No doubt someone from Adobe will be reading this Slashdot story.
If the guys who wrote the software that shows up on stories like this actually read slashdot, we probably would stop getting stories like this. I mean, when was the last time Ad0b3Hax0r/. id #113434124 said "Sorry guys, that bug was me. I'll try to do better next time. Thanks for the heads-up."
This reminds me of a young woman who claimed that marijuana can't be dangerous since it comes from a plant.
This reminds me of the government who claims its bad for you despite the fact that it forbids research on the topic. Yes, ignorance, stupid beliefs, and blind gullibility are all around us.
The most famous example is the choice of "guns versus butter"--that's an economics issue. No, I'd say that's really a political issue and not an economic one.
DNA is beyond just code. DNA can code for protein both forward and backwards in the same element, doubling the protien information its capable of specifying. The very same element can bind factors and contain "epigenetic" information in the form of modifications like methylation. It can also assume multiple three dimensional conformations, any of which can be decoded based on the cell's state or external stimuli. The information density of much of the genetic material in the planet is absolutely saturated. We look at DNA and apply Shannon's entropy to it and think we understand its information content. This is naivety. Shannon's entropy doesn't scratch the surface because the informational content of DNA depends on context, which is potentially infinite.
I can't argue with you there. I play with the best toys in the world to do my research. But my pay is capped by the great place where I work. Other institutions have the exact same pay scale. Its academia--but prices in academia are set by the same forces as everywhere else: supply and demand.
Don't get your tin foil hat in a bunch. Most of the PATRIOT ACT has to do with including terrorists in laws that have been around for 30 years in dealing with Drug Dealers.
Don't get your tin foil hat in a bunch. The word "terrorist" has been invented to generalize the specific laws. Any one can be a "terrorist", but you need to be selling drugs to be a "drug dealer". This is why the patriot act undermines the constitution.
You need to do some research on how new legislation is put into law, and some research on who actually created and approved this particular legislation.
More political banter. Your precious Georgie boy had the power to veto the legislation, so quit trying to shift blame. Before everyone figured out what a disaster the patriot act is, you would have been giving Georgie boy credit for it.
I defer to the built in dictionary on my Mac: "censorship - the practice of officially examining books, music, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts". If a moderator is acting in an "official" capacity for/. and the moderator "examines" the post and the moderator "suppresses" it by modding it down (the definition did not say delete), then he has, by definition, censored it.
Quit making up definitions and presenting them as fact to make your point.
I've been in science for 15 years. On my present salary, I can barely afford the same standard of living as when I started science, even after a PhD and an exemplary career so far. If a "shortage" actually existed, then pay would increase concomitantly. Since pay hasn't increased, the shortage, by definition, does not exist. It boggles my mind to see obvious BS like this.
However the persons that are endangering development the most are the economists (actually just bean-counters).
An economist is not a "bean counter". An accountant is a bean counter. An economist studies how people and collections of people make choices. The most famous example is the choice of "guns versus butter"--that's an economics issue. Bean counters try to balance the equity and make sure that the change in equity equals the difference between positive and negative cash flow.
Probably the people you are thinking of are "managers". Managers make short-sided decisions to make themselves look good and temporarily improve cash flow. They are different from accountants and economists. Managers change jobs frequently to avoid dealing with the problems their short sided decisions create.
Americans (I am one) had no problem with the French I think until it came time to drop bombs on Lybia. The French denied fly-over rights. Now we are in a war with Iraq and the French haven't sent troops. I think both decisions by France were wise and justifiable. Now Americans blame the French for a big costly war when instead they should blame themselves for their own gullibility. Americans have a "with us or for terrorism" ideology, which is a silly ideology. You'll see some idiots quote stats about the the percentage of the French population that is Muslim and other pseuodo-intellectual arguments. Personally, I think Americans should get a grip on reality, grow some brains, get the hell out of Iraq, stop pissing every one off, and stop blaming every one else for their problems. I'm an American and I've done it.
That said, I personally have a problem with France because of mimes. Mimes suck and France should never had invented them.
Additionally, there are costs associated with maintaining XP with security updates and bugfixes
Do you honestly think that they are going to support a discount platform with security updates and bugfixes to an operating system that has been
earmarked for extinction? The plan is to trap people into the vicious cycle of OS dependence, not liberate them. Linux can do anything XP can do and probably more given $100.00 hardware.
If there are aliens... would they believe in a God anyhow?
The real question is whether they would accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I think only those aliens within a 2008 light year sphere around the earth could do this as the rest of the volume of the cosmos could not know of Jesus given the laws of physics as modern science understands them. I'm guessing the director has not quite thought through this conundrum. Perhaps the official stance of the church should be to revert to a pre-Copernican view which would ameliorate the logical conflict but preclude belief in aliens.
The LDS Church owns the copyright to its handbook of instructions, and the Church is well within its rights to enforce that copyright.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people stupid enough to accept and trust a church who copyrights its religious teachings. If you are a "lost soul" looking for some "salvation", you will be wise to choose a church that doesn't do this, especially when you decide you have "found yourself" again and want to move on.
If you're going to add $225 for retail copies of OS/X and iLife to your comparison, then you need to add $250 to your costs on the Apples, to cover the copy of Windows Vista that it doesn't come with.
No, you need to add $50, not $225, to the price of the Mac, because the dell is going to come with Vista Home Limited, or whatever the bottom of the line Vista is. Its not going to come with Vista Ultimate (or whatever the top of the line is) in a $700 machine.
It might be fair to quibble away the $79 for iLife, because it seems like it might be unnecessary for most people.
Who isn't aware of the exorbitant prices that Apple charges for their hardware? Want another 2GB of ram? That'll be $200 please
The people who pay that can afford it. Personally, I buy all my memory upgrades at OWC. Its cheap and good memory. Disclaimer: I don't work for or have any financial interest in OWC.
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Imagine my disappointment when OSX didn't allow you to customize it. Why do you bring up such bad memories?
I know used trojans that are better than 3.1
If the guys who wrote the software that shows up on stories like this actually read slashdot, we probably would stop getting stories like this. I mean, when was the last time Ad0b3Hax0r /. id #113434124 said "Sorry guys, that bug was me. I'll try to do better next time. Thanks for the heads-up."
This reminds me of the government who claims its bad for you despite the fact that it forbids research on the topic. Yes, ignorance, stupid beliefs, and blind gullibility are all around us.
DNA is beyond just code. DNA can code for protein both forward and backwards in the same element, doubling the protien information its capable of specifying. The very same element can bind factors and contain "epigenetic" information in the form of modifications like methylation. It can also assume multiple three dimensional conformations, any of which can be decoded based on the cell's state or external stimuli. The information density of much of the genetic material in the planet is absolutely saturated. We look at DNA and apply Shannon's entropy to it and think we understand its information content. This is naivety. Shannon's entropy doesn't scratch the surface because the informational content of DNA depends on context, which is potentially infinite.
I can't argue with you there. I play with the best toys in the world to do my research. But my pay is capped by the great place where I work. Other institutions have the exact same pay scale. Its academia--but prices in academia are set by the same forces as everywhere else: supply and demand.
Damn! Goodwin's law being used preemptively. That must be a first.
Don't get your tin foil hat in a bunch. The word "terrorist" has been invented to generalize the specific laws. Any one can be a "terrorist", but you need to be selling drugs to be a "drug dealer". This is why the patriot act undermines the constitution.
You need to do some research on how new legislation is put into law, and some research on who actually created and approved this particular legislation.More political banter. Your precious Georgie boy had the power to veto the legislation, so quit trying to shift blame. Before everyone figured out what a disaster the patriot act is, you would have been giving Georgie boy credit for it.
I defer to the built in dictionary on my Mac: "censorship - the practice of officially examining books, music, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts". If a moderator is acting in an "official" capacity for /. and the moderator "examines" the post and the moderator "suppresses" it by modding it down (the definition did not say delete), then he has, by definition, censored it.
Quit making up definitions and presenting them as fact to make your point.
I've been in science for 15 years. On my present salary, I can barely afford the same standard of living as when I started science, even after a PhD and an exemplary career so far. If a "shortage" actually existed, then pay would increase concomitantly. Since pay hasn't increased, the shortage, by definition, does not exist. It boggles my mind to see obvious BS like this.
An economist is not a "bean counter". An accountant is a bean counter. An economist studies how people and collections of people make choices. The most famous example is the choice of "guns versus butter"--that's an economics issue. Bean counters try to balance the equity and make sure that the change in equity equals the difference between positive and negative cash flow.
Probably the people you are thinking of are "managers". Managers make short-sided decisions to make themselves look good and temporarily improve cash flow. They are different from accountants and economists. Managers change jobs frequently to avoid dealing with the problems their short sided decisions create.
Its not moderation, its censorship. Its not all that funny, either.
Americans (I am one) had no problem with the French I think until it came time to drop bombs on Lybia. The French denied fly-over rights. Now we are in a war with Iraq and the French haven't sent troops. I think both decisions by France were wise and justifiable. Now Americans blame the French for a big costly war when instead they should blame themselves for their own gullibility. Americans have a "with us or for terrorism" ideology, which is a silly ideology. You'll see some idiots quote stats about the the percentage of the French population that is Muslim and other pseuodo-intellectual arguments. Personally, I think Americans should get a grip on reality, grow some brains, get the hell out of Iraq, stop pissing every one off, and stop blaming every one else for their problems. I'm an American and I've done it.
That said, I personally have a problem with France because of mimes. Mimes suck and France should never had invented them.
Friggin' first post and I don't have anything to say about it.
Best place to drop the nude bomb: Boulder Colorado.
Do you honestly think that they are going to support a discount platform with security updates and bugfixes to an operating system that has been earmarked for extinction? The plan is to trap people into the vicious cycle of OS dependence, not liberate them. Linux can do anything XP can do and probably more given $100.00 hardware.
If you read my previous posts, you'll probably figure out that that won't work on me.
This is the same man who said "God does not play dice with the universe".
The real question is whether they would accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I think only those aliens within a 2008 light year sphere around the earth could do this as the rest of the volume of the cosmos could not know of Jesus given the laws of physics as modern science understands them. I'm guessing the director has not quite thought through this conundrum. Perhaps the official stance of the church should be to revert to a pre-Copernican view which would ameliorate the logical conflict but preclude belief in aliens.
Nice way to contradict yourself in back-to-back sentences.
Teaching. [Antonyms: misteaching; learning.] [Nouns] teaching; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy.I get it and I resemble that remark.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people stupid enough to accept and trust a church who copyrights its religious teachings. If you are a "lost soul" looking for some "salvation", you will be wise to choose a church that doesn't do this, especially when you decide you have "found yourself" again and want to move on.
No, you need to add $50, not $225, to the price of the Mac, because the dell is going to come with Vista Home Limited, or whatever the bottom of the line Vista is. Its not going to come with Vista Ultimate (or whatever the top of the line is) in a $700 machine.
It might be fair to quibble away the $79 for iLife, because it seems like it might be unnecessary for most people.
The people who pay that can afford it. Personally, I buy all my memory upgrades at OWC. Its cheap and good memory. Disclaimer: I don't work for or have any financial interest in OWC.