I know of at least 3 new antibiotics currently in clinical trials and 3 more which are awaiting FDA approval in the US, but are already in use in other countries.
We already have an ethical way of limiting population growth. Look at birth rates in developed nations and compare death rates. Notice that the latter is greater than the former. If it wasn't for immigration, our population would be shrinking, and in some countries, like Germany and Japan, the population currently is shrinking.
To reduce population growth, you need to raise standards of living, and reduce childhood mortality.
Even right now, population growth is slowing and has been for almost 50 years (current population growth is half what it was in the early 60s). Current estimates say the population will level off at about 9 billion in about 50 years and then begin to shrink.
I suppose you also don't bother with updates for your desktop either. Who needs security updates, as long as the computer "still works the same way it did when you bought it"?
Security is rapidly becoming very important for smartphones. Practically every major bank has released mobile banking applications for the major players (iOS, Android, and Blackberry). Do you want that platform going without security updates? I sure as hell don't.
The resolution is 4:3 (1.33:1), but the physical size is not. It's 9.56" by 7.47", which is 1.28:1, or just about the same ratio as letter-size paper (1.29:1)
This discussion is about tablets, not phones. Market data isn't useful for tablets. Anything without a 3G transceiver (e.g. wifi-only tablets) doesn't get into the market, at least not on its own (Getting market access on my little Archos 32 is as simple as downloading and installing a package, but it remains locked out of the new web market trick.), though hopefully this will change with the release of honeycomb.
The internet has flourished precisely because the government regulators (aka nannies) have stayed out of it.
It has flourished because all the major players considered that neutrality was a good idea and just went along with it, making government involvement unnecessary. Now the major players believe that neutrality is no longer in their business interests.
The internet is going to be regulated. The only question is to what degree and by who.
As for the CRTC, it, like the RIAA, will disappear as the method of content creation and distribution continues to shift to electronic formats. In fact, CD sales are at their all time low.
the CRTC has nothing to do with the RIAA. You're mixing it up with the CRIA.
It can be tricky to see the depth of snow on a road. Uniform white snow breaks depth perception, especially in dusk/dawn light conditions (dim enough that vision is reduced, but light enough that your headlights aren't helpful.). I've driven in central Canadian winters for 8 years and it can still screw with you at times, especially on familiar roads, doubly so when the drifts weren't there yesterday.
It can also be tricky to tell where exactly the edge of the road is.
We appear to be operating with different definitions of snowblower. Technically, the jet trucks do blow snow, but a snowblower, at least by Canadian definition, uses an impeller or auger and impeller to move snow.
Even better analogy : If you buy a ford from an Exxon car dealership, which offers financing if you sign a gas contract with them, that has a hole in its gas tank, should you be able to sue Exxon for having to spend more money on gas?
That's what they're trying to do. The problem is that we do not know exactly how many atoms there are in a mol of carbon-12. Your definition has an uncertainty factor.
But If you can get the exact value of the Planck constant, you can determine the exact value of the Avogadro constant (number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12), which gives you your nice count of atoms.
The problem with that is we do not know the precise mass of a hydrogen atom or any other atom for that matter. That's what this is about. If you find the exact value of the Planck constant, you can mathematically determine the exact value of the Avogadro constant, which is the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12. Then just do a little arthimetic, and you've got the kilogram in a count of carbon-12 atoms.
Or they could just define mass as x molecules of Hydrogen.
That's what this is about, only with carbon-12 rather than hydrogen. The problem is, we do not know the precise mass of atoms.
Determining the exact value of the Planck constant gives us the exact value of the Avogadro constant, which is the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12.
The guy saying that wasn't watching the shuttle as you were, he was watching a telemetry readout. He had no idea what actually had happened, all he had was "WTF? I just lost my telemetry.".
Most ulcers aren't related to stress (directly, anyway. it can contribute, as prolonged stress can mess with the immune system). It's almost always a bacteria infection.
Yeah, no one uses that "netflix" streaming thing. Certainly not 19 million subscribers. And even if they did, what kind of family would want to watch different things at the same time? And what's this "HD" stuff that no one uses?
People on tech sites tend to vastly over estimate the need for, let alone the desire of, many for electricity. Hell, you can enjoy life just fine without touching electricity for weeks. If anything its made a nation of couch potatoes even a worse syndrome.
My grandmother remembers similar babbling when they were working on providing electricity out to the rural areas in the early 50s. And when they were installing a semi-centralized sewer system for her village in the late 70s. And again when they were running a water line out to the village in the early 80s.
Your argument was stupid then and it is just as stupid now.
Should also steer away from any truck-mounted welding rigs. Oxygen and acetylene tanks use similar pressure, yet I haven't heard about any catastrophic accidents regarding those.
You'd need a rather substantial bullet to damage this tank. An AP.50 BMJ would probably work. But it would be much easier to just fire said bullet at you.
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My information was slightly wrong. It was 4 in trials and 2 awaiting US approval
Delafloxacin, iclaprim, and clinafloxacin are in trials.
My information on the fourth (telavancin) was out of date. It was approved by the FDA in September.
Prulifloxacin and sitafloxacin are awaiting US approval.
I know of at least 3 new antibiotics currently in clinical trials and 3 more which are awaiting FDA approval in the US, but are already in use in other countries.
We already have an ethical way of limiting population growth. Look at birth rates in developed nations and compare death rates. Notice that the latter is greater than the former. If it wasn't for immigration, our population would be shrinking, and in some countries, like Germany and Japan, the population currently is shrinking.
To reduce population growth, you need to raise standards of living, and reduce childhood mortality.
Even right now, population growth is slowing and has been for almost 50 years (current population growth is half what it was in the early 60s). Current estimates say the population will level off at about 9 billion in about 50 years and then begin to shrink.
Lighting only makes up 8.8% of residential power use. That's 5th place behind air conditioners (16%), refrigerators (13.7%), heating (10.1%), and water heaters (9.1%).
Switching to CFLs is useful, but it's not a panacea.
I suppose you also don't bother with updates for your desktop either. Who needs security updates, as long as the computer "still works the same way it did when you bought it"?
Security is rapidly becoming very important for smartphones. Practically every major bank has released mobile banking applications for the major players (iOS, Android, and Blackberry). Do you want that platform going without security updates? I sure as hell don't.
Bah, I am an idiot. Right after I submit, I discover the dimensions I was using are the the entire device, not the screen. Ignore my previous post.
The resolution is 4:3 (1.33:1), but the physical size is not. It's 9.56" by 7.47", which is 1.28:1, or just about the same ratio as letter-size paper (1.29:1)
This discussion is about tablets, not phones. Market data isn't useful for tablets. Anything without a 3G transceiver (e.g. wifi-only tablets) doesn't get into the market, at least not on its own (Getting market access on my little Archos 32 is as simple as downloading and installing a package, but it remains locked out of the new web market trick.), though hopefully this will change with the release of honeycomb.
The internet has flourished precisely because the government regulators (aka nannies) have stayed out of it.
It has flourished because all the major players considered that neutrality was a good idea and just went along with it, making government involvement unnecessary. Now the major players believe that neutrality is no longer in their business interests.
The internet is going to be regulated. The only question is to what degree and by who.
As for the CRTC, it, like the RIAA, will disappear as the method of content creation and distribution continues to shift to electronic formats. In fact, CD sales are at their all time low.
the CRTC has nothing to do with the RIAA. You're mixing it up with the CRIA.
The CRTC is the Canadian equivalent to the FCC.
It can be tricky to see the depth of snow on a road. Uniform white snow breaks depth perception, especially in dusk/dawn light conditions (dim enough that vision is reduced, but light enough that your headlights aren't helpful.). I've driven in central Canadian winters for 8 years and it can still screw with you at times, especially on familiar roads, doubly so when the drifts weren't there yesterday.
It can also be tricky to tell where exactly the edge of the road is.
We appear to be operating with different definitions of snowblower. Technically, the jet trucks do blow snow, but a snowblower, at least by Canadian definition, uses an impeller or auger and impeller to move snow.
Not really melting the snow, though it does do that a bit. It's mostly used like a humongous leafblower to simply move the snow.
Even better analogy : If you buy a ford from an Exxon car dealership, which offers financing if you sign a gas contract with them, that has a hole in its gas tank, should you be able to sue Exxon for having to spend more money on gas?
That's what they're trying to do. The problem is that we do not know exactly how many atoms there are in a mol of carbon-12. Your definition has an uncertainty factor.
But If you can get the exact value of the Planck constant, you can determine the exact value of the Avogadro constant (number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12), which gives you your nice count of atoms.
The problem with that is we do not know the precise mass of a hydrogen atom or any other atom for that matter. That's what this is about. If you find the exact value of the Planck constant, you can mathematically determine the exact value of the Avogadro constant, which is the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12. Then just do a little arthimetic, and you've got the kilogram in a count of carbon-12 atoms.
Or they could just define mass as x molecules of Hydrogen.
That's what this is about, only with carbon-12 rather than hydrogen. The problem is, we do not know the precise mass of atoms.
Determining the exact value of the Planck constant gives us the exact value of the Avogadro constant, which is the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12.
The guy saying that wasn't watching the shuttle as you were, he was watching a telemetry readout. He had no idea what actually had happened, all he had was "WTF? I just lost my telemetry.".
I find it useful for calculating travel costs. Multiplying numbers in my head is easier than dividing.
e.g. for a 520km trip in a 4.6 L/100km car, you can do either 5.2*4.6 or 520/22.
Most ulcers aren't related to stress (directly, anyway. it can contribute, as prolonged stress can mess with the immune system). It's almost always a bacteria infection.
Yeah, no one uses that "netflix" streaming thing. Certainly not 19 million subscribers. And even if they did, what kind of family would want to watch different things at the same time? And what's this "HD" stuff that no one uses?
They are very happy and content as they are.
People on tech sites tend to vastly over estimate the need for, let alone the desire of, many for electricity. Hell, you can enjoy life just fine without touching electricity for weeks. If anything its made a nation of couch potatoes even a worse syndrome.
My grandmother remembers similar babbling when they were working on providing electricity out to the rural areas in the early 50s. And when they were installing a semi-centralized sewer system for her village in the late 70s. And again when they were running a water line out to the village in the early 80s.
Your argument was stupid then and it is just as stupid now.
Should also steer away from any truck-mounted welding rigs. Oxygen and acetylene tanks use similar pressure, yet I haven't heard about any catastrophic accidents regarding those.
You'd need a rather substantial bullet to damage this tank. An AP .50 BMJ would probably work. But it would be much easier to just fire said bullet at you.
2. It isn't really a kill switch. It disables the addon by default, but you can select to leave it enabled. Call it a stun switch.