Yes please, let's have the world saturated with uneducated sheep. Great for the politicians and religious zealots, not so great for the real world.
If we don't have a standard of education, we will end up with a caste system again. Everyone does what their father did, and their father before them. Sounds great eh? progress abounds.
And while the Defenders of Truth are no better than the Second Amendment Sisters or the Christian Coalition, there are other, more rational forces that need to be put in place. Not a choose your own adventure/education system.
You can't endorse hiding the truth from these children. Teaching these children of evolution is not the same as forcing them to believe in it.
I hardly think that 36 hours means life or death with this story. Slashdot isn't in a race with any other sites...find something useful to gripe about.
AMD can scale their chips up to Willamette speeds now, and even further by shrinking to 0.13uM. Willamette will initially be a 0.18uM process and be in very limited quantities until at least Q1 2000.
The Thunderbird doesn't require copper interconnects yet, and gains no benefit from it, but it will when transitioning to 0.13, same as Willamette will.
It would seem to me that you have a few issues to sort out in your economic model.
Even if a feasable economic model existed that catered solely to white men (of which I am a member), you can't hide your own ignorance behind that false belief.
While U2W SCSI is an excellent start, it's not that much faster than the latest EIDE drives. It's the fundamental 'spinning of the disks too slow' problem.
However, if you are still using a 28.8 modem, don't complain about how bandwidth is lacking:)That's equivalent to trying to suck an orange dry with a straw.
If cable or ADSL is available in your area, jump all over it. There are startup discounts galore and its well worth it. I've been on cable for almost a year now and I can never go back. I've seen 370K/s (yes.37 MB/s) on mine and 700 MB isn't that big at those speeds.
Floppy installs are the worst. At my old work, one of my co-workers actually installed win95 off floppies, something like 80 disks? Why? I don't know...
-> Intel and Microsoft are in a conspiracy, because they keep creating new hardware and software. (Win2k's requirements are realistic, it will run on less, just not well)
-> We _cannot_ run older OS's, or software on old hardware for people to write letters.
-> Your machine which has slower hardware will go faster than newer better hardware. (Win2k isn't that slow. == RH isn't that fast)
-> You still want that new fast hardware to play Q3, a hardware hog.
-> AMD should be praised for playing the same Mhz game Intel does.
I think we see the contradictions here...
Don't bash new hardware, it's an engineering marvel that intel can get their ppro core (essentialy the same as p3) which came out years ago, to run at 800 Mhz. The Athlon is a great chip and it's amazing that it can run x86 crap instructions at 1Ghz. These feats aren't easy.
Would you rather slow progress down so you and I can catch up? (my p200-mmx isn't the blazing machine it was when I got it)
Maybe we should petition Intel to slow down a bit. They have plenty of money, we don't need faster computers.
It's not your Network that's slowing your computers down, it's your IDE bus.
The latest technology leap in HDD's has been ATA-66, which realistically only pushes 20MB/s which is only marginally faster than a $30 100MB ethernet card.
Now with gigabit ethernet cards, although they are expensive, are fast enough to easily saturate your system bus. Once we finally get away from slow hard drives and buses, we can really see improvements in overall end-user-apparent speed.
Anyone who has attempted to play Wheel of Time knows what I mean:) I've never waited that long for a level to load, ever... and it takes away from the game.
> what if some wacko dictator says it's illegal for new babies have red hair? do you care? what about if they make having new male babies illegal?
Come on, at least be realistic in your rebuttles...cloning is not an evil science, it is not even practical, we do need biodiversity and I think that in the end it will be achieved anyway. Different couples want different traits in their babies, boys, girls, different hair. Doctors also understand the need for biodiversity and they will keep that in mind when developing cloning and DNA editing techniques.
> what about people like stephen hawking? with the control we're talking about he probably would never have been born.
You don't get it... he would be born, but without the debilitating genetic desease he is afflicted with now. Even though he feels his life has been exciting and fulfilling, don't you think he would jump at the chance to walk or talk again? There are hundreds of incureable genetic deseases that can be eliminated, all the suffering people that would give anything to change their genetic makeup. It's plain to see we are better off eliminating all these deseases, no-one wants to live with a handicap, even if it means a few less genetic patterns.
Bottom line is that B&N had to develop an implementation of the idea anyways. It's not like they took the script and reverse-engineered it. It's easier just to re-code their own solution.
And it's better for the consumer, now there are two companies with an easy-to-use system for purchasing on-line.
If you are trying to defend Amazon.com's millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours of work, remember that the system that they implemented is a simple lookup to a database. It's an idea that is not even theirs and it's been around for years.
It's not amazon that is under attack here it's the Patent Office's haphazard granting of stupid patents. It has to stop.
There are three permissible exceptions to the basic rule on patentability. One is for inventions contrary to ordre public or morality; this explicitly includes inventions dangerous to human, animal or plant life or health or seriously prejudicial to the environment. The use of this exception is subject to the condition that the commercial exploitation of the invention must also be prevented and this prevention must be necessary for the protection of ordre public or morality (Article 27.2).
The second exception is that Members may exclude from patentability diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals (Article 27.3(a)).
I'd say this leaves the patenting of genes to the discretion of the patent office (god help us all...)
AFAIK, once you publish an idea or invention in the public domain it becomes un-patentable. This is what the Human Genome Project is doing. every gene is published within 48 hours of discovery.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've seen this mentioned in other YRO and AS articles.
It really makes me mad when I see governments trying to put tougher retraints on the internet than they have in the Real World(tm).
I think that security should rest on the shoulders of the businesses completing the transactions, not on a regulating body. The whole idea of a regulating body governing the internet goes against the very ideals it stands for.
The universe had a beginning, the big bang. But if Omega does = 1 then it will have no end, and there can be no nothing.(hrmm)
There has never been nothing in the universe, before the big bang, there was the superparticle which existed in some exotic space. We can't really know what was in that space because we have no way of observing it.
If there was anything else, it means that there must be many universes, or other dimensions. No one really knows what existed prior to the big bang. We have to know that to say conclusively if there is a nothing before the universe or outside the universe.
Oh wait, there is a nothing...rent the Neverending Story...:)
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tree in the forest....with.... a herring!!
Sorry, had to...
Yes please, let's have the world saturated with uneducated sheep. Great for the politicians and religious zealots, not so great for the real world.
If we don't have a standard of education, we will end up with a caste system again. Everyone does what their father did, and their father before them. Sounds great eh? progress abounds.
And while the Defenders of Truth are no better than the Second Amendment Sisters or the Christian Coalition, there are other, more rational forces that need to be put in place. Not a choose your own adventure/education system.
You can't endorse hiding the truth from these children. Teaching these children of evolution is not the same as forcing them to believe in it.
I hardly think that 36 hours means life or death with this story. Slashdot isn't in a race with any other sites...find something useful to gripe about.
That disclaimer isn't very restrictive at all. And it's not an EULA, it's common sense.
...to do that is to ensure that Micro$oft products are never replaced by another. Monopolies make more money (MMMM), end of story.
Monopoly, it's the only way.
If you really must have a copper T-Bird, the aluminum ones have a blue die, and copper has a green die.
But, there is no difference between copper and aluminum in terms of performance or overclockability (yet! wait for 0.13uM)
see FiringSquad Review...
AMD can scale their chips up to Willamette speeds now, and even further by shrinking to 0.13uM. Willamette will initially be a 0.18uM process and be in very limited quantities until at least Q1 2000.
The Thunderbird doesn't require copper interconnects yet, and gains no benefit from it, but it will when transitioning to 0.13, same as Willamette will.
Nobody in their right mind would subject themselves to Canadian Tax Law.
:)
I have no choice in the matter
What is with the whole /. community's obsession with Natalie Portman!!
I don't see where this goddess mentality comes from.
She's not that hot...
She's not that good of an actor...
Bottom line: Where's the Beef?
This entire topic is semantics, Law has no provisions for anything but semantics.
And whether or not you feel it's wrong has no bearing on aything. The Law is what decides, not morals.
And it's not legally theft, it's legally Copyright Infringement.
You didn't even read the article, ass!
and it's 300 times c, not 300%.
The backwards wave in the cesium chamber travels at 300 times c. You don't understand relativity, so don't post.
Always Coca-Cola
:)
It's all so predictable, it's not even worth trolling.
:)
So why Did you
It would seem to me that you have a few issues to sort out in your economic model.
Even if a feasable economic model existed that catered solely to white men (of which I am a member), you can't hide your own ignorance behind that false belief.
Take your bigotry elsewhere.
While U2W SCSI is an excellent start, it's not that much faster than the latest EIDE drives. It's the fundamental 'spinning of the disks too slow' problem.
:)That's equivalent to trying to suck an orange dry with a straw.
.37 MB/s) on mine and 700 MB isn't that big at those speeds.
However, if you are still using a 28.8 modem, don't complain about how bandwidth is lacking
If cable or ADSL is available in your area, jump all over it. There are startup discounts galore and its well worth it. I've been on cable for almost a year now and I can never go back. I've seen 370K/s (yes
Floppy installs are the worst. At my old work, one of my co-workers actually installed win95 off floppies, something like 80 disks? Why? I don't know...
Let me examine your logic here:
-> Nobody will ever use a fast computer.
-> Intel and Microsoft are in a conspiracy, because they keep creating new hardware and software. (Win2k's requirements are realistic, it will run on less, just not well)
-> We _cannot_ run older OS's, or software on old hardware for people to write letters.
-> Your machine which has slower hardware will go faster than newer better hardware. (Win2k isn't that slow. == RH isn't that fast)
-> You still want that new fast hardware to play Q3, a hardware hog.
-> AMD should be praised for playing the same Mhz game Intel does.
I think we see the contradictions here...
Don't bash new hardware, it's an engineering marvel that intel can get their ppro core (essentialy the same as p3) which came out years ago, to run at 800 Mhz. The Athlon is a great chip and it's amazing that it can run x86 crap instructions at 1Ghz. These feats aren't easy.
Would you rather slow progress down so you and I can catch up? (my p200-mmx isn't the blazing machine it was when I got it)
Maybe we should petition Intel to slow down a bit. They have plenty of money, we don't need faster computers.
It's not your Network that's slowing your computers down, it's your IDE bus.
:) I've never waited that long for a level to load, ever... and it takes away from the game.
The latest technology leap in HDD's has been ATA-66, which realistically only pushes 20MB/s which is only marginally faster than a $30 100MB ethernet card.
Now with gigabit ethernet cards, although they are expensive, are fast enough to easily saturate your system bus. Once we finally get away from slow hard drives and buses, we can really see improvements in overall end-user-apparent speed.
Anyone who has attempted to play Wheel of Time knows what I mean
> what if some wacko dictator says it's illegal for new babies have red hair? do you care? what about if they make having new male babies illegal?
Come on, at least be realistic in your rebuttles...cloning is not an evil science, it is not even practical, we do need biodiversity and I think that in the end it will be achieved anyway. Different couples want different traits in their babies, boys, girls, different hair. Doctors also understand the need for biodiversity and they will keep that in mind when developing cloning and DNA editing techniques.
> what about people like stephen hawking? with the control we're talking about he probably would never have been born.
You don't get it... he would be born, but without the debilitating genetic desease he is afflicted with now. Even though he feels his life has been exciting and fulfilling, don't you think he would jump at the chance to walk or talk again? There are hundreds of incureable genetic deseases that can be eliminated, all the suffering people that would give anything to change their genetic makeup. It's plain to see we are better off eliminating all these deseases, no-one wants to live with a handicap, even if it means a few less genetic patterns.
Bottom line is that B&N had to develop an implementation of the idea anyways. It's not like they took the script and reverse-engineered it. It's easier just to re-code their own solution.
And it's better for the consumer, now there are two companies with an easy-to-use system for purchasing on-line.
If you are trying to defend Amazon.com's millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours of work, remember that the system that they implemented is a simple lookup to a database. It's an idea that is not even theirs and it's been around for years.
It's not amazon that is under attack here it's the Patent Office's haphazard granting of stupid patents. It has to stop.
They have stopped accepting beta testers.
See web page if you don't believe me
I'd say this leaves the patenting of genes to the discretion of the patent office (god help us all...)
AFAIK, once you publish an idea or invention in the public domain it becomes un-patentable. This is what the Human Genome Project is doing. every gene is published within 48 hours of discovery.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've seen this mentioned in other YRO and AS articles.
It really makes me mad when I see governments trying to put tougher retraints on the internet than they have in the Real World(tm).
I think that security should rest on the shoulders of the businesses completing the transactions, not on a regulating body. The whole idea of a regulating body governing the internet goes against the very ideals it stands for.
I see the err in my ways, the veil of stupidity (liberalism) has been lifted from me and I repent for my evil sins.
For I am not only Liberal, but atheist and Canadian! good god!
Chalk this AC up as (Score:2) Funny ass Nectarine.
The universe had a beginning, the big bang. But if Omega does = 1 then it will have no end, and there can be no nothing.(hrmm)
:)
There has never been nothing in the universe, before the big bang, there was the superparticle which existed in some exotic space. We can't really know what was in that space because we have no way of observing it.
If there was anything else, it means that there must be many universes, or other dimensions. No one really knows what existed prior to the big bang. We have to know that to say conclusively if there is a nothing before the universe or outside the universe.
Oh wait, there is a nothing...rent the Neverending Story...
The answer is 42!