Actually I do not understand their position. If God had a problem with cloning (and anything else the spirituals say that He has a problem with), why wouldn't He just take care of the problem? Vaporize the cloning facilities, make it so that it is no longer possible to clone anything, reprogram the scientists so they begin to believe that cloning is wrong etc. If this isn't happening, then maybe God does not have a problem with it. In any case, why would an omnipotent being need human avatars?
Because if you can also modify the genes of that clone you can create a superior race that is actually superior (as opposed to just thinking that it is). This does not sit well with current people, who would be inferior to the clones. However, if many clones were made from the same original, maybe people would start trying to be individuals and not like now ("I want to be like everybody else"), once they see a lot of identical clones.
If the nazis were experimenting on the jews and that lead to medical data/treatments is it ethical to use it?
So, let's see...the nazis were experimenting on people, those experiments usually killed them (jews) but lead to new information about medicine so now it is possible to save lives that wasn't possible before. You say, though that using that information is immoral, but in my opinion not using it would be immoral, first, if the infromation is not used then those jews died for no reason at all, at least some good would have come out of that tragedy. Also,. I'll let you go to a dying person and say: "You know, it is possible to save your life, but I won't do it because the information came from one group of people killing other group of people 60 years ago. And that's why I'll watch you die". Bonus points if the person was born after WW2.
My writing was always terrible (even before my parents bought a computer with a new OS Win95, instead of my dad sometimes bringing his laptop (win3.11) from work and letting me play with it). My teachers and parents made me rewrite texts from books to make my writing more legible, it didn't help. I can write legibly, but then I am so slow, that I could take my laptop from the bag, turn it on, wait till Wimdows boots, open notepad and type the text, and that would be faster, in other words, if I want to write reasonably fast, then I wonder how the professors at my university (and teachers before them) can read what I wrote.
On the other hand, while I do not make models (and do not have a gaming console, pc games only), I can solder a 0805 SMD part using a normal sized soldering iron.
Just like 640KB was enough for anybody at the time. Yes, I believe that programmers will come up with more bloated applications that do exactly the same their previous versions did, but consume more memory and are slower, but for now, for most people inexpensive PCs are enough (if Apple makes up for 91% of >$1000 market and only 8.7% of the whole market, it means that >$1000 computers are about 9.5% of the whole market. This should mean that for 90.5% of people $1000 PCs are enough.
Easy, when I built my main PC 2 years ago, I quickly reached this:
Let's see: 2x AMD Opteron 270 (server class CPUs) Tyan Thunder K8WE 4x512MB DDR1 ECC REG RAM ATI Radeon HD2900XT (I had to preorder it) Rackmountable E-ATX case.
Yes, it was more than $1000, and no games that I tried (at the time) supported 4 processors, at least now my PC is still good (I can play new games at 1600x1200 resolution).
Also, people no longer need very fast computers. Some years ago, PCs were slower, couldn't work with many applications running and so on. Now even a cheap computer wil be able to run Office, Firefox and some other applications for work, so there is no need for faster PCs for those people.
People who buy expensive computers do so because 1) They have money and buy it to have the latest and greatest. They can buy PCs or Macs. 2) They want to play latest games on highest settings. These will buy PCs and usually more expensive than $1000. 3) They use an application for work that needs a fast PC (3D rendering, video editing, Photoshop etc). They can buy a PC or a Mac, depending on the application. 4) They want a computer made by Apple. 5) They want the computer to last a long time before another upgrade.
Everybody else just buys an inexpensive PC (since there are no inexpensive Macs) and uses it to work/play/watch movies/etc. My father uses a ~6 year old laptop for work. He does today the same things that he did when he bought the laptop (mainly work with MSWord, MSExcel and browsing internet) and, surprise, the laptop is still good for the things that he does, probably will still be good after 5 years, assuming it still works then.
You probably wouldn't own the batteries; you'd just be sort of leasing them.
Wouldn't that mean that in the event of an accident where the batteries are damaged/destroyed I would not only have to pay to fix my car (or get a new one if the old one is not worth it) but would also have to pay somebody for the batteries possibly including some penalty for destroying them.
That is going to increase the cost of insurance "a bit".
If I look in the rear view mirror once in a while I may notice the approaching car and maybe able to avoid it. While it may not protect me from all accidents, driving carefully improves the odds of me arriving at my destination in one piece. In any case, I am in control of my car, not someone else.
The good thing about cars is that I can drive it whenever and wherever I want (assuming there is a road to the destination). Trains (and buses) go by a schedule, so if their schedule differs from mine, it amounts to wasted time (arriving at work too early or coming home too late), they also do not stop anywhere, only at a special bus stops and train stations, if my home or office is far away from the nearest station, this amounts to even more lost time.
See, the same network effects that make the Internet work better when more people are on it also apply to the trains.
Yes, but with the internet the transfers happen automatically. To read/. I do not have to connect to the first hp, then to the second and so on, while I may have to take a bus to some bus stop in the middle between my home and work, wait for another bus to arrive and take it to work. You can't build a train network that has as many destinations as the current road network or if you did, you would have the same road network, just with rails instead of asphalt.
288KVA/220V = 1309A current. That would be two very fat wires... Charge time (assuming ideal charger/battery) - 10minutes 4800VA/220V = 21A. That's more like it, but it would charge 10 hours.
Yea, I can fill a gas tank faster, not to mention my car can go 350km on gas and then I can switch it to petrol (without stopping) to drive ~500km more.
And the point of that comparison is to compare the efficiency of both engines. If I a gas engine burns 10L of gasoline to travel 100km then it means that this engine uses all of the chemical energy in the gasoline, but converts a significant part of it to heat.
If the electrical engine uses 100kWh/100km, then it means that this engine used the equivalent of 10.5L of gasoline (1L of gasoline has 9.5kWh of energy) and is a little bit less efficient than the gas engine mentioned above.
The chemical energy of gasoline is constant, but it depends on the engine how much of that energy is converted to useful work and how much is used to heat the engine.
4-16x for CDs (would like a lower speed, but the drive does not support it) and 2-4x for DVDs depending on how many DVDs I am recording at once. If I need to record just one CD/DVD, I will record it at the lower speed, if my friend asked me to record a lot of DVD, I will use the faster speed.
I think I should buy an old CDRW drive that can record CDs at 1-2x, they would probably last longer. Or I can record that music to a cassette.
Not only caps, but some people (like me) have connection with a bad upload speed. I can do 150KB/s if I load balance over two connections but a single connection can only do 80KB/s, way slower than my DDS4 tape drive (not to mention LTO1).
What are my options then besides suing the company?
Quit. If you sue the company, no matter the outcome, you will not work there for long. While it is illegal to fire somebody just because they participated in a lawsuit against the company, the company will find something that it can fire you for. For example, if you work with clients, the company might have a policy that says if you receive $number complaints from the clients you are fired. How long do you suppose they would take to arrange for $number-$complaints_you_already_have people to come to you and be offended by something? I suppose they would wait for a few months after everything has settled down to do it, but still.
Well, at least this is how it usually is in my country.
Yes, though my radiogramophone made in 1964 may not be the highest quality 78RPM player available.
Any vinyl records at all?
Yes, I have a good 33/45RPM record player.
I have several home movies on Super-8
Me too, I also have a working projector. It supports both 8mm and Super 8mm films, but without sound (I don't have any sound films anyway).
And My Dad's memoires are all on Amstrad's 3" floppies (not 3.5")
Wow, I can only say that I have a bunch of 5.25" PC floppies and 3 working 5.25" floppy drives. I also have a working LS120 drive that can read/write regular 1.44MB floppies.
Our last Philips Cassette player died last year - even they are very hard to find!
You mean Compact Cassette? I recently bought a good 3 head deck. It has really great sound quality and I sometimes make backups of my music to cassettes (the only problem is that if I want a higher quality (chrome or metal) tape I have to go to ebay, but I can get normal tapes locally and for cheap). I have 20 year old cassettes that play well and 10 year old CDs that don't.
I also have a VHS and SVHS VCRs (two in total) and use VHS tapes to record something from TV, since they last longer than regular DVD-Rs and are easier to record to and edit out the commercials (either pause recording during commercial or connect a second VCR after recording and record to another tape).
Oh, and I have 4 reel to reel tape recorders, a 3.5" 1.3GB MO drive, CD/DVD drives, LTO-1 and DDS4 drives.
I run Primegrid on (almost) all of my computers. It would be interesting to know, that my main PC (2x Opteron 270) uses ~100W less power if I shut down BOINC and the CPU clock reduces from 2GHz to 1GHz.
Why send a relay then send the signal to be repeated from the Earth to be bounced back? Video recorders were available in 1969 (or we wouldn't have the recordings of the landing), so they could just send a VTR and a transmitter.
While reinstalling Windows is fast, reinstalling all the applications and making all the configs is very slow. At least two weeks after the reinstall I still go "ow, crap, I don't have this program installed yet, now where did I put it a year ago...", while making a big list of all the software is helpful, usually the list is incomplete because I forgot about some app that I use. Configuring everything takes even more time.
So now I keep a backup of my system drive. If my system does not boot anymore, I'll just put the tape in and restore the system as it was just after I made some big changes nad made the backup.
BTW, does anyone know of a live-CD iSCSI target, it would be quite useful for restoring the backup? And I do not turn off or restart any of my PCs unless the power goes out for a longer time than my UPS can handle, some hardware fails and I can't continue using the PC, some software that I installed needs a reboot and I need to use the software right now, the system freezes, gives a BSOD or generally becomes unable to continue to work.
When I reboot one of the PCs I also update Windows. I don't patch Windows regularly, only when I reboot the PC or there is a patch for a vulnerability that affects me (not all of them do).
Look, it also goes up to 11. Now if Slashdot supported Unicode, I could write the password using the letter U+017E On the other hand, if I need a special symbol I can write it like "slapta=odis", it's the same, just with a different keyboard layout.
That's ok, but for these passwords to work OK, the password must be shown not as ******* but as regular text, otherwise I would make at least one typo per try.
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But thank God he does not do anything about it.
Actually I do not understand their position. If God had a problem with cloning (and anything else the spirituals say that He has a problem with), why wouldn't He just take care of the problem? Vaporize the cloning facilities, make it so that it is no longer possible to clone anything, reprogram the scientists so they begin to believe that cloning is wrong etc. If this isn't happening, then maybe God does not have a problem with it. In any case, why would an omnipotent being need human avatars?
Because if you can also modify the genes of that clone you can create a superior race that is actually superior (as opposed to just thinking that it is). This does not sit well with current people, who would be inferior to the clones. However, if many clones were made from the same original, maybe people would start trying to be individuals and not like now ("I want to be like everybody else"), once they see a lot of identical clones.
If the nazis were experimenting on the jews and that lead to medical data/treatments is it ethical to use it?
So, let's see...the nazis were experimenting on people, those experiments usually killed them (jews) but lead to new information about medicine so now it is possible to save lives that wasn't possible before. You say, though that using that information is immoral, but in my opinion not using it would be immoral, first, if the infromation is not used then those jews died for no reason at all, at least some good would have come out of that tragedy. Also,. I'll let you go to a dying person and say: "You know, it is possible to save your life, but I won't do it because the information came from one group of people killing other group of people 60 years ago. And that's why I'll watch you die". Bonus points if the person was born after WW2.
My writing was always terrible (even before my parents bought a computer with a new OS Win95, instead of my dad sometimes bringing his laptop (win3.11) from work and letting me play with it). My teachers and parents made me rewrite texts from books to make my writing more legible, it didn't help. I can write legibly, but then I am so slow, that I could take my laptop from the bag, turn it on, wait till Wimdows boots, open notepad and type the text, and that would be faster, in other words, if I want to write reasonably fast, then I wonder how the professors at my university (and teachers before them) can read what I wrote.
On the other hand, while I do not make models (and do not have a gaming console, pc games only), I can solder a 0805 SMD part using a normal sized soldering iron.
Just like 640KB was enough for anybody at the time. Yes, I believe that programmers will come up with more bloated applications that do exactly the same their previous versions did, but consume more memory and are slower, but for now, for most people inexpensive PCs are enough (if Apple makes up for 91% of >$1000 market and only 8.7% of the whole market, it means that >$1000 computers are about 9.5% of the whole market. This should mean that for 90.5% of people $1000 PCs are enough.
Easy, when I built my main PC 2 years ago, I quickly reached this:
Let's see:
2x AMD Opteron 270 (server class CPUs)
Tyan Thunder K8WE
4x512MB DDR1 ECC REG RAM
ATI Radeon HD2900XT (I had to preorder it)
Rackmountable E-ATX case.
Yes, it was more than $1000, and no games that I tried (at the time) supported 4 processors, at least now my PC is still good (I can play new games at 1600x1200 resolution).
Also, people no longer need very fast computers. Some years ago, PCs were slower, couldn't work with many applications running and so on. Now even a cheap computer wil be able to run Office, Firefox and some other applications for work, so there is no need for faster PCs for those people.
People who buy expensive computers do so because
1) They have money and buy it to have the latest and greatest. They can buy PCs or Macs.
2) They want to play latest games on highest settings. These will buy PCs and usually more expensive than $1000.
3) They use an application for work that needs a fast PC (3D rendering, video editing, Photoshop etc). They can buy a PC or a Mac, depending on the application.
4) They want a computer made by Apple.
5) They want the computer to last a long time before another upgrade.
Everybody else just buys an inexpensive PC (since there are no inexpensive Macs) and uses it to work/play/watch movies/etc. My father uses a ~6 year old laptop for work. He does today the same things that he did when he bought the laptop (mainly work with MSWord, MSExcel and browsing internet) and, surprise, the laptop is still good for the things that he does, probably will still be good after 5 years, assuming it still works then.
You probably wouldn't own the batteries; you'd just be sort of leasing them.
Wouldn't that mean that in the event of an accident where the batteries are damaged/destroyed I would not only have to pay to fix my car (or get a new one if the old one is not worth it) but would also have to pay somebody for the batteries possibly including some penalty for destroying them.
That is going to increase the cost of insurance "a bit".
If I look in the rear view mirror once in a while I may notice the approaching car and maybe able to avoid it. While it may not protect me from all accidents, driving carefully improves the odds of me arriving at my destination in one piece. In any case, I am in control of my car, not someone else.
The good thing about cars is that I can drive it whenever and wherever I want (assuming there is a road to the destination). Trains (and buses) go by a schedule, so if their schedule differs from mine, it amounts to wasted time (arriving at work too early or coming home too late), they also do not stop anywhere, only at a special bus stops and train stations, if my home or office is far away from the nearest station, this amounts to even more lost time.
See, the same network effects that make the Internet work better when more people are on it also apply to the trains.
Yes, but with the internet the transfers happen automatically. To read /. I do not have to connect to the first hp, then to the second and so on, while I may have to take a bus to some bus stop in the middle between my home and work, wait for another bus to arrive and take it to work. You can't build a train network that has as many destinations as the current road network or if you did, you would have the same road network, just with rails instead of asphalt.
Ok, let's see...
288KVA/220V = 1309A current. That would be two very fat wires... Charge time (assuming ideal charger/battery) - 10minutes
4800VA/220V = 21A. That's more like it, but it would charge 10 hours.
Yea, I can fill a gas tank faster, not to mention my car can go 350km on gas and then I can switch it to petrol (without stopping) to drive ~500km more.
And the point of that comparison is to compare the efficiency of both engines. If I a gas engine burns 10L of gasoline to travel 100km then it means that this engine uses all of the chemical energy in the gasoline, but converts a significant part of it to heat.
If the electrical engine uses 100kWh/100km, then it means that this engine used the equivalent of 10.5L of gasoline (1L of gasoline has 9.5kWh of energy) and is a little bit less efficient than the gas engine mentioned above.
The chemical energy of gasoline is constant, but it depends on the engine how much of that energy is converted to useful work and how much is used to heat the engine.
yes, CDRW disks are less compatible. However, a CDRW drive can record both CDR and CDRW disks.
4-16x for CDs (would like a lower speed, but the drive does not support it) and 2-4x for DVDs depending on how many DVDs I am recording at once. If I need to record just one CD/DVD, I will record it at the lower speed, if my friend asked me to record a lot of DVD, I will use the faster speed.
I think I should buy an old CDRW drive that can record CDs at 1-2x, they would probably last longer. Or I can record that music to a cassette.
Not only caps, but some people (like me) have connection with a bad upload speed. I can do 150KB/s if I load balance over two connections but a single connection can only do 80KB/s, way slower than my DDS4 tape drive (not to mention LTO1).
What are my options then besides suing the company?
Quit. If you sue the company, no matter the outcome, you will not work there for long. While it is illegal to fire somebody just because they participated in a lawsuit against the company, the company will find something that it can fire you for.
For example, if you work with clients, the company might have a policy that says if you receive $number complaints from the clients you are fired. How long do you suppose they would take to arrange for $number-$complaints_you_already_have people to come to you and be offended by something? I suppose they would wait for a few months after everything has settled down to do it, but still.
Well, at least this is how it usually is in my country.
Have you got a video disk player?
I have a LD player (and ~20 LDs).
Can you play 78RPM records?
Yes, though my radiogramophone made in 1964 may not be the highest quality 78RPM player available.
Any vinyl records at all?
Yes, I have a good 33/45RPM record player.
I have several home movies on Super-8
Me too, I also have a working projector. It supports both 8mm and Super 8mm films, but without sound (I don't have any sound films anyway).
And My Dad's memoires are all on Amstrad's 3" floppies (not 3.5")
Wow, I can only say that I have a bunch of 5.25" PC floppies and 3 working 5.25" floppy drives. I also have a working LS120 drive that can read/write regular 1.44MB floppies.
Our last Philips Cassette player died last year - even they are very hard to find!
You mean Compact Cassette? I recently bought a good 3 head deck. It has really great sound quality and I sometimes make backups of my music to cassettes (the only problem is that if I want a higher quality (chrome or metal) tape I have to go to ebay, but I can get normal tapes locally and for cheap). I have 20 year old cassettes that play well and 10 year old CDs that don't.
I also have a VHS and SVHS VCRs (two in total) and use VHS tapes to record something from TV, since they last longer than regular DVD-Rs and are easier to record to and edit out the commercials (either pause recording during commercial or connect a second VCR after recording and record to another tape).
Oh, and I have 4 reel to reel tape recorders, a 3.5" 1.3GB MO drive, CD/DVD drives, LTO-1 and DDS4 drives.
I run Primegrid on (almost) all of my computers. It would be interesting to know, that my main PC (2x Opteron 270) uses ~100W less power if I shut down BOINC and the CPU clock reduces from 2GHz to 1GHz.
Why send a relay then send the signal to be repeated from the Earth to be bounced back? Video recorders were available in 1969 (or we wouldn't have the recordings of the landing), so they could just send a VTR and a transmitter.
Not that I believe they did.
Well, it has some truth in it, but:
While reinstalling Windows is fast, reinstalling all the applications and making all the configs is very slow. At least two weeks after the reinstall I still go "ow, crap, I don't have this program installed yet, now where did I put it a year ago...", while making a big list of all the software is helpful, usually the list is incomplete because I forgot about some app that I use. Configuring everything takes even more time.
So now I keep a backup of my system drive. If my system does not boot anymore, I'll just put the tape in and restore the system as it was just after I made some big changes nad made the backup.
BTW, does anyone know of a live-CD iSCSI target, it would be quite useful for restoring the backup?
And I do not turn off or restart any of my PCs unless the power goes out for a longer time than my UPS can handle, some hardware fails and I can't continue using the PC, some software that I installed needs a reboot and I need to use the software right now, the system freezes, gives a BSOD or generally becomes unable to continue to work.
When I reboot one of the PCs I also update Windows. I don't patch Windows regularly, only when I reboot the PC or there is a patch for a vulnerability that affects me (not all of them do).
Why would you need to trick the child to go anywhere? Just give him/her two nails and leave alone in a room with a 220V outlet.
Or, you know, you can disable it.
Control Panel ->Accesibility Options->Keyboard
Now go to settings of each of the three accessibility options and deselect "Use shortcut".
"slaptazodis" ?
Look, it also goes up to 11. Now if Slashdot supported Unicode, I could write the password using the letter U+017E
On the other hand, if I need a special symbol I can write it like "slapta=odis", it's the same, just with a different keyboard layout.
So,
WidgetsCo200907!@
You can change WidgetsCo to the name of your company, if it is too short, extend the line of special symbols, up to !@#$%^&*()_+
That's ok, but for these passwords to work OK, the password must be shown not as ******* but as regular text, otherwise I would make at least one typo per try.