She's saying that we shouldn't go around killing the weak ones off where they aren't causing any problems, since the weak ones help make it harder for the stronger ones.
Eh? Care to provide a link to where she talks about not killing them 'where they aren't causing any problems'?
I understand the principle- How would the same criticism not apply to the next amazing antibiotic to be discovered? FUD, pure and simple.
A researcher not associated with the UK team pointed out the problem with developing products based on this idea: "[A]nything that survives and sticks around grows greater resistance... ultimately [antibiotic paint] will be its own worst enemy and the bacteria could grow to be even stronger."
What a crazy thing to say. It's true, for sure, but has always been the case in the arms race against bacteria. It's what natural selection does...
What could possibly be the researcher's motivation to say such a strange thing?
*cough*She's the founder of a rival nanotech firm*cough*
A coincidence, or fear mongering unscientific FUD? You decide!
Yes, except you've forgotten a critical point... Companies who advertise and pay them money are their customers, not the masses who use their services for free.
I didn't forget this- It isn't a critical point though-
How would Google be serving its customers by filling up the search results with link farms? In my eyes, that only devalues the product.
This site, as a poster above points out, is simply skimming cash from Google.
But surely google must serve its customers in the way it deems best. Otherwise, who is running the business?
Solution? Make your website less like a link-farm. Perhaps add some value, like trustable reviews, or customer recommendations (otherwise, the site is not really any different to a Google search on the term "Industrial Products").
"Googly" -- which is a Google proxy for "what the customer wants to see in search results"
Which is, of course, why Google is the No.1 search engine. They make serving their customers their business, the crazy loons.
....I thought we'd look at some people who wanted back in....
So actually, it was 1 person who wanted back in, some guy claiming a/. story about horses will save his marriage, and... ah. Perhaps the real reason for this lamest of front page stories?-
An opportunity for a little light boasting. I bet chicks would dig me if I too edited Slashdot....
Gotta stick my oar in here-
Whenever the old 'will this game run on Linux' question is asked, a bunch of, er, people weigh in with a load of pro-microsoft ranting.
Fair enough, in that no serious PC gamer can really do without a Windows install somewhere on their drives.
But they should realise that competition can only improve their own experience, regardless of which platform they chose to actually play on.
I've played the same game, same settings, on both XP and via WINE, with higher FPS on the latter (though the other way around is more usual). Surely this should tell you something?...
Too expensive, correct- I'm rarely an early adopter, save for a few specific subsets of gadgetry, and who knew they'd slowly lose functionality, rather than gain it?
On a side-note CronoCloud- How did you play Oblivion on a PS2?
(Lastly, thank you mods for the +3, Troll above- I feel I've finally arrived)
This Story states that the video shows a 'test' version of the model, and that the production version will be as per the manufacturer's site. Who knows? Not me.
Dude. Google the model number (NB0700, but don't take my word for it) on the manufacturer's site. Revel in the many 'First sub $100 laptop' results returned.
Not sure how you arrived at the supposition, but no, the manufacturer's website is not wrong about their own product.
I don't see why BluRay won't stay around for a while. DVD-A, which has almost exactly the same set of listed advantages over CD that BD has over DVD....
Superficially the same advantages, but Blu-Ray debuts under very different market conditions.
What with almost ubiquitous high speed wireless data transfer, storage 'too cheap to measure', and a mature download market (both legal and illegal), there's a paradigm shift underway, and it doesn't favour physical formats.
I think the guy is spot-on, I just can't believe he said it out loud. I will never get a blu-ray player, because I already have better solutions.
Gotta love the unwitting parochialism in this story- Those polluty old Asians are making all out cheap stuff!
This is our pollution. If you outsource industry, you outsource the concomitant waste. So do we wash our hands (in increasingly filthy water), or step up to the plate and deal? (A rhetorical question, I know....)
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Eh? Care to provide a link to where she talks about not killing them 'where they aren't causing any problems'?
I understand the principle- How would the same criticism not apply to the next amazing antibiotic to be discovered? FUD, pure and simple.
What a crazy thing to say. It's true, for sure, but has always been the case in the arms race against bacteria. It's what natural selection does...
What could possibly be the researcher's motivation to say such a strange thing?
*cough*She's the founder of a rival nanotech firm*cough*
A coincidence, or fear mongering unscientific FUD? You decide!
Even if sent in the form: (2^n)-1?
Oldhack. Keywords get you into the ads, not the search results.
See Adisakp's post above.
I don't mean this pejoratively, because they're fine animals, but leach is the word.
I didn't forget this- It isn't a critical point though-
How would Google be serving its customers by filling up the search results with link farms? In my eyes, that only devalues the product.
This site, as a poster above points out, is simply skimming cash from Google.
But surely google must serve its customers in the way it deems best. Otherwise, who is running the business?
Solution? Make your website less like a link-farm. Perhaps add some value, like trustable reviews, or customer recommendations (otherwise, the site is not really any different to a Google search on the term "Industrial Products").
Which is, of course, why Google is the No.1 search engine. They make serving their customers their business, the crazy loons.
So actually, it was 1 person who wanted back in, some guy claiming a /. story about horses will save his marriage, and... ah. Perhaps the real reason for this lamest of front page stories?-
An opportunity for a little light boasting. I bet chicks would dig me if I too edited Slashdot....
Gotta stick my oar in here- Whenever the old 'will this game run on Linux' question is asked, a bunch of, er, people weigh in with a load of pro-microsoft ranting.
Fair enough, in that no serious PC gamer can really do without a Windows install somewhere on their drives.
But they should realise that competition can only improve their own experience, regardless of which platform they chose to actually play on.
I've played the same game, same settings, on both XP and via WINE, with higher FPS on the latter (though the other way around is more usual). Surely this should tell you something?...
Competition is good for everyone.
Fellow geeks. Mario cannot 'improve' your sex life.
Most mentions of Mario only have a deleterious effect on same.
Instead, be cool, don't appear desperate, and lower your sights. Unless you are horrific, you'll do fine. Just don't rely on Mario.
Too expensive, correct- I'm rarely an early adopter, save for a few specific subsets of gadgetry, and who knew they'd slowly lose functionality, rather than gain it?
On a side-note CronoCloud- How did you play Oblivion on a PS2?
(Lastly, thank you mods for the +3, Troll above- I feel I've finally arrived)
This Story states that the video shows a 'test' version of the model, and that the production version will be as per the manufacturer's site. Who knows? Not me.
Dude. Google the model number (NB0700, but don't take my word for it) on the manufacturer's site. Revel in the many 'First sub $100 laptop' results returned.
Not sure how you arrived at the supposition, but no, the manufacturer's website is not wrong about their own product.
You are wrong, at least with regards to my situation:
I wanted a PS3, but I've got about £1000 worth of PS2 games that I'm not about to give up on (my PS2 just gave up the ghost).
Having bought a cheap replacement PS2 instead of the backwards-compatible PS3 I'd have liked, I was not well disposed to Sony, so I look to the XBox-
Just too unreliable.
I now have a Wii, and love it, but would have probably been happier with a more powerful machine.
For me, both MSFT and Sony dropped the ball badly.
So why were people so eager to have the restrictive license removed?
These sites disagree.
I guess it's down to whether or not you believe the video made by manufacturers of a competing product...
Well, the model numbers are the same....
Follow the HiVision link in TFS emj, it has half a gig of DDR2.
future proof of what though?
Why, future, of course!
The whole project has been carefully and hermetically sealed to ensure that not a drop of future can get in.
I don't see why BluRay won't stay around for a while. DVD-A, which has almost exactly the same set of listed advantages over CD that BD has over DVD....
Superficially the same advantages, but Blu-Ray debuts under very different market conditions.
What with almost ubiquitous high speed wireless data transfer, storage 'too cheap to measure', and a mature download market (both legal and illegal), there's a paradigm shift underway, and it doesn't favour physical formats.
I think the guy is spot-on, I just can't believe he said it out loud. I will never get a blu-ray player, because I already have better solutions.
The guy basically says that the Blu-Ray format will be huge, this year. He then goes on to say how it will rapidly become obsolete.
Great way to, er, halt sales in their tracks.
I mean, what do they actually use this for?
I think it has been designed to run IE8 beta 2.
I'm glad they've given it a green light.
Imagine having all that computer power, and not even knowing if it was switched on!
Gotta love the unwitting parochialism in this story- Those polluty old Asians are making all out cheap stuff!
This is our pollution. If you outsource industry, you outsource the concomitant waste. So do we wash our hands (in increasingly filthy water), or step up to the plate and deal? (A rhetorical question, I know....)
According to a recent NPR story, both candidates intend to keep politics out of science....
But only one side intend to keep science out of science...
(Credit to Soulskill for the alley-oop)