Would be nice but I never saw mimicry in our cats. They try out different thing when they want something, and learn what works and what doesn't. They can get pretty good at that when they get older.
If you want to show them how to do something it can work when you take them and make them move in the way they have to move. That way we managed to teach one cat how to open doors, which was not such a good idea though...
In the linked npr article it is suspected that amoebas could mistake this virus for a bacteria because of its size and try to eat it. This way the virus would infect the amoeba.
If the size developed only for this most of the genetic material in it could be totally random and meaningless.
Just saw that they build the partially reflective layer by using mirrors with holes. Yes, this requires some space, but why do they not just coat the backside of the display with 10-15nm Chromium? That will reflect about 50% of the light uniformly, and not take any space.
My Nokia 5630 had a transflective LCD. This was always readable in the sun and even when the backlight was turned off. It works by having a partially reflecting layer between the LCD matrix and the backlight.
I really miss that feature on today's phones. I think they stopped selling this kind of displays because they look less good in the light conditions that you have in shops, since the partially reflecting layer also reflects some of the backlight.
Apple is known for pushing down to the limit what they pay to their suppliers, leaving nearly no profit to them. They would never pay to Intel what Intel is used to make.
I can see the flickering of fluorescent lights when I look beside them, so that they are at the edge of the viewing field of the eye. I think many people could do that if they learned how to.
It is 2 times the power frequency normally, 100Hzz here in Europe, must be 120Hz in USA then. If something is wrong with the lamp it can be 50Hz / 60 Hz.
Well, that is what they say, and pretty much it means that the HFTs themselves were using something like a stop loss order to protect their stocks.The problem is that this kind of orders even exists, and it can lead to market crashs even without HFTs: http://www.emarotta.com/stop-loss-orders-can-lose-money-quickly/
People use stop loss orders to protect themselves for too large losses. They give the order to sell their stocks if the price drops below a certain value. But if too many do this, the selling of many stocks will cause the price to crash, and the people selling will sell for very low prices.
It would be pretty easy for HFTs to abuse this, by pushing down the stock prices with some sale orders, triggering lots of stop loss orders and buying the cheap stocks right after that. They will get the stocks for a very low price, and can sell them later.
Why would flash crashes be a wrong decision for HFTs? I think they could trigger many stop loss orders of other traders, and in that way buy stocks for low prices.
On the other side hunters and gatherers built Stonehenge, and found relations between the position of stars and the sun, and the time of the year. The Nebra sky disk, which was found in my area, is really interesting regarding this. Seems to me that some priests or spiritualists acquired a quite impressive knowledge for such a form of society.
But still this was far away from the development status of the middle age. And the disc also shows a problem: after a few generations it ended up as part of the shield of a warrior, who had no idea about its use.
But it is still an interesting discussion:)
I think what is required to form an advanced culture is that people are not busy all their time just with surviving. It requires a stable food supply that does not eat up all their time. And this food supply must be protected somehow from people who are more poor, who would take it otherwise. Also, it requires a certain number of people. A small village will not develop and maintain an advanced culture on its own.
The way this happened was by using agriculture, and by forming larger entities of population, which can defend against outsiders and provide safety.
It could be possible that hunters and gatherers somehow find a good enough food supply to feed a large group easily and safely. But I do not think that this could work over a longer time, for a larger population. They are mobile, normally with only sparse population density. If there is such a good food supply people will just stay around it, and population density will increase until the supply is depleted. Soon they will have to go back to fight for survival again.
Sorry but I really do not see a space for this in what we know about Human history. Humans left stone tools from many epochs for example. Agriculture is just 10000 years old (link). It has left traces that allow to make conclusions on the number of people living somewhere, and it would have left traces if it had existed before.
The hunters and gatherers who lived before left their traces in form of junk and bones from eaten animals. It is known that they lived in small groups and small total numbers.
Sorry but I think this thread shows a general lack of history education in American schools
You believe that there has been an epoch with an advanced culture with lots of large buildings, and archaeologists completely missed that? Seems unlikely that they find bones from all times, but can't find remains of houses or technology anymore.
I also never upgraded the processor alone. But what was upgraded was: harddisks, graphic cards, CD/DVD drives, TV card, sound card, network card, on an old PC a usb 2 card.
Nowadays I would not expect to upgrade the processor for about 10 years, these processors are just fast enough for everything. The computer itself has to last that long, so it needs options to upgrade the connectors and periphery.
I just see it as a sign for a lasting product. The seller believes in the reliability of the product, so he offers an extended warranty. So I prefer to buy things where the warranty is offered, but I don't take the warranty.
I meant a protocol that uses more bandwidth for normal SMS, not just broadcasts. That way everyone can communicate by SMS, because phone calls and data don't block all the bandwidth.
I also think that this stuff should not explode in a fire normally. Heat alone will not make it explode, there must be high pressure too. The fertilizer might explode if it is stored in a closed metal tank, but probably not if it is stored on a pile or in sacks. This would mean that they stored it in a dangerous way.
Yes, a special emergency protocol would be good, that reserves most of the band with for SMS and emergency services. And of course for people who pay extra.
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Question from outside the US: Why doesn't that get him fired, or warned at least?
Maybe they should use the PRISM system to search the inbox of National Geographic for emails from the NSA. These should be in the system already.
After thinking about this, it could be that the making them move never worked, that they always had to come up with doing something by themselves.
Would be nice but I never saw mimicry in our cats. They try out different thing when they want something, and learn what works and what doesn't. They can get pretty good at that when they get older. ...
If you want to show them how to do something it can work when you take them and make them move in the way they have to move. That way we managed to teach one cat how to open doors, which was not such a good idea though
In the linked npr article it is suspected that amoebas could mistake this virus for a bacteria because of its size and try to eat it. This way the virus would infect the amoeba.
If the size developed only for this most of the genetic material in it could be totally random and meaningless.
Just saw that they build the partially reflective layer by using mirrors with holes. Yes, this requires some space, but why do they not just coat the backside of the display with 10-15nm Chromium? That will reflect about 50% of the light uniformly, and not take any space.
My Nokia 5630 had a transflective LCD. This was always readable in the sun and even when the backlight was turned off. It works by having a partially reflecting layer between the LCD matrix and the backlight.
I really miss that feature on today's phones. I think they stopped selling this kind of displays because they look less good in the light conditions that you have in shops, since the partially reflecting layer also reflects some of the backlight.
Apple is known for pushing down to the limit what they pay to their suppliers, leaving nearly no profit to them. They would never pay to Intel what Intel is used to make.
I can see the flickering of fluorescent lights when I look beside them, so that they are at the edge of the viewing field of the eye. I think many people could do that if they learned how to.
It is 2 times the power frequency normally, 100Hzz here in Europe, must be 120Hz in USA then. If something is wrong with the lamp it can be 50Hz / 60 Hz.
The Lanthanides, also called rare earth elements, are not unstable.
Well, that is what they say, and pretty much it means that the HFTs themselves were using something like a stop loss order to protect their stocks.The problem is that this kind of orders even exists, and it can lead to market crashs even without HFTs: http://www.emarotta.com/stop-loss-orders-can-lose-money-quickly/
People use stop loss orders to protect themselves for too large losses. They give the order to sell their stocks if the price drops below a certain value. But if too many do this, the selling of many stocks will cause the price to crash, and the people selling will sell for very low prices.
It would be pretty easy for HFTs to abuse this, by pushing down the stock prices with some sale orders, triggering lots of stop loss orders and buying the cheap stocks right after that. They will get the stocks for a very low price, and can sell them later.
Why would flash crashes be a wrong decision for HFTs? I think they could trigger many stop loss orders of other traders, and in that way buy stocks for low prices.
"That said, restrictions on the content available to young people via mobile networks have been in place for a number of years."
That shit blocked ICQ and the facebook chat for me. Gonna be fun times when they apply this to the whole internet.
Correction: the societies that made Stonehenge and the Nebra sky disk probably had agriculture already.
On the other side hunters and gatherers built Stonehenge, and found relations between the position of stars and the sun, and the time of the year. The Nebra sky disk, which was found in my area, is really interesting regarding this. Seems to me that some priests or spiritualists acquired a quite impressive knowledge for such a form of society.
But still this was far away from the development status of the middle age. And the disc also shows a problem: after a few generations it ended up as part of the shield of a warrior, who had no idea about its use.
But it is still an interesting discussion :)
I think what is required to form an advanced culture is that people are not busy all their time just with surviving. It requires a stable food supply that does not eat up all their time. And this food supply must be protected somehow from people who are more poor, who would take it otherwise. Also, it requires a certain number of people. A small village will not develop and maintain an advanced culture on its own.
The way this happened was by using agriculture, and by forming larger entities of population, which can defend against outsiders and provide safety.
It could be possible that hunters and gatherers somehow find a good enough food supply to feed a large group easily and safely. But I do not think that this could work over a longer time, for a larger population. They are mobile, normally with only sparse population density. If there is such a good food supply people will just stay around it, and population density will increase until the supply is depleted. Soon they will have to go back to fight for survival again.
Sorry but I really do not see a space for this in what we know about Human history. Humans left stone tools from many epochs for example. Agriculture is just 10000 years old (link). It has left traces that allow to make conclusions on the number of people living somewhere, and it would have left traces if it had existed before.
The hunters and gatherers who lived before left their traces in form of junk and bones from eaten animals. It is known that they lived in small groups and small total numbers.
Sorry but I think this thread shows a general lack of history education in American schools
You believe that there has been an epoch with an advanced culture with lots of large buildings, and archaeologists completely missed that? Seems unlikely that they find bones from all times, but can't find remains of houses or technology anymore.
I also never upgraded the processor alone. But what was upgraded was: harddisks, graphic cards, CD/DVD drives, TV card, sound card, network card, on an old PC a usb 2 card.
Nowadays I would not expect to upgrade the processor for about 10 years, these processors are just fast enough for everything. The computer itself has to last that long, so it needs options to upgrade the connectors and periphery.
I just see it as a sign for a lasting product. The seller believes in the reliability of the product, so he offers an extended warranty. So I prefer to buy things where the warranty is offered, but I don't take the warranty.
Never had a bluetooth headset, but if you just leave it on all the time, wouldn't you get annoyed by having to recharge the battery so often?
But is there anything that stops merchants from buying unlocked phones abroad, and selling them in the USA?
I meant a protocol that uses more bandwidth for normal SMS, not just broadcasts. That way everyone can communicate by SMS, because phone calls and data don't block all the bandwidth.
I also think that this stuff should not explode in a fire normally. Heat alone will not make it explode, there must be high pressure too. The fertilizer might explode if it is stored in a closed metal tank, but probably not if it is stored on a pile or in sacks. This would mean that they stored it in a dangerous way.
Yes, a special emergency protocol would be good, that reserves most of the band with for SMS and emergency services. And of course for people who pay extra.