Maybe he just prefers SuSE?
Several years ago, I ported SuSE onto my PowerPC iBook G3 because I liked it and it was the distro I ran on my main desktop machine.
("porting" in this case mostly meant bootstrapping a build environment and working around a few bugs. The source RPMs already had PPC build targets.)
Last time I checked, my DVD player did not take 45 seconds to boot up, its instantaneous: just like a TV or VCR
DVD, sure. Try a recent Blu-Ray player.
Not directly related to your post, but take a look at http://nassp.sourceforge.net/ . It's an add-on to the "Orbiter" spaceflight simulator with models of the Apollo spacecraft, including an emulated guidance computer that runs actual AGC code.
Many years ago I had a summer job at the TRIUMF cyclotron. When you stood above the main magnet (on top of a thick layer of concrete shielding blocks) the field was strong enough that you could hold one coin vertically and stick another one onto its bottom edge.
The stray field was too weak to affect credit cards or hard drives, but it did do interesting things to the CRT monitors in nearby offices.
Without any of this, I have no idea if this is shocking news, or merely expected.
It's just a publicity stunt. The actual science has been done already, in much greater detail without any gnomes.
And just how, pray tell, do you think they measure the mass of the bars Mr. Nitpicker? Some elaborate physics experiment?
Using either a beam balance, or a force-measuring scale that's locally calibrated with a known reference mass.
It's sometimes an acceptable shorthand to express a weight in grams, but not when that's the whole point of the story. The _mass_ in grams is (hopefully) not changing. The _weight_ in newtons (or any other dimensionally-correct unit you prefer) is what's changing.
If you're using a device that measures weight and reports it in grams, then you need to re-calibrate it against a known reference mass at each new location.
p.s. don't forget about buoyancy. Accurate measurements need to be done in a vacuum chamber.
Nothing reads like time cube. Nothing.
First off, your brain starts to bleed just from the background image
The funniest thing for me is that when you finally scroll down to the bottom of that wall of crazy-text, there's a "next page" link.
The picture in the abstract shows where the iron ion is located. It's not at the very tip of the spike. It's a bit further back, holding a few protein pieces together.
If you really want a kit you can buy an assembled board, de-solder all of the components, and *make* a kit.
Ostensibly, they allow for more brains behind the card than is possible with a magstripe.
You get that benefit from having a microprocessor on the card, such as a standard "chip card" with metal pads (like a SIM card) that you insert into the reader. Adding all of the RFID nonsense on top of that just makes it less secure.
(I'm aware that "chip+pin" also has known security flaws, but it's better than the alternatives).
It's not quite that simple. Although ethanol has a lower energy content, it has a higher "octane number" and can be used at higher (more efficient) compression ratios than regular gasoline. An engine specifically designed for E85 wouldn't necessarily be much less efficient than one designed for standard gasoline.
However, cellulose-derived butanol is probably a better long-term solution.
There's more to life than just "calories". You also need a supply of amino acids to make new proteins (such as enzymes), and if there aren't enough of these in your diet then the only option is to break down muscles or other important tissues. Fat reserves can be used as energy and can even be used to synthesize glucose for the organs that require it, but there's no way to make amino acids from fat.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
