. I think that's what this art exhibit is trying to make us realise in ourselves. It worked for me
well I'm glad to hear it.
I do think it might be your age though. It's certainly a downer as one appraoches the time to stand on one's own two feet and make one's own way in life that you look around you and see the carnage that unfolded for you to be where you are.
Hope tells us that whatever happens we will be here tomorrow. We rely on the unbridled enthusiasm of youth to spark things for those of us with jaded vision.
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Heck, the human body wasn't designed to EVER work at a computer!
er how about stick with "The human body wasn't designed - EVER!"
By which I mean it's something inaccessible to me, just as distant to my 22-year-old-self as the Civil War
gaw, that's one of the saddest things I've heard. That you have no empathy and not enough imagination.
I still feel the power and after shock of our civil war and that ended in 1649, I still feel the power and after shock of our last occupation and that was in 1066.
Maybe as you get a bit older and your sense of immortality fades and you feel some real pain amongst the people around you (although I hope you never do) you can feel for people the world over throughout history. If you need any help place yourself in Nagasaki, watch your family burn and then consider that your pointless government was trying to surrender but the Americans wanted to test their second bomb because it was a different design.
I think I'm over the Romans but what did they ever do for us? .oO0Oo.
dna profiling doesn't profile your full genetic makeup. It samples 10 key points. (I think it's 10 but the implications are the same.) When DNA from a crime scene or wherever is attemptedly matched it also uses these 10 points. The chance of a match from a random sample is in the millions I'll accept that but DNA is not randomly distributed. People generally don't travel far from their birth town so there is more likely to be a random match in your home town than somewhere on the other side of the world.
Juries tend to believe million to one chances over "but it wasn't me".
I don't like crime (I love it'ah oh yeah - oops sorry) but I do look forward to the day that someone uses DNA profiling as their defence:)
well that's an interesting point. From his in-flat web cam pics he doesn't exactly look like he's living the high life and rolling in $10,000 per month surely you wouldn't even mention $3000 in server bills 'cos you'd already have paid them.
Express.com bought a dud and now they're trying to palm the cost off on to the "employees" by witholding payment.
It really stinks. They've strung poor Rich along for ages and I'm sure he's doing well to hold on to his sanity.
To people who say "too bad, you should've read the small print" or whatever well the guy has been receiving payment for the same ads for ages. Then one day the cheque doesn't arrive and they tell him "we'll be paying you late - sorry" the time drags by and yesterday it turned in to "nope, we're not paying you ever because of some lame shit we just made up" and he's $3000 out of pocket for the bandwidth for the site.
We all run the risk in a salaried environment of a similar experience - I know I've had it happen to me - comapny starts going bust but they don't tell the employees and then Bam! "sorry no pay this month -we're broke" and you sit there looking at your credit card bill & mortgage cos you lived a month in the future.
Saying "you should've known it could happen" isn't much comfort.
and btw. people in wheelchairs are funny just like everybody else is.
why does having the gene for color blindness help a man or even mankind?
it is a mistake to believe that there is a one to one mapping between genes and bodily function. The particular gene that is present in people with colour blindness might also mean that they are resistant to polio or that they are scared of heights or that their hair is greasy or any multitude of effects. That is the scary part about any sort of interference and selecting on genes being present.
It is a supreme arrogance that suggests that humans understand this stuff in completeness.
but remains so common simply because it doesn't hurt your chances of reproductive success very much to have the trait
The converse is also true - that it remains present, despite it's suposed negative impact, because of it' positive effect on reproductive capability. Think about brightly coloured parrots or male peacocks. Traits that look obviously negative to survival chances via predation but increase the chances of reproduction.
The two places to draw the line are all or nothing because anything in between is applied from the wrong conclusions anyway. .oO0Oo.
the best reason I can come up with is that being trapped in to WinCE or PocketWindows whatever this months platform is is a real pain.
Want to write programs for it?
lack of tools hampers you even if they do apepar eventually. My WinCE machine is uterly useless these days (and it didn't exactly start out great) but if it booted something other than WindowsCE 2 I might get some use out of it. Go to Microsoft's Windows CE site and you only find information & downloads for wince3.
SO by having an Open OS for it you are going to end up with a microprocessor with input devices and screen and if you can't see the usefulness of that then maybe you should be reading ZDnet or something. .oO0Oo.
the bbc also used to distribute acorn electorn & bbc programs on the teletext system
before I got a bbc I used to sit there and write down the source code on squared paper so i made sure i got every character (they didn't put on screen line break in but ran the contiguously).
I never used any of them but it was a good way to get used to source code.
and red hat think THEY invented open source!! .oO0Oo.
Slashdot Mirror
(no females drivers in F1)
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I remember 1 on the starting grid once
. I think that's what this art exhibit is trying to make us realise in ourselves. It worked for me
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well I'm glad to hear it.
I do think it might be your age though. It's certainly a downer as one appraoches the time to stand on one's own two feet and make one's own way in life that you look around you and see the carnage that unfolded for you to be where you are.
Hope tells us that whatever happens we will be here tomorrow. We rely on the unbridled enthusiasm of youth to spark things for those of us with jaded vision.
Heck, the human body wasn't designed to EVER work at a computer!
.oO0Oo.
er how about stick with "The human body wasn't designed - EVER!"
By which I mean it's something inaccessible to me, just as distant to my 22-year-old-self as the Civil War
.oO0Oo.
gaw, that's one of the saddest things I've heard. That you have no empathy and not enough imagination.
I still feel the power and after shock of our civil war and that ended in 1649, I still feel the power and after shock of our last occupation and that was in 1066.
Maybe as you get a bit older and your sense of immortality fades and you feel some real pain amongst the people around you (although I hope you never do) you can feel for people the world over throughout history. If you need any help place yourself in Nagasaki, watch your family burn and then consider that your pointless government was trying to surrender but the Americans wanted to test their second bomb because it was a different design.
I think I'm over the Romans but what did they ever do for us?
now way m8
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i want the bit with the show-girl in all those feathers, Larry looked liked he enjoyed that
socialism doesn't start with concentration camp, that's where it ends.
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that's the pain of being an anarchist, whoever is in power wants you dead!
yes I noticed that the pictures were of images that many of the viewers would be able to recall in their mind's eye without too great an effort
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if you call that politcal motivation then you must see conspiracies everywhere!!
hmm maybe 'cept there are numerous enigma emulators around
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it says news for nerds not new news for nerds :-)
...
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hey there's this great thing called a wheel
dna profiling doesn't profile your full genetic makeup. It samples 10 key points. (I think it's 10 but the implications are the same.) When DNA from a crime scene or wherever is attemptedly matched it also uses these 10 points. The chance of a match from a random sample is in the millions I'll accept that but DNA is not randomly distributed. People generally don't travel far from their birth town so there is more likely to be a random match in your home town than somewhere on the other side of the world. :)
.oO0Oo.
Juries tend to believe million to one chances over "but it wasn't me".
I don't like crime (I love it'ah oh yeah - oops sorry) but I do look forward to the day that someone uses DNA profiling as their defence
well you could tell them you've got an identical twin
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try drinking it
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try www.workspot.com
.oO0Oo.
well that's an interesting point. From his in-flat web cam pics he doesn't exactly look like he's living the high life and rolling in $10,000 per month surely you wouldn't even mention $3000 in server bills 'cos you'd already have paid them.
.oO0Oo.
hmm
Express.com bought a dud and now they're trying to palm the cost off on to the "employees" by witholding payment.
.oO0Oo.
It really stinks. They've strung poor Rich along for ages and I'm sure he's doing well to hold on to his sanity.
To people who say "too bad, you should've read the small print" or whatever well the guy has been receiving payment for the same ads for ages. Then one day the cheque doesn't arrive and they tell him "we'll be paying you late - sorry" the time drags by and yesterday it turned in to "nope, we're not paying you ever because of some lame shit we just made up" and he's $3000 out of pocket for the bandwidth for the site.
We all run the risk in a salaried environment of a similar experience - I know I've had it happen to me - comapny starts going bust but they don't tell the employees and then Bam! "sorry no pay this month -we're broke" and you sit there looking at your credit card bill & mortgage cos you lived a month in the future.
Saying "you should've known it could happen" isn't much comfort.
and btw. people in wheelchairs are funny just like everybody else is.
as usual Post your comments in the forum
JeffK will hax0r u now
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why does having the gene for color blindness help a man or even mankind?
.oO0Oo.
it is a mistake to believe that there is a one to one mapping between genes and bodily function. The particular gene that is present in people with colour blindness might also mean that they are resistant to polio or that they are scared of heights or that their hair is greasy or any multitude of effects. That is the scary part about any sort of interference and selecting on genes being present.
It is a supreme arrogance that suggests that humans understand this stuff in completeness.
but remains so common simply because it doesn't hurt your chances of reproductive success very much to have the trait
The converse is also true - that it remains present, despite it's suposed negative impact, because of it' positive effect on reproductive capability. Think about brightly coloured parrots or male peacocks. Traits that look obviously negative to survival chances via predation but increase the chances of reproduction.
The two places to draw the line are all or nothing because anything in between is applied from the wrong conclusions anyway.
Though what thats about i know not.....
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s'ok everybody else does
thanks for a laugh
the best reason I can come up with is that being trapped in to WinCE or PocketWindows whatever this months platform is is a real pain.
.oO0Oo.
Want to write programs for it?
lack of tools hampers you even if they do apepar eventually. My WinCE machine is uterly useless these days (and it didn't exactly start out great) but if it booted something other than WindowsCE 2 I might get some use out of it. Go to Microsoft's Windows CE site and you only find information & downloads for wince3.
SO by having an Open OS for it you are going to end up with a microprocessor with input devices and screen and if you can't see the usefulness of that then maybe you should be reading ZDnet or something.
i'd take a minute to re-read the parent on this one
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no, what are they?
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is it for converting tv signals or someting
the bbc also used to distribute acorn electorn & bbc programs on the teletext system
.oO0Oo.
before I got a bbc I used to sit there and write down the source code on squared paper so i made sure i got every character (they didn't put on screen line break in but ran the contiguously).
I never used any of them but it was a good way to get used to source code.
and red hat think THEY invented open source!!
maybe it's the fact that there are lots of Napster users to which you can advertise all sorts of crap
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not shitty e-mail lists for spamming but loads and loads of genuine sitting there waiting for things to download users.
and if you do buy the thing for goodness sake get someone to overhaul the user interface
Don't go there
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http://www.rubybay.com/users/drbeeb/
:)
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i found it
now to make it into 300baud so i can play it from my sound card into my bbc