Comment Carl (Score 2) 614
So what if he's dead.
So what if he's dead.
Should have tipped you off that there were going to be quite a few exceptions. Whether there is 100% fidelity is another question altogether. Furthermore you need to know what portion of those RNA transcripts are actually being translated into protein and whether different variations in sequence are correlated with the relative rate of translation etc.
I gave up on caffeine intake over a year ago and let me tell you, I have felt about 1000x better. These days a single cup of coffee is enough to give me the shakes and make me feel sick for three hours. That shit is bad for you. Stick to the ethanol, at least you have an organ that can properly break it down.
Computerized HVAC. And NOT my mom, my dad, OR me. The computer was programmed 6 years ago and has been out of our control since.
1) move the decimal over one space to the left
2) multiply the first digit by 2
3) a)was the service bad? pick the result of 1)
b)was the service good? pick the result of 2)
c)was the service really good? stop being fucking lazy and multiply the whole damned thing by 2 and round up
Personally my step 2) is "divide the original by 5" but I'm weird
(Unfortunately, the planned mind reading extension to the kernel is still a few years out.)
So I know some people may read this and think "haha, funny joke" but given that most users are extremely predictable regarding what programs they use and when and how they use them (same with web browsing), shouldnt it be possible to gather user activity over time and analyze it to help improve scheduling. Hell, programs are more predictable about how they call for reads and writes, if the IOS preempts the program by loading stuff into cache that is likely to be needed when it doesnt have anything else to do we could totally speed stuff up. In theory beyond some basic data security needs the IO scheduler could vastly improve its cache performance by simply being fed data on what things the user and/or their programs tended to access repeatedly. Maybe this is too high level for some basic tasks, but it seems like there is plenty of use data that could be gathered to help teach an IOS what types of data are more likely to see repeated reads.
On the other hand, we could simply use OUR brains to write better code so that we didnt have to waist our computer's valuable time. Or for that matter other programmers' valuable time that could be spent making computers better (more efficient) tools rather than writing mindbogglingly complex statistical predictive IO schedulers to cover for our inability to follow proper program design.
yes, run him through before he had the chance to do that
Personally I'd make sure the fuckhead who killed Archimedes got run through so that we could have experienced 2000 years of calculus by now.
Anyone who thinks sunshades are a good idea is a complete idiot. Lets think about this for 2 seconds. What do we currently think causes global warming? CO2. Ok, so how do we think the levels of CO2 are regulated? Well on the production side there is any form of combustion or aerobic respiration. And on the other side? Carbon fixation by plants, the rate of which is determined, yes, you got it, but the amount of SUNLIGHT they get.
Sure this might work if they blocked out some of the infrared that planets etc. dont use, but for some reason I doubt they've thought of that. Furthermore, we have no fucking idea what the impact of these things would be, forget the complete waist of brainpower that might be used to put them up there.
Maybe if you were trying to hide the log in box, but you can write click scripts that will hit that map at every pixel. Stupid.
They would just select themselves right out of existence!
(sadly, probably not
apparently there isnt just one editor a
Dont link TFA, link TFP. The. Fucking. Paper.
See, its people like you who don't ever have to choose between things that think life is easy and everything can be all happy and nice. But just wait, some day you will have to choose between getting a blowjob from your wife and watching the game and drinking beer.
I think the underlying problem here is how we regulate and define "natural" additives to our food products. I'd have to say that if there is not a metabolic pathway that has regulatory mechanisms to control uptake of said molecule, then it is NOT natural. Sure it came from nature, but that doesnt mean that we'd eat it in nature. 50% or more of the health problems in modern society come from the fact that we don't eat what we've been eating for the past 100,000+ years (the rest probably come from sleep disturbance). Natural has been defined as "not made in a petrochemical factory" for waaaaayyyy too long, for it to have any relevance to human beings it needs to be defined in human terms and take into account many facts about what we (and with respect to food how our body breaks down and converts food into energy). Good luck getting a meaningful definition of natural though, it would cost the agroindustrial complex billions.
asteroid mining all the way, it is too expensive to launch the raw materials we need from inside our gravity well, in situ resources are key to any real success
hell, I've had crazed thoughts about starting a company to do asteroid mining in about 10 years once commercial space launches come down and vasimir is working better
"Survey says..." -- Richard Dawson, weenie, on "Family Feud"
