Yeah. I don’t know why they bothered with numbers at all, after the last few. But from what I’ve read, they’re going to just standardize to Windows 10, w/ names attached, the same way Apple did with MacOS.

Can we really count Vista? Even Microsoft admitted that Vista was a failure.

This really should be identification of sex, not gender, through chemical analyses of fingerprints, but whatever. The study says “gender” for some reason.

Well, I’m sure that 128GB of RAM will be part of the minimum system requirements of Windows 11 (or Windows 12, 9, B, Orange... whichever comes first in Microsoft’s numbering system).

*facepalms*

Both. I mean it happens on the single cell level quite frequently, and we do have some non-animal genes in our own genome. It’s mostly from viruses though.

I would imagine that quite a few of these organisms die. But I guess it’s a trade off which allows the species as a whole to survive in extreme conditions.

I liked it more than the first. Although, as I just mentioned in another post, there were elements which stopped me from reading the books which followed it.

It’s a shame that it’s too cerebral, and probably won’t get a movie because of that. Also, some things just don’t work these days.

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“Oh my god! She had children out of wedlock. How horrible.” Because that never happens today.

Honestly, it was the last book in the series that I read. I liked a lot of things about it. I disliked a few things. And I think those few things, while doing nothing to hurt the interest in the book, did hurt my interest in the books that followed it.

Well, I guess it’s time to put myself into suspended animation. Just a quick nap for 20 million years and I’ll be able to see the rings of Mars.

Interestingly enough, this sounds a lot like the effects of the Descolada, from Speaker for the Dead. Also interesting is that the organism can rebuild its DNA from fragments. I’ll have to read the original paper and see how close the Gizmodo analysis is (no offense; I just don’t trust any form of media to accurately…

Yep. See above, but I attach no warranty to the validity of the answer :p

I wrote a short answer that might help a bit: http://gizmodo.com/my-understandi…

My understanding is weak, so take this discussion with a grain of salt.

And that’s why I don’t approve of government. One or two institutions, which change slowly, are not going to be able to produce the innovation that we need.

Still waiting for the technology needed to “build/grow” a Dyson tree.

It’s difficult to tell from this article, but are these birds even aggressive? They’re fearless, but it doesn’t seem like they’ll inflict wounds in order to access the blood.

I’ll get around to reading this... eventually... I guess...

Gut bacteria comes from a variety of sources. Some of it comes from the mother, and various mechanisms are in place to help colonization. Other sources include various foods. And some come from our own skin. The human body is really a giant petri dish.