The challenge here is to develop a vaccine that causes the body to produce antibodies that it would NOT produce in response to an infection. This vaccine must cause the body to produce antibodies that are more general than those it would produce for any specific flu, but still specific enough that they won't attack anything beneficial.
... or not attack the beneficial ones for long enough to cause serious long term effects. Kind of like the viral equivalent of antibiotics, right?
I'm looking forward to Haiku, simply because for multimedia stuff, running home studio software, etc, Linux + X + Gnome + alsa + jack is already too much bloat. (and before you chime in mister xfce ftw, so is that...)
I want a quick boot and excellent multi-tasking. I want audio with the same or higher priority as the network and I don't want to have to stuff around too much to make that happen. If I am going to reboot to run a seperate studio config to my regular desktop for convenience, then I'd prefer Haiku.
Also, replacing the mythTV client in the lounge with something that can boot a bit quicker makes me more likely to turn the thing off at the wall and save some power.
Converting co2 and water to sugar and shuttling to the bloodstream.
Hey! That's my idea. Although in my idea, it's more of an illicit virus thing. People infect themselves, photosynthesize for a day, and get a massive sugar rush when they go out in the sun. Perfect for outdoor music festivals and such!
Side effects: flu like symptoms the following day, diabetes from long term use and obvious green skin while under the influence.
But sure, blame the guy up front plowing the road for not towing the open source community too.
Sure it's not fair to blame the guy poughing the road for not towing others, it's hard enough dragging a plough through tarmac.
What I want to know is this: why is nVidia using a plough to cut a fucking great ditch in the road rather than grading it so it's a smooth ride for others?
Actually, I would support Xbox 360, if it weren't for all the problems. I have a 1.5 Xbox and it's still used. But that's the market I'm happy for MS to play in - toys. They have strong competition, and let's face it, games is what they do best. For a lot of people, the only remaining thing tying them to MS is the games. Let them have it, I say, just don't buy anything else.
Sorry, I gotta bite. I don't understand how someone can support that evil little political game and still pretend to believe in freedom and democracy.
The place has nothing to do with why the people detained there were taken out the environments in which they were attacking people, or supporting and financing those that were.
You just condemned them without a trial. But why would anyone expect someone who bought the bullshit war on terror to believe in a fair trial or the rule of law? Anecdotally, from people who were held and then released without charge, we do know that a lot of people were captured by corrupt tribesmen in Afghanistan and sold to the US with trumped up charges. These people released without charge were entirely released due to pressure from home governments that respect freedom and the rule of law, not due to trial, assessment of evidence or any reasonable action of the United States of America.
The US was paying handsome rewards. How better to get rid of a rival then sell him to the super power to be subjected to torture and abuse until he loses his mind? A lot of the countries these people come from are either sucking up to the US or are enemies, so there is no one to defend their liberty or freedom. There is no one defending justice for these people.
Over 50 of the released detainees have returned to the same militant jihadism they were practicing when they were captured. Many of their still-detained buddies are determined to do the same. They promise that that's what they'll do.
[citation needed - from someone other than the US propaganda machine]
You can of course expect that anyone who is locked up and subjected to torture might go a little off tap and consider joining in the bombing. If some evil bastards subjected me to torture, sexual abuse, sleep deprivation and more, I would probably want to kill the fuckers and everyone who supports them. Especially if the same evil bastards were killing thousands of innocent civilians and ignoring international conventions on war crimes. When you look at it from that perspective, Bush's US was not that much better than Hitler's Germany.
None of the European countries who have complained about the place called Gitmo have offered to hold those prisoners instead.
And Australia has refused too. This is because under international law, it would be illegal. These people were kidnapped and have been tortured and held without charge for a long time. In countries that respect the rule of law, it is a serious criminal offence to break international law. Americans don't understand this because the US gave up on justice a while ago. It's now mob rule and the politics of fear.
This, by the way is not a big anti-US rave, I understand that there are a lot of good people there who still hold the ideals on which the country was founded, but there are also a lot of neo-fascist idiots who have had just a little more power then their inferior intellects should rightfully be allowed to wield. Hopefully this is changing and the US can become a beacon again. Hopefully you haven't gone so far down the wrong path that no one believes you when you change your tune.
Anecdotally, I just went away for a week and camped by a creek surrounded by trees. I went from being really stressed and unable to concentrate to being relaxed and focused. Co-workers have all commented on how healthy and happy I look and yesterday I did a days work in half a day, I'm sure because everything seemed so easy.
As a comparison, last time I took a week off, I stayed in town and got back to work about the same as when I left.
So I think this good exercise/stimulation argument is bollocks. If you are out in the ocean and have to tread water to stay afloat, does the continuous work make you better and staying afloat? Short term, say over a few hours, sure. Long term, absolutely not.
Try a short holiday, even a weekend, surrounded by green, peace and quiet. You will see what I mean.
WTF!?! Why do people still maintain this old crap. It's like saying men will never walk on the moon. You are living in the past. Want to install a native 64bit flash plugin? What OS can you do that on?
Games granted, they are targeted at windows, but that's really all windows is good for for most consumers - a toy.
I don't completely hate Idle, I go to Idle on a slow news day, but I don't think it belongs on the front page. I'd like to see a slashdot poll (I have just submitted this):
What would you most like to see done to people who think Idle should appear on the front page?
Have their fingernails pulled out one by one without pain relief
Have them fitted with a custom 1.3kW microwave helmet
Covered in honey and placed on a fire ant nest
Have their income wiped out by no one visiting./ anymore because digg is better
Scientists have discovered a Buddhist monk who is not human.
Tensing Abowtaleven isn't like other humans. Hans Gripperpienis of the Starbucks, somewhere, measured the chemical makeup of 150 humans, and found that they all had similar levels of the C8H10N4O2H2O except for Abowtaleven, which had less than 0.5% of the normal level. Along with some other humans, he is also low on the molecules C2H5OH and Coc.
Unfortunately yes. I know a lot of windows users that use that IE tab or whatever it's called in Firefox. When I have mentioned a site being shit because it doesn't work in firefox, they say "yes it does" and tell me to get this IE tab thing. Then look confused when I tell them it doesn't work on Linux.
And these people are developers. Shitty ones that can only target IE, but employed developers nonetheless.
I don't have the book on hand, but Bill Bryson put it well towards the start of "A Short History of Nearly Everything" where he blames the dry and boring nature of science textbooks and the authors need to put questions at the end of every chapter for squashing his interest in science. He then goes on to praise scientific authors who can make their work informative and entertaining.
I agree wholeheartedly. Make an otherwise dry subject funny and interesting and it becomes more memorable and therefore easier to learn.
To demonstrate my point, I have deliberately made this post dry and dull. You will notice that within a week you will have forgotten it entirely.
Slashdot Mirror
Meet the refrigerator
Thank you, thank you, I'll be hear all week....
... or not attack the beneficial ones for long enough to cause serious long term effects. Kind of like the viral equivalent of antibiotics, right?
Can you say "superbug?"
Let's check back in 50 years.....
No and no. But Canonical should be forced to include Internet Explorer in the repositories.
That's what mirrors on the ceiling are for.
I read of a study once that frequent anger is a higher risk in heart disease than smoking or drinking excessively.
Sometimes I'm out, my Nokia needs a charge, I ask someone "anyone got a Nokia charger?" and someone says "yes".
Now I get really angry when I find out it's for an older model and wont fit. Really pissed off.
I get pissed off that every time I buy a phone, I get new headphones, new wall charger, new car charger. Every time. That pisses me off even more.
A move like this could add 50 years to my life.
Or perhaps it's a chance for the EU to fragment phone charger standards. Think NTSC vs. PAL vs. SECAM
I'm looking forward to Haiku, simply because for multimedia stuff, running home studio software, etc, Linux + X + Gnome + alsa + jack is already too much bloat. (and before you chime in mister xfce ftw, so is that...)
I want a quick boot and excellent multi-tasking. I want audio with the same or higher priority as the network and I don't want to have to stuff around too much to make that happen. If I am going to reboot to run a seperate studio config to my regular desktop for convenience, then I'd prefer Haiku.
Also, replacing the mythTV client in the lounge with something that can boot a bit quicker makes me more likely to turn the thing off at the wall and save some power.
These are just a few reasons I want Haiku.
Hey! That's my idea. Although in my idea, it's more of an illicit virus thing. People infect themselves, photosynthesize for a day, and get a massive sugar rush when they go out in the sun. Perfect for outdoor music festivals and such!
Side effects: flu like symptoms the following day, diabetes from long term use and obvious green skin while under the influence.
Sure it's not fair to blame the guy poughing the road for not towing others, it's hard enough dragging a plough through tarmac.
What I want to know is this: why is nVidia using a plough to cut a fucking great ditch in the road rather than grading it so it's a smooth ride for others?
Actually, I would support Xbox 360, if it weren't for all the problems. I have a 1.5 Xbox and it's still used. But that's the market I'm happy for MS to play in - toys. They have strong competition, and let's face it, games is what they do best. For a lot of people, the only remaining thing tying them to MS is the games. Let them have it, I say, just don't buy anything else.
Sorry, I gotta bite. I don't understand how someone can support that evil little political game and still pretend to believe in freedom and democracy.
You just condemned them without a trial. But why would anyone expect someone who bought the bullshit war on terror to believe in a fair trial or the rule of law? Anecdotally, from people who were held and then released without charge, we do know that a lot of people were captured by corrupt tribesmen in Afghanistan and sold to the US with trumped up charges. These people released without charge were entirely released due to pressure from home governments that respect freedom and the rule of law, not due to trial, assessment of evidence or any reasonable action of the United States of America.
The US was paying handsome rewards. How better to get rid of a rival then sell him to the super power to be subjected to torture and abuse until he loses his mind? A lot of the countries these people come from are either sucking up to the US or are enemies, so there is no one to defend their liberty or freedom. There is no one defending justice for these people.
[citation needed - from someone other than the US propaganda machine]
You can of course expect that anyone who is locked up and subjected to torture might go a little off tap and consider joining in the bombing. If some evil bastards subjected me to torture, sexual abuse, sleep deprivation and more, I would probably want to kill the fuckers and everyone who supports them. Especially if the same evil bastards were killing thousands of innocent civilians and ignoring international conventions on war crimes. When you look at it from that perspective, Bush's US was not that much better than Hitler's Germany.
And Australia has refused too. This is because under international law, it would be illegal. These people were kidnapped and have been tortured and held without charge for a long time. In countries that respect the rule of law, it is a serious criminal offence to break international law. Americans don't understand this because the US gave up on justice a while ago. It's now mob rule and the politics of fear.
This, by the way is not a big anti-US rave, I understand that there are a lot of good people there who still hold the ideals on which the country was founded, but there are also a lot of neo-fascist idiots who have had just a little more power then their inferior intellects should rightfully be allowed to wield. Hopefully this is changing and the US can become a beacon again. Hopefully you haven't gone so far down the wrong path that no one believes you when you change your tune.
Anecdotally, I just went away for a week and camped by a creek surrounded by trees. I went from being really stressed and unable to concentrate to being relaxed and focused. Co-workers have all commented on how healthy and happy I look and yesterday I did a days work in half a day, I'm sure because everything seemed so easy.
As a comparison, last time I took a week off, I stayed in town and got back to work about the same as when I left.
So I think this good exercise/stimulation argument is bollocks. If you are out in the ocean and have to tread water to stay afloat, does the continuous work make you better and staying afloat? Short term, say over a few hours, sure. Long term, absolutely not.
Try a short holiday, even a weekend, surrounded by green, peace and quiet. You will see what I mean.
WTF!?! Why do people still maintain this old crap. It's like saying men will never walk on the moon. You are living in the past. Want to install a native 64bit flash plugin? What OS can you do that on?
Games granted, they are targeted at windows, but that's really all windows is good for for most consumers - a toy.
I don't completely hate Idle, I go to Idle on a slow news day, but I don't think it belongs on the front page. I'd like to see a slashdot poll (I have just submitted this):
What would you most like to see done to people who think Idle should appear on the front page?
You say eliminating the biggest provider will reduce competition? Eliminating a virtual monopoly is bad for competition? Wow.
I think it's a bit silly not even reviewing their proposal, but that's ridiculous.
pffft. Why contribute anything interesting when we can all just winge about how lame idle is?
It's not a bug, it's a feature
...no wait...
Scientists have discovered a Buddhist monk who is not human.
food for thought...
Unfortunately yes. I know a lot of windows users that use that IE tab or whatever it's called in Firefox. When I have mentioned a site being shit because it doesn't work in firefox, they say "yes it does" and tell me to get this IE tab thing. Then look confused when I tell them it doesn't work on Linux.
And these people are developers. Shitty ones that can only target IE, but employed developers nonetheless.
I don't have the book on hand, but Bill Bryson put it well towards the start of "A Short History of Nearly Everything" where he blames the dry and boring nature of science textbooks and the authors need to put questions at the end of every chapter for squashing his interest in science. He then goes on to praise scientific authors who can make their work informative and entertaining.
I agree wholeheartedly. Make an otherwise dry subject funny and interesting and it becomes more memorable and therefore easier to learn.
To demonstrate my point, I have deliberately made this post dry and dull. You will notice that within a week you will have forgotten it entirely.
So producing really bad paintings is fascism.... I knew it!
Try the first link in the summary. You have to actually read the article in full though.
You're response shows a complete lack of technical understanding of the context of this particular thread.
Please refrain from referring to Mac OSX and Windows, using instead "Mac" or "Macintosh" and "PC".
...Oh and turn in your geek card at the door.
8.10 - I
9.04 - J
9.10 - K
10.04 - L
10.10 - M
11.04 - N
11.10 - O
11.10 being 3 years from now means I may well be using an early alpha of 12.04. Then again, by then I may be running haiku.
No, I may well be using Preponderant Porpoise.