Given the nature of the organic (chemical) bonds involved, i think it's safe to say that you'd be required to "gather up your grass clippings, mix with chemicals, and paint it on your roof" rather frequently to maintain any sort of significant electricity production. That is, the original organism has to turn these structures over fairly often, and so would you. But, (i suppose), given the proper equipment, it wouldn't be too much more terrible than moving the lawn and washing the car once a week... maybe. And besides, the neighbor's camellia bush has always annoyed you anyway, so...

Es ist nicht das Ziel der Wissenschaft, der unendlichen Weisheit eine Tür zuöffnen, sondern eine Grenze zu setzen dem unendlichen Irrtum. -- Bertolt Brecht "Leben des Galilei"

here's my (dubious) translation: It is not the goal of Science to open a door to endless knowledge, but rather to place limits upon endless error.

this quote, i believe, it both filled with truthiness, and also reveals notable false-iness in the referenced article.

Too bad they won't name it "The Queller Drive" (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_One_(Space:_1999) ) a fun scifi plot device being that there's this space drive system that gets you there really fast, but unfortunately kills everything that's in its wake.

That's probably close to as good as can't be hoped for, policy-wise. However the previous company i worked for wouldn't allow us access to public databases (of protein structures) so in order to do research we discovered a public wireless network, associated with the local library system, that we could access from within the company offices. Knowing we'd never be permitted to have a specific machine on both networks (wireless and wired) as that would be a grave security problem (...i guess...) we had one machine 'outside' and one 'inside' and wrote a restricted gateway of sorts between ("stupid"? sure. but somehow having two machines made the microsoft certified IT team happy). My sad point being that a company supplied network must often be twisted (if only via memory stick) so that a herd of lawyers could be driven through it.

"rika banare" "away-from science"

( &#29702;&#31185;&#38626;&#12428; <p> <--- whaat? no unicode in slashdot comments?)

http://www.google.com/search?q="rika+banare" (heh... wikipedia only suggests "rika banana")

Do you use pulseaudio or alsa-server? then you're already running a "front end over a daemon". hell, if you're running a kernel audio module (and i'd bet you are) you're running some front end over something that behaves (except for some techno-lawyering) just like a daemon. Your disgust is, in my humble opinion, misplaced.

As a broader hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn polemic: folks that fancy themselves as techies (most slashdot commentors?) would do themselves a favor in education not to become so rigidly married to GUIs. GUIs are handy for a specific class of tasks typically involving many choices taken from relatively small sets; but in the background they're essentially, often actually, performing what a single line of "Ugh" command-line would do. ...end of sermon, now run off and program a glitzy interface over some crusty old code.

http://xmms2.org/wiki/Clients

no indeed. http://xmms2.org/wiki/Main_Page and/or

git clone git://git.xmms.se/xmms2/xmms2-devel.git

compiles easily. and it's only heard not seen. it does exactly what a music player ought to do and no more.

blessings upon the maintainers.

thankee. i'm not sure what it "accomplishes" either (answering the next reply). but it is interesting ...to me.

could someone post the result of running

grep -ir "amazon" * | wc -l

in the amarok 2.5 source tree?

But my Internet address is not here. It's in Joe's house, that's right next to mine. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Makelin's house, and a hundred others.

Can there be a more experienced and deeply wise plebiscite? of course not! The matter is therefore once and for all time resolved - erledigt. Gnome tre has won the Linux Journal Readers' Choice award! which awards exactly what you ask? hah! if you must ask that then you know nothing *nothing*. Gnome III thereby takes it over all comers in all categories for all time, better than OS/X Lion, better than Meryl Streep, better than sliced bread -- selah. now we can get on with our sad little lives concerning ourselves over lesser matters.

Fat cat CEO/boss/owner wants to maximize the profit margin; and doesn't want anyone to be doing anything that might be less than utterly devoted to that goal.
Fat cat CEO doesn't want to be troubled with the technical side of that goal, so established a proxy slave-driver: the IT department
Folks don't like proxy slave-driver.
surprise! ...?

next-up: Fat cat CEO doesn't like bothering to fire or hire people. why-oh-why do people fear/hate the HR department?

Perhaps someone else wondered (given that this is an article about microbiology) if the "plasmas" in the summary is of the 'blood plasma' sort or rather the ionized gas sort. You may save yourself a click: it's the latter; and its function is mostly to sterilize to sample space. Now as to the ease of subsequent sterile access to the bag, versus a dish with a lid, i leave that to the imagination of the gloved and harried lab tech.

(http://www.etymonline.com/ plasma 1712, "form, shape" (earlier plasm, 1620), from L.L. plasma, from Gk. plasma "something molded or created," from plassein "to mold," originally "to spread thin," from PIE *plath-yein, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (see plane (1)). Sense of "liquid part of blood" is from 1845; that of "ionized gas" is 1928)