrs in a physically fit state.
Neural degeneration OTOH, - whether natural or on account of a disease - is a very tough nut to crack. For on thing, we don't understand the full complexity of the brain, and more significantly, neurons have a stady rate of death, and zero regenration.
The real fountain of youth would require tackling this problem, which the neural tap doesn't do anything about.
Downloading the mind on silicon, on the other hand, would be something!:)
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car-driving motorists stuck in traffic at 450km/hr
Now, now, have wee been playing too much Need for Speed?
Calling 450km/h stuck just won't do you know!
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Please editors... at least link to the original press release if not the research paper.
What's the point of linking to other blogs that have crappy internal links all over the article?
Why do I have to click through two blogs with fluff to reach the original article on PhysOrg? - http://www.physorg.com/news184585514.html
"If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be any religious people" - Hugh Laurie.
As cool as it would have been for Hugh Laurie to say this, it was actually said by House, and the actual quote is -
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people."
(http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/house/season4/house-402.htm Season 4, Episode 2)
I've been using the betas and RCs for a while now, and I've noticed that for some reason, Firefox is using an unusual amount of CPU cycles. When a Firefox window is open, FF uses 15-20% CPU (on my SantaRosa 2GHz MacBook Pro) continuously. When the window is closed (but FF is still running) the usage drops down to 1-2% I don't think this happened with FF2. Any idea why this might be so, and if there are any workarounds?
The LittleWing craft teams says that they are "committed to building the lightest, most seaworthy, and best performing kayaks available today"
:|
The Flyak on the other hand, is purely a flat water racing craft. So comparing the two doesn't make sense at all!
Remarkably, neither lists any speed records on their websites.
Orig. definition: "seeking natural explanations..."
New definition: "...more adequate explanations..."
It's a two pronged attack -
a)'adequate' is a completely subjective word, and the 'adequateness' of any explanation can be arbitrarily judged depending on your own bias (esp. important in this case, where ultimately, origin of life is being considered)
b) by removing 'natural' they've opened the door for 'supernatural' explanations to sneak in.
IMO, the rest of the stuff about "...observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation..." has just been put in to give the appearance of a scientifically rigorous definition, and take the focus off the real changes.
From the FA -
Well in such case I have a brilliant idea.
Why don't all the website owners that feel cheated by those who use Adblock put a clear, visible banner that says it's illegal to view this website with advertising stripped off?
As soon as I see one of those, I will put their hostname in the proxy's blacklist forever. Problem solved.
I just tried to access a site today (on Mozilla with Adblock, sever filtering...), and got this -
"Your web browser, software on your computer or some other event (like you have image loading turned off) is preventing some or all of our banner ads from being displayed on our pages correctly. In order to access our content, you must either allow us to display ads on our pages (by turning on image loading and/or disabling ad-blocking) or purchasing a paid ad-free subscription to this site."
An interesting developement... wonder how soon mainline sites will start doing this...
Excellent artcle, but the gist of it is..
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In principle, after billions of years it might be possible to
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Well you could say pretty much anything after that!
It's great that we can dream of such things though...
Infact, there is an update notification. It's not great, perhaps there should be a more obvious one, but here's a screenshot of what I got [on 1.0 PR]
Because if you think of it- a human body is nothing more than a fantasticaly complex machine.
:)
In fact, if you really think about it, the most important problem associated with aging is not the loss of physical faculties. I'd say we've got most of the physical [as opposed to mental] diseases more or less beat, if you project from life expectancy and health data, within the next few decades, humans [at least in the developed world] will routinely cross 100-120 yrs in a physically fit state.
Neural degeneration OTOH, - whether natural or on account of a disease - is a very tough nut to crack. For on thing, we don't understand the full complexity of the brain, and more significantly, neurons have a stady rate of death, and zero regenration.
The real fountain of youth would require tackling this problem, which the neural tap doesn't do anything about.
Downloading the mind on silicon, on the other hand, would be something!
car-driving motorists stuck in traffic at 450km/hr Now, now, have wee been playing too much Need for Speed? Calling 450km/h stuck just won't do you know!
and their posters may be spanked with a metric ruler.... to within an inch of their lives. ;)
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