Canada, in third place, falls into the second category. Nearly everyone chooses to live close to cities like Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa along the not-quite-as-cold southern border. A Canadian province bordering Greenland called Nunavut is larger than Alaska, but its entire population would fit in a football stadium with room to spare.
Is this guy as dumb as his reasoning makes him sound? There are MILLIONS of Canadians who live 3+ hours away from the US border. How come those people have access to high speed internet if they want it? How come I've had high speed in my house for 5 years and I live in a town of 15k people about 6 hours from the border driving 130km/h? And what the hell is the point of his last little rant about Nunavut? (1) It's a territory, not a province. (2) He doesn't mention anything about their internet usage which makes it completely irrelevent to TFA!
I think that yes, it might be hard to get Ma and Pa DSL at Green Acres, but do they even want it? It sounds to me that the whole "we've got so many rural people it's impossible to get good service" is just an excuse put out by those marketing geniuses who also make claims like "They don't want/need it anyways."
Just great, now my computer can win a Darwin award when it's mutated optimization wipes my hard disk. Seriously though, this whole "genetic algorithm" may be an advance, but how do they keep the code from getting stuck in local fitness peaks.
Let's say you start with a simple a-b-c-d
you then find that A-b-c-d has an increased fitness and a-B-c-d, a-b-C-d and a-b-c-D all have decreased fitness from the original. Then to optimize you always keep the big A because it is responsible for the performance gain. The problem is, sometimes 2 "wrongs" or less fit mutations when combined can create an even higher fitness. So perhaps a-B-C-d is actually the optimal fitness, but it would not likely be reached because you have to first decrease the fitness to get from A-b-c-d to a-b-c-d (worse) to a-B-c-d (even worse) to a-B-C-d (best) This phnomenon of local fitness peaks is well understood in biology, but do they have the algorithms to handle it in computing?
Take a cellphone I have to charge every day and add an mp3 player that gets charged every day and I'm willing to be that doesn't make 2 days worth of charge. When will convergence end and manufacturers just give me one thing that works well for a long time? Next they'll add video playback that will kill the battery in less time than to watch a movie.
I guess one of the reasons us Canadians support it is this way we can keep those damn Russians and Danes from stealing Santa's mail. (You all knew Santa is Canadian, right?)
...would use an infrared laser and remain undetected. The invisible beam would blind the pilot much easier as they wouldn't "see" a bright light and look away, only feel a burning after the damage had been done. Also a beam that couldn't be seen would be harder to track to the source. This guy was obviously an amateur.
I am a biologist, namely a geneticist, and no, shh was not named for anything to do with protein appearance. There is a mutant in Drosophila (fruit flies) which was lethal in early development and the pattern of denticles (like a row of hairs on each segment of the larvae) was disrupted in a way that they named it hedgehog. As researchers found homologs (the same) gane in mammalian genomes and more copies of the gene they named them in the hedgehog family things like sonic hedgehog, indian hedgehog and desert hedgehog. Hedgehog proteins have since been found to be very important developmental signal proteins for things like limb and eye development.
I can understand that getting a nice pair of binoculars gives you a sense of depth perception, but when you are looking at something 50 light years away does it really make a difference that you take measurements from 120 feet apart? I mean they could just time lapse the images and then compare them as the Earth is moving way faster, as we are moving around the sun at about 1800 kilometers per second. So really, what good is 120 feet?
Specifically, the new results can be applied to black hole theory. In fact, it is with black holes -- typically much more massive than Earth -- that some of the first signs of frame dragging were spotted.
Wow, Black Holes are typically more massive than Earth? Which ones aren't? the black holes made by digging in the dirt?
A mutation in the protien structure of the viral coat might cause the abnormally large size (a reduction in the bonding angles, perhaps), allowing for the fused genome of the host bacterium and the original virus, along with various key molocules from the bacterium to all be packaged into the virus, instead of just the viral DNA alone.
It's long been known that the viral coat proteins can only accept a certain amount of DNA to be packed inside them. A good example of this is the use of Lambda libraries 10 years or so ago which could only hold maybe 10 to 15kb which had to be removed from the viral genome first to make space. The idea that a mutation which allows this virus to hold more is a good one. If you have the room to store something, and events such as integration, excision and recombination allow for your genome to increase in size when infecting a cell, then the genome will increase in size. Just like anything in life: glove compartments, houses, hard drives - when you get more space you end up filling it rather quickly.
But to say this virus is, or even could be either evolving towards bacterialhood or evolving away from it is quite ludicrous. Sure, you can have a bacteria with less than 300 genes, but those themselves are forced to live as obligate parasites. Even if this virus did manage to get just the right combination of genes which could allow it to "live" outside of a host, it would be like giving me blueprints to build a radio on a deserted island - useless, the virus doesn't have the machinery to use the information itself.
The number of genomes in a human is at LEAST 2 (nulcear and mitochondrial) and then, if you really want to be picky, there are numerous retroviral genomes which have taken up roost within our DNA.
A Nobel prize can only get split among three people, so if you're going to discover anything revolutionary make sure you only have 2 other people working with you.
Scientific Nobel prizes generally take decades to be awarded because it takes that long to sift through all the "hot topic" stuff which might not turn out to be that important from the science which may or may not be important at the time but turns out to revolutionize the way certain things are done or understood. It's like a lifetime achievement award, sure you could give them out when people are young, but then you'd have ended up giving ones to Milli Vanilli and Billy Ray Cyrus, or the Baha Men...
A lot has been said about the fears of preventing the inflatable capsules from being punctured, but the article states that they don't even have the solution to sealing them properly yet.
The Bigelow team is also developing how to fold and package those soft goods around the module's aluminum core, so once inflated in space, creases and folds and critical seals around windows and hatches do not leak.
Plus, and I'm not physicist, but isn't it cold in space? And doesn't gas pressure drop when it gets cold? Are these things to be inflated with liquid nitrogen and oxygen?
This site http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part4/secti on-14.html leads me to believe that if you were on the sunny side of Earth things would be ok, but go into a shadow and whoops, there goes the inflation.
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Just great, now my computer can win a Darwin award when it's mutated optimization wipes my hard disk. Seriously though, this whole "genetic algorithm" may be an advance, but how do they keep the code from getting stuck in local fitness peaks.
Let's say you start with a simple a-b-c-d
you then find that A-b-c-d has an increased fitness and a-B-c-d, a-b-C-d and a-b-c-D all have decreased fitness from the original. Then to optimize you always keep the big A because it is responsible for the performance gain. The problem is, sometimes 2 "wrongs" or less fit mutations when combined can create an even higher fitness. So perhaps a-B-C-d is actually the optimal fitness, but it would not likely be reached because you have to first decrease the fitness to get from A-b-c-d to a-b-c-d (worse) to a-B-c-d (even worse) to a-B-C-d (best)
This phnomenon of local fitness peaks is well understood in biology, but do they have the algorithms to handle it in computing?
Take a cellphone I have to charge every day and add an mp3 player that gets charged every day and I'm willing to be that doesn't make 2 days worth of charge. When will convergence end and manufacturers just give me one thing that works well for a long time? Next they'll add video playback that will kill the battery in less time than to watch a movie.
I can now use grass clippings to power my lawnmower!! I wonder if that will somehow lead to a case of Mad Grass Disease?
I guess one of the reasons us Canadians support it is this way we can keep those damn Russians and Danes from stealing Santa's mail. (You all knew Santa is Canadian, right?)
Now I don't have to stop and swap cards when they get full, but swap batteries because I'm constantly uploading them to my server.
...would use an infrared laser and remain undetected. The invisible beam would blind the pilot much easier as they wouldn't "see" a bright light and look away, only feel a burning after the damage had been done. Also a beam that couldn't be seen would be harder to track to the source. This guy was obviously an amateur.
I am a biologist, namely a geneticist, and no, shh was not named for anything to do with protein appearance. There is a mutant in Drosophila (fruit flies) which was lethal in early development and the pattern of denticles (like a row of hairs on each segment of the larvae) was disrupted in a way that they named it hedgehog. As researchers found homologs (the same) gane in mammalian genomes and more copies of the gene they named them in the hedgehog family things like sonic hedgehog, indian hedgehog and desert hedgehog. Hedgehog proteins have since been found to be very important developmental signal proteins for things like limb and eye development.
I wonder if they'll find a Kraken.
I can understand that getting a nice pair of binoculars gives you a sense of depth perception, but when you are looking at something 50 light years away does it really make a difference that you take measurements from 120 feet apart? I mean they could just time lapse the images and then compare them as the Earth is moving way faster, as we are moving around the sun at about 1800 kilometers per second. So really, what good is 120 feet?
Specifically, the new results can be applied to black hole theory. In fact, it is with black holes -- typically much more massive than Earth -- that some of the first signs of frame dragging were spotted.
Wow, Black Holes are typically more massive than Earth? Which ones aren't? the black holes made by digging in the dirt?
A mutation in the protien structure of the viral coat might cause the abnormally large size (a reduction in the bonding angles, perhaps), allowing for the fused genome of the host bacterium and the original virus, along with various key molocules from the bacterium to all be packaged into the virus, instead of just the viral DNA alone.
It's long been known that the viral coat proteins can only accept a certain amount of DNA to be packed inside them. A good example of this is the use of Lambda libraries 10 years or so ago which could only hold maybe 10 to 15kb which had to be removed from the viral genome first to make space. The idea that a mutation which allows this virus to hold more is a good one. If you have the room to store something, and events such as integration, excision and recombination allow for your genome to increase in size when infecting a cell, then the genome will increase in size. Just like anything in life: glove compartments, houses, hard drives - when you get more space you end up filling it rather quickly.
But to say this virus is, or even could be either evolving towards bacterialhood or evolving away from it is quite ludicrous. Sure, you can have a bacteria with less than 300 genes, but those themselves are forced to live as obligate parasites. Even if this virus did manage to get just the right combination of genes which could allow it to "live" outside of a host, it would be like giving me blueprints to build a radio on a deserted island - useless, the virus doesn't have the machinery to use the information itself.
The number of genomes in a human is at LEAST 2 (nulcear and mitochondrial) and then, if you really want to be picky, there are numerous retroviral genomes which have taken up roost within our DNA.
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A Nobel prize can only get split among three people, so if you're going to discover anything revolutionary make sure you only have 2 other people working with you.
Scientific Nobel prizes generally take decades to be awarded because it takes that long to sift through all the "hot topic" stuff which might not turn out to be that important from the science which may or may not be important at the time but turns out to revolutionize the way certain things are done or understood. It's like a lifetime achievement award, sure you could give them out when people are young, but then you'd have ended up giving ones to Milli Vanilli and Billy Ray Cyrus, or the Baha Men...
A lot has been said about the fears of preventing the inflatable capsules from being punctured, but the article states that they don't even have the solution to sealing them properly yet. The Bigelow team is also developing how to fold and package those soft goods around the module's aluminum core, so once inflated in space, creases and folds and critical seals around windows and hatches do not leak. Plus, and I'm not physicist, but isn't it cold in space? And doesn't gas pressure drop when it gets cold? Are these things to be inflated with liquid nitrogen and oxygen? This site http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part4/secti on-14.html leads me to believe that if you were on the sunny side of Earth things would be ok, but go into a shadow and whoops, there goes the inflation.