the pulling force of 1 micronewton generates a huge stress of 70 newtons per square millimeter. That stress, which the bacterial adhesions could sometimes withstand, is equivalent to five tons per square inch -- three or four cars balanced atop a quarter.
Tensile loading, the web site I linked to seems to say:
They used a micromanipulator to trap the cell portion of the bacterium and pull it directly away from the pipette, measuring the force of strain. In 14 trials, the scientists found they had to apply a force of 0.11 to 2.26 micronewtons per cell before the bacterium detached.
I'd never heard of this new "cars/quarter" unit (invented by the same guy who gave us the LoC unit, presumably), so I had to look it up to see that this glue can hold around 10,000 psi (70,000 kPa).
Because this is a virus, it won't even have to bother with that. The host application can only run on one type of computer, so the virus can just recognize that (most likely) when it's writing to the file and put the correct form of jmp in to jump to the code for the correct architecture.
Of course, writing any other binary, one that isn't a virus, would be much more interesting and challenging.
I will be too, considering that an ELF executable has to start with "7f 45 4c 46," and a PE executable has to start with "50 45 0 0." If either those isn't there, then it won't be recognized as that type of file.
AFAIK, light doesn't have a reference frame. Likewise, nothing can travel at a velocity of light and have a reference frame.
By relativity, the velocity of light in all reference frames is equal/constant. Therefore, if you were in light's reference frame, then light would be moving past you at c. However, you are in light's reference frame, so you are moving with the light and the light is not moving past you. Contradiction.
Of course, I'm not an actual physicist, so take this with a grain of salt.
At the same time, the population of Facebook is also expiring. The people who are finishing college may stay on, but they probably won't bother to check as often, so they'll gradually stop coming and looking at ads. The people who are on Myspace might stay on for an indefinite amount of time, and they can always bring anyone in.
I, for one, am happy for marketers. Before this "reform," they would probably never have the empowering experience of seeing their names on patents. Now, they get to patent things all the time; patents aren't restricted to scientists, engineers, and other inventors anymore. Isn't that a good thing?
After 2 years of running ME, it blue-screened every 2 hours. After 2 years of Windows-98, it crashed every week. After 4 years of XP, it crashes once a year. I'd say that ME has a few problems.
200GB internal hard drive+enclosure: $80. Seems to be pretty obvious to me (at least if you don't have firewire 800, and you don't care exactly how small the drive is).
Microscopic proteins can simulate protein folding pretty well, so I can't see why we'd need such a huge amount of processing power to do the same. Converting a megaton of sand into processors would give us around 10^21 FLOPS (approximately).
No, authors own the copyrights of the works they produce (unless it's work-for-hire, which The Da Vinci Code certainly is not). That is why it the "Da Vinci Code Author Sued" and not the "Da Vinci Code Publisher Sued."
But it's going to take m cycles to load the data, no matter what, so RISC chips can't decrease the maximum time, but only increase the minimum time. How does that help us make the program faster?
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I will, if you give me $10,000 right away.
Generally, chips aren't supposed to have localized heating problems. Either it should all have a problem, or none of it should.
I doubt that limiting streaming internet music to WMA or Real will significantly limit the ability of the iPod to stream music off of the internet.
These "legs" that you're talking about - what do they do? Do they just move up?
the pulling force of 1 micronewton generates a huge stress of 70 newtons per square millimeter. That stress, which the bacterial adhesions could sometimes withstand, is equivalent to five tons per square inch -- three or four cars balanced atop a quarter.
"Pulling" implies tension to me.
Tensile loading, the web site I linked to seems to say:
They used a micromanipulator to trap the cell portion of the bacterium and pull it directly away from the pipette, measuring the force of strain. In 14 trials, the scientists found they had to apply a force of 0.11 to 2.26 micronewtons per cell before the bacterium detached.
I'd never heard of this new "cars/quarter" unit (invented by the same guy who gave us the LoC unit, presumably), so I had to look it up to see that this glue can hold around 10,000 psi (70,000 kPa).
Yes, but we've all heard all of that before. What we have not heard before is Negroponte saying that Linux is too 'Fat'.
How many tabs can you have open in IE with less than 128 megabytes of RAM?
Because this is a virus, it won't even have to bother with that. The host application can only run on one type of computer, so the virus can just recognize that (most likely) when it's writing to the file and put the correct form of jmp in to jump to the code for the correct architecture.
Of course, writing any other binary, one that isn't a virus, would be much more interesting and challenging.
I will be too, considering that an ELF executable has to start with "7f 45 4c 46," and a PE executable has to start with "50 45 0 0." If either those isn't there, then it won't be recognized as that type of file.
Considering that Sisyphusean isn't a real word, but Sisyphean is, I think he may have got the spelling right.
(links go to answers.com, but the OED agrees)
No! Don't tip off Cthulhu to the fact that you exist, you fool! You'll doom us all!
AFAIK, light doesn't have a reference frame. Likewise, nothing can travel at a velocity of light and have a reference frame.
By relativity, the velocity of light in all reference frames is equal/constant. Therefore, if you were in light's reference frame, then light would be moving past you at c. However, you are in light's reference frame, so you are moving with the light and the light is not moving past you. Contradiction.
Of course, I'm not an actual physicist, so take this with a grain of salt.
At the same time, the population of Facebook is also expiring. The people who are finishing college may stay on, but they probably won't bother to check as often, so they'll gradually stop coming and looking at ads. The people who are on Myspace might stay on for an indefinite amount of time, and they can always bring anyone in.
I, for one, am happy for marketers. Before this "reform," they would probably never have the empowering experience of seeing their names on patents. Now, they get to patent things all the time; patents aren't restricted to scientists, engineers, and other inventors anymore. Isn't that a good thing?
After 2 years of running ME, it blue-screened every 2 hours. After 2 years of Windows-98, it crashed every week. After 4 years of XP, it crashes once a year. I'd say that ME has a few problems.
Those crashed into the ocean anyway, so they might as well take advantage of gravity.
Exactly. Just like how actual scientists have degrees in scientology.
200GB internal hard drive+enclosure: $80.
Seems to be pretty obvious to me (at least if you don't have firewire 800, and you don't care exactly how small the drive is).
Microscopic proteins can simulate protein folding pretty well, so I can't see why we'd need such a huge amount of processing power to do the same. Converting a megaton of sand into processors would give us around 10^21 FLOPS (approximately).
Perhaps, but if they did not still own the copyright to their book, they would be unable to sue anyone for breach of copyright.
No, authors own the copyrights of the works they produce (unless it's work-for-hire, which The Da Vinci Code certainly is not). That is why it the "Da Vinci Code Author Sued" and not the "Da Vinci Code Publisher Sued."
But it's going to take m cycles to load the data, no matter what, so RISC chips can't decrease the maximum time, but only increase the minimum time. How does that help us make the program faster?