"Epigenetics is the study of epigenetic inheritance, a set of reversible heritable changes in gene function or other cell phenotype that occur without a change in DNA sequence (genotype). These changes may be induced spontaneously, in response to environmental factors, or in response to the presence of a particular allele, even if it is absent from subsequent generations."
Only problem is that it isn't generating any direct profit. It's been a economic sinkhole (albeit a smaller one than Xbox) until last year when they made a stunning 2 (yes, two) million profit in the Mobile and Embedded division. Looks like they're basically giving away the stuff to me.
The number on how much each division makes can be found in their 10-K report that they file with the SEC. Filings are available at www.sec.gov.
Frankly, I'm amazed that the thing got into the Amazon top ten list at all. I wonder how many units you have to sell in a day to get on that list, and just how many of those units were Evil Empire minions buying one for the team?
Same problem with this sales list as any other one (such as sold music albums)... it doesn't really say much about popularity unless you have the actual hard numbers and how those numbers compare to the rest of the year (and perhaps same period previous year). Let's see where it lands when christmas shopping really kicks off in a couple of weeks. I don't think it will rank very high.
Sweden has had a law mandating full disclosure of how cookies are used since 2003. In practice this means there's a small notification to a static page on how they use cookies. So it's not exactly an undue burden for a website. Having a lot of exceptions would make this complicated? Then don't have any... we don't in Sweden. Nothing has crumbled and died here yet.
I'll bet that Blue Gene can also retire as a building's furnace as well.
Heh.
The joke aside, in areas with district heating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating they sometimes also provide distric cooling so you just don't went excess heat away. In northern climates that can nice advantage since for datacenters/supercomputers/etc they often produce way more heat than they can could re-use in their own buildings
Send the money down the toilet!
Seriously though, I'm all for alternative energy, but to really make a difference, the technology has to be cost effective and scalable. That is the ONLY way it will ever get adopted. Wind is moving in that direction and I think nuclear is becoming more viable again.... but many other stuff: solar, wave power, etc... has a LONG way to go.
This kind of system in REAL scale is already viable and implemented in Gothenburg for example. The recovered energy from sewage water with heat pumps is 475 GWh per year. Add to that biogas from anaerobic digesters. We need new resources, yes. But we also need to look at how the systems where the resources are used can be improved.
...Extracting heat energy from sewage using a heat pump might be a novel idea...
Nope, not that either. Translated from (warning: only in swedish) http://www.goteborgenergi.se/Foretag/Fjarrvarme_DX NI-4027_.aspx : "...with heat pumps we extract energy from cleaned sewer water and we also handle waste heat from industries and garbage burning..."
I heard about the sewer water heat pumps in a radio program a couple of years ago. Apparently it's successful enough that they get visits from people interested in implementing similar systems. The system in it self is pretty decentralized which doesn't make it as "high profile" as some visitiors would have wanted. More impressing to build one large plant and having grand opening than implementing a number of smaller stations on a longer timeframe.
Bingo. And the shortage is going to be filled by the cheapest supply available. If they can't get cheap labor in India... watch them comb through low-income eastern european countries next.
And a individual with a need for a higher internal temperature would therefor be at a double disadvantage in the local (lower-temperature) biotope: they would need more fuel and they would have more, possibly harmful, chemical reactions. So, if (and only if) the proposed free-radical theory holds then it would seem to me that in a warmer biotope nothing stops the free-radical reactions while in a colder biotope there could be a advantage with a lower body temperature.
And one could add to that fact that in most colder climates compared to most warmer ones the food supply is more restricted. So the longevity wouldn't be so much a direct as an indirect cause. But without any proper background data it would be hard to say how much lower body temperature in human populations matter.
This may be because the body burns less fuel when it is at a lower temperature, which results in the production of fewer free-radical compounds that damage cells and promote the wear and tear of ageing.
So is there an evolutionary advantage with having a lower body temperature in colder climates? Maybe there is. Since having a lower bodytemperature means having a lower basal metabolism you'd be able to make do with less food than someone with a high basal metabolism (well, before the generally affluent times we live in now). The ones that could make it through the long cold winters for one reason or another must have had an advantage.
But question is, do cold climate populations have a lower body tempertaure in general. I know I do (being of hardy finnish farmer stock;) but one sample says nothing.
The blurb implies that Microsoft will enforce their patents against distributions other than SuSE.
Yipe!
The IBM patent portfolio may be the only thing holding Microsoft back from the destruction of the Linux OS.
On the other hand IBM has the ultimate patent portfolio. They even have a patent on how to search a patent portfolio. I don't belive for a second that IBM has any truly altruistic motives but that we should be greatful for having them in the Linux corner.
It will be a little cheaper than a phone with the yesteryears (i.e. "standard") amount of bells and whistles if you buy it outright since what they save on assembling a simple phone is only a part of their total cost. If you get a subsidized phone with a, say, 12 month plan from a provider the price differential might just be gone. It's better for the provider to sell someone a basic plan + glitzy phone with add-ons that will entice the users to buing fringe services. If they sell the customer a barebones phone there's less of a chance that the customer is or will be an above average consumer of services (in fact I'd guess they'd be less than average).
...gynaecologist. You have to spend all day looking at the parts of women that they pee out from. What could be more disgusting? I can't imagine what they must pay those people.
Having a seriously impaired sense of smell I would like to know. At least dealing with botanical specimens they wouldn't talk back and give you a load of crap in any other way.
If it seems to good to be true...
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...then it probably is.
I'm guessing the Not For Resale editions are only for developers and/or demos.
For example the Windows XP EULA says:
10. NOT FOR RESALE SOFTWARE. Software identified as "Not For Resale" or "NFR," may not be sold or otherwise transferred for value, or used for any purpose other than demonstration, test or evaluation.
Teenage pregnancies might me a partial answer it. They've gone down a lot more in most european countries. According to this diagram http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol324/issue735 0/images/medium/16874.gif it looks like it would be something like half in europe compared to the US (BMJ -> British Medical Journal). So maybe "planning" for children is much more common in europe and leads to fewer children.
A much more interesting study show that the age of the father might be a factor. From the BBC article:
...The UK and US researchers examined data on 132,271 children and said those born to men over 40 were six times more at risk than those born to men under 30....
Now, I haven't found any easily accessible figures on how the age of the fathers has changed over the years but I'd hazard a guess that it would more or less follow the development of the age of the mother. And the age of a first time mother has gone up in most countries (one article quoted 21.4 years in 1970 that had risen to 25.1 years in 2002, US figures)
Personally, I prefer the fans not to run at all (very quiet). Will this damage the hardware?
At least li-ion batteries doesn't like heat to much since it will shorten their lifespan. According to wikipedia on li-ion batteris:
... a battery stored inside a poorly ventilated laptop, may be subject to a prolonged exposure to much higher temperatures than 25 C, which will significantly shorten its life...
...Reiser removed the passenger seat of his 1988 Honda hatchback and that he attempted to hide the vehicle from authorities. This is the same car that his wife's blood was found in, sources said. Police are still looking for the missing seat.
Investigators have also recovered books on how police investigate homicides, which were obtained by Hans Reiser a few days after his wife's Sept. 3 disappearance, the sources said.
No word from Reisers lawyer yet since he hasn't had time to review the findings.
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"Epigenetics is the study of epigenetic inheritance, a set of reversible heritable changes in gene function or other cell phenotype that occur without a change in DNA sequence (genotype). These changes may be induced spontaneously, in response to environmental factors, or in response to the presence of a particular allele, even if it is absent from subsequent generations."
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The number on how much each division makes can be found in their 10-K report that they file with the SEC. Filings are available at www.sec.gov.
Well made point and clarifying. I was just pointing out the most obvious differences in worldwide jurisdictions.
Sweden has had a law mandating full disclosure of how cookies are used since 2003. In practice this means there's a small notification to a static page on how they use cookies. So it's not exactly an undue burden for a website. Having a lot of exceptions would make this complicated? Then don't have any... we don't in Sweden. Nothing has crumbled and died here yet.
The joke aside, in areas with district heating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating they sometimes also provide distric cooling so you just don't went excess heat away. In northern climates that can nice advantage since for datacenters/supercomputers/etc they often produce way more heat than they can could re-use in their own buildings
For an overview (PDF Warning!) see: http://www.gryaab.se/admin/actions/upload2/upload
I heard about the sewer water heat pumps in a radio program a couple of years ago. Apparently it's successful enough that they get visits from people interested in implementing similar systems. The system in it self is pretty decentralized which doesn't make it as "high profile" as some visitiors would have wanted. More impressing to build one large plant and having grand opening than implementing a number of smaller stations on a longer timeframe.
Bingo. And the shortage is going to be filled by the cheapest supply available. If they can't get cheap labor in India... watch them comb through low-income eastern european countries next.
Add to that Alexei Sayles "Jerzei Balowski" in The Young Ones. Any more?
And a individual with a need for a higher internal temperature would therefor be at a double disadvantage in the local (lower-temperature) biotope: they would need more fuel and they would have more, possibly harmful, chemical reactions. So, if (and only if) the proposed free-radical theory holds then it would seem to me that in a warmer biotope nothing stops the free-radical reactions while in a colder biotope there could be a advantage with a lower body temperature.
And one could add to that fact that in most colder climates compared to most warmer ones the food supply is more restricted. So the longevity wouldn't be so much a direct as an indirect cause. But without any proper background data it would be hard to say how much lower body temperature in human populations matter.
So is there an evolutionary advantage with having a lower body temperature in colder climates? Maybe there is. Since having a lower bodytemperature means having a lower basal metabolism you'd be able to make do with less food than someone with a high basal metabolism (well, before the generally affluent times we live in now). The ones that could make it through the long cold winters for one reason or another must have had an advantage.
But question is, do cold climate populations have a lower body tempertaure in general. I know I do (being of hardy finnish farmer stock
...will we live longer? No, really! I have a bodytemp that's about 36.5 C / 97.7 F.
Not so cool otherwise I guess.
Just a crystal ball gaze from me but here I go:
It will be a little cheaper than a phone with the yesteryears (i.e. "standard") amount of bells and whistles if you buy it outright since what they save on assembling a simple phone is only a part of their total cost. If you get a subsidized phone with a, say, 12 month plan from a provider the price differential might just be gone. It's better for the provider to sell someone a basic plan + glitzy phone with add-ons that will entice the users to buing fringe services. If they sell the customer a barebones phone there's less of a chance that the customer is or will be an above average consumer of services (in fact I'd guess they'd be less than average).
Having a seriously impaired sense of smell I would like to know. At least dealing with botanical specimens they wouldn't talk back and give you a load of crap in any other way.
Source:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eu
Teenage pregnancies might me a partial answer it. They've gone down a lot more in most european countries. According to this diagram http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol324/issue735 0/images/medium/16874.gif it looks like it would be something like half in europe compared to the US (BMJ -> British Medical Journal). So maybe "planning" for children is much more common in europe and leads to fewer children.
Now, I haven't found any easily accessible figures on how the age of the fathers has changed over the years but I'd hazard a guess that it would more or less follow the development of the age of the mother. And the age of a first time mother has gone up in most countries (one article quoted 21.4 years in 1970 that had risen to 25.1 years in 2002, US figures)