Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 4, Funny) 283
So when Microsoft locks down the bootloader, it's bad. But when Google does it, it's good.
Of course. That's a well known law of nature.
So when Microsoft locks down the bootloader, it's bad. But when Google does it, it's good.
Of course. That's a well known law of nature.
Why do they need to know? 10,000 years is roughly 20 half-life periods, so they should expect roughly 1-millionth of the DNA to remain.
Since the wooly mammoth genome is approximately 4.7 billion in 58 chromosomes, for an average of 81 million base pairs per chromosome, the DNA fragments would be, on average 81 base pairs long, which should be enough to figure out the original sequence after duplicating and matching. So a full reconstructed mammoth genome should be possible.
Americans will never switch to metric...
Americans were switched over to metric back in 1893.
So that's why I've started getting gypped out of 24 mL of beer in every bottle.
In many parts of the world there are shortages of water. If you think there won't be more constrained water supplies as we add a few more billion people you are incredibly naive.
Those few billion more people are going to be in Africa, and their water quota will be a function of how their local well is holding up, whether they dig any new wells, etc.
They won't be worrying about their auto-temperature-controlled shower, and I won't be worrying about a water quota.
South-east UK. The UK has historically been mostly on unmetered water, but right now we're in the middle of installing meters as fast as the company can get them plumbed in. It's not exactly a free market though, as we don't have an 'unbundling' regulation as with internet and electricity supply: Whichever company owns the pipe into your house, that's who you'll be buying water from.
That's the way it's been since "forever" in the US, except that the "company" who owns the pipe is often enough the local government.
So Soviet Russia is the future a decade an a half hence? I ignored the CID, but the water quota is ridiculous. Unless we have drastically less water due to using as nuclear fusion fuel, we'll still have all the water we have now.
You have completely misunderstood the implication.
It's not that there will actually be a shortage of water, mandatory water quotas will be introduced as a means of beating down and controlling the populace, the original laws being justified by emotional appeals to the need to "save the earth".
I wonder what the iss would have looked like if Steve jobs designed it?
Brushed aluminum, a glowing Apple logo, possibly cubical.
I wonder what the iss would have looked like if Steve jobs designed it?/quote> Brushed aluminum, a glowing Apple logo, possibly cubical.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
