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You have to read the tutorial.

It does a much better job of explaining the language.

ANI seems to be quite an interesting language. I haven't looked at dataflow languages before, so this might be fairly standard.

This isn't new. I have had Clojure installed via the Ubuntu repository for some time now. Maybe since Karmic was released.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

It's interesting to note that Nature is releasing this paper under a creative commons licence. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08656)

One of the authors is a big proponent of open access science. The genomic sequences are also available from a public repository.

Not so silly. As elsewhere noted, you will smell ozone when thunder storms are around. The high voltages involved create 03(ozone) from O2(oxygen).

Dyson actually have a washing machine already:

http://www.dyson.com/insidedyson/article.asp?aID=cr01

This is the comment I was replying to:

Do you have any idea how many women from Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. etc. etc. are DESPERATE to get into China? SOLELY for the purpose of latching onto a man?

North Korea is essentially a closed country. Of the few North Koreans that manage to escape, how many of them do you think are escaping primarily to find a husband?

I'd say none of them.

I probably should have specified South Korea originally. But the specification isn't really needed due to the closed nature of the north.

As for South Koreans, my original comment still stands. South Koreans look down on Chinese.

Korean women are desperate to get into China?

I doubt it. Koreans look down on Chinese. They view them as dirty and uncouth.

Korea is a far richer country than China. There is no economic reason to migrate there.

A lot of heritable diseases are recessive traits - dominant genes are easier to select against.

Two people from the same background/race etc. are far more likely to carry the same recessive genes for a disease than two from different backgrounds.

This is why inbreeding produces unhealthy individuals. Two individuals that share a parent/grandparent etc will be very likely to inherit identical recessive disease genes from the parent.

Two people of different backgrounds will have offspring that are somewhat more likely to be healthy and have fewer problems.

But he did ask a (relatively) expert - his video developer friend.`

Not true. A quick hand wash gets rid of almost all the bacteria. Fungi take a bit more scrubbing to get rid of.

I found this out in first year university biology. We swabbed and cultured our hands before and after washing with plain soap. Almost no colony forming units of bacteria are left after a short wash. A reasonable amount of the fungi is still there though.

Umm, I started to read this, but got distracted by the link to xkcd...

From the article:

Psystar copies the hard drive of a Macintosh computer containing Mac OS X (as depicted above on the left side of the diagram) onto its "imaging station" computer (shown in the middle of the diagram). This is the first unlawful copy.

Psystar then modifies this copy of Mac OS X to create a "master copy" that wil run on non-Apple computers. Psystar next uses "hard drive imaging" to install copies of its "master copy" of Mac OS X from the imaging station onto each computer it assembles. This is the second unlawful copy (a process repeated many times).

Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or "RAM." This is the third unlawful copy.

and that that name was the name of the reverend conducting the funeral service, not the deceased

You may also know ALS as Motor Neurone Disease (MND), particularly for those of you outside of the USA.

It runs in my family.

An interesting thing to me is that E. coli will be killed if the meat is cooked all the way through.

Anyone that gets infected by this strain (or any other) hasn't been cooking their meat properly. Or the hamburger chain hasn't.

Rare steak is a different matter. Pathogenic bacteria will only be present on the surface of the meat. Cooking the surface of the meat kills the bacteria. But in the case of minced beef, the bacteria is mixed through the whole of the meat.

It is true that pathogenic organisms will be killed by bringing water to boil.

However, this is not gauranteed to destroy toxins produced by organisms. For example, Clostridium botulinum needs to be boiled for ten minutes to destroy the toxin. Cyanobacterial toxins aren't killed by boiling.

Like another poster said, bringing water to the boil will eliminate most safety risks.

I thought this was going to be an article about how people with autism browse the web.

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Nope, still equals zero.

It is great that the full transcript for the video is shown on the web page.

I never bother to sit though a whole video. I can read much faster than anyone can speak.

One of the comments in the article notes that:

The global version of Google Maps shows the border as a dashed line, according to actual territorial possession.

The Chinese version, Google Ditu, shows the border as an unbroken line according to the Chinese claim. Taiwan is also shown as part of mainland China.

I said I'm in Sydney, Australia.

But for the last eight months I have been living in Woy Woy on the central coast just north of Sydney. I have lived in Sydney for most of my life.

And me

There's isn't much info there, but from what I can see from the picture, I wouldn't want that spiky little thing crawling around inside my body.

>Shortly after I declared Magic-1 "hardware complete", I casually mentioned to my wife that I was starting to think about Magic-2. Her response was swift, and final:

> "No, there will be no Magic-2!"

...omitted...

> She's the love of my life, the woman I plan on growing old with, mother of my children, my partner and best friend. I have to respect her wishes on this.

> So, there will be no Magic-2.

> Instead, we'll call the follow-on project "Magic-16".

I think the article meant that a deadly strain of E. coli first appeared in the early 1980s.

E. coli in general does not cause death, It is present in the gut of most mammals, including humans.

It would be good to be able to try out your app before creating an account.

I want to quickly get a feel for it without going to the hassle of creating an account.

Yes, I know you have a screencast, but that's not what I want.

I would like to see a 'Try Me Out' button that gets me into the app an allows me to click on buttons etc. to see what they do.

edit: Oops, I missed the link to the demonstration. Maybe make it bigger.

Some cheap Nokia, it doesn't even have a product number on it.

Cost A$29, makes phone calls and sends sms.

Using Firefox, I moved the bookmarks toolbar to the menu bar.

To do this, make sure you have the bookmarks toolbar visible. Right-click on the menu bar or around the location box, then select 'customise'. Drag 'Bookmark toolbar items' to the white box next to the help menu. You can now hide the bookmark toolbar again.

Now if you add a bookmark to the bookmark toolbar, it appears on the menu bar. You can also drag bookmarklets on to it.

I have been doing it this way for years. Of course, there is less space on the menu bar, so you can't have as many bookmaarks as on a toolbar.