Why do all discussions of Rodinia talk about a single super-continent? How do we know that there was only ONE super-continent on one side and the rest was H2O? couldn't there have been 2 or 3 other landmasses that are now at the bottom of the ocean or even melted back into the earth core by now?
" Safety devices in cars are the major reason that fuel efficiency hasn't significantly improved..."
Actually some wt has come from the added safety devices. But the main reason fuel efficiency hasn't significantly improved is because all improvements to the design of cars (and their engines) have gone to increase size power and performance of cars at the same time. Just about every model is redesigned to be bigger more powerful and better performance as well as safety. A friend of mine went to work for Ford straight out of college in 1994, at the time they were rolling in cash bonuses every quarter. His boss told them that thing should be good for Ford as long a gas prices stay low, consumers loved the gas hogs that Ford was producing and Fords leadership knew thing would change if Oil when up but they did nothing to prepare for it. They had a good run but now are getting socked with a fleet of poor gas high fuel and underfunded pension funds.
Now that Detroit is hemorrhaging the auto industry will start to retool and we could have very efficient fleets rolling of the lines in a few (5-10) years. However, it may be that most of em are produced by companies not HQ in Detroit.
"Small car safety: While small cars are safer now than before, so are large cars. In
every category of passenger vehicle (car, SUV, or pickup truck), the risk
death is higher in crashes of smaller, lighter models. For vehicles 1-3 years
old during 2006, minicars experienced 106 driver deaths per million registered
vehicles compared with 69 driver deaths in large cars.
People often choose very light cars for fuel economy, but "you don't have
buy the smallest, lightest car to get one that's easy on fuel consumption," Lund
points out. "The Toyota Prius, for example, earns good front and side crash test
ratings. It gets better fuel economy than a microcar, but it's bigger and weighs
more so we would expect it would be more protective in serious crashes.""
Most pet owners have suffered the loss of a very dear and special pet. And while owners would like to keep their dear friend with them forever, very few would actually go so far as to entertain the idea of cloning.
To most pet lovers, that cherished "once-in-a-lifetime" dog or cat should remain just that. In February of 2004, the AAVS (American Anti-Vivisection Society) commissioned Opinion Research Corporation to conduct a national survey to assess public opinion about cloning pets. Eighty percent of the respondents were not in favor of cloning companion animals or the selling of genetically altered animals as pets. But for the 13% of respondents that are in favor of pet cloning, financial issues may well be the obstacle.
Genetic Savings & Clone, a gene banking and cloning service for pets, is currently offering to store a treasured pet's genetic material in the hopes that the owner will take advantage of cloning that pet in the future. Currently the cost to "bank" a pet's DNA, or genetic material, with GSC (Genetic Savings & Clone) varies from $295 to $1,395 plus $100-$150 annually for storage fees. The cost for cloning is a different story. According to the GSC website, expect to pay $32,000. And to date they have only been successful with cloning cats.
Yet, for all of the technology and expense involved, exact replicas of cloned animals are not always produced. In fact, due to unusual genetics, calico cats will rarely produce clones that physically resemble the donor. Cloning opponents contend that an exact replica of a pet is impossible, as training, experience, and environment are keys to an individual's behavior and personality. Even worse animal that have been cloned often have severe health problems, and a short life expectancy.
The industry is almost totally unregulated and strong opinions on both sides of the cloning issue seek to educate the public about the benefits, or lack thereof, of pet cloning. While tremendous publicity accompanies cloning successes, the public rarely hears about animal cloning failures.
The greatest publicity surrounds the cloning of pets when actually the majority of cloning is intended for agriculture, biomedical research, and propagation of endangered species. But in all cases, there are potential commercial applications.
For example, HorseCloning.com will make a clone of your horse for $375,000 per 100 mares implanted plus a patent royalty fee of 15%, based on the estimated value of each clone. According to their web site information, "All sales are final," and "even though no one can guarantee a specific result, you could hit the jackpot." Last but not least, "due to the complexity of the science, results cannot be guaranteed."
The cloning science is similar in most species, although there are some challenges with the cloning of dogs. Dogs have poorly understood reproductive physiology compared to other species and fewer estrus cycles.
Basically, the cloning procedure begins with collecting the DNA of the animal to be cloned. The tissue is grown and the cells are preserved while being treated to prevent them from differentiating into a particular cell type (hair, skin, nerve cell).
Eggs are taken from random females for implantation, and the genetic material from these eggs is removed. Cells and eggs are fused together to become cloned embryos. Surrogate females are then hormonally treated to synchronize their fertile periods and are then implanted with the cloned embryos. In the best scenario, the surrogate pregnancy produces a live, healthy offspring.
While moral and ethical issues of cloning pets continue to be argued, both sides seem to be closer concerning the problem of endangered species. Betty Dresser, Director of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans says, "Saving habitat may not be enough. Any tool for saving endangered species is important. Cloning is just another reproductive tool, like in-vitro
I rode "Bud One" a 15+ years ago. It is slow and we stayed low but I would not describe it as stable. It was summer time in Central Florida and while there was no real wind, the air ship pitched constantly due to up currents from sun heated roads and down currents over ponds and lakes.
Pixmas use CLI-8 inks that run about $14.25 per color for refills, while the PGI-5BK black tank for text lists at $16.25. Based on the claim of 300 pages per cartridge, we estimate a cost of about 19 cents per page of graphics, 30 cents per 4x6 photo, and 5 cents per page of text. An optical monitoring system tracks usage and offers a warning before each tank runs dry.
From http://reviews.cnet.com/inkjet-printers/canon-pixma-ip4200/4505-3156_7-31457715.html
No, all I am saying is that there is a ready funding source (did you even follow the link before you posted). Charge the 1st world school the 2 for 1 price, I am sure it would still be cheaper than what they are paying right now.
Personally I think children in Africa living in poverty need a safe water supply and a safe place to live more than they need a unproven educational laptop. According to the story in the link most schools in the US discontinue free laptop programs after a few years b/c they don't work. Make the OLPC program work in a US school and you may have something for the rest of the world.
Get the laptops in the hands of 1st world schools and encourage users to develop open source lesson plans that can be freely shared and modified. If the cheap laptops really do help education in the 1st world they can then be adpted for 3rd world in phase 2. Offering a cheap but proven system will be a no brainier for the 3rd world.
Interesting as these trends may be, they will not assist in making the odds of winning the MegaMillions lottery any better if the system is truly fair and random. However, in the event there is some peculiar factor skewing the ball selection such that any of these trends continue, a player stands a mildly better chance of winning a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers.
Lidocaine (and capsaicin to some degree) would prevent the nerves from ever signaling -- they block the sodium channel that is necessary for nerves to fire. No firing -- no pain, *and* no no neuronal changes, and hopefully no long term pain. Lidocaine wears off after 2 hours or so, while it seems that capsaicin has much longer densitization effects.
As a veterinarian I tend to use a lot more bupivacaine then lidocaine as bupivacaine lasts longer. In school, we were using rubbing alcohol in dairy cows with Hairy Heel Warts (papillomatous digital dermatitis) to provide nerve blocks (aka nerve damage) that lasted for weeks. While it worked great then, I don't think practice is common out side of research.
I work as a Tech for one of the big notebook companies in Australia....no drivers available...
I still don't see any certification or claims made on our new machines that guarantee 100% XP compatibility yet they still bitch and moan despite their own ignorance....Now for 2nd half of the year its been daily complaints and death threats...
Would the ignorance part be not reading your companies compatible chart or buying from your company and expecting one of the big notebook companies in Australia to fully support their products. Since you are getting "daily complaints and death threats" it is clear the market wants your hardware to fully supported both OS. Hopefully a competing manufacture will realize there is a market there and soon you will not get so many calls.
Why is it so hard to find the Windows Experience Index number on new computers? I am in the market for a new laptop; while I will wipe of windows as soon as I buy it I would like to use the MS's Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) rankings so I can compare apples to apples on different chips and graphics card configurations. I can't find any online sellers that list the Windows Experience Index next to the other specs. Are the manufacturers resisting MS's Windows System Assessment Tool because it makes their hardware brand a commodity that can easily be replaced by another manufacturer's brand.
People always forget the most obvious privacy invasion. A stranger walks up to you and tells you the names of children, their date of birth, what schools they go to, what classes they are in, their grades, what time they go to school and what time they come home and how they travel between home and school, the names of their friends and to top that off hands you a series of recent photographs of them. Honestly, how would you feel. You don't just protect your privacy, you protect the privacy of all those people around you, especially your family.
The laws should really be changed...
No the laws don't need to be changed your teenager just needs to stop posting to MySpace.
"CRASH WORTHINESS
The first crashworthiness attributes to consider are vehicle size and weight. Small, light vehicles generally offer less protection than larger, heavier ones. There's less structure to absorb crash energy, so deaths and injuries are more likely to occur in both single- and multiple-vehicle crashes. So if safety is one of your major considerations PASS UP VERY SMALL, LIGHT VEHICLES.
This doesn't mean you have to buy the heaviest vehicle you can
find. It wouldn't necessarily be safer because those weighing morethan about 4,500 pounds afford only small injury risk reductions. Meanwhile they increase the injury risks for people in the other vehicles with which they collide.
While the risk of death generally is higher in lighter cars, SUVs, and pickups than in heavier ones, size and weight don't tell the whole story. Some light car models, for example, are safer than others. Some midweight SUVs are safer than others. And so on. This is because some models have more crashworthy designs.
You can't tell this by looking at the vehicles. You need crash
test results to make comparisons.
The "experimental artificial blood" was a product called Oxyglobin. While it is approved for dogs it may still be considered off label when used in cats. However the reason your cat bulked up was not from the Oxyglobin, it was because the parasites were gone. It is likely the parasites were causing a sub-clinical illness (and wt loss) for months or years before getting sick.
(That's the problem with the mod system here; the topics I read enough to moderate I also want to post on. I think I've only used up all my points once...)
Don't worry looks like the younger generation will not be interested in posting they will just scan the comments to find one they like and mod it up. So should work it's self out in the long run.
what they want is accuracy of the reported forecast.
So you need to look at the time the reported forecast was made and go with the most current. NWS updates forecast every 6 hrs the time is different depending on the forecast product. When there is bad weather they update more frequently. If you know the NWS update is on 15 mins old and the Accuweather forecast is 4 hrs old go with NWS. If you don't know the age of the "Reported" forecast you have no way of determining if conditions have changed. Weather forecasts are not like soap or cars were you can just go with a brand name.
Kudos to this guy for the work he put into the effort but it is really comparing apples and oranges. A forecast is a time sensitive product. You can't look at the forecast provided on day x from two different sources and compare them unless the forecast was provided at the same time of day.
The National Weather Service collects all the weather data used by forecasters, they also provide the 1st forecast. AccuWeather and others take the National Weather Service forecast then watch the new data (using National Weather Service provided data) to offer a refined forecast a few hours latter. Who do you think is going to be the most accurate the guy who provides the first forecast or the guy who waits for more data and then refines the for cast? AccuWeather's has statistics that show they are more accurate then the National Weather Service but if you used the AccuWeather forecast then waited for the next National Weather Service update I bet National Weather Service would be more accurate.
I am surprised that this guy used the weather.com and not the National Weather Service for the actually temp for all his calculations. (It doesn't matter b/c I am sure weather.com is right from National Weather Service data). He did point out that AccuWeather is the only one who provides forecasts > 10 days in advance.
My preference for weather forecasts is:
National Weather Service
AccuWeather (easy to understand graphics and 2 week forecasts)
The Weather Underground (Years ago they were the1st to provided free access to hurricane computer models)
Don't worry about getting one. If you want want one the market will work it out. Someone with a gun in the 3rd world will realize they can get cash for these laptops from people in the 1st world.
Do it your self and you can fine tune it. With MythDora It's recommended that you do not do an "apt-get dist-upgrade," "apt-get upgrade" or "yum upgrade" as you run the risk of breaking something.
If you were my client I would likely think you are nuts too:)
However, you are right that pets can do just fine on a balanced diet of healthy people food (some lean meat but more fruits and vegetables). The reason we recommend dog food is most people don't cook well for themselves asking them to cook for their dog doesn't go over well. The most common medical problem in dogs (after behavior if you count that) is obesity. If we can get overweight dog to lose weight it will add 2 years to their life (and that is 2 years w/o medical problems associated with aging). Most pets that are overweight get people food. If dog eat like an average American they start to look like an average American. I have several clients who cook for their dog (usually due to allergies) the dogs are not overweight and eat better than I do.
BTW, In my experience, every person that promotes a raw meat diet for dogs is nuts or selling something, usually both.
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Why do all discussions of Rodinia talk about a single super-continent? How do we know that there was only ONE super-continent on one side and the rest was H2O? couldn't there have been 2 or 3 other landmasses that are now at the bottom of the ocean or even melted back into the earth core by now?
Actually some wt has come from the added safety devices. But the main reason fuel efficiency hasn't significantly improved is because all improvements to the design of cars (and their engines) have gone to increase size power and performance of cars at the same time. Just about every model is redesigned to be bigger more powerful and better performance as well as safety. A friend of mine went to work for Ford straight out of college in 1994, at the time they were rolling in cash bonuses every quarter. His boss told them that thing should be good for Ford as long a gas prices stay low, consumers loved the gas hogs that Ford was producing and Fords leadership knew thing would change if Oil when up but they did nothing to prepare for it. They had a good run but now are getting socked with a fleet of poor gas high fuel and underfunded pension funds.
Now that Detroit is hemorrhaging the auto industry will start to retool and we could have very efficient fleets rolling of the lines in a few (5-10) years. However, it may be that most of em are produced by companies not HQ in Detroit.
"Small car safety: While small cars are safer now than before, so are large cars. In every category of passenger vehicle (car, SUV, or pickup truck), the risk death is higher in crashes of smaller, lighter models. For vehicles 1-3 years old during 2006, minicars experienced 106 driver deaths per million registered vehicles compared with 69 driver deaths in large cars.
People often choose very light cars for fuel economy, but "you don't have buy the smallest, lightest car to get one that's easy on fuel consumption," Lund points out. "The Toyota Prius, for example, earns good front and side crash test ratings. It gets better fuel economy than a microcar, but it's bigger and weighs more so we would expect it would be more protective in serious crashes.""
To most pet lovers, that cherished "once-in-a-lifetime" dog or cat should remain just that. In February of 2004, the AAVS (American Anti-Vivisection Society) commissioned Opinion Research Corporation to conduct a national survey to assess public opinion about cloning pets. Eighty percent of the respondents were not in favor of cloning companion animals or the selling of genetically altered animals as pets. But for the 13% of respondents that are in favor of pet cloning, financial issues may well be the obstacle.
Genetic Savings & Clone, a gene banking and cloning service for pets, is currently offering to store a treasured pet's genetic material in the hopes that the owner will take advantage of cloning that pet in the future. Currently the cost to "bank" a pet's DNA, or genetic material, with GSC (Genetic Savings & Clone) varies from $295 to $1,395 plus $100-$150 annually for storage fees. The cost for cloning is a different story. According to the GSC website, expect to pay $32,000. And to date they have only been successful with cloning cats.
Yet, for all of the technology and expense involved, exact replicas of cloned animals are not always produced. In fact, due to unusual genetics, calico cats will rarely produce clones that physically resemble the donor. Cloning opponents contend that an exact replica of a pet is impossible, as training, experience, and environment are keys to an individual's behavior and personality. Even worse animal that have been cloned often have severe health problems, and a short life expectancy.
The industry is almost totally unregulated and strong opinions on both sides of the cloning issue seek to educate the public about the benefits, or lack thereof, of pet cloning. While tremendous publicity accompanies cloning successes, the public rarely hears about animal cloning failures.
The greatest publicity surrounds the cloning of pets when actually the majority of cloning is intended for agriculture, biomedical research, and propagation of endangered species. But in all cases, there are potential commercial applications.
For example, HorseCloning.com will make a clone of your horse for $375,000 per 100 mares implanted plus a patent royalty fee of 15%, based on the estimated value of each clone. According to their web site information, "All sales are final," and "even though no one can guarantee a specific result, you could hit the jackpot." Last but not least, "due to the complexity of the science, results cannot be guaranteed."
The cloning science is similar in most species, although there are some challenges with the cloning of dogs. Dogs have poorly understood reproductive physiology compared to other species and fewer estrus cycles.
Basically, the cloning procedure begins with collecting the DNA of the animal to be cloned. The tissue is grown and the cells are preserved while being treated to prevent them from differentiating into a particular cell type (hair, skin, nerve cell).
Eggs are taken from random females for implantation, and the genetic material from these eggs is removed. Cells and eggs are fused together to become cloned embryos. Surrogate females are then hormonally treated to synchronize their fertile periods and are then implanted with the cloned embryos. In the best scenario, the surrogate pregnancy produces a live, healthy offspring.
While moral and ethical issues of cloning pets continue to be argued, both sides seem to be closer concerning the problem of endangered species. Betty Dresser, Director of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans says, "Saving habitat may not be enough. Any tool for saving endangered species is important. Cloning is just another reproductive tool, like in-vitro
I rode "Bud One" a 15+ years ago. It is slow and we stayed low but I would not describe it as stable. It was summer time in Central Florida and while there was no real wind, the air ship pitched constantly due to up currents from sun heated roads and down currents over ponds and lakes.
Pixmas use CLI-8 inks that run about $14.25 per color for refills, while the PGI-5BK black tank for text lists at $16.25. Based on the claim of 300 pages per cartridge, we estimate a cost of about 19 cents per page of graphics, 30 cents per 4x6 photo, and 5 cents per page of text. An optical monitoring system tracks usage and offers a warning before each tank runs dry. From http://reviews.cnet.com/inkjet-printers/canon-pixma-ip4200/4505-3156_7-31457715.html
No, all I am saying is that there is a ready funding source (did you even follow the link before you posted). Charge the 1st world school the 2 for 1 price, I am sure it would still be cheaper than what they are paying right now. Personally I think children in Africa living in poverty need a safe water supply and a safe place to live more than they need a unproven educational laptop. According to the story in the link most schools in the US discontinue free laptop programs after a few years b/c they don't work. Make the OLPC program work in a US school and you may have something for the rest of the world.
Get the laptops in the hands of 1st world schools and encourage users to develop open source lesson plans that can be freely shared and modified. If the cheap laptops really do help education in the 1st world they can then be adpted for 3rd world in phase 2. Offering a cheap but proven system will be a no brainier for the 3rd world.
Interesting as these trends may be, they will not assist in making the odds of winning the MegaMillions lottery any better if the system is truly fair and random. However, in the event there is some peculiar factor skewing the ball selection such that any of these trends continue, a player stands a mildly better chance of winning a partial prize through the selection of weighted numbers.
As a veterinarian I tend to use a lot more bupivacaine then lidocaine as bupivacaine lasts longer. In school, we were using rubbing alcohol in dairy cows with Hairy Heel Warts (papillomatous digital dermatitis) to provide nerve blocks (aka nerve damage) that lasted for weeks. While it worked great then, I don't think practice is common out side of research.
I work as a Tech for one of the big notebook companies in Australia....no drivers available... I still don't see any certification or claims made on our new machines that guarantee 100% XP compatibility yet they still bitch and moan despite their own ignorance....Now for 2nd half of the year its been daily complaints and death threats...
Would the ignorance part be not reading your companies compatible chart or buying from your company and expecting one of the big notebook companies in Australia to fully support their products. Since you are getting "daily complaints and death threats" it is clear the market wants your hardware to fully supported both OS. Hopefully a competing manufacture will realize there is a market there and soon you will not get so many calls.
Should car dealers be able to make you get all your oil changes at the dealership or void your warranty?
Why is it so hard to find the Windows Experience Index number on new computers? I am in the market for a new laptop; while I will wipe of windows as soon as I buy it I would like to use the MS's Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) rankings so I can compare apples to apples on different chips and graphics card configurations. I can't find any online sellers that list the Windows Experience Index next to the other specs. Are the manufacturers resisting MS's Windows System Assessment Tool because it makes their hardware brand a commodity that can easily be replaced by another manufacturer's brand.
The laws should really be changed...
No the laws don't need to be changed your teenager just needs to stop posting to MySpace.
Wrong, Source: http://www.iihs.org/brochures/pdf/sfsc.pdf
"CRASH WORTHINESS The first crashworthiness attributes to consider are vehicle size and weight. Small, light vehicles generally offer less protection than larger, heavier ones. There's less structure to absorb crash energy, so deaths and injuries are more likely to occur in both single- and multiple-vehicle crashes. So if safety is one of your major considerations PASS UP VERY SMALL, LIGHT VEHICLES.
This doesn't mean you have to buy the heaviest vehicle you can find. It wouldn't necessarily be safer because those weighing morethan about 4,500 pounds afford only small injury risk reductions. Meanwhile they increase the injury risks for people in the other vehicles with which they collide. While the risk of death generally is higher in lighter cars, SUVs, and pickups than in heavier ones, size and weight don't tell the whole story. Some light car models, for example, are safer than others. Some midweight SUVs are safer than others. And so on. This is because some models have more crashworthy designs.
You can't tell this by looking at the vehicles. You need crash test results to make comparisons.
BIGGER GENERALLY IS SAFER"
http://www.biopure.com/shared/home.cfm?CDID=2&CPg
Don't worry looks like the younger generation will not be interested in posting they will just scan the comments to find one they like and mod it up. So should work it's self out in the long run.
So you need to look at the time the reported forecast was made and go with the most current. NWS updates forecast every 6 hrs the time is different depending on the forecast product. When there is bad weather they update more frequently. If you know the NWS update is on 15 mins old and the Accuweather forecast is 4 hrs old go with NWS. If you don't know the age of the "Reported" forecast you have no way of determining if conditions have changed. Weather forecasts are not like soap or cars were you can just go with a brand name.
The National Weather Service collects all the weather data used by forecasters, they also provide the 1st forecast. AccuWeather and others take the National Weather Service forecast then watch the new data (using National Weather Service provided data) to offer a refined forecast a few hours latter. Who do you think is going to be the most accurate the guy who provides the first forecast or the guy who waits for more data and then refines the for cast? AccuWeather's has statistics that show they are more accurate then the National Weather Service but if you used the AccuWeather forecast then waited for the next National Weather Service update I bet National Weather Service would be more accurate.
I am surprised that this guy used the weather.com and not the National Weather Service for the actually temp for all his calculations. (It doesn't matter b/c I am sure weather.com is right from National Weather Service data). He did point out that AccuWeather is the only one who provides forecasts > 10 days in advance.
My preference for weather forecasts is:
National Weather Service
AccuWeather (easy to understand graphics and 2 week forecasts)
The Weather Underground (Years ago they were the1st to provided free access to hurricane computer models)
Don't worry about getting one. If you want want one the market will work it out. Someone with a gun in the 3rd world will realize they can get cash for these laptops from people in the 1st world.
he's cooling his computer with his pool, He MUST BE from California :)
Do it your self and you can fine tune it. With MythDora It's recommended that you do not do an "apt-get dist-upgrade," "apt-get upgrade" or "yum upgrade" as you run the risk of breaking something.
When I was growing up our mail carrier lived two doors down. She once delivered us her mail!
If you were my client I would likely think you are nuts too :)
However, you are right that pets can do just fine on a balanced diet of healthy people food (some lean meat but more fruits and vegetables). The reason we recommend dog food is most people don't cook well for themselves asking them to cook for their dog doesn't go over well. The most common medical problem in dogs (after behavior if you count that) is obesity. If we can get overweight dog to lose weight it will add 2 years to their life (and that is 2 years w/o medical problems associated with aging). Most pets that are overweight get people food. If dog eat like an average American they start to look like an average American. I have several clients who cook for their dog (usually due to allergies) the dogs are not overweight and eat better than I do.
BTW, In my experience, every person that promotes a raw meat diet for dogs is nuts or selling something, usually both.
(Homer) Awwwwwww, Two seconds, but I want it now!