Nitrate assimilation in plant shoots depends on photorespiration
"nitrate assimilation in both dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous species depends on photorespiration.... raises concerns about genetic manipulations to diminish photorespiration in crops.... Extensive efforts to increase the specificity of Rubisco for CO2 relative to O2 and thereby increase the productivity of C3 crops have proved unsuccessful (5). Our results indicate that such efforts might have hitherto unforeseen consequences: in agricultural systems where NO3- is the dominant form of inorganic nitrogen, minimizing photorespiration may be associated with nitrogen deprivation."
Now, the new result isn't "minimizing photorespiration", it's exchanging the procedure entirely. How will this affect the plant's ability to uptake nitrogen? The articles does not address this question. Do they avoid describing the manner in which their test plants were fertilized?
Who issues the money, hold the power. (You can even find a medieval quote about faces on coins.)
Cashless solutions isn't the worst problem, but it is part of a trend moving power from governments to private banks.
It is huge and not discussed a lot. Check out Positive Money at http://positivemoney.org/.
From TFA: "...the Arctic is special. Normally, as plants die and decay, they decompose and mercury is released back to the atmosphere. But in the Arctic, plants often do not fully decompose. Instead, their roots are frozen and then become buried by layers of soil. This suspends mercury within the plants, where it can be remobilized again if permafrost thaws."
This might be more of a realization of the nature of working with IT rather than a realization of additional related tasks, but...
Rules:
1 All complaints and error reports are off-topic
2 Initial feedback on development is always: "I want the old shit back"
So, you have to send time deciphering that. Why are users asking for the old shit? Is something really wrong with the improvement or are they just too stressed out to learn a smarter way to do things? Why are they reporting errors in unrelated systems etc. What exactly is wrong when they ask for a "PowerPoint cable"?
I find the news coming out of conferences are very rarely interesting.
What most others seem to be commenting and what the question really is on inspection beyond the headline is, they like to go when their boss pays the trip. That's something else I would probably enjoy myself. But I wouldn't count on getting something valuable from it, really. Except for extremely narrow focus events with classes etc.
Diigo all the way.
To me, Diigo's killer features are in annotation by highlights and sticky notes ("Highlight text directly on any web page for personal reference or collaboration" and "Add text, comments or reminders directly on any web page with sticky notes"). Really makes paper obsolete.
Dear fellow Swordfish hater,
Swordfish immediately came to my mind reading the thread headline. I want to vote up your comment but can't find out how to do so since everything has changed at/. since last time I was here - in about 2001 to rant about Swordfish:-)
As has been mentioned, it's speculative to try and learn science from science fiction. That's why Kim Stanley Robinson would be a good bet. His work really isn't science fiction as much as 'near future fiction' and 'alternative history'.
I haven't read his Mars trilogy. But I've read his Vinland the Dream (short stories), Antarctica, The Years of Rice and Salt and his Forty Signs of Rain plus Fifty Degrees Below. The short stories could have most luck getting hold of a high school attention span. They and all the other books except the two latter are interesting because they are very much alternative history as much as science fiction. The Forty... and Fifty... books deals with climate change and the politics thereof. This gives them a huge plus for immediate relevance and a tiny minus for being speculative (no one can predict the changes accurate enough to have them frame a story - but it's a fair try).
Slightly related are the works of Robert Charles Wilson. His books Darwinia and Bios are science fiction about gaia theory (the way I read it); the former alternative history set in post 1st world war Europe, the latter Alien-like on another planet.
Back when I was mostly a Windows user I put down this list of applications to remember to add to a fresh install. I believe they are all open source, free, cross platform etc. And excellent of course. It also links to similar lists. As for anti-virus, AVG is fine but so is Avast! Regarding the firewall Sygate's ruled but haven't they stopped giving it away for free? An alternative is ZoneAlarm. And don't use Windows without Ad-Aware.
At the same time they worked for me as a kind of migration path. I could boot up Linux and use the same programs I was used to without much trouble.
Now I use Linux almost exclusively. When Novell did the poll about which applications they should port to have more Windows users migrate, I was wondering about the strange results. Now I'm wondering what Windows needs to innovate for me to migrate back! I can't see it happening.
First of all: Most hacked "sites" were blogs with their passwords in plain files. I think few if any servers as such got hacked. The attacks against Jyllands-Posten's site was a DDOS.
Second: I agree with most of you commenters here. This whole debate/boycott/etc is really something going on between the fractions of extremists in the respective camps. Most Muslims and Danish people are quite reasonable.
Here's a collection of links to some of the most misunderstood details of the debate, the most positive stories - moderate Muslims and Danes reaching out for each other - plus a little note on some of the ghosts in the closets. PS: Don't hack that blog, he is a very nice guy:)
You may think the mentioned reasons for the dispute here sound stupid, but they are the actual reasons for the dispute! Wars are known to be fought for non-existent reasons these days, you know. The free map of oil resources doesn't have any oil around Hans Ø (Hans Island as it has always been called in Danish) because it hasn't been found yet, but it is likely that that there is some oil.
I'm Danish, but I'd welcome a Canadian invasion as Denmark partakes in the US invasion of Afganistan, Iraq a.o. and lets the US Army build military bases on Greenland - including Weapons of Mass Destructions (TM), Missile Shilds and the gods only knows what other evils.
Talking to me?
The right wing government was - in my opinion - NOT put there by the people, but by large businesses.
Personally I DID vote against them, be sure of that.
Both the law and the way they try to enforce it on the people have no place in a functional representative democracy.
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Why is this ignorant comment scored "informative". Give me god powers on this site.
Paul Whelan is a Trump supporter. Let that sink in.
Nitrate assimilation in plant shoots depends on photorespiration "nitrate assimilation in both dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous species depends on photorespiration. ... raises concerns about genetic manipulations to diminish photorespiration in crops. ... Extensive efforts to increase the specificity of Rubisco for CO2 relative to O2 and thereby increase the productivity of C3 crops have proved unsuccessful (5). Our results indicate that such efforts might have hitherto unforeseen consequences: in agricultural systems where NO3- is the dominant form of inorganic nitrogen, minimizing photorespiration may be associated with nitrogen deprivation."
Now, the new result isn't "minimizing photorespiration", it's exchanging the procedure entirely. How will this affect the plant's ability to uptake nitrogen? The articles does not address this question. Do they avoid describing the manner in which their test plants were fertilized?
Who issues the money, hold the power. (You can even find a medieval quote about faces on coins.) Cashless solutions isn't the worst problem, but it is part of a trend moving power from governments to private banks. It is huge and not discussed a lot. Check out Positive Money at http://positivemoney.org/.
Word, I said.
Approx. 1996, I took and passed an exam in assembly code on paper. It was the kind of paper with a carbon back that made a copy of what you wrote.
Wow
From TFA: "...the Arctic is special. Normally, as plants die and decay, they decompose and mercury is released back to the atmosphere. But in the Arctic, plants often do not fully decompose. Instead, their roots are frozen and then become buried by layers of soil. This suspends mercury within the plants, where it can be remobilized again if permafrost thaws."
Their products look interesting, not I didn't buy any yet. Please review.
Wait... it's already out in China. Why haven't i seen it?
Potentially "wow"
I only read _Pattern Recognition_ and it sucks
Is that AI thing in Microsoft Teams safe for users who /mostly/ work in VPN protected environments and encrypt a fair amount of data, email etc.?
Same here. But still takes me about half an hour to start concentrating.
So, you have to send time deciphering that. Why are users asking for the old shit? Is something really wrong with the improvement or are they just too stressed out to learn a smarter way to do things? Why are they reporting errors in unrelated systems etc. What exactly is wrong when they ask for a "PowerPoint cable"?
I find the news coming out of conferences are very rarely interesting. What most others seem to be commenting and what the question really is on inspection beyond the headline is, they like to go when their boss pays the trip. That's something else I would probably enjoy myself. But I wouldn't count on getting something valuable from it, really. Except for extremely narrow focus events with classes etc.
Diigo all the way. To me, Diigo's killer features are in annotation by highlights and sticky notes ("Highlight text directly on any web page for personal reference or collaboration" and "Add text, comments or reminders directly on any web page with sticky notes"). Really makes paper obsolete.
Dear fellow Swordfish hater, Swordfish immediately came to my mind reading the thread headline. I want to vote up your comment but can't find out how to do so since everything has changed at /. since last time I was here - in about 2001 to rant about Swordfish :-)
As has been mentioned, it's speculative to try and learn science from science fiction. That's why Kim Stanley Robinson would be a good bet. His work really isn't science fiction as much as 'near future fiction' and 'alternative history'. I haven't read his Mars trilogy. But I've read his Vinland the Dream (short stories), Antarctica, The Years of Rice and Salt and his Forty Signs of Rain plus Fifty Degrees Below. The short stories could have most luck getting hold of a high school attention span. They and all the other books except the two latter are interesting because they are very much alternative history as much as science fiction. The Forty... and Fifty... books deals with climate change and the politics thereof. This gives them a huge plus for immediate relevance and a tiny minus for being speculative (no one can predict the changes accurate enough to have them frame a story - but it's a fair try). Slightly related are the works of Robert Charles Wilson. His books Darwinia and Bios are science fiction about gaia theory (the way I read it); the former alternative history set in post 1st world war Europe, the latter Alien-like on another planet.
Back when I was mostly a Windows user I put down this list of applications to remember to add to a fresh install. I believe they are all open source, free, cross platform etc. And excellent of course. It also links to similar lists. As for anti-virus, AVG is fine but so is Avast! Regarding the firewall Sygate's ruled but haven't they stopped giving it away for free? An alternative is ZoneAlarm. And don't use Windows without Ad-Aware. At the same time they worked for me as a kind of migration path. I could boot up Linux and use the same programs I was used to without much trouble. Now I use Linux almost exclusively. When Novell did the poll about which applications they should port to have more Windows users migrate, I was wondering about the strange results. Now I'm wondering what Windows needs to innovate for me to migrate back! I can't see it happening.
First of all: Most hacked "sites" were blogs with their passwords in plain files. I think few if any servers as such got hacked. The attacks against Jyllands-Posten's site was a DDOS.
Second: I agree with most of you commenters here. This whole debate/boycott/etc is really something going on between the fractions of extremists in the respective camps. Most Muslims and Danish people are quite reasonable.
Here's a collection of links to some of the most misunderstood details of the debate, the most positive stories - moderate Muslims and Danes reaching out for each other - plus a little note on some of the ghosts in the closets. PS: Don't hack that blog, he is a very nice guy :)
Continue your work at... http://www.c0d3r.org/priv8area ;)
You may think the mentioned reasons for the dispute here sound stupid, but they are the actual reasons for the dispute! Wars are known to be fought for non-existent reasons these days, you know. The free map of oil resources doesn't have any oil around Hans Ø (Hans Island as it has always been called in Danish) because it hasn't been found yet, but it is likely that that there is some oil.
I'm Danish, but I'd welcome a Canadian invasion as Denmark partakes in the US invasion of Afganistan, Iraq a.o. and lets the US Army build military bases on Greenland - including Weapons of Mass Destructions (TM), Missile Shilds and the gods only knows what other evils.
Talking to me? The right wing government was - in my opinion - NOT put there by the people, but by large businesses. Personally I DID vote against them, be sure of that. Both the law and the way they try to enforce it on the people have no place in a functional representative democracy.