I thought that Killer Bees were Africanized not African. Aren't they a mix/hybrid rather than pure African bees?
Technically, yes, Africanized honeybees were cross-bred from European and African honeybees. The African honeybee tends to do better in tropical climates, but tends to be more agressive. Since European honeybees don't do very well in the tropics, sicentists in South America tried to cross-breed the European and African honeybees to produce a bee that did well in tropical climates, but lacked the agressive tendencies of the African honeybee. They were unsuccessful and several swarms escaped into the wild.
So, although Africanized honeybees are what we consider "Killer Bees," their aggressive tendencies were inherited from the African honeybee. If you want to read more on the subject, try this link.
Actually it was O'Brien questioning Winston in 1984 by George Orwell long before it was a ST:TNG episode (and it was four fingers not four lights).
O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
"How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?"
"Four."
"And if the Party says that it is not four but five--then how many?"
"Four."
The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston's body. The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O'Brien watched him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased.
"How many fingers, Winston?"
"Four."
The needle went up to sixty.
"How many fingers, Winston?"
"Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!"
The needle must have risen again, but he did not look at it. The heavy, stern face and the four fingers filled his vision. The fingers stood up before his eyes like pillars, enormous, blurry, and seeming to vibrate, but unmistakably four.
"How many fingers, Winston?"
Four! Stop it, stop it! How can you go on? Four! Four!"
"How many fingers Winston?"
"Five! Five! Five!"
"No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four. How many fingers, please?"
"Four! Five! Four! Anything you like. Only stop the pain."
Of course, they couldn't have Picard actually say he saw five lights--he is rescued before that can happen (although he confesses to Troi later that in the end he could actually see five lights).
You misunderstand me, when I say "I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL..." I was saying that the whole point was distribution of the source, not binaries. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just adding that I prefer RedHat's business model.
That's funny, did the copyright notice that you just posted include the authors name? Does the license that accompanies the Linux kernel include the names of every person who contributed code? Hmmm...
All the software I wr[oi]te at my school includes the GPL copyright notice. The nice thing about the GPL is that you can share with fellow students to your hearts content but if the students use any of your code, they have to clearly mark that it is your code if they use it.
I may be wrong, but I don't remember any clauses in the GPL that require that derivitive works identify who the original author of the used code was. They do have to provide the GPL copyright notice, but not necessarily the author. FWIW, the BSD license does have a clause forcing the identification of the original authors.
Uh, this is pretty common practice. For example, you can compile all the source that makes up Red Hat and distribute binaries of it, you just can't call it "Red Hat".
Maybe, but you can also download the binaries from RedHat. You can download the ISOs from RedHat. I'm not going to argue that the UnitedLinux companies are immoral for only distributing the source freely--I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL isn't it? But you have to admit that it is certainly a lot more convienient to be able to download an ISO if you want to try out a distro. In the end, with RedHat planning a LSB compliant distro--and ISO downloads--I really don't think that they will be putting a major dent in RedHat's dominance. Just my 2 cents.
Hey guys/gals! If I post a song on the Internet will you all pay me $1.00 to show support for the concept? Wow, that'd be really cool!
Before you all go out and send your hard-earned dollars to large music labels, why don't you stop and think what they're going to use those dollars for... paying their lawyers to strip you of your fair use and reverse engineering rights. Just because you support one tiny thing that a company does, don't give them the knife to stab you in the back.
Whether or not there are commercially available means to do DVD to DVD or DVD to VHS copies is irrelevant. Taking the information stored on one DVD and copying it to another (or to VHS) is technologically trivial--therefore it will be (and is) done. Therefore, the DMCA has no value in stopping piracy.
If that's what he said, then it's so ironic because if he really felt that way, he would never have published the book. He would have kept all his secrets to himself. He doesn't need the money, so why else publish it except that he cares enough about what the world thinks that he wants to make people say he is brilliant (whether that group qualifies as the world at large or just a tiny segment he's trying to convince). Sad.
Just what the world needs--more psycho-babble. People don't write books just to reap the praise and adolation of their peers. He didn't write the book because he's interested in what people will say about it; he wrote it because he wanted people to know and understand his ideas. There is a good chance that "the world at large" that he speaks of is the "general public." How many average citizens of the world are even going to pick up a 1200 page book--let alone take the time to understand the material that it took an extremely intelligent person 10 years to write?
I sometimes miss the time of the BBS's--a time when if you had a modem, chances were you were a reasonably intelligent person. Now of course everybody's on the Internet and the close comradeie is gone. I miss FIDOnet and off-line mail readers. Oh well, I guess I'll stop my nostalgic blathering and go back to playing Quake III at 1600x1200...:)
I wonder how long it is before someone writes a linux polygraph app using the electrodes that the game uses. I can see it now--Linux users hired at an increasing rate at the FBI. They pass the polygraph test with flying colors!
Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is.
What, you mean people who actually bought Windows XP?
Not to get picky or anything, but nobody is going to be slashdotting 123.34.56.256... it's not a valid IP address. Now if it was 123.34.56.254 they might have some serious issues with a slashdotting.
I couldn't agree more. When I first heard about the Sci-Fi Dune mini-series I thought, "Wow, just imagine how much charater devolpment they can do in six hours!" I was extremely excited. Hell, you never even figure out what a Mentat is in the Sci-Fi version. You barely have any idea who Paeter or Thufir are. And don't get me started on how whiny and weakly they portrayed Jessica. I mean come on! A Bene Gesserit who bawls uncontrollably and gets morning sickness? Morning sickness!? My god, these are the women who have complete control of their body and can determine the sex of their offspring? You don't think that they can keep from puking up their breakfast because of a pregnancy?
No matter what you think of Lynch's version, it had more character development in 2 hours and 17 minutes than Sci-Fi could pull together in 4 hour and 25 minutes. I agree, it was the biggest movie disappointment for me--ever.
Do you go to SMSU? Dr. Northrip was the reason I became interested in physics. He used to give demonstrations at my elementary school. He died the year before I could take his PHY204 class. He was truly a wonderful man. I never got to know him, but I will always miss him.
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Technically, yes, Africanized honeybees were cross-bred from European and African honeybees. The African honeybee tends to do better in tropical climates, but tends to be more agressive. Since European honeybees don't do very well in the tropics, sicentists in South America tried to cross-breed the European and African honeybees to produce a bee that did well in tropical climates, but lacked the agressive tendencies of the African honeybee. They were unsuccessful and several swarms escaped into the wild.
So, although Africanized honeybees are what we consider "Killer Bees," their aggressive tendencies were inherited from the African honeybee. If you want to read more on the subject, try this link.
Africanized Honeybees are what Americans call "Killer Bees."
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In related news, redundancy is usually redundant.
I know, that should've been principal's office...
Wow! When I was in school, PDA was strictly prohibited. I mean, holding hands was ok, but anything else and it was straight to the principles office.
Now this is a great advertising picture. "See, even a girl can carry a 47 foot long pole of pyramatrix!"
This looks like pretty cool stuff, but it still isn't nearly as strong (or as light weight) as Goat-produced spider silk.
Of course, they couldn't have Picard actually say he saw five lights--he is rescued before that can happen (although he confesses to Troi later that in the end he could actually see five lights).
Most porn isn't produced by the MPAA, either.
Thank God! I don't know what I'd do if I found a moral objection to buying porn on DVD!
You misunderstand me, when I say "I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL..." I was saying that the whole point was distribution of the source, not binaries. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just adding that I prefer RedHat's business model.
That's funny, did the copyright notice that you just posted include the authors name? Does the license that accompanies the Linux kernel include the names of every person who contributed code? Hmmm...
All the software I wr[oi]te at my school includes the GPL copyright notice. The nice thing about the GPL is that you can share with fellow students to your hearts content but if the students use any of your code, they have to clearly mark that it is your code if they use it.
I may be wrong, but I don't remember any clauses in the GPL that require that derivitive works identify who the original author of the used code was. They do have to provide the GPL copyright notice, but not necessarily the author. FWIW, the BSD license does have a clause forcing the identification of the original authors.
Uh, this is pretty common practice. For example, you can compile all the source that makes up Red Hat and distribute binaries of it, you just can't call it "Red Hat".
Maybe, but you can also download the binaries from RedHat. You can download the ISOs from RedHat. I'm not going to argue that the UnitedLinux companies are immoral for only distributing the source freely--I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL isn't it? But you have to admit that it is certainly a lot more convienient to be able to download an ISO if you want to try out a distro. In the end, with RedHat planning a LSB compliant distro--and ISO downloads--I really don't think that they will be putting a major dent in RedHat's dominance. Just my 2 cents.
Resistance is futile!
Hey guys/gals! If I post a song on the Internet will you all pay me $1.00 to show support for the concept? Wow, that'd be really cool!
Before you all go out and send your hard-earned dollars to large music labels, why don't you stop and think what they're going to use those dollars for... paying their lawyers to strip you of your fair use and reverse engineering rights. Just because you support one tiny thing that a company does, don't give them the knife to stab you in the back.
Whether or not there are commercially available means to do DVD to DVD or DVD to VHS copies is irrelevant. Taking the information stored on one DVD and copying it to another (or to VHS) is technologically trivial--therefore it will be (and is) done. Therefore, the DMCA has no value in stopping piracy.
Just what the world needs--more psycho-babble. People don't write books just to reap the praise and adolation of their peers. He didn't write the book because he's interested in what people will say about it; he wrote it because he wanted people to know and understand his ideas. There is a good chance that "the world at large" that he speaks of is the "general public." How many average citizens of the world are even going to pick up a 1200 page book--let alone take the time to understand the material that it took an extremely intelligent person 10 years to write?
I sometimes miss the time of the BBS's--a time when if you had a modem, chances were you were a reasonably intelligent person. Now of course everybody's on the Internet and the close comradeie is gone. I miss FIDOnet and off-line mail readers. Oh well, I guess I'll stop my nostalgic blathering and go back to playing Quake III at 1600x1200... :)
I wonder how long it is before someone writes a linux polygraph app using the electrodes that the game uses. I can see it now--Linux users hired at an increasing rate at the FBI. They pass the polygraph test with flying colors!
Hey I just tried using this on OpenOffice.org 1.0 and it didn't work!!! :)
The price for data recovery: you must listen to 1 sec. of recited vogon poetry per Kb of recovered data.
What, you mean people who actually bought Windows XP?
Not to get picky or anything, but nobody is going to be slashdotting 123.34.56.256... it's not a valid IP address. Now if it was 123.34.56.254 they might have some serious issues with a slashdotting.
No matter what you think of Lynch's version, it had more character development in 2 hours and 17 minutes than Sci-Fi could pull together in 4 hour and 25 minutes. I agree, it was the biggest movie disappointment for me--ever.
Do you go to SMSU? Dr. Northrip was the reason I became interested in physics. He used to give demonstrations at my elementary school. He died the year before I could take his PHY204 class. He was truly a wonderful man. I never got to know him, but I will always miss him.