Comment Re:Monopoly (Score 1) 198
This is an improvement. Cluelss people would compare prices between those two retailers assuming they were competitors in order to assess whether a price was good.
Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Potassium.
Compounds containing these elements, or pure (elemental) forms of the elements? What happens to the phosphorous, alchemically transmuted?
at this very moment, the search engine results show a huge number of interfering references to a site known as "slashdot", as well as RSS syndicated links to the same.
add -slashdot to the search terms and google will exclude pages related to slashdot
How about compiler being able to leverage Cuda hardware if found during execution? Might make for fatter binaries, but..... if it found GPU, it might help in some cases?
Well, the system of execution is often different from the system of compilation. So, you'd want to have the compiler-user specify that a CUDA-specific binary should be compiled alongside (afaik cuda/x86 fat binaries aren't a thing right now). And that falls into the realm of build system, not compiler. From what I've seen the build system (make in this case) relies on nvidia's compiler to builld the cuda libraries subsequent linking into the cuda executable along with the c* and fortran code.
2^32 - 1 = 4,294,967,296
2,147,483,647 = 2^31 -1
How exactly does one get a negative number of views?
2^32 - 1 != 4,294,967,296
I find it much more probable that life begins in milder, friendlier conditions and then adapts over time to harsher environments. Of course, everything is relative.
Ah, but mild and friendly is a relative term. I'm not sure our frame of reference is a valid example of mild and friendly...
In countless ways, spatiotemporally proximal organisms interact bi-directionally. For an extreme example: A student tends a dish of cells and the student's subsequent experiences (including chances of reproducing) are affected.
A succesful student gains momentum for a career boost, rocketing towards a tenure-track job-chase. Unsuccessful students are more likely to reproduce.
There's a wealth of useful equipment on eBay and other places, big expensive equipment is not out of the reach of the dedicated researcher. Ben Krasnow has three (I think) electron microscopes. I personally own a UV/VIS spectrophotometer. a microgram scale, and a Weston cell.
The idea that "research can only be done at the behest of government" or "is only associated with university" is a modern fiction. Government would *like* you to believe that everything depends on their whim and largesse, but it's not the only, nor even the best way.
Build a lab and start tinkering, or join a hackerspace. Lots of people do it. Lots of good science is done this way.
Electron microscopes are pricey. UV/VIS specs, mmg balances, and weston cells, not so much. High field NMR spectrometers and x-ray crystallography setups? You're dreaming. Thanks for playing!
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
