The host: TMV replicates in a number of plants that are referred to as hosts. Although the virus is named for the disease it causes in tobacco, TMV can infect a wide diversity of plants from more than 9 families and over 150 genera. In several crops of economic importance (e.g., tomato), the virus causes serious losses and is a concern to growers, but in others, such as grape, infected plants show no symptoms, and the disease causes no loss of yield. Although scientists know a great deal about the virus and the diseases it causes, it still can be a concern to growers.
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Tomatoes are scarcely a scourge, unless you dislike BLTs.
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My Dell Adamo 13 has display port only by default.
I'm a pretty geeky guy who has played around with Linux many times over the years (starting back in the late 90's), hoping to get away from Windows. Frankly, I would love nothing better than an OS I could put on my parents' computers and not have to worry about them calling me a month later complaining about all the pop-ups and viruses they have. And, while great strides have been made with Ubuntu, I'm still not convinced that Linux will ever be that OS I'm looking for. I know these will all be poo-pooed by the Linux fans, but here are/were some of the problems that I (as a very technically literate Windows user) have run up against when I've installed Linux in the past*:
Confusing distros Just thinking about all the different distros and configurations still gives me a headache. Ubuntu has blunted this somewhat, but even with that you have to get into the Gnome vs. KDE thing, which is damned confusing to a layperson. The worst part of this is trying to download software for Linux off of some website and running into multiple versions with odd notations regarding different distros.
Isn't this the point of Linux? Choice? Education is the key here, not complaining that it's too hard to decide. Pretty easy to present both and give good information for the new user to decide which to use.
Poor documentation Again, Ubuntu helps. But even that is spotty compared to Windows. And the "documentation" website of many distros (and Linux software apps) is little more than a bugfix list.
I'd agree with this
Software, Software, Software this is the biggest problem, and not so easily dismissed as some fans would pretend. My mom, for example, uses special software to interface with her high-end sewing machine. Is it available for Linux? Probably not. Can I just direct her to a clone of equal quality? Probably not.
I agree, however, do they offer a Mac client as well as Windows? It seems that oftentimes these types of specialized software assume that the end user only will be using a MS OS. This isn't the fault of Linux. It should be addressed, but placing the blame on the OS is the wrong approach. The manufacturers need to know that end users want support for their OS of choice.
Little support (if not openly hostile) There aren't a lot of places to call for Linux support. And a lot of the places you can go for support on the net are filled with Linuix fanatics who are openly hostile to Windows switchers and newbies. The level of "you don't belong here" attitude towards newbies in Linux circles makes Apple fans look civil.
Gotta disagree, the Ubuntu forum is one of the most helpful and friendly I've seen for most anything.
Ways of doing things that are confusing to a Windows user with windows, I can go to a website, download an installer and install my software. with Linux I can install it via the built-in installer. but that only works if said software is in the repository. If not, getting it installed is often a lot more complex than just downloading a file and double clicking on it to install.
Really? You're trotting out this tired argument again? If a user is advanced enough to need something that's NOT in Ubuntu or Debian's repositories then it's a pretty safe bet that they're knowledgeable enough to know how to add a PPA or compile from source to get something so specialized. I can't think of anything I use that's not in PPAs or repositories currently and I'm a fairly advanced user with what I do for my research.
Still too much reliance on the command line interface Telling someone to break out a command line and type "sudo apt-get whateverthefuck" is like telling a Windows user to reinstall DOS and learn its syntax.
Errm, I use it because it is faster, but most Ubuntu users that I know aren't of my ilk and they have no issues doing things without the command line.
It makes sense to YOU, however, it does not make sense to me. I'll stick with Gnome, thank you. Seriously, when I started using Linux it didn't make sense, now after 10+ years of using various window managers and desktop environments with Linux they make much more sense to me than Windows, and look better doing what they do to me as well.
I experienced this just last night. Neighbor brought up global warming and asked me what I thought about it. Then barraged me with "facts" that he'd read. Sure, it didn't matter that my dissertation had some work on the effects of climate change on plant disease in it. What he'd read was more right than the papers I've read.
The general public doesn't care what the data really says, they only listen to who screams the loudest and who they agree with. Handing the data to that person, even if you do have the data to back yourself up, can be detrimental.
I reckon if he could walk to his local grocery store he could. At least here you can buy it for your cooler and I'm not aware of any restrictions on it. There may be like the restrictions on buying spray paint, I've never tried.
Depends on your school. I just finished six years for my PhD in plant pathology and paid tuition every damned semester and it increased over 100% in that six years.
I use a small, local telephone company for my DSL. They're reliable, not the fastest or the cheapest, but hey, it's pretty much a monopoly unless I want the cruddy cable service provider that is unreliable in their connectivity and just as expensive.
For six years now I've dealt with this. At work I just type a keyword and end up at the site I wanted. At home I do that by mistake and I get a page with an advertisement for something local saying the page couldn't be found.
Extremely annoying, but I don't have much choice as I don't want cable or their cruddy service, so I deal with it.
Remember one simple fact: the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences. The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money to exist as a student for the requisite time, (b) the ability to regurgitate what your professors wish to hear, and (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient long enough to have one's hand held through the process of writing a thesis.
As a PhD who can tell the difference between its/it's, they're/their/there, I take a bit of offense at your opening paragraph.
I do see many students who struggle with this, but to simply say that all I needed was money and the ability to regurgitate what the professor wanted to hear me say demeans that actual scientific contributions that my research made.
Then again, maybe you're in the liberal arts and not sciences so things are different for you.;) Dammit, there's an emoticon.
However, I must agree with the rest of your post. Excellent and insightful post that's spot-on, even if it started a bit misguided.
Perhaps for a bit, but eventually shifts in climate mean plants can't grow where they once did. They can't pick up and move like we can. Shifts in plant disease and insects due to changes in climate mean new pests. Overwintering of pests is likely to increase as well due to warmer winters. Water stress as rainfall shifts will stress plants too.
It's not as simple as you make it out to be. There's plenty of other factors that enter into this equation, you've only listed one, the one that you find helpful.
The location is proposed to be near that building, so while the new facility is built there is speculation that research can be under way in the BRI.
After seeing the BRI a few times I don't have much concern for a tornado. I'd be more concerned about someone making a mistake and releasing pathogens, people aren't perfect even if the buildings they work in are failsafe. JMO.
I've been using Mendeley lately. They're making progress, and are asking for feedback on improvement.
That was my first thought when I read this as well though, Zotero or Mendeley.
Uh not entirely true there, I realize you said nearly 100% but I'm paying for my education as a PhD student. Point is, every university works differently. If anything the land grants are getting less and less money from the state governments which are supposed to support them than they used to.
Of course the funding for my research came from Peru and I'm an American citizen though. Most of the funding for fellowships, assistantships, etc. come through grants nowadays, not the government.
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As a plant pathologist I think I can address this misconception, it's only named after tobacco.
From my professional society's website.
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Tomatoes are scarcely a scourge, unless you dislike BLTs.
My Dell Adamo 13 has display port only by default.
Of course it's no longer manufactured.
I'm a pretty geeky guy who has played around with Linux many times over the years (starting back in the late 90's), hoping to get away from Windows. Frankly, I would love nothing better than an OS I could put on my parents' computers and not have to worry about them calling me a month later complaining about all the pop-ups and viruses they have. And, while great strides have been made with Ubuntu, I'm still not convinced that Linux will ever be that OS I'm looking for. I know these will all be poo-pooed by the Linux fans, but here are/were some of the problems that I (as a very technically literate Windows user) have run up against when I've installed Linux in the past*:
Isn't this the point of Linux? Choice? Education is the key here, not complaining that it's too hard to decide. Pretty easy to present both and give good information for the new user to decide which to use.
I'd agree with this
I agree, however, do they offer a Mac client as well as Windows? It seems that oftentimes these types of specialized software assume that the end user only will be using a MS OS. This isn't the fault of Linux. It should be addressed, but placing the blame on the OS is the wrong approach. The manufacturers need to know that end users want support for their OS of choice.
Gotta disagree, the Ubuntu forum is one of the most helpful and friendly I've seen for most anything.
Really? You're trotting out this tired argument again? If a user is advanced enough to need something that's NOT in Ubuntu or Debian's repositories then it's a pretty safe bet that they're knowledgeable enough to know how to add a PPA or compile from source to get something so specialized. I can't think of anything I use that's not in PPAs or repositories currently and I'm a fairly advanced user with what I do for my research.
Errm, I use it because it is faster, but most Ubuntu users that I know aren't of my ilk and they have no issues doing things without the command line.
Lots of friendships die anyway. You win some you lose some.
C'mon, this is /. and the article is about Facebook, don't you mean "loose some"?
I still see quite a bit of news about them.
Dual core chips now being used, lots of new models being introduced.
I'd say netbooks aren't and weren't overblown, they filled and still fill a niche in the market that regular laptops don't and tablets can't.
That's funny, because with Windows you have to run the control panel as a root use...
Oh wait
It makes sense to YOU, however, it does not make sense to me. I'll stick with Gnome, thank you. Seriously, when I started using Linux it didn't make sense, now after 10+ years of using various window managers and desktop environments with Linux they make much more sense to me than Windows, and look better doing what they do to me as well.
Your conclusion only works if the precipitation patterns do not change.
Yep. It's on my office mate's machine.
I'm using Ubuntu though.
I experienced this just last night. Neighbor brought up global warming and asked me what I thought about it. Then barraged me with "facts" that he'd read. Sure, it didn't matter that my dissertation had some work on the effects of climate change on plant disease in it. What he'd read was more right than the papers I've read.
They're all using the exact same data. Why would you expect their results to be different from each other? The weight of paper is meaningless.
Ah-ha! Then why would skeptics find anything different in it?
Ahem, I think you're missing one key part here.
The general public doesn't care what the data really says, they only listen to who screams the loudest and who they agree with. Handing the data to that person, even if you do have the data to back yourself up, can be detrimental.
I've got a N97 Mini. I have to agree. If you had one yourself you'd be disappointed with it. It seems cool, until you have to use it yourself.
A 14 YO can't buy dry ice?
I reckon if he could walk to his local grocery store he could. At least here you can buy it for your cooler and I'm not aware of any restrictions on it. There may be like the restrictions on buying spray paint, I've never tried.
Depends on your school. I just finished six years for my PhD in plant pathology and paid tuition every damned semester and it increased over 100% in that six years.
Why was this modded OT, shouldn't it be funny? At least I thought it was.
I use a small, local telephone company for my DSL. They're reliable, not the fastest or the cheapest, but hey, it's pretty much a monopoly unless I want the cruddy cable service provider that is unreliable in their connectivity and just as expensive.
For six years now I've dealt with this. At work I just type a keyword and end up at the site I wanted. At home I do that by mistake and I get a page with an advertisement for something local saying the page couldn't be found.
Extremely annoying, but I don't have much choice as I don't want cable or their cruddy service, so I deal with it.
Remember one simple fact: the skill set required for someone to get a Ph.D in any given field has very little correlation with the skillsets required for such tasks as dressing oneself, attending to personal hygeine, or speaking in coherent sentences. The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money to exist as a student for the requisite time, (b) the ability to regurgitate what your professors wish to hear, and (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient long enough to have one's hand held through the process of writing a thesis.
As a PhD who can tell the difference between its/it's, they're/their/there, I take a bit of offense at your opening paragraph.
I do see many students who struggle with this, but to simply say that all I needed was money and the ability to regurgitate what the professor wanted to hear me say demeans that actual scientific contributions that my research made.
Then again, maybe you're in the liberal arts and not sciences so things are different for you. ;) Dammit, there's an emoticon.
However, I must agree with the rest of your post. Excellent and insightful post that's spot-on, even if it started a bit misguided.
Regarding your statement "Your GPS doesn't get traffic data."
You don't have a Nokia smart phone to use these maps, do you?
Perhaps for a bit, but eventually shifts in climate mean plants can't grow where they once did. They can't pick up and move like we can. Shifts in plant disease and insects due to changes in climate mean new pests. Overwintering of pests is likely to increase as well due to warmer winters. Water stress as rainfall shifts will stress plants too.
It's not as simple as you make it out to be. There's plenty of other factors that enter into this equation, you've only listed one, the one that you find helpful.
Possibly because the N900 hasn't even been released yet? It's not due out until sometime next month.
Actually I thought of this XKCD comic. http://xkcd.com/552/
We also have the Biosecurity Research Institute.
http://www.bri.k-state.edu/
The location is proposed to be near that building, so while the new facility is built there is speculation that research can be under way in the BRI.
After seeing the BRI a few times I don't have much concern for a tornado. I'd be more concerned about someone making a mistake and releasing pathogens, people aren't perfect even if the buildings they work in are failsafe. JMO.
I've been using Mendeley lately. They're making progress, and are asking for feedback on improvement. That was my first thought when I read this as well though, Zotero or Mendeley.
Uh not entirely true there, I realize you said nearly 100% but I'm paying for my education as a PhD student. Point is, every university works differently. If anything the land grants are getting less and less money from the state governments which are supposed to support them than they used to.
Of course the funding for my research came from Peru and I'm an American citizen though. Most of the funding for fellowships, assistantships, etc. come through grants nowadays, not the government.