Not to troll or anything, but frankly human beings have not interest in solving the problems of the world themselves. It always takes a disaster to knock some sense into us.
If there was only a way technology could be used to solve big picture problems. Too often it solves the immediate needs at the expense of long term planning.
I should know better, though the last time I spoke German was in '91. (You get rusty after a while.)
My intent was to elicit an image of Nazi Germany. The President and his cabinet have used every one of Hitler's diversionary tricks short of burning down the Capital building.
Nah, they'll just have an expose in the "New New York Times" or the "New Washington Post" 50 years later about how we really did know about the impending asteroid crash, but were planning on using it as a pretext for something.
Bah.
I know I'm going to live through whatever it is. I just seem to have that kind of luck. Look on the bright side, all those whackjob survivalists will finally discover there is no way to stockpile solar power, potable water, or oxygen. If you think a little bunker with tanks and cans is going to save you, I'd like to point out that I'm going to be enjoying oblivion at my local bar having a party to celebrate? Why? Because wherever we end up after this world has got to make a lot more sense than here.
For airplanes hitting skyscrapers or lunatics with VX gas or bacteria.
Sheesh, if I had a nickle for every false alarm our "Homeland Security" folks issued I'd be rich.
Actually, we should probably call it "Der Vaterland Sicherhiet." I never thought I'd see the day when you would see assault rifles and fatigues in American airports.
(Say, don't you thing that Green Camoflague is a bit inneffecting in an urban combat environment, like an Airport?)
I agree with you in full. It is just too easy to be wrecked by cheaters. I think problems extend beyond copyrights.
All companies live in fear because at any time a lesser competitor can drive them out of business through a number of underhanded and hard to prove techniques.
Leverage enough capital to buy you outright.
Leverage enough capital to buy out the rest of the market, then promote on mindshare.
Leverage enough capital to buy out your suppliers and/or distributers.
Sign exclusive contracts with your suppliers a/o distributers.
Spread lies about the performance of your products.
Swipe your product, and re-release a version that is just different enough.
Frivilous Trademark lawsuits.
Brain drain you by drawing away your best employees.
It is WAY too easy to secure credit. How many companies go Chapter 11/13 after going on a buying binge? And how many markets did the decimate in the process? How many companies only clue to stop borrowing is when bamks won't give them any more money?
We need to get ourselves, as a culture, to view debt as a vulgar, distateful way of life and doing business.
Hey, did you know that even Lawyers need malpractice insurance?
Talk about living in a hell of your own making.
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Amen to that.
Actually, who needs a body? Upload your psyche to a supercomputer and exist as a digital agent. It's a lot more scaleable. It could be like a digital afterlife, only your decendents can drop by and say "hi", and "where did you bury the treasure Grandpa?"
Plus you could give agents a pretty good network connection, not to mention they could converse with all of the other people already uploaded to the system.
When mankind travels to the stars, you could tarball your soul and ship it over FTP.
Damn, that sounds like a concept for a Science Fiction novel, if it hasn't been done already.
(In the background we hear the tune of "Sheep may safely graze")
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I just keep thinking about the time I tried to DD an NT partion onto another (identical) computer. It booted up fine, but it seemed to have more cruft than the donor machine. The machine would lock up with Graphics drivers related hangs, the networking would sometimes screw up. The original would behave just fine.
None of it made sense, unless you believe in the theory of cruft.
Maybe when you clone something, you clone all of the cruft from the original, and then add some? I dunno, my US0.02
Well because open source or not, there are a ton of VERY expensive and extensive database projects written for Oracle, ESPECIALLY for government.
Have Oracle (again open source or no) means that you can tell a PHB that the software you already have will run under Linux, and if that wasn't enought, it is CERTIFIED.
Anyone who needs EAL certifications doesn't really CARE about $800. That's still cheaper than the hardware for a serious server. And that is also list price. Can you tell me the last time you paid list price for software?
God makes the rules. We may quibble about the mechanisms, whether God is a he or she, and whether the universe was made in an all-nighter or over billions of years, but one fact remains: Something or Someone layed out all of the ground rules by which our Universe exists. Those rules are still beyond our understanding, and represent a power greater than ourselves. Call it Jaweh, Vishnu, Allah, or Chaos, but THAT is God.
Never mix the study with the subject matter itself. If you talk to a Physicist long enough he sounds like a Theologist, and vice verse.
Well, they aren't protiens yet. Just the building blocks.
It does show that the precursors to life can be produced during the birth of a solar system. It can also be produced with methane gas, water, and some ionizing radiation.
I personally wouldn't bet too heavily on life on Earth being seeded from space. There are so many theories that better fit the facts. My favorite to prevail is the primordial Soup and Sandwhich theory.
So the fact that even with the constraints above you have both chilarlities more or less eliminates an organism as the source.
Your point?
And BTW, signal to noise ratio doesn't have anything to do with errors. It has to do with how much information there is in comparison to background noise. This article, IMHO was all noise.
Well the correlation, while strong in their opinion, was not available from the article. The fact the you have some amino acides with the opposite chirality shows that it was obviously NOT produced by an organism. If it was manufactured by an organism that produced left-hand chirality acids, we would see all left-hand acids. It it were manufactured by an organism that produced right-handed acids, the proportion would be much higher (and not the same isotope) as was revealed in the story.
I was waiting for the alien autopsy at the end of this article, or a discussion of the gunman in the grassy knoll.
We all hit that point in life where the decisions we make aren't all warm and fuzzy anymore. The Linux community is moving from a guerilla movement to a largely political one. If the promotion of Linux was purely technical our battle would be easy.
But if I have learned ANYTHING in my dealings with the computer industry, I have learned that schmooze sells. You can have the best of the uppity best, but if you don't have the suit's ear you leave with your tail between your legs.
Microsoft at our events lends credibility to them. Think of the brand recognition of Microsoft. The fact the Microsoft is speaking at our events, two of them this year, should be a sign that we are becoming mainstream.
Now what we don't want to hear is that mainstream isn't all about tech. It's all about suits, facades, and maneuvering. This is where the sausage is made people. It isn't pretty, but it is part of the natural growth process of any movement.
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$150 million to explore the REAL dangers of space is cheap at twice the price.
If there was only a way technology could be used to solve big picture problems. Too often it solves the immediate needs at the expense of long term planning.
(No maam, I don't have any coffee, move along.)
My intent was to elicit an image of Nazi Germany. The President and his cabinet have used every one of Hitler's diversionary tricks short of burning down the Capital building.
Hmmm...
In the book of Illiad, Chapter 3, Verse 29 through Chapter 4, Verse 10
Bah.
I know I'm going to live through whatever it is. I just seem to have that kind of luck. Look on the bright side, all those whackjob survivalists will finally discover there is no way to stockpile solar power, potable water, or oxygen. If you think a little bunker with tanks and cans is going to save you, I'd like to point out that I'm going to be enjoying oblivion at my local bar having a party to celebrate? Why? Because wherever we end up after this world has got to make a lot more sense than here.
Sheesh, if I had a nickle for every false alarm our "Homeland Security" folks issued I'd be rich.
Actually, we should probably call it "Der Vaterland Sicherhiet." I never thought I'd see the day when you would see assault rifles and fatigues in American airports.
(Say, don't you thing that Green Camoflague is a bit inneffecting in an urban combat environment, like an Airport?)
It is WAY too easy to secure credit. How many companies go Chapter 11/13 after going on a buying binge? And how many markets did the decimate in the process? How many companies only clue to stop borrowing is when bamks won't give them any more money?
We need to get ourselves, as a culture, to view debt as a vulgar, distateful way of life and doing business.
Talk about living in a hell of your own making.
Actually, who needs a body? Upload your psyche to a supercomputer and exist as a digital agent. It's a lot more scaleable. It could be like a digital afterlife, only your decendents can drop by and say "hi", and "where did you bury the treasure Grandpa?"
Plus you could give agents a pretty good network connection, not to mention they could converse with all of the other people already uploaded to the system.
When mankind travels to the stars, you could tarball your soul and ship it over FTP.
Damn, that sounds like a concept for a Science Fiction novel, if it hasn't been done already.
(In the background we hear the tune of "Sheep may safely graze")
None of it made sense, unless you believe in the theory of cruft.
Maybe when you clone something, you clone all of the cruft from the original, and then add some? I dunno, my US0.02
I've done some... bahahad things.
Have Oracle (again open source or no) means that you can tell a PHB that the software you already have will run under Linux, and if that wasn't enought, it is CERTIFIED.
Though that one was 13 and change billion years ago.
It would be like trying to market "EvilTwinSkippy Brand(tm)" cars instead of Daimler Benz.
Anyone who needs EAL certifications doesn't really CARE about $800. That's still cheaper than the hardware for a serious server. And that is also list price. Can you tell me the last time you paid list price for software?
Is that like taking the last sentence the computer guy tells you and rephrasing it in the form of a question?
God makes the rules. We may quibble about the mechanisms, whether God is a he or she, and whether the universe was made in an all-nighter or over billions of years, but one fact remains: Something or Someone layed out all of the ground rules by which our Universe exists. Those rules are still beyond our understanding, and represent a power greater than ourselves. Call it Jaweh, Vishnu, Allah, or Chaos, but THAT is God.
Never mix the study with the subject matter itself. If you talk to a Physicist long enough he sounds like a Theologist, and vice verse.
It does show that the precursors to life can be produced during the birth of a solar system. It can also be produced with methane gas, water, and some ionizing radiation.
I personally wouldn't bet too heavily on life on Earth being seeded from space. There are so many theories that better fit the facts. My favorite to prevail is the primordial Soup and Sandwhich theory.
Your point?
And BTW, signal to noise ratio doesn't have anything to do with errors. It has to do with how much information there is in comparison to background noise. This article, IMHO was all noise.
I was waiting for the alien autopsy at the end of this article, or a discussion of the gunman in the grassy knoll.
Fact: the meteorite contains ammino acids, and chirality that is not generally found in terrestrial organisms.
Fact: This meteroite is HEAVILY polluted with terrestrial organic matter.
Conclusion: While ammino acids are generated in space, they seem to mimic the compositions found when we try to synthesize them in the lab.
Aside: You can produce the same results with some methane gas, water vapor, and ionizing radiation.
Move along, no controvesy here.
But if I have learned ANYTHING in my dealings with the computer industry, I have learned that schmooze sells. You can have the best of the uppity best, but if you don't have the suit's ear you leave with your tail between your legs.
Microsoft at our events lends credibility to them. Think of the brand recognition of Microsoft. The fact the Microsoft is speaking at our events, two of them this year, should be a sign that we are becoming mainstream.
Now what we don't want to hear is that mainstream isn't all about tech. It's all about suits, facades, and maneuvering. This is where the sausage is made people. It isn't pretty, but it is part of the natural growth process of any movement.