Quoting Gordon Moore as "Every year we make on the order of 1,017 transistors. That's a one followed by 17 zeros." Is anybody proofreading at Forbes.com?
Just watch how quickly the genes for HIV resistance will spread in Africa. I'll bet if we look closely we will be able to find mutations for plague resistance in European populations. Talk about selection pressure if 30% of the population died.
This reeks of the 4500 rpm Quantum Fireballs of old. They can pull off the bit density but not the corresponding channel throughput so they have to slow down the rpm to avoid wasting capacity. The Green thing is marketing's way of selling it.
"Virus" has a U declination, not A, so the correct Latin plural of "virus" is "virus". Since that doesn't make sense in English, you should use viruses. It is most definitely not "virii".
Regarding radiation and mutation rate, it seems that our (and probably all living beings') mutation rate is just about optimal for the right evolution speed in the ecological niche we're living in. Early life developed in a much harsher environment than today, with much higher UV levels (no oxygen => no ozone) for example. So, in the very early steps, life must have been able to deal with radiation, and then slacked off to keep the mutation rate at an optimum.
If I had a dollar for every time a plugin (Acrobat, WMP, Java) hung or crashed the browser I'd be a rich man. Especially Java, and it seems that more and more systems use Java. Open two different windows or tabs with different Java applets and you can be pretty sure that it'll crash. Flash seems surprisingly clean in comparison. Plugins really need to run in a separate process so they can't take the browser down and can be killed without adverse effects when they run amok.
Several scientists are furious about the way Taubes mis-quoted them and there's a lot of science that says he's simply wrong: http://www.reason.com/news/show/28714.html
My hypothesis: He simply sold out. Book contracts, maybe consulting with Atkins & co...
"According to his research, eating fatty foods doesn't lead to heart disease, cholesterol levels aren't something to worry about, and exercise doesn't help you lose weight."
Exercise doesn't help you lose weight? Then how would he explain that my weight goes up like a rocket (about a pound per week) when I can't run due to an injury?
Yes, eating fatty foods doesn't lead to heart disease. Being fat does, and you can get fat from any kind of calories.
Cholesterol levels aren't something to worry about, but LDL to HDL ratios are.
I guess pandering to a lazy public is how you become an award-winning science author.
You might ask just as well why the Linux community tolerates RedHat. It's the way it's supposed to work. On the other hand, the only reason why CentOS exists is that RHEL can't be downloaded for free like the older versions. If RedHat wanted to kill CentOS they would just have to allow that.
>but conservation of matter is maintained Actually no. The reaction releases energy, so the end products are lighter by E/c^2. Mass-energy is conserved.
>It's too bad they didn't include the first digital picture, that would have been neat to see. I couldn't find it on google, but I didn't really spend that long looking. I'm sure it was a nude woman so they couldn't show it,
Many years ago we did authentication this way: The system displays a long random number (e.g. 40 digits) plus some tick marks. You pick certain digits, do a simple operation with them, and enter the result. E.g. ( 5th digit + 2nd digit) * 12th digit. We did that after a normal password.
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Now can we do the same thing for the Outlook/Exchange protocol?
>With Mar's distance
This is taking the apostrophe-s-itis a little too far.
Why hot ga's and melt's too?
Quoting Gordon Moore as "Every year we make on the order of 1,017 transistors. That's a one followed by 17 zeros."
Is anybody proofreading at Forbes.com?
Just watch how quickly the genes for HIV resistance will spread in Africa.
I'll bet if we look closely we will be able to find mutations for plague resistance in European populations. Talk about selection pressure if 30% of the population died.
Will it be documented so we can get a FOSS driver?
Same video, better quality: http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
That should be easy to prevent. Just have an intrusion alarm that calls via the cell tower. Maybe add a concealed webcam.
>I wonder if a CCD camera is as damaging as human senses, and which point the damage is done?
Only when you look at the resulting picture according to this hypothesis.
That kinda tells you how dumb the argument is.
This reeks of the 4500 rpm Quantum Fireballs of old. They can pull off the bit density but not the corresponding channel throughput so they have to slow down the rpm to avoid wasting capacity. The Green thing is marketing's way of selling it.
"Virus" has a U declination, not A, so the correct Latin plural of "virus" is "virus".
Since that doesn't make sense in English, you should use viruses.
It is most definitely not "virii".
Regarding radiation and mutation rate, it seems that our (and probably all living beings') mutation rate is just about optimal for the right evolution speed in the ecological niche we're living in. Early life developed in a much harsher environment than today, with much higher UV levels (no oxygen => no ozone) for example. So, in the very early steps, life must have been able to deal with radiation, and then slacked off to keep the mutation rate at an optimum.
If I had a dollar for every time a plugin (Acrobat, WMP, Java) hung or crashed the browser I'd be a rich man. Especially Java, and it seems that more and more systems use Java. Open two different windows or tabs with different Java applets and you can be pretty sure that it'll crash. Flash seems surprisingly clean in comparison.
Plugins really need to run in a separate process so they can't take the browser down and can be killed without adverse effects when they run amok.
Several scientists are furious about the way Taubes mis-quoted them and there's a lot of science that says he's simply wrong:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28714.html
My hypothesis: He simply sold out. Book contracts, maybe consulting with Atkins & co...
"According to his research, eating fatty foods doesn't lead to heart disease, cholesterol levels aren't something to worry about, and exercise doesn't help you lose weight."
Exercise doesn't help you lose weight? Then how would he explain that my weight goes up like a rocket (about a pound per week) when I can't run due to an injury?
Yes, eating fatty foods doesn't lead to heart disease. Being fat does, and you can get fat from any kind of calories.
Cholesterol levels aren't something to worry about, but LDL to HDL ratios are.
I guess pandering to a lazy public is how you become an award-winning science author.
My first thoughts would have been more in DEA territory.
Sweet. I can think of a few.
>anyone old enough to remember VAX/VMS?
Ok, where's DCL for Linux?
I'm not a bodybuilder, just a runner who also lifts for cross training. At 5-7% body fat, my BMI says "overweight."
The announcement was in March, mass production in June and availability in September.
I haven't seen a price yet but it's going to be at least close to a grand.
Ok, it may not kill you right away and it may have calories, but I don't consider that edible.
Sounds worse than McDonald's to me. Yuck.
http://www.addictinggames.com/sheepinvaders.html ;)
Must-have if you're a Scot
You might ask just as well why the Linux community tolerates RedHat.
It's the way it's supposed to work.
On the other hand, the only reason why CentOS exists is that RHEL can't be downloaded for free like the older versions. If RedHat wanted to kill CentOS they would just have to allow that.
>but conservation of matter is maintained
Actually no. The reaction releases energy, so the end products are lighter by E/c^2. Mass-energy is conserved.
>It's too bad they didn't include the first digital picture, that would have been neat to see. I couldn't find it on google, but I didn't really spend that long looking.
I'm sure it was a nude woman so they couldn't show it,
>At the risk of ticking somebody off, I really dislike VB's syntax.
Amen! I want a Perl interpreter built-in.
Many years ago we did authentication this way:
The system displays a long random number (e.g. 40 digits) plus some tick marks. You pick certain digits, do a simple operation with them, and enter the result. E.g. ( 5th digit + 2nd digit) * 12th digit. We did that after a normal password.