From the link (I know...)
âoeTrichoplax placozoans are animals that have only four body cell types and no structured organs. They represent descendents of the oldest multi-celled animal, perhaps older even than sponges,â said author Stephen Dellaporta, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale.
So this seems to say that the simple animal shaares basic instructions on how to make cells.
Humans obviously have additional DNA for making organs.
I don't think either party is going to be able to do tax cuts - unless as you say they borrow money and pass it out.
Most of the things you seem to think are impossible are done in other places (you know modern sophisticated countries) with and most of the enlightened residents of those countries think its a good thing.
The really big problem the USA has is wasting (and I do mean wasting) billions and billions on military expenditures and military campaigns.
The GI bill is expensive because it is one of the few motivations for joining the military and fighting in a phoney war.
US industrial domination is over. This is just one of the minor side-effects.
Silly comment.
Everyone(except slashdot pedants) expects access to include rendering for commercial products.
Linux is not advertised as supporting Flash (it can be made to work, but it is not an "advertised" feature)
Given that we are currently at 20% and the danger regions are 7 and 60, we seem to be much closer to the low oxygen danger that the high oxygen danger.
Getting CO2 down to a safe level would increase our oxygen by much less than 1 percent so I think we'll be OK.
There were some related stories on organic food and meat production on the BBC recently (can be bothered to find links).
Even pure organic farms with no non-organic production depended on tractors to make production remotely viable. There are some subsistence farms that are totally organic, but most of them depend on joiners bringing money from a previous or current job.
On program said that if we were to have a non-oil (or very low oil use) economy, farms would need animals, especially pigs and sheep, to get reasonable utilization of the farm.
If you want a quick demo on what completely organic farming is like where it does not depend on rich hippies, look up the life of early share-croppers in the American South.
GMO organic farming however might be viable. Of course most environmentalists would not consider this organic or desirable, in spite of its ability to feed more people with less intensive use of oil.
Go is far more complex because you are building basic shapes as you play.
These shapes interact with each other (and the opponent's basic shapes) in subtle ways.
If you don't play Go (which I'm guessing you don't because of the comment) a Go game just looks like black and white stones on a large board.
To a moderately experienced player, the individual stones create "Pieces" in a way.
Some are relatively trivial such as latters and dead shapes, but many are very complex and it is not all all obvious to a non-professional whether they are individually alive or dead.
Another complexity is that one of your groups is alive if it can kill an opponent's sub-group. But if your opponent's subgroup connects out to a safe shape (which might take 20 moves) then your group is dead. But then it might not matter because you could lose that group if you can build a bigger one somewhere else.
I've played a 6 dan professional (with 9 stones obviously) and was not surprised that I lost, but I was surprised that I did not know how I lost.
Technically the cost of providing bags is a recurring variable cost rather than a sunk cost.
A sunk cost is something expensive you have already done and cannot be fairly considered when evaluating the cost of some future action.
A recurring cost is one that has to be paid on a recurring basis (like cleaning the carpet).
A variable cost is one that varies depending on sales (more bags if you have more customers).
Saying "recurring variable" is a bit redundant because all variable costs are recurring if you expect to keep having customers.
There are recurring fixed costs that are separate from recurring variable costs, but not the same as sunk costs, but that is getting too arcane. A somewhat forced example is that rent is a recurring fixed cost if your require the same size building for future business. (Again the adjetive "recurring" could just be omitted as fixed costs are expected to apply in the future.)
(To be even more arcane, there is a difference between a past sunk cost and a past cost that is amortized. This is somewhat subjective, but basically is determined by whether the past cost has any ongoing value. Buying computers is usually amortized. Buying the wrong kind of computer might be a sunk cost.)
This is somewhat offtopic, but how the business deals with costs affects their policies on environmental decisions. Different costs show up in different places in the balance sheet and might have different tax implications.
I think of this as being an autistic/artistic continum. There are some people who are obsessive about details and willing (and more than able) to memorize all sorts of detail. There are other people who want thinks to be beautiful and not to think about the details "under the hood". Linux and Apple are on two different points on this continum. If you want an example of usability not only overtaking the artistic component but strangling it and burying the body, consider SAP.
While there is no way to have one product fit everyone, it is possible to be as versatile as possible.
Apple tries to solve this by having multiple interfaces. Linux distributions pay some token tribute to this, but the non-command-line options seem (to me) to be an afterthought that has been bolted on.
Neither of the groups of computer users are bad people. Each has reasonable expectations of how the system should work.
To put this is a different perspective, what if the command line options were randomly assigned (I'm tempted to give:q as an example, but someone must love that) and required multiple keystrokes. Even died in the wool command line users would say that this was too much. The difference is that the really dedicated command line enthusist could probably remap the keys.
For a GUI centric person, it is less likely that they would be able to reorder tabs, change text on buttons, or move menu entries to a more "logical" location.
To minimize confusion, pound-force and pound-mass are sometimes used to avoid the (somewhat archaic) slug. This fits with the common usage of the kilogram (which is a mass unit) to also be used as a force unit. The more formal force unit in SI is the newton as I think was mentioned previously.
None of these differences matter if you are talking about objects in the same Earth gravity. If you are talking about a different level of gravity, the distinction between mass (as pound-mass, slug, or kg) and force (as pound, pound-force, or newton)
lb is not a unit of mass, it is the measure of how much force is exerted in a specific gravitational field on a mass.
The English unit of mass is the slug.
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I do some VBA programming, for automating something in Word or Visio, and while the language has many faults, even there you are exposed to objects. In Visio for example, there are properties and methods. No comparison to C++ of course but even so there is exposure to objects even in VBA.
In Denmark, you can choose whether you want a contribution from your taxes to go to the church. I believe it is the same for many, if not most, European countries. In the UK, there is an official church but it gets very little money from the goverment.
Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. They age and become unreliable before menopause.
If there was a genetic change (for example changing the behavior of all telomeres) then perhaps the eggs would stay viable.
I don't know if you are being ironic, but that list of beautiful stuff is getting shorter and shorter.
I wouldn't count on ice caps for long.
Some of these beautiful, but oil containing, regions could be left for the even bigger problems the world will have in twenty years if it doesn't sort out energy production and CO2 reduction.
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I sure the parent and many slashdoters understand basic electricity, but I want to warn against just connecting a marine battery and charger together.
Improper use of these can, and have, cause fires, acid explosions, and serious burns from shorting a high current supply.
DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
There is a popular urban myth that Charles Dodgson wrote a book about magic rabbits that the queen (Victoria) liked and wanted a copy of the next book he wrote. Unfortunately for her, it was a book on mathematics.
Protyping boards are great, but I often find it time consuming to add common interfaces to a design each time I create something.
One solution is to make common functions like LED and drivers or switch debouncers on a small strip board. Connection to the protyping board can be done with loose wires or headers.
I think I first saw an example of this in the 70s.
Not to pick on you specifically, but a lot of posters seem to be saying that what they do in public should be private. In the past, or now in a small town, everyone knew what you did in public.
Because of the depersonalization of society now, that public scrutiny role is taken over by police or video cameras.
Socialized medicine works in Europe. Perhaps not as well as everyone would like and perhaps it needs to be adjusted, but no one in Europe, even the most right-wing, want it eliminated.
The discussion in England, for example, is whether it is possible to balance state funding and private companies.
In the Netherlands, it is true that all of the hosiptals are private and the insurance system is private, but everyone gets insurance and cannot be blocked by pre-existing conditions or lack of income. If people cannot afford insurance, the state pays the premiums.
Many slashdotters are young and think they will live forever. Wait until you get ill, or your relatives die slowly in front of you, and you might have a different attitude to healthcare for all.
Of course everyone thinks that they should be the philosopher king.
Interestingly two of Socrates' students did implusive and rash things such as leading bloody coups to displace the democratic goverment.
Although the coups (which were quickly overturned) lead to his trail, Socrates himself thought that many people should be involved in goverment, not just a king.
According to Google, Greek writing developed long before Plato.
Plato did, however, think most people were stupid. Hence the requirement for a philosopher king to rule them.
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Self healing might mean that the Earth gets rid of those pesky humans and leaves the nice frendly fish.
The Earth surviving is a faily low target.
Venus is self adjusting too. It self adjusts for a very hot planet.
At one point in the past, self adjusting was keeping the Earth covered in ice.
From the link (I know ...)
âoeTrichoplax placozoans are animals that have only four body cell types and no structured organs. They represent descendents of the oldest multi-celled animal, perhaps older even than sponges,â said author Stephen Dellaporta, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale.
So this seems to say that the simple animal shaares basic instructions on how to make cells.
Humans obviously have additional DNA for making organs.
I don't think either party is going to be able to do tax cuts - unless as you say they borrow money and pass it out.
Most of the things you seem to think are impossible are done in other places (you know modern sophisticated countries) with and most of the enlightened residents of those countries think its a good thing.
The really big problem the USA has is wasting (and I do mean wasting) billions and billions on military expenditures and military campaigns.
The GI bill is expensive because it is one of the few motivations for joining the military and fighting in a phoney war.
US industrial domination is over. This is just one of the minor side-effects.
"blew moe than a man day on getting Linux up" but everyone says you just stick the disk in and you are ready to go in minutes ...
Silly comment. Everyone(except slashdot pedants) expects access to include rendering for commercial products. Linux is not advertised as supporting Flash (it can be made to work, but it is not an "advertised" feature)
Given that we are currently at 20% and the danger regions are 7 and 60, we seem to be much closer to the low oxygen danger that the high oxygen danger.
Getting CO2 down to a safe level would increase our oxygen by much less than 1 percent so I think we'll be OK.
There were some related stories on organic food and meat production on the BBC recently (can be bothered to find links).
Even pure organic farms with no non-organic production depended on tractors to make production remotely viable. There are some subsistence farms that are totally organic, but most of them depend on joiners bringing money from a previous or current job.
On program said that if we were to have a non-oil (or very low oil use) economy, farms would need animals, especially pigs and sheep, to get reasonable utilization of the farm.
If you want a quick demo on what completely organic farming is like where it does not depend on rich hippies, look up the life of early share-croppers in the American South.
GMO organic farming however might be viable. Of course most environmentalists would not consider this organic or desirable, in spite of its ability to feed more people with less intensive use of oil.
Go is far more complex because you are building basic shapes as you play.
These shapes interact with each other (and the opponent's basic shapes) in subtle ways.
If you don't play Go (which I'm guessing you don't because of the comment) a Go game just looks like black and white stones on a large board.
To a moderately experienced player, the individual stones create "Pieces" in a way.
Some are relatively trivial such as latters and dead shapes, but many are very complex and it is not all all obvious to a non-professional whether they are individually alive or dead.
Another complexity is that one of your groups is alive if it can kill an opponent's sub-group. But if your opponent's subgroup connects out to a safe shape (which might take 20 moves) then your group is dead. But then it might not matter because you could lose that group if you can build a bigger one somewhere else.
I've played a 6 dan professional (with 9 stones obviously) and was not surprised that I lost, but I was surprised that I did not know how I lost.
Technically the cost of providing bags is a recurring variable cost rather than a sunk cost.
A sunk cost is something expensive you have already done and cannot be fairly considered when evaluating the cost of some future action.
A recurring cost is one that has to be paid on a recurring basis (like cleaning the carpet).
A variable cost is one that varies depending on sales (more bags if you have more customers).
Saying "recurring variable" is a bit redundant because all variable costs are recurring if you expect to keep having customers.
There are recurring fixed costs that are separate from recurring variable costs, but not the same as sunk costs, but that is getting too arcane. A somewhat forced example is that rent is a recurring fixed cost if your require the same size building for future business. (Again the adjetive "recurring" could just be omitted as fixed costs are expected to apply in the future.)
(To be even more arcane, there is a difference between a past sunk cost and a past cost that is amortized. This is somewhat subjective, but basically is determined by whether the past cost has any ongoing value. Buying computers is usually amortized. Buying the wrong kind of computer might be a sunk cost.)
This is somewhat offtopic, but how the business deals with costs affects their policies on environmental decisions. Different costs show up in different places in the balance sheet and might have different tax implications.
I think of this as being an autistic/artistic continum. There are some people who are obsessive about details and willing (and more than able) to memorize all sorts of detail. There are other people who want thinks to be beautiful and not to think about the details "under the hood". Linux and Apple are on two different points on this continum. If you want an example of usability not only overtaking the artistic component but strangling it and burying the body, consider SAP.
While there is no way to have one product fit everyone, it is possible to be as versatile as possible.
Apple tries to solve this by having multiple interfaces. Linux distributions pay some token tribute to this, but the non-command-line options seem (to me) to be an afterthought that has been bolted on.
Neither of the groups of computer users are bad people. Each has reasonable expectations of how the system should work.
To put this is a different perspective, what if the command line options were randomly assigned (I'm tempted to give :q as an example, but someone must love that) and required multiple keystrokes. Even died in the wool command line users would say that this was too much. The difference is that the really dedicated command line enthusist could probably remap the keys.
For a GUI centric person, it is less likely that they would be able to reorder tabs, change text on buttons, or move menu entries to a more "logical" location.
How ironic. Posted comment to wrong parent. Your comment is of course correct.
Typical slashdot. The erroneous comment is modded +3 informative and the correct response is at +1.
Perhaps this is an example of how Google is limiting critical thinking.
A pound is equal to a certain number of grams in Earth gravity. That does not change that pound is a not a (scientific) unit for mass.
To see examples of pound as force, see: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Slug.html (unit of mass is foot-pound-second) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(mass) (unit of mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s2 when a force of one pound-force is exerted on it.)
To minimize confusion, pound-force and pound-mass are sometimes used to avoid the (somewhat archaic) slug. This fits with the common usage of the kilogram (which is a mass unit) to also be used as a force unit. The more formal force unit in SI is the newton as I think was mentioned previously.
None of these differences matter if you are talking about objects in the same Earth gravity. If you are talking about a different level of gravity, the distinction between mass (as pound-mass, slug, or kg) and force (as pound, pound-force, or newton)
lb is not a unit of mass, it is the measure of how much force is exerted in a specific gravitational field on a mass. The English unit of mass is the slug.
I do some VBA programming, for automating something in Word or Visio, and while the language has many faults, even there you are exposed to objects. In Visio for example, there are properties and methods. No comparison to C++ of course but even so there is exposure to objects even in VBA.
In Denmark, you can choose whether you want a contribution from your taxes to go to the church. I believe it is the same for many, if not most, European countries. In the UK, there is an official church but it gets very little money from the goverment.
Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. They age and become unreliable before menopause.
If there was a genetic change (for example changing the behavior of all telomeres) then perhaps the eggs would stay viable.
I don't know if you are being ironic, but that list of beautiful stuff is getting shorter and shorter.
I wouldn't count on ice caps for long.
Some of these beautiful, but oil containing, regions could be left for the even bigger problems the world will have in twenty years if it doesn't sort out energy production and CO2 reduction.
I sure the parent and many slashdoters understand basic electricity, but I want to warn against just connecting a marine battery and charger together.
Improper use of these can, and have, cause fires, acid explosions, and serious burns from shorting a high current supply.
DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
There is a popular urban myth that Charles Dodgson wrote a book about magic rabbits that the queen (Victoria) liked and wanted a copy of the next book he wrote. Unfortunately for her, it was a book on mathematics.
Protyping boards are great, but I often find it time consuming to add common interfaces to a design each time I create something.
One solution is to make common functions like LED and drivers or switch debouncers on a small strip board. Connection to the protyping board can be done with loose wires or headers.
I think I first saw an example of this in the 70s.
Not to pick on you specifically, but a lot of posters seem to be saying that what they do in public should be private. In the past, or now in a small town, everyone knew what you did in public.
Because of the depersonalization of society now, that public scrutiny role is taken over by police or video cameras.
Socialized medicine works in Europe. Perhaps not as well as everyone would like and perhaps it needs to be adjusted, but no one in Europe, even the most right-wing, want it eliminated.
The discussion in England, for example, is whether it is possible to balance state funding and private companies.
In the Netherlands, it is true that all of the hosiptals are private and the insurance system is private, but everyone gets insurance and cannot be blocked by pre-existing conditions or lack of income. If people cannot afford insurance, the state pays the premiums.
Many slashdotters are young and think they will live forever. Wait until you get ill, or your relatives die slowly in front of you, and you might have a different attitude to healthcare for all.
Of course everyone thinks that they should be the philosopher king.
Interestingly two of Socrates' students did implusive and rash things such as leading bloody coups to displace the democratic goverment.
Although the coups (which were quickly overturned) lead to his trail, Socrates himself thought that many people should be involved in goverment, not just a king.
According to Google, Greek writing developed long before Plato.
Plato did, however, think most people were stupid. Hence the requirement for a philosopher king to rule them.