Comment Re:You Just Don't Know When to Shut Up, Do You? (Score 1) 705
And who owns "the man"?
Chuck Norris.
Submission + - LHC has first collisions after years of waiting (web.cern.ch)
An anonymous reader writes: Only after four days from first attempt to send a particle beam all around the LHC circle have we arrived at the point that today all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a statement to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already few days after restart and the LHC has already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks we now have just to wait for increased intensity and first attempts to acceleration.
Comment Re:Stealing (Score 1) 234
That coffee shop has to pay for its connection, and bandwidth is a limited resource.
Which is why they should charge by the MB.
Comment Re:As someone with a lortab prescription... (Score 2, Informative) 631
My prescription is 7.5mg hydrocodone, 500mg acetaminophen (standard - though there are a few variations on the amount of hydrocodone). The FDA has enforced that amount of acetaminophen, for two reasons. Hydrocodone is relatively addictive, and acetaminophen often induces a huge amount of nausea.
Generally, it is the narcotic causing the nausea, not the acetaminophen.
Comment Re:So wait... (Score 5, Informative) 631
The FDA made the drug companies put acetaminophen into the narcotic painkillers to keep people from recreationally overdosing on them (same as they "denature" ethyl alcohol that you can buy at the hardware store by poisoning it with methyl alcohol)...
This is not true at all. Acetaminophen and narcotics are mixed because the combination is a much more effective pain reliever than either alone.
Comment Heart Failure (Score 1) 1
Upon autopsy, doctors in Thiland have ruled heart failure as the cause of death. Admittedly, though, the doctors are puzzled as to how, exactly, his heart happened to explode.
Submission + - David Carradine dead at 72 1
Abnix writes: David Carradine, the star of "Kill Bill" and the man behind the legendary 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," has died at age 72.
Carradine was reportedly found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, either late Wednesday or early Thursday morning.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1613257/story.jhtml
Carradine was reportedly found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, either late Wednesday or early Thursday morning.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1613257/story.jhtml
Submission + - Hulu To Begin Charging For Video Content 1
An anonymous reader writes: All great free things can't last forever, especially when the entertainment industry is involved. What I'm referring to is Hulu.com, the most popular content streaming service online and where millions of users watch full TV episodes of their favorite shows. According to Jonathan Miller, News Corp's CDO, Hulu may soon begin charging subscription fees for some of their online content. News Corp is the parent company of Fox which owns a huge portion of Hulu. When Miller of Newscorp was asked if Hulu would begin charging for online content during an Interview with Daily Finance, he said that "the answer could be yes." He went on to say that he doesn't "see why over time that shouldn't happen."
Comment Re:I for one... (Score 1) 132
The human genome contains ~3 billion base pairs. E. coli, for instance, has only 4.6 million, a factor of ~1000 less. I will safely say that E. coli is a "simple" life form relative to humans.
Submission + - WHO Raises Pandemic Threat Level
Solarch writes: Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, the WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5. Global media outlets(such as CNN, Fox News, and the BBC) preempted normal broadcast coverage and immediately published stories on their websites. To clarify, the WHO's elevation is mainly a sign to governments that the virus is spreading quickly and that steps should be taken on a governmental level to stage supplies and medicines to combat a possible pandemic. Unfortunately, broadcast coverage focused on phrases like "pandemic imminent" (CNN marquee).
In other news, patient zero, the medical term for the initial human vector of a disease, has been tentatively identified in Mexico.
Comment Re:"Quantum mechanics may be at work" (Score 1, Informative) 137
Parent is 100% on the mark. Nearly everything involving chemistry is governed by quantum mechanics, including the molecular bonds and photon absorption which are core to photosynthesis.
Comment Re:Is real but rare (Score 1) 163
Models are just models.
But these are predictions based on the standard model, which describes particle physics quite well. What the grandparent should have said is "since these predictions are based on the standard model, there is a high Bayesian degree of belief that they will hold."
Comment Re:QM explains Transistors? (Score 1) 163
I've never seen a theoretical description of any transistor device that required any form of quantum mechanics for its explanation.
So you learned about transistors without discussing bands?
Comment Re:Bloody hell! (Score 1) 468
The alcohol/CO2 ratio produced by yeast also depends on anaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, with the latter producing no alcohol and much more CO2. There is a fair amount of dissolved oxygen in bread dough, and the yeast is killed quickly by baking, so there is significant aerobic respiration.
In making beer/wine, there is significant aerobic respiration at the beginning of fermentation, but eventually the oxygen is gone and anaerobic alcohol production begins.
Comment Re:Clarification (Score 1) 372
I am an excellent programmer, but working 9-5 in a cubicle writing code scares me and does not seem like a good way to spend the next 30+ years of my life.
Have you considered science, as others here have mentioned? Atmospheric science, in particular, is computationally intensive and can often be started in grad school without any undergrad exposure. With a CS degree and programming experience, you could very quickly get involved in atmospheric science research.
