For driving to work-and-back that's all a person really needs.
What that person really needs is a good public transportation system, and mostly everybody using it. Using a car for a single passenger should be considered an environmental blasphemy.
These evolved bacteria would need to expend great amounts of energy just to survive the hydroxil radicals. That energy wouldn't be available for fighting other chemicals, nor for reproduction. What's more, they are ditching -so to speak- their proven membrane design, and the new one can't be that effective.
In "The door into summer" (1957) Heinlein wrote what I think is the first literary description of a CAD system, plus plotter. Had many details wrong (i.e. using keystrokes instead of a pointing device) and his description of the device's electronics is totally crap, but he had some great insights, imho.
The next step would be to apply some "intelligent design" to these bugs, by gradually changing their environment and choosing the 'best' mutations. Sure, it's lots of work, but it beats having to devour the planet yourself;-).
I'm not worried, though. If this little friend hasn't destroyed the biosphere already, nothing will.
... this book reminds me of Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" ("Das Glasperlenpiel"), an incredibly good book, IMHO. Also with lots of philosophy and deep thought.
Or you could be beaten (i.e. with some rubber tubing and/or wet towels)while you are desperately trying to exercise your willpower and brains, and suffer the drowning response anyway. As long as they don't leave any marks, it isn't 'torture'!.
...Are you saying it all evens out? That the folks who have ended up with the short end of the stick in modern times deserve it...
^^^^STRAWMAN ARGUMENT WARNING!!!^^^^
No. What I'm saying is that it is worse than useless, suing someone for something some other people did seven fucking hundred years ago. That there is no fucking way whatsoever to amend anything that way, except if you equal 'amending' with 'make several lawyers rich' and 'spending lots of public money'. As a Cantabrian, I could be suing the City of Rome for genocide. Only problem is, I should also sue myself, 'cause some of my ancestors came from Rome. If you start suing everybody for any historical wrong, you'll probably end up having to sue yourself.
Following these guys twisted logic, tomorrow I could name myself a 'Druid' and sue everybody and their brother, including the Catholic Church and most EU countries.
It simply doesn't add up.
Having said this, I would consider a reasonable complaint one with less than a century or a century and a half, as long as the case is perfectly documented, and the plaintiffs can prove their relationship with the events.
...However the natice south americans may have a good case against the Spanish for stripping the land of every valuable resource...
And while they are at it, they could start suing each other for the countless wars, genocides, human sacrifices and an endless stream of crimes mostly every tribe committed against their neighbors. And every human in the world should do the same, as most of our ancestors, at some point in History, where a bunch of bloodthirsty bastards. I'm suing myself first thing tomorrow morning. Rejoice!
I could imagine the Chinese Government planting several backdoors in the specification and/or the apps, as to make easier for them to get any data they want. Not that it's the first time this has been done!;-)
On a side note: Some of you may be wondering why I'm rated as a troll. What I know is, I wrote a perfectly innocent answer in a thread, left on holidays the next week, an when I came back I found myself karma bombed into oblivion. I guess it's another good example of people playing 'Ender's Game'-esque games (:-) In the Internets.
Rejoice!
Sig under construction. Sorry for the inconvenience.
"Burke noted than Intellipedia includes instructions from a 1944 CIA field manual for sabotaging companies. The manual suggests that agents encourage companies to use channels to make decisions, and when possible refer matters to committees for further study and consideration. Companies will face further strife when spies within encourage haggling over the precise wording of communications."
...and contains both literal meaning and parables... In other words: you don't think that the Bible is the literal word of God and should be followed literally.
"Our solutions have been adopted as practical, proven methods to thwart Internet piracy and to drive consumers to pay for digitized content distributed through authorized channels" This, fresh from MediaDefender's own homepage. Racketeering? protection money? WTF?
For R3's sake; with a highly accusational public post and the feds involved, I sure hope that MediaDefender's fake torrents were the only 'unauthorized' ones ever hosted by R3's tracker. Sir, thats the most baseless post I've read in/. in, say, several hours. Do you think the feds are going to prosecute R3 for having a backdoor? That would cost MediaDefender zillions in bribes!!!
I guess that as this 'TPM' trend increases, also will increase the pressure upon mainboard makers AND game developers to NOT include this technology in their products. No mainboard maker wants to make products that mystify the geek comunity, 'cause you know, geeks are the people that usually tell other consumers what to buy. Eventually this will translate into game developers -for similar reasons- not wanting anything to do with said TPM.
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For driving to work-and-back that's all a person really needs.
What that person really needs is a good public transportation system, and mostly everybody using it. Using a car for a single passenger should be considered an environmental blasphemy.
These evolved bacteria would need to expend great amounts of energy just to survive the hydroxil radicals. That energy wouldn't be available for fighting other chemicals, nor for reproduction. What's more, they are ditching -so to speak- their proven membrane design, and the new one can't be that effective.
My fault. Allow me to rephrase my statement. It should have read: "using keystrokes and no ponting device"
In "The door into summer" (1957) Heinlein wrote what I think is the first literary description of a CAD system, plus plotter. Had many details wrong (i.e. using keystrokes instead of a pointing device) and his description of the device's electronics is totally crap, but he had some great insights, imho.
I'm not worried, though. If this little friend hasn't destroyed the biosphere already, nothing will.
Remember, raptors run at 10 m/s and they do not know fear.
- XKCD
So, Chuck Norris is a raptor, right?
... this book reminds me of Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" ("Das Glasperlenpiel"), an incredibly good book, IMHO. Also with lots of philosophy and deep thought.
I had a wife while having a fantasy. Schoolgirl outfits aren't really necessary!
Or you could be beaten (i.e. with some rubber tubing and/or wet towels)while you are desperately trying to exercise your willpower and brains, and suffer the drowning response anyway. As long as they don't leave any marks, it isn't 'torture'!.
Is "last night in moms basement" code for something insectuous?
Yeah, the basement could be full of insects!:-)
So if I'm building a database about materials, I ought to make the crystallynessosity field a float, instead of a boolean?
Mmmmhhhh! Lots of recursive function calls! Sweet!
...Are you saying it all evens out? That the folks who have ended up with the short end of the stick in modern times deserve it...
^^^^STRAWMAN ARGUMENT WARNING!!!^^^^
No. What I'm saying is that it is worse than useless, suing someone for something some other people did seven fucking hundred years ago. That there is no fucking way whatsoever to amend anything that way, except if you equal 'amending' with 'make several lawyers rich' and 'spending lots of public money'. As a Cantabrian, I could be suing the City of Rome for genocide. Only problem is, I should also sue myself, 'cause some of my ancestors came from Rome. If you start suing everybody for any historical wrong, you'll probably end up having to sue yourself.
Following these guys twisted logic, tomorrow I could name myself a 'Druid' and sue everybody and their brother, including the Catholic Church and most EU countries.
It simply doesn't add up.
Having said this, I would consider a reasonable complaint one with less than a century or a century and a half, as long as the case is perfectly documented, and the plaintiffs can prove their relationship with the events.
...However the natice south americans may have a good case against the Spanish for stripping the land of every valuable resource...
And while they are at it, they could start suing each other for the countless wars, genocides, human sacrifices and an endless stream of crimes mostly every tribe committed against their neighbors. And every human in the world should do the same, as most of our ancestors, at some point in History, where a bunch of bloodthirsty bastards.
I'm suing myself first thing tomorrow morning.
Rejoice!
I could imagine the Chinese Government planting several backdoors in the specification and/or the apps, as to make easier for them to get any data they want. ;-)
Not that it's the first time this has been done!
On a side note:
Some of you may be wondering why I'm rated as a troll. What I know is, I wrote a perfectly innocent answer in a thread, left on holidays the next week, an when I came back I found myself karma bombed into oblivion. I guess it's another good example of people playing 'Ender's Game'-esque games (:-) In the Internets.
Rejoice!
Sig under construction. Sorry for the inconvenience.
My guess is it's mostly a private joke. About people playing 'Ender's Game' in the Internets.
Sig under construction. Sorry for the inconvenience.
"Burke noted than Intellipedia includes instructions from a 1944 CIA field manual for sabotaging companies. The manual suggests that agents encourage companies to use channels to make decisions, and when possible refer matters to committees for further study and consideration. Companies will face further strife when spies within encourage haggling over the precise wording of communications."
My god! They are all spies!
I'm always thinking of them. MUHAHAHAHAHAAA
I'm a spanish Inquisitor, you insensitive clod!
...and contains both literal meaning and parables... In other words: you don't think that the Bible is the literal word of God and should be followed literally.Racketeering? protection money? WTF?
Rejoice!
I have a catamaran, you insensitive clods!
I guess that as this 'TPM' trend increases, also will increase the pressure upon mainboard makers AND game developers to NOT include this technology in their products. No mainboard maker wants to make products that mystify the geek comunity, 'cause you know, geeks are the people that usually tell other consumers what to buy. Eventually this will translate into game developers -for similar reasons- not wanting anything to do with said TPM.
Rejoice!
There's not enough room. We must prioritize!
Rejoice!