WTF! I still haven't seen a list reasons why I should dump my Windows 2000 Pro + SP4 + Security Roll Up for buggycrappy Windows XP SP2 ?!? Features my ass! Am I missing something here... (honestly?)
It has NOT been done before, you insensitive clod!
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Anatomy of a Virus
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No, the usual/. "been done before" cliche doesn't work here. The 3D images of the AIDS virus were produced with a completely different technique and the the AIDS virus is about 10 as big as this tiny phage. Also the jiang-phage image appears to show much more useful detail. From a virologist point of view, this is very much NEWS, especially compared to the 'news' we usually get in/. about some minor obscure variation of piece of software. Nobody yells "been done before" whenever a new Windows virus comes out...
Also I'm sure they had a very good reason for picking this virus as a first from a virologist point of view, whereas people suggesting they should have picked something 'more important' like AIDS are probably saying that because that's the only virus they know (if they even know the difference between a virus and bacteria - not to mention phage...)
Again a bit of insight, combined with reading TFA in question and perhaps a quick visit to Wikipedia would create much more useful reply comments... (and don't give me any of that "you must be new here" crap...)
Dell like most PC manufacturers and retailers are locked into a deal with Microsoft. They get to sell Windows at a high margin if the operating system is bundled with their PC. The consumer if fucked since there is no option not to 'buy' Windows regardless of what operating system they actually end up using. Anyone selling PCs without the bundle will have customers having to pay full price for Windows and the minority increase in sales of linux installers won't make up the difference.
"We used the SDSS data to measure distances to 48 million stars and build a 3-d map of the Milky Way"
I'd like to see that 3-d map. Perhaps Google can release a version of Google Earth that you can swivel and zoom your way through the milkyway or even galaxy groups...
I still got Dance of the Planets (1989) software that does that for the solar system... hmm... I'm a relic.
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WTF! I still haven't seen a list reasons why I should dump my Windows 2000 Pro + SP4 + Security Roll Up for buggycrappy Windows XP SP2 ?!? Features my ass! Am I missing something here... (honestly?)
Also I'm sure they had a very good reason for picking this virus as a first from a virologist point of view, whereas people suggesting they should have picked something 'more important' like AIDS are probably saying that because that's the only virus they know (if they even know the difference between a virus and bacteria - not to mention phage...)
Again a bit of insight, combined with reading TFA in question and perhaps a quick visit to Wikipedia would create much more useful reply comments... (and don't give me any of that "you must be new here" crap...)
Dell like most PC manufacturers and retailers are locked into a deal with Microsoft. They get to sell Windows at a high margin if the operating system is bundled with their PC. The consumer if fucked since there is no option not to 'buy' Windows regardless of what operating system they actually end up using. Anyone selling PCs without the bundle will have customers having to pay full price for Windows and the minority increase in sales of linux installers won't make up the difference.
"At an estimated distance of 30,000 light years (10 kiloparsecs) from Earth, the structure lies well within the confines of the Milky Way Galaxy."
I've known about this for years, thought with class 3 military drive on a Viper it takes a few 27 ly jumps to get there...
"We used the SDSS data to measure distances to 48 million stars and build a 3-d map of the Milky Way"
I'd like to see that 3-d map. Perhaps Google can release a version of Google Earth that you can swivel and zoom your way through the milkyway or even galaxy groups...
I still got Dance of the Planets (1989) software that does that for the solar system... hmm... I'm a relic.