Problem with that logic is that these mice have had this ability turned on with a handful of genes. Therefore the "complex" structures are not too hard to regenerate. The dividing line seems to be warm vs. cold bloodedness, not structural complexity.
Except the regeneration process would be about the same rate as the growth process (i.e. it would take much more than 2 weeks) AND during said time it would require more energy. Another poster has brought (several times or several posters have brought it up) that scarring and regeneration seem to be different sides to the same healing process. Scarring though, being quicker than regeneration seems to have edged it out in terms of usefulness for mammals by virtue of speed. Since mammals have consistently high metabolisms (compared to cold blooded creatures) scarring is better because food is constantly required unlike reptiles which can get by with less food over the same period.
A point that most people miss when they think of evolution. Sure (insert favorite animal organ/ability) might be nice to have, but in the context of overall reproduction, the energy costs involved with either growing the tissue involved and/or performing the function might well reduce the ability of a given species member to reproduce.
Take the example of the mole. The mole branched off from a sighted rodent when it started living entirely underground so it had fully functional eyes. Since the branch point, the mole shouldn't have lost so much visual capacity from just nonuse degeneration (genes which no longer have a selection for or against will eventually deteriorate into nonexistance). In other words, blind moles had an advantage over sighted moles. Eyes take a lot of energy to grow and keep functional, the moles without as much eye tissue had an advantage in they could spend more energy on reproduction and less on eyesight (that wasn't useful from a survival standpoint).
Given the extra costs (medically), lost morale and loss of a trained soldier that comes from having a maimed soldier, soldiers being able to recover fully from any injury would be a major advantage.
Solution will come when plastic processors are readily available. Printed with inkjet-like technology on cheap plastic sheets, you have a short range, low cost rfid scanner and maybe a pressure sensitive film that you lay on the bottom of your cabinets. The pressure sensing can give an estimate of weight, take the difference between the weight before taking it out and after replacing in the cabinet (it will know which item is removed). Between that and a database of product container weights (that or it's encoded with the rfid tag) and you know how much of a given item is left and when to reorder.
While the post (I assume) was intended to be humorous, part of the physical security should include shielding/isolation to avoid someone with RF or inductive pickup. A wireless adapter would be pretty useless in such an environment.
That's an issue though, these tickets are usually mailed out and you don't necessarily know that you need to take down witness contact information until way after the point of the offence. Not only that, but maybe you don't remember the incident that well because weeks have passed.
I'm against automated law enforcement processes like this because they remove one check (of the checks and balances on the government). With machines enforcing any law, the legislature effectively has more power than they should. Previously, stupid laws or poorly written laws would be enforced with a grain of compassion and sensibility (depending on the police officer in question). It's a bad precedent to set, justice isn't just a set of laws and blind enforcement of them.
That brings up an interesting question, is the license with the CD or the jewel case? Or does it take a transfer of both to make the license transfer?
IANAL but I would say the jewel case/liner notes etc, since you are allowed to make a backup of the media, implying the media could be damaged/destroyed/lost at some point in the future without the loss of the license.
AMD does have their own fabs. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/AboutAMD /0,,51_52_9999,00.html
From that page on AMD's website...
AMD maintains world-class manufacturing facilities (known as "fabs") across North America, Europe, and Asia. In every AMD facility, we use advanced decision-making and control technologies to optimize, integrate, and automate material processing at nearly every stage in the manufacturing process.
Minus the managerese, basically says they run every aspect of manufacturing. Now, I am unaware whether they do any outsourcing for additional fab capacity but they do run their own fabs.
Diamond is probably the next big semiconductor base. Very high melting point, excellent thermal conductivity, abundant raw material, workable manufacturing (now with carbon being base for so much nanotech research, making diamond film for semiconductor will be easier) and far stronger.
The GP (GGP?) was talking about the amount per hour was high, that could do better with mpeg4 divx etc. Both are very processor intensive to encode and wouldn't work with mpeg2 encoder chips.
Arbitrarily complex chemistry systems can and do (when the temperature is neither to high or low) move to self catalyzing reactions. A self catalyzing reaction is a series of chemicals, 1 catalyzes the formation of 2, 2 the formation of 3, etc. until the last catalyzes the formation of 1. Thus, given raw materials more of the series of this chain of chemicals will increase.
The do part was a simple chem simulation that shows that even without the myriad of potential chemical reactions that are possible with real chemistry, that as long as some combinations would be catalysts for other reactions (either constructive or destructive), that self catalyzing systems would evolve.
From this, it's not hard to imagine ponds in the proto-earth with their own chemical chains. Geologic events and even just the hydrological cycle would mix these ponds together in part or whole, leading to new chains and to more complex molecules. Some chemical sequences would be destroyed by mixing in a very similar process to evolution.
At some point, a chemical chain manages to make a wall to block out contaminents. Somewhere, DNA or RNA or some precursor that performs the same function comes about and because of the advantage it provides, spreads rapidly. Combine the two and you've got a very basic cell.
I haven't been here that long (yeah yeah, I must be new here) but I've seen this exact same post a couple times before. Standard troll and lots of people bite.
The original poster, if not a total liar, was a moron to switch 7 machines at once without a trial on one of them. I have a feeling, it's more of a BS troll than anything that someone (or several people) just won't let die.
1. The person asking the question was talking about for a business which usually gets a much higher upstream bandwidth. Here, at a medium sized business of roughly 500 computers, we probably have more bandwidth available (up and down) than a single system can max out.
2. You don't back up everything everytime. You do a regular full backup at a week or monthly interval and then incremental or differential backup from that.
3. Even full backups aren't everything. You organize the drives so unimportant or easily installed or impossible to restore items (such as the OS) are excluded.
Sounds like an interesting idea. One potential problem I see is that some IT departments are staffed by complete nimrods. Other than that, intriguing idea.
It's not unpatriotic to want to keep the freedoms that where fought for so long ago.
I've been accused of "hating America" by the local neoconservative here in the office. What he and others like him just don't get, is that wanting America to remain free is not hating America. You don't have to put up with an overbearing police state to be 'safe'. The same tired old arguments get dredged up again and again... our founding fathers blah blah... good christian values. He misses the irony is saying that they wanted a strong christian government. Seems to me that they had seen just how poorly that worked and were fighting to get away from that.
The old saying is true, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
It's been available for months actually. May not have been advertised but if you went to toolbar on yahoo with firefox it prompted for firefox toolbar beta download.
Slashdot Mirror
Then... 1. Get tin foil hat 2. Put on wireless antenna 3. Internet secured
Problem with that logic is that these mice have had this ability turned on with a handful of genes. Therefore the "complex" structures are not too hard to regenerate. The dividing line seems to be warm vs. cold bloodedness, not structural complexity.
Except the regeneration process would be about the same rate as the growth process (i.e. it would take much more than 2 weeks) AND during said time it would require more energy. Another poster has brought (several times or several posters have brought it up) that scarring and regeneration seem to be different sides to the same healing process. Scarring though, being quicker than regeneration seems to have edged it out in terms of usefulness for mammals by virtue of speed. Since mammals have consistently high metabolisms (compared to cold blooded creatures) scarring is better because food is constantly required unlike reptiles which can get by with less food over the same period.
A point that most people miss when they think of evolution. Sure (insert favorite animal organ/ability) might be nice to have, but in the context of overall reproduction, the energy costs involved with either growing the tissue involved and/or performing the function might well reduce the ability of a given species member to reproduce.
Take the example of the mole. The mole branched off from a sighted rodent when it started living entirely underground so it had fully functional eyes. Since the branch point, the mole shouldn't have lost so much visual capacity from just nonuse degeneration (genes which no longer have a selection for or against will eventually deteriorate into nonexistance). In other words, blind moles had an advantage over sighted moles. Eyes take a lot of energy to grow and keep functional, the moles without as much eye tissue had an advantage in they could spend more energy on reproduction and less on eyesight (that wasn't useful from a survival standpoint).
Given the extra costs (medically), lost morale and loss of a trained soldier that comes from having a maimed soldier, soldiers being able to recover fully from any injury would be a major advantage.
No, but I do know of several free PDF creators. Like another poster said, PDF is not meant for documents that need further editing.
Note, the above links are not endorsements or recommendations
Solution will come when plastic processors are readily available. Printed with inkjet-like technology on cheap plastic sheets, you have a short range, low cost rfid scanner and maybe a pressure sensitive film that you lay on the bottom of your cabinets. The pressure sensing can give an estimate of weight, take the difference between the weight before taking it out and after replacing in the cabinet (it will know which item is removed). Between that and a database of product container weights (that or it's encoded with the rfid tag) and you know how much of a given item is left and when to reorder.
While the post (I assume) was intended to be humorous, part of the physical security should include shielding/isolation to avoid someone with RF or inductive pickup. A wireless adapter would be pretty useless in such an environment.
That's an issue though, these tickets are usually mailed out and you don't necessarily know that you need to take down witness contact information until way after the point of the offence. Not only that, but maybe you don't remember the incident that well because weeks have passed.
I'm against automated law enforcement processes like this because they remove one check (of the checks and balances on the government). With machines enforcing any law, the legislature effectively has more power than they should. Previously, stupid laws or poorly written laws would be enforced with a grain of compassion and sensibility (depending on the police officer in question). It's a bad precedent to set, justice isn't just a set of laws and blind enforcement of them.
That brings up an interesting question, is the license with the CD or the jewel case? Or does it take a transfer of both to make the license transfer?
IANAL but I would say the jewel case/liner notes etc, since you are allowed to make a backup of the media, implying the media could be damaged/destroyed/lost at some point in the future without the loss of the license.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/AboutAM
From that page on AMD's website...
Minus the managerese, basically says they run every aspect of manufacturing. Now, I am unaware whether they do any outsourcing for additional fab capacity but they do run their own fabs.
IIRC, they don't have the fab capacity to take on more of the market (yet).
Steve, is that you?
Diamond is probably the next big semiconductor base. Very high melting point, excellent thermal conductivity, abundant raw material, workable manufacturing (now with carbon being base for so much nanotech research, making diamond film for semiconductor will be easier) and far stronger.
The GP (GGP?) was talking about the amount per hour was high, that could do better with mpeg4 divx etc. Both are very processor intensive to encode and wouldn't work with mpeg2 encoder chips.
That is freaking hilarious. I don't know how that didn't get modded up.
Arbitrarily complex chemistry systems can and do (when the temperature is neither to high or low) move to self catalyzing reactions. A self catalyzing reaction is a series of chemicals, 1 catalyzes the formation of 2, 2 the formation of 3, etc. until the last catalyzes the formation of 1. Thus, given raw materials more of the series of this chain of chemicals will increase.
The do part was a simple chem simulation that shows that even without the myriad of potential chemical reactions that are possible with real chemistry, that as long as some combinations would be catalysts for other reactions (either constructive or destructive), that self catalyzing systems would evolve.
From this, it's not hard to imagine ponds in the proto-earth with their own chemical chains. Geologic events and even just the hydrological cycle would mix these ponds together in part or whole, leading to new chains and to more complex molecules. Some chemical sequences would be destroyed by mixing in a very similar process to evolution.
At some point, a chemical chain manages to make a wall to block out contaminents. Somewhere, DNA or RNA or some precursor that performs the same function comes about and because of the advantage it provides, spreads rapidly. Combine the two and you've got a very basic cell.
I haven't been here that long (yeah yeah, I must be new here) but I've seen this exact same post a couple times before. Standard troll and lots of people bite.
The original poster, if not a total liar, was a moron to switch 7 machines at once without a trial on one of them. I have a feeling, it's more of a BS troll than anything that someone (or several people) just won't let die.
Well then, nothing for it but burn the history books and get that lobotomy I've been eyeing.
1. The person asking the question was talking about for a business which usually gets a much higher upstream bandwidth. Here, at a medium sized business of roughly 500 computers, we probably have more bandwidth available (up and down) than a single system can max out.
2. You don't back up everything everytime. You do a regular full backup at a week or monthly interval and then incremental or differential backup from that. 3. Even full backups aren't everything. You organize the drives so unimportant or easily installed or impossible to restore items (such as the OS) are excluded.
Sounds like an interesting idea. One potential problem I see is that some IT departments are staffed by complete nimrods. Other than that, intriguing idea.
It's not unpatriotic to want to keep the freedoms that where fought for so long ago.
I've been accused of "hating America" by the local neoconservative here in the office. What he and others like him just don't get, is that wanting America to remain free is not hating America. You don't have to put up with an overbearing police state to be 'safe'. The same tired old arguments get dredged up again and again... our founding fathers blah blah... good christian values. He misses the irony is saying that they wanted a strong christian government. Seems to me that they had seen just how poorly that worked and were fighting to get away from that.
The old saying is true, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Longer than a few weeks, since before June I do believe.
It's been available for months actually. May not have been advertised but if you went to toolbar on yahoo with firefox it prompted for firefox toolbar beta download.
But just look how well that's worked for the French. Did they reform by tacking on a random letter on the end of each word and saying its silent?
"The new improved spelling system for French, brought to you by the French dictionary manufacturing association!"
Yeah, english spelling system (such as it is) sucks but seems like we dodged a bullet there!