I have to say, I am glad this wonderful film found some recognition, and from the most unexpected, but very highly admired institution.
What I keep telling and kept telling about Gattaca for a long time, is that Gattaca has already started. You have people selecting embryos and discarding ever healthier ones, sometimes just to have a donor for a previous child. Gattaca may just happen little by little and we, our imperfect generation, find ourselves right smack in the middle of it.
I don't think it's so artificial, because of the acceleration enhancements, and the updates to the underlying graphics system from Vista/win7None of that crap is necessary or even useful, for a web browser, as the other web browsers running on WinXP demonstrate.
JChrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera run on Windows XP very nicely. IE 9 could run on Windows XP just as nicely, actually, but MS decided to make an artificial impediment.
Only 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 are really important. In a company environment, all can be addressed with correct policies in place. That's much cheaper than having to upgrade to Win 7.
Only the American tax-payer is the fool, here. This is a can't-lose wager, for everyone else. You invest and get rich or you invest and get re-imbursed by the American tax-payer next time the government decides to save the speculators by handing them a few trillion.
Remember, the current president and last president decided that speculation should no longer have any risk and backed that up with seven or eight trillion dollars in handouts. Hurrah!
I was going to say the same, so I have nothing to add except: mod parent up!
OK, well, there's one thing I would like to add as a commentary: this transaction is emblematic of the current US economy: speculation, criminal institutions that are too big to fail, and a social network valued at billions$.
Civilization V was released with a ton of bugs, many of which were (are!) showstopping crashers, as long as you got to a few hundred turns. Add a trillion smaller, non-crasher bugs, and you have one of the buggiest releases of all time. And yet, between brick-and-mortar and Valve/Steam, they sold about a million units. That's about $50M in the bank.
All free mail services delete your account if you don't access within a couple of monthis (including gmail).
First of all, as I wrote (gee, can't you actually just, you know, read?) I was locked out. I managed to "hack" into my account, and all my e-mails were there. My account was not deleted! So much so, in fact, that I was not able to create the same account name, ever, as I'd always get the message that "the account already exists".
As for Gmail: I don't know for sure, but I guess they do not have a locl-out policy like Mickeysoft. This is based on empirical evidence: I have a throw-away Gmail account, which at one time I didn't access for 5 months. After that period, however, I was still able to log in and read and send e-mails.
this idea that you should describe enough detail to allow someone else to reproduce your work is one of those comforting hoary myths from 18th century england...
Irrelevant. If you argue against a method, do it on its merits.
Dobzhanski says somewhere that when he started in genetics, he could claim to have at least looked at every single paper ever published in the field, but that even a few years later, this was impossible...
Irrelevant.
The description of the experiment is there as a convenience, and any given researcher has the option of using or not using that description. There really isn't any downside to this, especially in an age where knowledge is stored and distributed electronically.
I am not sure if you argue for or against thorough description of the experiment. The tone says "against" but the content says "definitely for".
Let me add this: the description of the experiment is there as a convenience, and any given researcher has the option of using or not using that description. I can't see any downside to this.
Given that the microdevice in question was the subject of the experiment, an accurate description of its fabrication is essential to reproduce the results. I did not include any details that were not essential to reproduce the experiment.
In one of the first articles I published, I have naively described in detail the experiment, including the details of the (micro)device fabrication. One of the reviewer was scathing because "the article includes _too_ many details about the experiment". So how the fuck are my peers going to reproduce my results (or try, at least) without these details?
Still, I got "wiser" later on, and relented on the details. Much smaller rejection rate, after that. Sadly.
When MS acquired Hotmail, they tried to move from BSD to Windows/IIS, and failed (back then, anyway) miserably. Then they poured shitloads of commercials and bling into the UI of Hotmail. Finally, they intorduced a rather draconian policy, whereby if you didn't access your account in 30 days, you were locked out. Since I hated the commercials and the bling, I had a hiatus in Hotmail use, and got locked out. I also could NOT re-create the same account name, even if nobody was using it. Anyhow, I was locked out until that day when an exploit ("hack") was discovered, with which anyone could access anyone else's account, without supplying a password. Does anyone remember those happy days? So, I "hacked" into my own account. And yes, the account was there, with all the e-mails. Why the lock-out policy? I dunno, one of the many brainfarts generating from MS.
I remember opening my colleague's account and calling him over, just to show him it was possible. That was the last day he ever used Hotmail.
I wonder what kind of a privileged and soft life one must have to consider airport security to be the same thing as "totalitarianism".
Hey, let's conveniently forget the topic of this thread - getting on a terror list based on a single tip. Let's also forget the wiretaps that have multiplied under Bokassa, I mean, Obama.
Dubya's was bad enough, but I got through airport security without TOO much hassle (no pat-downs). What is this, now, this bullshit security theater, scanners, pat-downs, wiretaps, withed govt. documents, Wikileaks witch-hunt, indiscriminate no-fly lists...
Luckily, I have a choice whether I want to subject myself to TSA Gestapo. No scientific conferences in the USA for me, for the moment.
If you live in America and believe the Obama Administration is a totalitarian regime, it sort of disqualifies you from being taken seriously. If you live in Finland and believe that security hassles at US airports means that we have become a fascist state, it means the short days and long nights have affected your judgment.
The wiretaps and the ease of getting onto a no-fly (or a terrorist) list remind me a lot of the bad-old-days of the Kádár regime in Hungary, where all it took to prevent you from ever stepping abroad was an anonymous call from a disgruntled colleague or neighbor. And it took little more for you to lose your job and NEVER get one, again.
Yes, that was a totalitarian regime. And your Obama regime is just as totalitarian + the scanners and the aggressive pat-downs. Enjoy your fascist asshole Obama dictatorship. My judgement is just fine - but yours is definitely affected by some powerful brain-washing, if you think your country is now not a totalitarian regime. Oh, and enjoy your money being wasted on security theater, loser!
You mean like how America is obsessed about showing a little tits on TV? How it is ok to show a girl being bloodily murdered, but it is not ok if her bare breast is visible?
Yep, just like that, you're right. And no, it's not OK to show a girl being bloodily murdered, while being all prude about a titty. So yeah, I'm in 100% agreement. I know you implied we wouldn't be, but you're wrong.
Right. 'Cause Obama instituted all of that, not the DHS - which was created by...
It must be great to have such a short memory.
Do you know how long would it take Obama to stop this madness? About 4 seconds. Call the guy he appointed, and tell him these TWO words: "Stop it." That's all. Exact same thing for the wiretaps.
If you live in America and believe the Obama Administration is a totalitarian regime, it sort of disqualifies you from being taken seriously. If you live in Finland and believe that security hassles at US airports means that we have become a fascist state, it means the short days and long nights have affected your judgment.
The wiretaps and the ease of getting onto a no-fly (or a terrorist) list remind me a lot of the bad-old-days of the Kádár regime in Hungary, where all it took to prevent you from ever stepping abroad was an anonymous call from a disgruntled colleague or neighbor. And it took little more for you to lose your job and NEVER get one, again.
Yes, that was a totalitarian regime. And your Obama regime is just as totalitarian + the scanners and the aggressive pat-downs. Enjoy your fascist asshole Obama regime. My judgement is just fine - but yours is definitely affected by some powerful brain-washing, if you think your country is not a totalitarian regime. Oh, and enjoy your money being wasted on security theater, loser!
If it's any consolation, Muslims are NO the only ones to be deeply worried by Obama's Gestapo Security Apparatus. I, as a Finn, feel quite threatened, too, and have no desire to put a foot in the USA at the moment. It's too bad, because I quite liked it before the great dictator came to power. But the scanning, the no-fly lists and the tap down - no thanks. Besides, I have many Pakistani colleagues (fellow scientists) that would have trouble traveling to the USA. If they can't go, I'm certainly not going to be an asshole and replace them or go without them.
Fuck you, Obama. I like Bilal and Ali far better than I do you, fucking fascist douchebag.
I find it odd that the ChiCom government should CARE about porn.
Any insights on that one?
Obviously, in China the rich and powerful can get as much pussy as they want. Denying the same to the working classes/masses is useful, as a frustrated sexual libido (in China, there is a lack of women, at the moment) can be focused very easily. It is how you control these masses, by promising them a bright future ("more (than 0) pussy") or channeling the rage against Japan, capitalist imperialism etc. whatever is convenient.
Same thing in Islamist societies: the rich and powerful can have multiple wives, necessarily removing them from the pool for the general populace, who then believes in 72 virgins in another dimension, and all they have to do, is be exceptionally good Muslims (blow oneself up).
These are methods to obscure the reality of the situation, to deflect the anger from those who really deserve it.
As an American, I hereby invite you not to come here, ever again, until you get a better grasp of U.S. civics, history and politics.
Maybe you should be a little more concerned about the personal liberties in your own home country, son. When it comes to Big Brother, you're way ahead of us.
As a Finn, I hereby declare that I have NO PROBLEMS with Americans, at all. My issue is purely with the totally ridiculous, over the top viciously draconian and humiliating (and ineffective according to the news) security measures at US airports. I don't have to put up with Obama's newfangled blend of fascism, so I won't. He and his beloved TSA can collectively suck on my big poster tube.
Dubya's was bad enough, but I got through airport security without TOO much hassle (no pat-downs). What is this, now, this bullshit security theater, scanners, pat-downs, wiretaps, withed govt. documents, Wikileaks witch-hunt, indiscriminate no-fly lists...
I'm not going to conferences to the US while your smiling dictator is in office. Sod it.
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I have to say, I am glad this wonderful film found some recognition, and from the most unexpected, but very highly admired institution.
What I keep telling and kept telling about Gattaca for a long time, is that Gattaca has already started. You have people selecting embryos and discarding ever healthier ones, sometimes just to have a donor for a previous child. Gattaca may just happen little by little and we, our imperfect generation, find ourselves right smack in the middle of it.
Yep, as you said, it won't happen. For one thing, Bokassa is still quite popular.
I don't think it's so artificial, because of the acceleration enhancements, and the updates to the underlying graphics system from Vista/win7None of that crap is necessary or even useful, for a web browser, as the other web browsers running on WinXP demonstrate.
JChrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera run on Windows XP very nicely. IE 9 could run on Windows XP just as nicely, actually, but MS decided to make an artificial impediment.
Only 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 are really important. In a company environment, all can be addressed with correct policies in place. That's much cheaper than having to upgrade to Win 7.
Now that Goldman Sachs has invested all this taxpayers' money into Facebook, is Facebook suddenly too big to fail? *shudders*
Only the American tax-payer is the fool, here. This is a can't-lose wager, for everyone else. You invest and get rich or you invest and get re-imbursed by the American tax-payer next time the government decides to save the speculators by handing them a few trillion.
Remember, the current president and last president decided that speculation should no longer have any risk and backed that up with seven or eight trillion dollars in handouts. Hurrah!
I was going to say the same, so I have nothing to add except: mod parent up!
OK, well, there's one thing I would like to add as a commentary: this transaction is emblematic of the current US economy: speculation, criminal institutions that are too big to fail, and a social network valued at billions$.
Civilization V was released with a ton of bugs, many of which were (are!) showstopping crashers, as long as you got to a few hundred turns. Add a trillion smaller, non-crasher bugs, and you have one of the buggiest releases of all time. And yet, between brick-and-mortar and Valve/Steam, they sold about a million units. That's about $50M in the bank.
Testing? What testing?
All free mail services delete your account if you don't access within a couple of monthis (including gmail).
First of all, as I wrote (gee, can't you actually just, you know, read?) I was locked out. I managed to "hack" into my account, and all my e-mails were there. My account was not deleted! So much so, in fact, that I was not able to create the same account name, ever, as I'd always get the message that "the account already exists".
As for Gmail: I don't know for sure, but I guess they do not have a locl-out policy like Mickeysoft. This is based on empirical evidence: I have a throw-away Gmail account, which at one time I didn't access for 5 months. After that period, however, I was still able to log in and read and send e-mails.
this idea that you should describe enough detail to allow someone else to reproduce your work is one of those comforting hoary myths from 18th century england...
Irrelevant. If you argue against a method, do it on its merits.
Dobzhanski says somewhere that when he started in genetics, he could claim to have at least looked at every single paper ever published in the field, but that even a few years later, this was impossible...
Irrelevant.
The description of the experiment is there as a convenience, and any given researcher has the option of using or not using that description. There really isn't any downside to this, especially in an age where knowledge is stored and distributed electronically.
I am not sure if you argue for or against thorough description of the experiment. The tone says "against" but the content says "definitely for".
Let me add this: the description of the experiment is there as a convenience, and any given researcher has the option of using or not using that description. I can't see any downside to this.
Given that the microdevice in question was the subject of the experiment, an accurate description of its fabrication is essential to reproduce the results. I did not include any details that were not essential to reproduce the experiment.
In one of the first articles I published, I have naively described in detail the experiment, including the details of the (micro)device fabrication. One of the reviewer was scathing because "the article includes _too_ many details about the experiment". So how the fuck are my peers going to reproduce my results (or try, at least) without these details?
Still, I got "wiser" later on, and relented on the details. Much smaller rejection rate, after that. Sadly.
When MS acquired Hotmail, they tried to move from BSD to Windows/IIS, and failed (back then, anyway) miserably. Then they poured shitloads of commercials and bling into the UI of Hotmail. Finally, they intorduced a rather draconian policy, whereby if you didn't access your account in 30 days, you were locked out. Since I hated the commercials and the bling, I had a hiatus in Hotmail use, and got locked out. I also could NOT re-create the same account name, even if nobody was using it. Anyhow, I was locked out until that day when an exploit ("hack") was discovered, with which anyone could access anyone else's account, without supplying a password. Does anyone remember those happy days? So, I "hacked" into my own account. And yes, the account was there, with all the e-mails. Why the lock-out policy? I dunno, one of the many brainfarts generating from MS.
I remember opening my colleague's account and calling him over, just to show him it was possible. That was the last day he ever used Hotmail.
I wonder what kind of a privileged and soft life one must have to consider airport security to be the same thing as "totalitarianism".
Hey, let's conveniently forget the topic of this thread - getting on a terror list based on a single tip. Let's also forget the wiretaps that have multiplied under Bokassa, I mean, Obama.
Dubya's was bad enough, but I got through airport security without TOO much hassle (no pat-downs). What is this, now, this bullshit security theater, scanners, pat-downs, wiretaps, withed govt. documents, Wikileaks witch-hunt, indiscriminate no-fly lists...
Luckily, I have a choice whether I want to subject myself to TSA Gestapo. No scientific conferences in the USA for me, for the moment.
If you live in America and believe the Obama Administration is a totalitarian regime, it sort of disqualifies you from being taken seriously. If you live in Finland and believe that security hassles at US airports means that we have become a fascist state, it means the short days and long nights have affected your judgment.
The wiretaps and the ease of getting onto a no-fly (or a terrorist) list remind me a lot of the bad-old-days of the Kádár regime in Hungary, where all it took to prevent you from ever stepping abroad was an anonymous call from a disgruntled colleague or neighbor. And it took little more for you to lose your job and NEVER get one, again.
Yes, that was a totalitarian regime. And your Obama regime is just as totalitarian + the scanners and the aggressive pat-downs. Enjoy your fascist asshole Obama dictatorship. My judgement is just fine - but yours is definitely affected by some powerful brain-washing, if you think your country is now not a totalitarian regime. Oh, and enjoy your money being wasted on security theater, loser!
You mean like how America is obsessed about showing a little tits on TV? How it is ok to show a girl being bloodily murdered, but it is not ok if her bare breast is visible?
Yep, just like that, you're right. And no, it's not OK to show a girl being bloodily murdered, while being all prude about a titty. So yeah, I'm in 100% agreement. I know you implied we wouldn't be, but you're wrong.
Right. 'Cause Obama instituted all of that, not the DHS - which was created by...
It must be great to have such a short memory.
Do you know how long would it take Obama to stop this madness? About 4 seconds. Call the guy he appointed, and tell him these TWO words: "Stop it." That's all. Exact same thing for the wiretaps.
If you live in America and believe the Obama Administration is a totalitarian regime, it sort of disqualifies you from being taken seriously. If you live in Finland and believe that security hassles at US airports means that we have become a fascist state, it means the short days and long nights have affected your judgment.
The wiretaps and the ease of getting onto a no-fly (or a terrorist) list remind me a lot of the bad-old-days of the Kádár regime in Hungary, where all it took to prevent you from ever stepping abroad was an anonymous call from a disgruntled colleague or neighbor. And it took little more for you to lose your job and NEVER get one, again.
Yes, that was a totalitarian regime. And your Obama regime is just as totalitarian + the scanners and the aggressive pat-downs. Enjoy your fascist asshole Obama regime. My judgement is just fine - but yours is definitely affected by some powerful brain-washing, if you think your country is not a totalitarian regime. Oh, and enjoy your money being wasted on security theater, loser!
I thought it was pretty well known that China is in fact a fascist state.
If it's any consolation, Muslims are NO the only ones to be deeply worried by Obama's Gestapo Security Apparatus. I, as a Finn, feel quite threatened, too, and have no desire to put a foot in the USA at the moment. It's too bad, because I quite liked it before the great dictator came to power. But the scanning, the no-fly lists and the tap down - no thanks. Besides, I have many Pakistani colleagues (fellow scientists) that would have trouble traveling to the USA. If they can't go, I'm certainly not going to be an asshole and replace them or go without them.
Fuck you, Obama. I like Bilal and Ali far better than I do you, fucking fascist douchebag.
I find it odd that the ChiCom government should CARE about porn.
Any insights on that one?
Obviously, in China the rich and powerful can get as much pussy as they want. Denying the same to the working classes/masses is useful, as a frustrated sexual libido (in China, there is a lack of women, at the moment) can be focused very easily. It is how you control these masses, by promising them a bright future ("more (than 0) pussy") or channeling the rage against Japan, capitalist imperialism etc. whatever is convenient.
Same thing in Islamist societies: the rich and powerful can have multiple wives, necessarily removing them from the pool for the general populace, who then believes in 72 virgins in another dimension, and all they have to do, is be exceptionally good Muslims (blow oneself up).
These are methods to obscure the reality of the situation, to deflect the anger from those who really deserve it.
As an American, I hereby invite you not to come here, ever again, until you get a better grasp of U.S. civics, history and politics.
Maybe you should be a little more concerned about the personal liberties in your own home country, son. When it comes to Big Brother, you're way ahead of us.
As a Finn, I hereby declare that I have NO PROBLEMS with Americans, at all. My issue is purely with the totally ridiculous, over the top viciously draconian and humiliating (and ineffective according to the news) security measures at US airports. I don't have to put up with Obama's newfangled blend of fascism, so I won't. He and his beloved TSA can collectively suck on my big poster tube.
Dubya's was bad enough, but I got through airport security without TOO much hassle (no pat-downs). What is this, now, this bullshit security theater, scanners, pat-downs, wiretaps, withed govt. documents, Wikileaks witch-hunt, indiscriminate no-fly lists...
I'm not going to conferences to the US while your smiling dictator is in office. Sod it.