Oh come on, this study is bogus, the artcle said it was a double-blind study, but there is noway in hell that a violinist of sufficient skill to extract from a Cremonese violin anything close to it's potential, wouldn't know a 300 year old instrument the second they picked it up; this study neither proves or disproves anything.

One difference no one talks about it that the wood in a stringed instrument "loosens" as it's played as the wood is exposed to sonic nodes and antinodes and developes it's tone; if it's hard to tell the difference between an elite modern violin and a Strad now, wait untill the modern has been played of a 1000 hours!

/. editors don't edit, they just make postings visible.

I'm sure when you signed the legaly binding contract to get the source code that you'd have to have to modify to compile to get the binary patch, their was a clause prohibiting you from distributing any binaries from the source or derivatives of the source.

Most malware likes to patch the whole it got in through if only to reduce competion and preserve it's enviroment.

Condidering how convoluted music rights are, your friend may have unwittingly signed away more rights than either of you realize.

The critical thinker is usually the one kid in the room everyone glares at for asking the "stupid question" that everyone else "knows" the answer to but no one knows how they know.

I'm not sure you can teach "critical thinking" period, but even if you can most public school educators are poorly equipped to attempt the task.
I'm also unsure why educators feel they must create the psuedo-philosophy called critical thinking when the real philosophies of Epistemology and Logic so adequately covers the subject matter.
Additionally I don't see why the Democrats would be any more receptive of the sheeple being freed from their version of group-think then the Republicans are

Once you have separated the lipids from the algea, there still should be a fair amount of cellulose, starch and sugars for ethanol production although methanol is easier to use for biodiesel produntion.

It is horribly inefficient, but the point is because it results in large quantities of biochar which is a really fantastic soil ammendment, the rabid warmistas will keep their mouths shut. The carbon in biochar will stay in the ground for thousands of years so the eco-loons love it because it sequesters eeeevvvilll CO2 from the atmosphere. I'm actually tempted to make a pyrolysis unit just to make biochar for the garden.

Probably would be but the company that owns the patents either aren't licensing to others or isn't able to interest companies with pockets deep enough to buy licences. I believe the key patents will run out in about 5 or 6 years now.

Poplar trees are basicaly weeds, they grow fast, are invasive, die quickly and are easily pushed out by more stable trees; don't worry about them.

So do we award Canada a surveilence icon because one of it's nanny-state supporting residence narced out Justin Carter to a whackaloon county prosecuter in Texas?

If you feel tired from working too hard or being burnt out you are depressed. If taking a 3 day weekend, sleeping in late in a hotel in a different city, getting more exercise and sunshine doesn't make you feel refreshed and relitalized, your head is going to a dark place sooner or later.

In windows the UI is pretty tightly integrated with the kernel so yeah it's a main feature; in Linux the UI is interchangeable. I've gotten used to the UI better after getting an android phone, amazing what you can get used to; but why do they keep screwing with the control panel?

you've got low standards.