its estimated that Humans have been domesticating animals (wolves/dogs) for approx 12-15K years, we have bred for certain traits or effected change upon hunted species that makes the animal kingdom vastly different. Think of all the useless dog breeds we have produced in search of beauty and perfection, much less the oddball overly specialized hunting breeds like the dauschaund. The modern cattle farmer doen't put bessy and the old bull in the back pasture anymore, the genotype and occasionally the phenotype of offspring is selected from a catalog found at your local breeders supply. I say whats good for the goose is good for the gander. Just to give a positive example, we know of a gene that leads to higher incidence of skin cancer, this DNA repair enzyme has a single AA substitution that affects its ability to repair damage from uv light. We can and should put effective copies of this gene into the massed pool for the benefit of public health.
Being relatively new to the Linux/X-window system (not a cs major), I may not be the most knowledgeable source on this subject, but I can remember writing out some macros/shortcuts for tedious shell/vi/emacs commands for over the terminal use on the one *NX box I've been allowed to play with up until now. It seems logical to me that php/perl/python would be friendly to writing macros in the X environment for this application. This could be shared like a common.login/.profile/.*rc file to configure your shell or command line emailer would would be handy on a distro cd
Excellent, just think, by the time we're soiling our Depends (TM) undergarments, this will be the revisionist's "The populous, fearing the coming millenium, reacted instinctively, without the good judgement 2,000,000 years of evolution had brought them to thus far."
As a graduate of a public high school in KY, home schoolers are much better off than the "Mastery Learning" and "Outcome-Based Education", influenced dredges like me. The pointy haired boss has been runnning the show for the last ten years here, and unfortunately when the time comes to put kids through school, I'm going to have to do it myself
Last I heard, in Popular Science a couple of years ago, monitor crews would come in for two hour shifts, then take like two weeks off-site, lots of work crews but limited exposure to the workers.
BTW if I remember correctly Chernobyl translates to wormwood, the star that falls to Earth in Revelations that poisons the water, kind of scarry ain't it
Kind of off topic but my University contratcted with @home to intall cable modems on campus, problem is, 30mbs/4000 connects = a 14.4 is just about as quick sometimes.
God, I wish Al Gore would Hurry Up and Invent the Internet 2
Rommell pulled the same stunt in Lybia in 1942, you'd think a US trained Defense force would be smarter than that. As for network shutdowns, Abilene and Internet 2 are purely NSF, DOE, and Educational deals, DoD ain't go shit.
Except for the most gifted among us, we needed someone or something to help us learn about computing at some point. I entered college after being exposed to limited nubers of computers from the verneable apple 2/e, to PS/1 and 2, to wfw over IBM LAN MAN 1.0 and finally win 95. When registering for computing accounts here at the University of Kentucky there was an option for SAC, the HP-UX box were I cut my teeth on *NX. I spent most of my X-mas break in 1997 trying to figure out what the hell chmod was for my web directory, and slowly but surely I gained the resources to develop web content. I have tried to share that knowledge to others since then to those willing to learn, which further advances computing. We do not need to set up a TECHNOCRACY, as helpful as it may be to some of our goals. So cut that AOheLl user some slack, it could be your mom!!!
There happens to be about two million years of differentiation between us and bonzo the chimp as well, granted if aliens exist, there ain't no way in hell their particular version of the primordial soup and darwins grab bag is going to mesh with ours
Since MS isn't making any money on IE anyways, it would just be a team of SofEng taking a week sabatical, perhaps they are planning on doing this in conjunction with IE 5.5???
well after this weeks virus scare MS is going to have to shape up its security on its *.hta (app over http). After spending the last five years telling AOheLl users that email text was not a threat, we've got to start watching for it
sidebar, wonder if MS is going to get in the Utilities/Virus Scanner Market, just think, virus DAT updates @windowsupdate
The W3C just sits on its hands while waiting for MS and the other Browser Manufacturers to duke it out, remember , wasn't even incorporated until HTML4.0, and XML SMIL and all the other *ML out there are slowly but surely being decided in Redmond and on the desktop, not at the w3c
I was merely commenting that the idiots of the world don't know what they are paying for. They are willing to pay ungoodly ammounts for a server just because it say microsoft on it, which in my book is insane
Here at the University of Kentucky, professors routinely create "course packets" that range anywhere between 5 and 30 dollars/class that supply old notes and exams. Its a great service, but if I can get the same material cheaper, why not. One "technically advanced" professor even had the audacity to take her powerpoint slides for introductory biology, put them in 3*2 layout and sell them for 25 bucks, on top of the $98 textbook. I hear she's now on a grant from macromedia, wonder how much a cd of her flash animations would cost???
It amazing. Instead of hiring people who were with the www at its inception, perl and lisp scripting merrilly, the market has started hiring more and more people who know VBScript so that Microsoft's precious IIS can deliver those "customized" *.asp pages. We have been able to do the same damn trick since the HTTP standard was released, sure maybe we couldn't use OLE to link up to a nother MS SQL database but who gives a rats ass
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Being relatively new to the Linux/X-window system (not a cs major), I may not be the most knowledgeable source on this subject, but I can remember writing out some macros/shortcuts for tedious shell/vi/emacs commands for over the terminal use on the one *NX box I've been allowed to play with up until now. It seems logical to me that php/perl/python would be friendly to writing macros in the X environment for this application. This could be shared like a common .login/.profile/.*rc file to configure your shell or command line emailer would would be handy on a distro cd
Excellent, just think, by the time we're soiling our Depends (TM) undergarments, this will be the revisionist's "The populous, fearing the coming millenium, reacted instinctively, without the good judgement 2,000,000 years of evolution had brought them to thus far."
BTW if I remember correctly Chernobyl translates to wormwood, the star that falls to Earth in Revelations that poisons the water, kind of scarry ain't it
God, I wish Al Gore would Hurry Up and Invent the Internet 2
...and no way to be accredited, it sad but true, we are in a different era
sidebar, wonder if MS is going to get in the Utilities/Virus Scanner Market, just think, virus DAT updates @windowsupdate
The W3C just sits on its hands while waiting for MS and the other Browser Manufacturers to duke it out, remember , wasn't even incorporated until HTML4.0, and XML SMIL and all the other *ML out there are slowly but surely being decided in Redmond and on the desktop, not at the w3c
I was merely commenting that the idiots of the world don't know what they are paying for. They are willing to pay ungoodly ammounts for a server just because it say microsoft on it, which in my book is insane
Here at the University of Kentucky, professors routinely create "course packets" that range anywhere between 5 and 30 dollars/class that supply old notes and exams. Its a great service, but if I can get the same material cheaper, why not. One "technically advanced" professor even had the audacity to take her powerpoint slides for introductory biology, put them in 3*2 layout and sell them for 25 bucks, on top of the $98 textbook. I hear she's now on a grant from macromedia, wonder how much a cd of her flash animations would cost???
It amazing. Instead of hiring people who were with the www at its inception, perl and lisp scripting merrilly, the market has started hiring more and more people who know VBScript so that Microsoft's precious IIS can deliver those "customized" *.asp pages. We have been able to do the same damn trick since the HTTP standard was released, sure maybe we couldn't use OLE to link up to a nother MS SQL database but who gives a rats ass