I agree. Whats the point in changing the name so as to not embarrass other ppl with the same name. Now they may have embarrassed all employees who consider themselves to have a common name.
You can't embarrass the innocent. Apple should have handled this internally anyways.
The thing is, its okay talking about bringing back extinct people, but we are not just plain expressions of our genes. We are also moulded by the experiences of living and the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
My father, my elder brother and I are like peas in a pod. You can see the lineage when we are together, but we are chalk and cheese on many subjects. My father is 33 years older than I, my elder brother is 8 years older the I. But one could argue (and see) we a genetically very very similar.
What I am actually saying is. If you could bring back to life historical figures, would today's environment form the same back drop and therefore produce the same characteristics that placed these people in the history books.
I think if it were possible to do, it would actually be one *TOP* experiment for those of use interested in human behaviour, but alas the ethics commission would slay us first.
Yeah, thats a fair point. Governments are generally the worst offenders.
I still believe though that all this bad publicity will provoke some kind of discussion, which at the end of the day will lead to a change in the desktop OS market:)
If Microsoft fails to satisfy the commission that its concerns are unfounded, it could face a 10% fine on its revenues. However, in
practice fines have never exceeded 1%.
Why is 10% relevent?
10% of revenues doesn't have to mean 10% of profit
IMO the fines are nearly irrelevent. What actually matters is that there is now even more momentum building up in the M$ windoze monolopy saga. The more times M$ get mentioned in bad light by the press and the legal profession regarding the alleged underhanded tactics, the more your everyday person is going to start believing that their cosy little desktop system at home is not all it could be.
Maybe then the consumer will start asking serious questions about what else is available to run on their home pc. That will really open up the market and M$ will really start to feel the pinch.
The law sets the boundaries in which we must live, but it is the people who hold the power to make change.
I was not concerning myself with the history of Christianity, merely pointing out that the belief set of many practising Christians today is that of forgiveness and tolerance which from the post I was replying to, seems to be in short supply.
You only have to look at the crusades, The Spanish inquisition amongst others to see the truth deep within most religions. I.e. its not about what we believe in, its about you not believing the same as we do.
People like yourself shouldn't call themselves Christians, your liberal theology is no kind of belief at all in truth, and you are little better than the most limp-wristed of agnostics.
Christianity does not have a monopoly on truth. One could argue from the derivations of the word truth that your kind of narrow minded assaults on people that do not share the same views as yourself are untruthful.
You use the word agnostic as if it were something dirty. Being agnostic does not deny the existence of God, it merely pertains that it cannot be proven.
I assume from your recent posts you are wearing the "I'm a Christian" hat. Where has all your tolerance and forgiveness gone?
I've been kicking around IT for 13 years now. I recently had a mental block which lasted some months. Although you refer to it as programming block, IMO it happens in every walk of life, and its not the first time its happened to me.
My last episode was between Feb and May this year. I took some time off in April and did nothing but sit at home thinking about whatever. This did not improve the situation at all. As soon as I was back at work, I couldn't make the links between ideas to come up with any solutions, once more I was drifting.
I survived this, how, I don't know. I took to playing a little more sport and generally trying to care less, though not shirking any responsibilties.
IMHO this loss of mental agility has a lot to do with stress, not just work, but life in general. Nowadays we are mentally very active from dawn til dusk. Mentally very taxing.
My friends (some of them my colleagues) and I often sit together and discuss ideas. These ideas are not work related, and often completely off the wall, but we generate ideas about things which really have no bearing on anything outside the conversation, in fact its mainly comedy. I find these conversations very therapeutic and mentally stimulating, being comedy they are funny and therefore relaxing. I my experience, a relaxed mind throws forward some excellent ideas when least expected.
In this I assume that you are working for a company interested in maximising its returns on investment.
What you have at first appears to be a conflict of interest. If you add the additional functionality to the Linux drivers and open source them, you are allowing your competitors access to solutions that your company has spent time and money developing. Also, what will the M$ Windoze clients you have think to this. Assuming open source for Linux drivers IMHO will impact the price because you will be allowing your competitors to produce a similar product with the same functionality, thus creating competition on price where the Linux solution becomes much less costly than the other solution. I imagine this would lead to some angry calls from your closed source users.
There are IMO two options.
1. Don't open source. 2. Open source
If you decide open source you may lose some competitive advantage on price of whatever you are selling. IMO the way to regain this competetive edge is to provide exellent service to your clients. If you are providing a good solution with excellent after sales service I can't see why opening the source of your drivers will have a detrimental affect.
You may also get some other developers looking at your drivers and making improvements which maybe in a closed source operation would not have been considered.
Its a noble gesture to crash Gallileo into Jupiter to prevent contamination of its moons where maybe there is some form of life.
But, do not allow this act of "space hygiene" to cloud your vision. NASA and all the other space agencies in the world have been leaving tonnes of shit floating round our planet for the past 40 years.
Maybe this is good news for the development of medicines, but this is one side of the coin. If you can create a cure based on a known genetic "defect", then you can also say that you cannot produce a cure for a known genetic "defect".
Will this lead to penalties for those of us who possess a gene which causes an illness or death? For which, even with the access to the human genome, is deemed incurable.
I can't imagine any insurance company offering insurance on these terms. Legislation is being considered at the moment, but one of the problems with legislation on some occasions is it appears to be driven by commercial interest.
We should all be concerned about genetic privacy, there is nothing else which is more personal to us all.
Apologies. I may have been some hundreds of years out. Though I was present at this lecture I remember the years without the century. Please read my earlier post for clarification. Maybe remove my century and insert yours here and see if it fits. I'm no historian, and agree that many famous people from history cannot be unless they lived for 4 hundred years. Robin Hood is a classic example of the history/folk lore/chinese whispers thing.
Maybe, looking at Mt St Helens and all that. Problem is, the guys looking at "near Earth" asteroids haven't found them all and so they can't give a reasonably accurate prediction.
Krakatoa is a caldera, about every 1000 years is its term. Yellowstone is another caldera due now with the consequences you, everybody with any sense and I fear. The place has risen 8 metres in the last century. Geologically this is scary.
Forgive me, I'm not a physicist. I infer that the reaction mass here on earth must come from the fact that H-bombs are not detonated in a vacuum, thus leading to the devastation.
Wouldn't it be a good idea then to ship some water into orbit now, just in case. I suspect it is a good idea, but governments don't like spending money on things that aren't certain to happen. But then certaintanty has some form of timescale which may be longer than a term of office!
IMO that targetting these would be quite difficult. I think that nukes down here use GPS for targetting, this means that the GPS satellites are point the wrong way, so the nukes would need some NASA software upgrades or something.
No point worrying though, shit happens and it always will.
Correct, the last major explosion of Krakatoa was August 26th 1883. Art critics suggest that this was the reason that Turner painted such red sunset scenes, because the sunsets were actually red due to the dust in the atmosphere.
I refered to the last major climatic catastrophe which good research implicates a similar but larger Krakatoa event in the ninth century. Dendrochronolists have narrowed this down to between 832 and 836 based on tree ring sizes. This has also been backed up by higher than average levels of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere as detected using ice cores drilled by from both the Artic and Antartic surveys. Krakatoa is implcated by geological survey showing a darker band in the strata of the area. Estimated to have been layed down between 1000 and 2000 years ago.
Does anyone know of any reallistic strategies for dealing with one of these babies should it decide its time for a visit to Earth?
As far as I know, should we be hit by something a few KM across, the devastation would be immense. Even after the initial impact had settled, there are likely to be worldwide temperature falls of a couple of degrees.
I heard of some research done on tree rings that suggests that there was a similar global climatic catastrophe around the middle of the ninth century. This produced frosts in summer in temperate regions for a few years. Lord knows how cold it git in winter. This was caused by Krakatoa, but estimates suggest that an impact by one of these asteroids at about 6KM across would produce similar results. Here is a link to the NASA page covering this topic.
The last major climatic event (being Krakatoa going bang) in the dark ages was probably responsible for the death of King Arthur.
I don't know if I am answering the question you intended to ask, but isn't the eye (vision) a classic example of DAC. Retina receives photons, assuming particulate form, this triggers some retinal reaction, which is on/off. Notification of these triggered events arrives in your brian somewhere. This may then result in an analogue interpretation of a digital signal. E.g. its a car, or its red car, or its a red car and moving etc...
Thats a natural interface, what about digital TV. I don't know anything about it, but the pictures are analogue and I assume the signal is digital, I infer from its name.
Had a quick look around and could only find current references to the Reuters story. Its on all the major search engines.
I did notice that these guys have been tinkering round with neural stuff for a while. I found this article which is interesting and along a similar vein and has a pretty picture in it, or here which is the press release without pretty pictures.
IMO life on Mars is possible. We have here on Earth, many single celled organisms living in places which only a few years ago were considered sterile.
Your statement about the stability of water is fair, though to my knowledge of life here on Earth, freezing is less of a threat to life than dessiccation.
Another significant thing about this discovery and the recent discovery of simple sugars in interstellar gas clouds (Slashdot post today ); is the theories describing the introduction to earth of the chemicals of life by meteorites are now being rethought as I type. It would appear that the sugars and maybe other more complex organic molecules where present when The Earth was first formed.
"Much as I hate people who post definitions of words in/. comments, here goes.
I think that your use of obsolete is redundant. redundant (r-dndnt) adj. 1.Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous. 2.Needlessly repetitive; verbose. 3.Electronics. Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment. 4.Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages. [Latin redundns, redundant-, present participle of redundre, to overflow: re-, red-, re- + und re, to surge (from unda, wave); see wed-1 in Indo-European Roots.] redundantly adv.
/. ran an article approx 2 months ago. t was about some guys trying to port Linux to AS/400. They entered some correspondence with IBM, which you can find here .
Having read these, and being a long term AS/400er, I don't believe we will see a Linux port to AS/400 for some time; if indeed at all.
Slashdot Mirror
You can't embarrass the innocent. Apple should have handled this internally anyways.
My father, my elder brother and I are like peas in a pod. You can see the lineage when we are together, but we are chalk and cheese on many subjects. My father is 33 years older than I, my elder brother is 8 years older the I. But one could argue (and see) we a genetically very very similar.
What I am actually saying is. If you could bring back to life historical figures, would today's environment form the same back drop and therefore produce the same characteristics that placed these people in the history books.
I think if it were possible to do, it would actually be one *TOP* experiment for those of use interested in human behaviour, but alas the ethics commission would slay us first.
Or a Libyan presidential palace?
I hope the moderators come back and check this thread out as your answer desrves more than the 1 point it currently has allocated.
PS I live in The UK too.
I still believe though that all this bad publicity will provoke some kind of discussion, which at the end of the day will lead to a change in the desktop OS market :)
Why is 10% relevent?
10% of revenues doesn't have to mean 10% of profit
Maybe then the consumer will start asking serious questions about what else is available to run on their home pc. That will really open up the market and M$ will really start to feel the pinch.
The law sets the boundaries in which we must live, but it is the people who hold the power to make change.
You only have to look at the crusades, The Spanish inquisition amongst others to see the truth deep within most religions. I.e. its not about what we believe in, its about you not believing the same as we do.
Christianity does not have a monopoly on truth. One could argue from the derivations of the word truth that your kind of narrow minded assaults on people that do not share the same views as yourself are untruthful.
You use the word agnostic as if it were something dirty. Being agnostic does not deny the existence of God, it merely pertains that it cannot be proven.
I assume from your recent posts you are wearing the "I'm a Christian" hat. Where has all your tolerance and forgiveness gone?
My last episode was between Feb and May this year. I took some time off in April and did nothing but sit at home thinking about whatever. This did not improve the situation at all. As soon as I was back at work, I couldn't make the links between ideas to come up with any solutions, once more I was drifting.
I survived this, how, I don't know. I took to playing a little more sport and generally trying to care less, though not shirking any responsibilties.
IMHO this loss of mental agility has a lot to do with stress, not just work, but life in general. Nowadays we are mentally very active from dawn til dusk. Mentally very taxing.
My friends (some of them my colleagues) and I often sit together and discuss ideas. These ideas are not work related, and often completely off the wall, but we generate ideas about things which really have no bearing on anything outside the conversation, in fact its mainly comedy. I find these conversations very therapeutic and mentally stimulating, being comedy they are funny and therefore relaxing. I my experience, a relaxed mind throws forward some excellent ideas when least expected.
What you have at first appears to be a conflict of interest. If you add the additional functionality to the Linux drivers and open source them, you are allowing your competitors access to solutions that your company has spent time and money developing. Also, what will the M$ Windoze clients you have think to this. Assuming open source for Linux drivers IMHO will impact the price because you will be allowing your competitors to produce a similar product with the same functionality, thus creating competition on price where the Linux solution becomes much less costly than the other solution. I imagine this would lead to some angry calls from your closed source users.
There are IMO two options.
1. Don't open source.
2. Open source
If you decide open source you may lose some competitive advantage on price of whatever you are selling. IMO the way to regain this competetive edge is to provide exellent service to your clients. If you are providing a good solution with excellent after sales service I can't see why opening the source of your drivers will have a detrimental affect.
You may also get some other developers looking at your drivers and making improvements which maybe in a closed source operation would not have been considered.
But, do not allow this act of "space hygiene" to cloud your vision. NASA and all the other space agencies in the world have been leaving tonnes of shit floating round our planet for the past 40 years.
Why this sudden change of heart?
Will this lead to penalties for those of us who possess a gene which causes an illness or death? For which, even with the access to the human genome, is deemed incurable.
I can't imagine any insurance company offering insurance on these terms. Legislation is being considered at the moment, but one of the problems with legislation on some occasions is it appears to be driven by commercial interest.
We should all be concerned about genetic privacy, there is nothing else which is more personal to us all.
Apologies. I may have been some hundreds of years out. Though I was present at this lecture I remember the years without the century. Please read my earlier post for clarification. Maybe remove my century and insert yours here and see if it fits. I'm no historian, and agree that many famous people from history cannot be unless they lived for 4 hundred years. Robin Hood is a classic example of the history/folk lore/chinese whispers thing.
Krakatoa is a caldera, about every 1000 years is its term. Yellowstone is another caldera due now with the consequences you, everybody with any sense and I fear. The place has risen 8 metres in the last century. Geologically this is scary.
Wouldn't it be a good idea then to ship some water into orbit now, just in case. I suspect it is a good idea, but governments don't like spending money on things that aren't certain to happen. But then certaintanty has some form of timescale which may be longer than a term of office!
IMO that targetting these would be quite difficult. I think that nukes down here use GPS for targetting, this means that the GPS satellites are point the wrong way, so the nukes would need some NASA software upgrades or something.
No point worrying though, shit happens and it always will.
Jon, Thanks for the NASA link. Please read my response to another slashdotter who made a similar point to you.
I refered to the last major climatic catastrophe which good research implicates a similar but larger Krakatoa event in the ninth century. Dendrochronolists have narrowed this down to between 832 and 836 based on tree ring sizes. This has also been backed up by higher than average levels of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere as detected using ice cores drilled by from both the Artic and Antartic surveys. Krakatoa is implcated by geological survey showing a darker band in the strata of the area. Estimated to have been layed down between 1000 and 2000 years ago.
As far as I know, should we be hit by something a few KM across, the devastation would be immense. Even after the initial impact had settled, there are likely to be worldwide temperature falls of a couple of degrees.
I heard of some research done on tree rings that suggests that there was a similar global climatic catastrophe around the middle of the ninth century. This produced frosts in summer in temperate regions for a few years. Lord knows how cold it git in winter. This was caused by Krakatoa, but estimates suggest that an impact by one of these asteroids at about 6KM across would produce similar results. Here is a link to the NASA page covering this topic.
The last major climatic event (being Krakatoa going bang) in the dark ages was probably responsible for the death of King Arthur.
Thats a natural interface, what about digital TV. I don't know anything about it, but the pictures are analogue and I assume the signal is digital, I infer from its name.
I did notice that these guys have been tinkering round with neural stuff for a while. I found this article which is interesting and along a similar vein and has a pretty picture in it, or here which is the press release without pretty pictures.
I off to book a holiday at Westworld now.
Your statement about the stability of water is fair, though to my knowledge of life here on Earth, freezing is less of a threat to life than dessiccation.
Another significant thing about this discovery and the recent discovery of simple sugars in interstellar gas clouds (Slashdot post today ); is the theories describing the introduction to earth of the chemicals of life by meteorites are now being rethought as I type. It would appear that the sugars and maybe other more complex organic molecules where present when The Earth was first formed.
Does this mean we'll soon have space jam?
I think that your use of obsolete is redundant.
redundant (r-dndnt) adj. 1.Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous. 2.Needlessly repetitive; verbose. 3.Electronics. Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment. 4.Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages. [Latin redundns, redundant-, present participle of redundre, to overflow: re-, red-, re- + und re, to surge (from unda, wave); see wed-1 in Indo-European Roots.] redundantly adv.
Having read these, and being a long term AS/400er, I don't believe we will see a Linux port to AS/400 for some time; if indeed at all.