Not if you use the right analogy. Sure, the GP used a pretty poor analogy which fell over before he even hit Submit:
Its what we in the programming field would call the Data Segment.
The entire DNA sequence is both data and instruction. Bad analogy right there.
A better analogy might be: "It's what we in IT would call error correction" because if you mess with the so called "junk DNA", it makes it nearly impossible to reliably make copies, just like with CDs.... no wait.... If your the regular DNA and the junk DNA don't match you should immediately inform the package maintainer.... Ummmmm, would you believe you can't play the DNA in a car stereo if the junk DNA is missing?
Sorry, I haven't read TFA, and I'm having trouble thinking straight cause I been hitting my own melon head with a 15 ounce adjusting tool, but I fail to see the difference between the local take away and Bob's Big Beef Burgers. I understand that vegetarians can't eat at Bob's, but aside from that are there a lot of differences?
those who use alternative fuels should be getting rebates for not producing CO2..
Total BS. Burning biofuel releases CO2 just like burning petroleum distilate. They're just as bad as each other, although at least burning fossil fuel isn't wasting a food source.
And while I'm at it, solor cars are even worse if you factor in the energy used to produce solar cells and the fact that solar-electric drivers are all fucking hippies and hippies eat fucking lentils and lentils make you fart methane which is way worse as a greenhouse gas than COfucking2.
Ahem, sorry folks, I just thought I'd answer a mindless comment about how something must be better for our biosphere because it came from plants relatively recently with an equally mindless redneck retort. Guess I got carried away.
Nanobots that eat ammunition would probably also eat cars, refridgerators, and other household appliances.
I was thinking more of bots that hunt charges. Try to fire a gun, it goes click, clunk or clank, but not bang. Scatter them on the wind. Like I said, not as exciting.
TFA doesn't explain this development very clearly. The whole magnetic coupling thing has been around for well over a century, but what the MIT guys have come up with, which no one else has thought of to date, is tin foil underpants (pat. pend.)!
Sheesh,/. editors are getting slack, letting a story like this through when it completely omits the major breakthrough.
If enough armor can be packed on it, the "mech" platform might be more effective in urban combat than tanks.
With no armour whatsoever, a few million nanobots that eat ammunition would be more effective than tanks, _and_ they'd be completely uneffected by the tripwires that are so easy to set up in urban environments. Not nearly as exciting though.
Maybe so that paralegics and quadriplegics can use stairs like everyone else?
This was my first thought. Wheels are no good on rough and uneven terrain.
I just wonder WTF would buy a 2m tall 2 legged monstrosity, when 6 short legs would be much simpler to control and balance. This thing is rediculously impractical.
Then I read the end of TFA about soldiers on these things with chain guns and rpgs. My internal school boy nearly wet himself."Sure it may be a huge target on an inherently unstable pedal configuration with an inability to assume a prone position or find effective cover, but hey, it's a bit like a Mech!"
They do have alternate presentation styles you can apply when you have created a user account.
This is getting a bit off topic here, but in case anyone from this site is reading.....
How about changing the default to something that doesn't hurt? Users who want to read in a darkened room can pick the uglorama setting. I would wager that a lot of users would be browsing forums with the lights on.
I'm wondering if the deal is retrospective. And if so, does it cover me if I once bought Xandros and now use a non-Xandros distro? If so I'm covered for using Ubuntu! After all, I still have my paid for Xandros install CDs.
Then again, I think I'd prefer to receive a direct threat from Microsoft, ask them to list the specific patents they believe I'm infringing and if they fail to disclose them, refer the matter to the ACCC.
I still don't see a reason for switching to Vista.
Having read TFA, my take on it is that he likes the "look and feel" of Vista MCE better. Fair enough. Having seen the "look and feel" of TFA, I would call that a glowing endorsement of MythTV.
I have to say that, having not heard of Democracy Player until now, when I read the headline, I thought it was about some player from outside the US being rebranded by someone inside the US over some percieved insult, along the lines of the whole "Freedom Fries" episode. Then I saw the parent subject and that almost confirmed my suspicions....
What kind of name is Democracy Player? I mean really? OSS get cops a lot of flak for names like the GIMP but I'd much prefer to have the GIMP on my PC than "Democracy Player". What does it do? Play democracies, for fucks sake?
This may come across as trolling, but in all seriousness, when I read the name, I wanted to laugh out loud and simultaniously cringe. I'm certainly not installing it, even if it does show french maids.
A nation can control physical objects that enter their airspace, but not energy.
I think you just stumbled onto the solution.
Matter is energy. Energy is matter. What they need to do here is figure out some technology which can condense these signals into matter. The condesate would preferably be in liquid form, heavier than air, with different masses for different frequencies so they can be seperated. That way, the liquid can be collected and it's volume measured, providing an accurate metric of exactly how bad this unauthorised use of airspace actually is.
Seeing as they are demanding compensation, the onus is on them to develop this technology.
Y'know what. We got along just fine without software patents for 20 years. I think we could do so again. I'd go further than that, and (carefully) dismantle the entire damn Patent system. It's pointless, doesn't -- so far as I can see -- encourage innovation, and doesn't even work very well. We've got enough problems with global warming, overpopulation, incompetent and mendacious leaders, corporations run amock, etc, etc, etc. Why go out of our way to create more?
This is sort of radiation-induced growth stimulus was actually studied extensively in the first half of the 20th century.
Of course now we know that the reason fungus survives in relatively high raditaion environments like nuclear reactors is because fungii are ruled by Scorpio and the most influencial planet for Scorpio is Pluto. Pluto of course has dominion over "unseen forces", such as ionizing radiation, and its metal is plutonium - the link is so obvious I don't see how this is newsworthy.
Let me know when the manufacturers of tinea medication realise that the harmonious 120 degree seperation between Pisces (which rules the foot) and Scorpio (which rules fungus) abandon their business because they cannot overcome what's written in the stars
Hi Slashdot people. I'm new here so bare with me. I did a search for "Dell Ubuntu" on google and found this site and seeing as I've heard that the community is helpful, I though I'd ask here. I hope you can help. I'm having trouble plugging my cup warmer into my Inspiron extreme quad gazoogle 9000 running Ubuntu and I'm not sure if I am doing it right. It never worked on windows, but I heard Linux is better for cutting edge. I went to the administraion tool in the menu and it says something about DHCP but I couldn't get it working. Any ideas?
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Not if you use the right analogy. Sure, the GP used a pretty poor analogy which fell over before he even hit Submit:
The entire DNA sequence is both data and instruction. Bad analogy right there.
A better analogy might be: "It's what we in IT would call error correction" because if you mess with the so called "junk DNA", it makes it nearly impossible to reliably make copies, just like with CDs....
no wait....
If your the regular DNA and the junk DNA don't match you should immediately inform the package maintainer....
Ummmmm, would you believe you can't play the DNA in a car stereo if the junk DNA is missing?
War on drugs? War on Want? Warren Beatie?
Total BS. Burning biofuel releases CO2 just like burning petroleum distilate. They're just as bad as each other, although at least burning fossil fuel isn't wasting a food source.
And while I'm at it, solor cars are even worse if you factor in the energy used to produce solar cells and the fact that solar-electric drivers are all fucking hippies and hippies eat fucking lentils and lentils make you fart methane which is way worse as a greenhouse gas than COfucking2.
Ahem, sorry folks, I just thought I'd answer a mindless comment about how something must be better for our biosphere because it came from plants relatively recently with an equally mindless redneck retort. Guess I got carried away.
Fish. You may find this interesting. Next question?
I was thinking more of bots that hunt charges. Try to fire a gun, it goes click, clunk or clank, but not bang. Scatter them on the wind. Like I said, not as exciting.
TFA doesn't explain this development very clearly. The whole magnetic coupling thing has been around for well over a century, but what the MIT guys have come up with, which no one else has thought of to date, is tin foil underpants (pat. pend.)!
Sheesh, /. editors are getting slack, letting a story like this through when it completely omits the major breakthrough.
With no armour whatsoever, a few million nanobots that eat ammunition would be more effective than tanks, _and_ they'd be completely uneffected by the tripwires that are so easy to set up in urban environments. Not nearly as exciting though.
This was my first thought. Wheels are no good on rough and uneven terrain.
I just wonder WTF would buy a 2m tall 2 legged monstrosity, when 6 short legs would be much simpler to control and balance. This thing is rediculously impractical.
Then I read the end of TFA about soldiers on these things with chain guns and rpgs. My internal school boy nearly wet himself."Sure it may be a huge target on an inherently unstable pedal configuration with an inability to assume a prone position or find effective cover, but hey, it's a bit like a Mech!"
Wankers.
This is getting a bit off topic here, but in case anyone from this site is reading.....
How about changing the default to something that doesn't hurt? Users who want to read in a darkened room can pick the uglorama setting. I would wager that a lot of users would be browsing forums with the lights on.
I'm wondering if the deal is retrospective. And if so, does it cover me if I once bought Xandros and now use a non-Xandros distro? If so I'm covered for using Ubuntu! After all, I still have my paid for Xandros install CDs.
Then again, I think I'd prefer to receive a direct threat from Microsoft, ask them to list the specific patents they believe I'm infringing and if they fail to disclose them, refer the matter to the ACCC.
Having read TFA, my take on it is that he likes the "look and feel" of Vista MCE better. Fair enough.
Having seen the "look and feel" of TFA, I would call that a glowing endorsement of MythTV.
I have to say that, having not heard of Democracy Player until now, when I read the headline, I thought it was about some player from outside the US being rebranded by someone inside the US over some percieved insult, along the lines of the whole "Freedom Fries" episode. Then I saw the parent subject and that almost confirmed my suspicions....
What kind of name is Democracy Player? I mean really? OSS get cops a lot of flak for names like the GIMP but I'd much prefer to have the GIMP on my PC than "Democracy Player". What does it do? Play democracies, for fucks sake?
This may come across as trolling, but in all seriousness, when I read the name, I wanted to laugh out loud and simultaniously cringe. I'm certainly not installing it, even if it does show french maids.
At least there'll be plenty of work securing publicly exposed German networks from outside of Germany. I wonder if they thought of that.......
Concurrent Befunge.
I think you just stumbled onto the solution.
Matter is energy. Energy is matter. What they need to do here is figure out some technology which can condense these signals into matter. The condesate would preferably be in liquid form, heavier than air, with different masses for different frequencies so they can be seperated. That way, the liquid can be collected and it's volume measured, providing an accurate metric of exactly how bad this unauthorised use of airspace actually is.
Seeing as they are demanding compensation, the onus is on them to develop this technology.
Surely all you have to do if you don't want to be recognised is put some putty on your chin and around the top of your cheekbones.
Hay! Leave his grammar out of this. She never done nothing to you!!11!!
WTF? I mean, I can understand learning Java to update your skills, but forth? And how does learning java lead to learning forth anyway?
Must be one of those ancient COBOL codgers who's lost his marbles. ;-P
Terrorist!
Answer 1:
Mamalian glands (I love that word - glands) start around the armpit.
Answer 2:
Cancer is ruled by the moon. To moon is to flash ones bottom. Bottoms are rich environments for bacteria and fungi.
Of course now we know that the reason fungus survives in relatively high raditaion environments like nuclear reactors is because fungii are ruled by Scorpio and the most influencial planet for Scorpio is Pluto. Pluto of course has dominion over "unseen forces", such as ionizing radiation, and its metal is plutonium - the link is so obvious I don't see how this is newsworthy.
Let me know when the manufacturers of tinea medication realise that the harmonious 120 degree seperation between Pisces (which rules the foot) and Scorpio (which rules fungus) abandon their business because they cannot overcome what's written in the stars
I wouldn't assume from the GP that the poster is irritated, rather amused. I know I'm amused. Was that representation of christianity inaccurate?
Perhaps when you see the basics of a religion put like that, you might start to see why some of us believe religion has no place in government.
max littlemore: *rubs chin* *taps nose* Nothing to see here... move along...
Hi Slashdot people. I'm new here so bare with me. I did a search for "Dell Ubuntu" on google and found this site and seeing as I've heard that the community is helpful, I though I'd ask here. I hope you can help.
I'm having trouble plugging my cup warmer into my Inspiron extreme quad gazoogle 9000 running Ubuntu and I'm not sure if I am doing it right. It never worked on windows, but I heard Linux is better for cutting edge. I went to the administraion tool in the menu and it says something about DHCP but I couldn't get it working. Any ideas?
Don't laugh. It could happen.