An extra bonus is that the more you absorb the sun's energy as electricity, the less of it is converted to heat which dissipates around the planet, and that in and of itself reduces the effect global warming. So you are being twice as productive - not rely on heat-trapping coal, and reduce the amount of heat that saturates on the planet in the first place.
Ummm...except that the electricity eventually gets turned into heat. So rather than reflecting some sunlight, you are turning as much of it into heat as possible. But I don't think that's a problem on the scale we're talking about.
Using the term "evolutionary rate" is pretty misleading: whats happening is that the genomes are changing faster, but almost all of that change isn't from any selective pressure. Its mostly "neutral drift", things changing randomly in a way that does not impact the fitness of the organism.
Overall, the percentage of foriegn students in scientific graduate programs is a little over 50%. This is an extremely healthy thing for our education system and the United States in general. Many of those foreign students stay in the US, greatly strengthening our technological base. They also force the american-born 40-something percent to work harder. The heavy foriegn presence is an incontrovertable testament to the superiority of american higher education - americans should be extremely happy to see those numbers. When they start slipping, as they did under the idiotic practices of the current administration post-911, we should start to worry.
I'm hopeful that once we have a kid I'll be relegated to the role of grocery courier and she'll have someone else to bother all the time. BA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maxima is included in the SAGE project. I strongly encourage anyone interested in open source alternatives to Mathematica to check out SAGE (http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage). It also includes a raytracer, the Gnu Scientific Library, numpy, scipy, singular, gap, and many more open source math projects. It is already very impressive and improving rapidly. I have over 5000 Mathematica notebooks, I've used Mathematica since 1990, and I am preparing to move all of my research and teaching (I am a math professor) over to SAGE.
Unfortunately, you have an uphill battle against entropy to use most radioactive waste for something useful. Seperating out components with the right chemical and isotopic properties is almost always too expensive to be worthwhile.
Just like in DNA, there are words so dangerous that they don't exist. Here's one of them: sdlnfnerooij. Use it with care and send me the check.
Most DNA does something, or is a slightly mutated version of a sequence that does something (like endogenous retroviruses). So its like a language with some spelling mistakes - of course there are lots of sequences that won't be there. And if you look at long enough strings, there have to be some missing.
I'm a professor too, and I have run into a little resistance to using older texts. No evil cartel, just people who don't like thinking outside the box. My campus bookstore refuses to get out of print books, and that makes my department staff nervous. So I used an in-print Dover book for my linear algebra course last year and no one complained. My students didn't all like the book but they were thankful for the price ($7 used).
I'm interested in loading one of these up with 8-16 GB of RAM and it looks like apple is making that expensive as usual. The base price is OK, but why ream people on the RAM? Notice that the base model and the next few options give you 512 sticks, you have to spend an extra 1100 to start getting some 1 GB sticks - this means that if you want, say 8x1GB bought third-party you're somewhat screwed.
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Ummm...except that the electricity eventually gets turned into heat. So rather than reflecting some sunlight, you are turning as much of it into heat as possible. But I don't think that's a problem on the scale we're talking about.
Using the term "evolutionary rate" is pretty misleading: whats happening is that the genomes are changing faster, but almost all of that change isn't from any selective pressure. Its mostly "neutral drift", things changing randomly in a way that does not impact the fitness of the organism.
Overall, the percentage of foriegn students in scientific graduate programs is a little over 50%. This is an extremely healthy thing for our education system and the United States in general. Many of those foreign students stay in the US, greatly strengthening our technological base. They also force the american-born 40-something percent to work harder. The heavy foriegn presence is an incontrovertable testament to the superiority of american higher education - americans should be extremely happy to see those numbers. When they start slipping, as they did under the idiotic practices of the current administration post-911, we should start to worry.
Maxima is included in the SAGE project. I strongly encourage anyone interested in open source alternatives to Mathematica to check out SAGE (http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage). It also includes a raytracer, the Gnu Scientific Library, numpy, scipy, singular, gap, and many more open source math projects. It is already very impressive and improving rapidly. I have over 5000 Mathematica notebooks, I've used Mathematica since 1990, and I am preparing to move all of my research and teaching (I am a math professor) over to SAGE.
Unfortunately, you have an uphill battle against entropy to use most radioactive waste for something useful. Seperating out components with the right chemical and isotopic properties is almost always too expensive to be worthwhile.
Its awesome that those lightning balls are running around the floor, over wires, past the sandaled feet (!) of the researchers.
Just like in DNA, there are words so dangerous that they don't exist. Here's one of them: sdlnfnerooij. Use it with care and send me the check. Most DNA does something, or is a slightly mutated version of a sequence that does something (like endogenous retroviruses). So its like a language with some spelling mistakes - of course there are lots of sequences that won't be there. And if you look at long enough strings, there have to be some missing.
I'm a professor too, and I have run into a little resistance to using older texts. No evil cartel, just people who don't like thinking outside the box. My campus bookstore refuses to get out of print books, and that makes my department staff nervous. So I used an in-print Dover book for my linear algebra course last year and no one complained. My students didn't all like the book but they were thankful for the price ($7 used).
I'm interested in loading one of these up with 8-16 GB of RAM and it looks like apple is making that expensive as usual. The base price is OK, but why ream people on the RAM? Notice that the base model and the next few options give you 512 sticks, you have to spend an extra 1100 to start getting some 1 GB sticks - this means that if you want, say 8x1GB bought third-party you're somewhat screwed.