You know what, I can pretty easily say that without a lot of expense, there's not really any real danger of your DNA's 'privacy' (whatever the fuck that is) being violated. Do you have any idea how much DNA analysis costs?
And if it is, if someone gets hold of your DNA? Well, DNA analysis is a resource hungry affair. Without prior knowledge of a reason to try, I can't see that any analysis would be done. It takes experienced people, and there is more than enough work examining DNA from crime scenes to keep them busy, without data mining random DNA as well.
I spent two years working on DNA analysis techniques, particularly with regard to the application of data mining (not for the kind of thing that would be a privacy issue). We, by which I mean the DNA analysis crowd, are a long way from anything which could be applied on a large enough scale to pose a genuine threat to someones 'DNA Privacy'.
Honestly, there are big enough problems to solve without wasting time on sensationalist bullshit like this.
oddly enough, repeatedly posting the same text in Idle just makes you look stupid.
You don't like? Don't read. Seriously, the interwebs are full of these things called 'websites', and you can 'browse' them any time you want by 'choosing' where you want to go. if you don't like them, don't go back.
The simple fact is, if she came out and said creationism was bullshit, she'd lose tens of thousands of votes. Actually, likely a lot more if she said it during the presidential election.
You *can't* be all out against it and get anywhere in the extreme conservatism of modern US politics.
It doesn't matter that pushing a version of how life arose which was discredited two centuries ago is insane for the US as a country.
Its all about the fact that if you say such things as 'Evolution is a proven fact, creationism is a philosophy with no basis in fact', you won't get anywhere in politics, at least not to a high level.
In reality this is all about pandering to the right wing christian voters.
Still, I didn't mean the RIAA's campaign was a success, I just meant the ambulance chaser types who profited from their stupidity would think of it as a successful event, much like your bear.
The campaign is a failure. This would have been money better spent on actual innovation on distributing music.
Actually, faliure or success depends on your viewpoint.
From the viewpoint of stopping piracy the failure is total. However, from the viewpoint of the companies hired to monitor and pollute p2p networks, its been a financial success, they've made many millions. Lawyers too, they've raked it in.
So failure is a matter of viewpoint. Hell, if I could have come up with some crackpot way to 'end piracy' I'd have sold it to them too and walked away richer, fully aware that all I sold them was snake oil.
Actually me too. My windows partition does seem to become fragmented extremely fast since I changed to using NTFS recently. It's a bit surprising to me that this happens so fast with NTFS, I didn't notice so much of a problem with Fat32.
I only changed to using NTFS because my new computer isn't duel booting Linux, so I'm progbably years behind most people. Certainly I don't really understand why it should happen.
Before anyone scoffs at me... I HAVE A GTX280!!!!! so there...
If people would just stop buying shit from spam emails, this wouldn't be a problem.
And if people stopped eating burgers, no-one would be fat. Alas you cannot stop large numbers of people doing things just because you think they're being stupid, the world doesn't work like that.
Its not that I'm scared. I too have used Vista, and found it to be ok, stability wise.
My problem is that it has a larger system resource overhead, one which in my opinion, is not justified by the small number of improvements it offers. I don't think it was well designed in that respect.
Since I have a real need to have the OS use less of the system then Vista manages, I can't use it. While XP is definitely getting a little long in the tooth, I've found that its faster and leaner than Vista, and that's a major consideration for me. Were Vista better designed I'd have it installed on my main computer already.
I'm a coder, and the class of software I develop is seriously processor and memory intensive, so my own needs are admittedly more stringent then a normal user, but still, Vista hasn't impressed me. I'm holding out for Windows 7, which I will be buying for better or for worse, because by then XP will be hopelessly outdated. I really hope its good.
lets all spin this as Windows is now the option nobody wants and see what happens.:)
Nobody wants? Lots of people want Windows. Surprising though it may be, outside of technically aware circles, there are many computer owners who don't even know Linux exists. Then even if they find out, how many shops sell Linux software on their shelves? Again, there are still lots of people who like to buy their goods in high street stores.
I'd buy the Windows version, put the backup media aside, then install Linux, in full knowledge that if I decide to I can change to Windows with ease.
I wouldn't want a machine without an option to install Windows on it if I want to, and that means getting the licence when I buy the machine.
But then I must be a freak, because I like Linux and Windows XP. Ok, not Vista, I'm a freak, but I'm not crazy.
Oh really? And what law gives you the right to vacations, pensions, sick pay, etc.
Minimum wage? That's a biggie. Health and safety in the workplace? The ability to sue your employer at all? These things didn't spring out of the ether fully formed. Unions got a lot of that, but we have them now
Its not my problem you let your country screw you out of a national health service, is it, it's yours, and you didn't get one when you had unions either, so again, not really an issue.
Anyway, if you're worth so little in the workplace that you can't get sick pay or holidays then you've messed up. Go back to school and become someone worth employing, not another faceless member of the low upkeep employee crowd.
Right now you can get a 500Gb external HD for £60. I've got quite a few now, which mainly get used for archiving and backups. the 1Tb raided ones are interesting, but too costly just now.
I stopped buying dvds for storage ages ago, and even writable blu ray can't beat a 500gb HD. I only have a 16gb flash drive for moving small amounts of data around. The external HDs I have solve all my data archiving and transfer problems.
Unions aren't a good idea any more. When they first started up, employee's had very few rights. Now the rights unions fought for are enshrined in law.
A union won't save your job, and to be frank, if you're job is at a high risk of being outsourced, or management is being retarded then you need to get a new job, because just as you have the 'right' to walk out in protest, an employee has the right to save their business by dropping you as an employee for any reason and going elsewhere.
Unfair dismissal doesn't work if you put their business at risk by striking, even if you have a union telling you to do it, not any more.
There is also the fact that employers need not employ anyone who is in a union. Join/form one if you like, but after the first time you 'punish' a company, I'd bet actual English pounds that none of your members will work in the IT industry again.
I was a member of a union when I was a teenager. The damn thing nearly fucked me by saying we had to go on strike. I didn't want to, I had rent and a bike to pay for, and the last thing I needed was no pay for a week, or even a few days.
Luckily the strike was averted because the management pretty much said 'sure, go ahead and leave, but you won't get the pay rise anyway, and you put your jobs at risk if the factory closes for long'. Seemed fair to me.
Realism isn't always the best way to convey the most emotion and impact, look at the finest paintings from the likes of Rembrandt, and its that impact that games companies should concentrate on rather than on yet another way to make a dull game look pretty.
The desire to turn an easy profit will win over the desire to make a better game for some companies after the first few companies start exploring a new area in visualisation methods.
Seen TF2? Awesome cartooning, quality abounds, its a whole new look for games of that type, and it works really well. Seen the new Battlefield? a cheap imitation, graphics wise which looks unpolished (Well, awful in comparison to TF2), but close enough to make people think it's breaking new ground too..
I agree. I really wanted to play Bioshock, but the DRM prevented me from making the purchase. I was gutted when I learned of the DRM they'd employed, because I enjoyed system shock, and I was really keen to play its successor.
If they relent and release a patch that kills the DRM, or someone releases a crack that kills it, then I'll buy the game in a hot second. If not then forget it, I don't want that secureRom crap on my computer as a 'reward' for paying for the game.
They also found that geeks tended to possess just half of this gene, which researchers postulate may explain their lack of ability to get a girlfriend.
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OMG DNA!!!!!11111one
You know what, I can pretty easily say that without a lot of expense, there's not really any real danger of your DNA's 'privacy' (whatever the fuck that is) being violated. Do you have any idea how much DNA analysis costs?
And if it is, if someone gets hold of your DNA? Well, DNA analysis is a resource hungry affair. Without prior knowledge of a reason to try, I can't see that any analysis would be done. It takes experienced people, and there is more than enough work examining DNA from crime scenes to keep them busy, without data mining random DNA as well.
I spent two years working on DNA analysis techniques, particularly with regard to the application of data mining (not for the kind of thing that would be a privacy issue). We, by which I mean the DNA analysis crowd, are a long way from anything which could be applied on a large enough scale to pose a genuine threat to someones 'DNA Privacy'.
Honestly, there are big enough problems to solve without wasting time on sensationalist bullshit like this.
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oddly enough, repeatedly posting the same text in Idle just makes you look stupid.
You don't like? Don't read. Seriously, the interwebs are full of these things called 'websites', and you can 'browse' them any time you want by 'choosing' where you want to go. if you don't like them, don't go back.
There, solved your little problem.
The simple fact is, if she came out and said creationism was bullshit, she'd lose tens of thousands of votes. Actually, likely a lot more if she said it during the presidential election.
You *can't* be all out against it and get anywhere in the extreme conservatism of modern US politics.
It doesn't matter that pushing a version of how life arose which was discredited two centuries ago is insane for the US as a country.
Its all about the fact that if you say such things as 'Evolution is a proven fact, creationism is a philosophy with no basis in fact', you won't get anywhere in politics, at least not to a high level.
In reality this is all about pandering to the right wing christian voters.
nice example :)
Still, I didn't mean the RIAA's campaign was a success, I just meant the ambulance chaser types who profited from their stupidity would think of it as a successful event, much like your bear.
The campaign is a failure. This would have been money better spent on actual innovation on distributing music.
Actually, faliure or success depends on your viewpoint.
From the viewpoint of stopping piracy the failure is total. However, from the viewpoint of the companies hired to monitor and pollute p2p networks, its been a financial success, they've made many millions. Lawyers too, they've raked it in.
So failure is a matter of viewpoint. Hell, if I could have come up with some crackpot way to 'end piracy' I'd have sold it to them too and walked away richer, fully aware that all I sold them was snake oil.
Useful information, thanks, I shall check that program out.
Actually me too.
My windows partition does seem to become fragmented extremely fast since I changed to using NTFS recently. It's a bit surprising to me that this happens so fast with NTFS, I didn't notice so much of a problem with Fat32.
I only changed to using NTFS because my new computer isn't duel booting Linux, so I'm progbably years behind most people. Certainly I don't really understand why it should happen.
Before anyone scoffs at me... I HAVE A GTX280!!!!! so there...
I guess it must have been the 2006 election I meant then, I didn't recall the date, just someone fuming about it on the news.
uh, didn't you only have a 30% turnout at the last election?
Something pretty darned low anyway, so a lot of people already are.
Same things happening in the UK though, the elected leaders are voted in by an ever decreasing number of actual voters.
If people would just stop buying shit from spam emails, this wouldn't be a problem.
And if people stopped eating burgers, no-one would be fat. Alas you cannot stop large numbers of people doing things just because you think they're being stupid, the world doesn't work like that.
Et uniformes rouges interessants
Its not that I'm scared. I too have used Vista, and found it to be ok, stability wise.
My problem is that it has a larger system resource overhead, one which in my opinion, is not justified by the small number of improvements it offers. I don't think it was well designed in that respect.
Since I have a real need to have the OS use less of the system then Vista manages, I can't use it. While XP is definitely getting a little long in the tooth, I've found that its faster and leaner than Vista, and that's a major consideration for me. Were Vista better designed I'd have it installed on my main computer already.
I'm a coder, and the class of software I develop is seriously processor and memory intensive, so my own needs are admittedly more stringent then a normal user, but still, Vista hasn't impressed me. I'm holding out for Windows 7, which I will be buying for better or for worse, because by then XP will be hopelessly outdated. I really hope its good.
lets all spin this as Windows is now the option nobody wants and see what happens. :)
Nobody wants? Lots of people want Windows. Surprising though it may be, outside of technically aware circles, there are many computer owners who don't even know Linux exists. Then even if they find out, how many shops sell Linux software on their shelves? Again, there are still lots of people who like to buy their goods in high street stores.
I'd buy the Windows version, put the backup media aside, then install Linux, in full knowledge that if I decide to I can change to Windows with ease.
I wouldn't want a machine without an option to install Windows on it if I want to, and that means getting the licence when I buy the machine.
But then I must be a freak, because I like Linux and Windows XP. Ok, not Vista, I'm a freak, but I'm not crazy.
Ok, so they told him to revise his story to make them seem nicer or get the boot?
Methinks this is likely.
I don't think Tennis is to the sort of thing you'd use telepresence for..
Remember the trail they did with students where you could make the recipients phone vibrate when you squeezed yours?
It, ah, wasn't used in the way they expected.
How the heck would a sysadmin strike work, anyway?
You think Dilbert reads itself? It'd hurt buddy :)
It wouldn't work would it, they'd get an agency in asap, and when you came back there would be a box of your stuff in the hedge outside.
Oh really? And what law gives you the right to vacations, pensions, sick pay, etc.
Minimum wage? That's a biggie. Health and safety in the workplace? The ability to sue your employer at all? These things didn't spring out of the ether fully formed. Unions got a lot of that, but we have them now
Its not my problem you let your country screw you out of a national health service, is it, it's yours, and you didn't get one when you had unions either, so again, not really an issue.
Anyway, if you're worth so little in the workplace that you can't get sick pay or holidays then you've messed up. Go back to school and become someone worth employing, not another faceless member of the low upkeep employee crowd.
Right now you can get a 500Gb external HD for £60. I've got quite a few now, which mainly get used for archiving and backups. the 1Tb raided ones are interesting, but too costly just now.
I stopped buying dvds for storage ages ago, and even writable blu ray can't beat a 500gb HD. I only have a 16gb flash drive for moving small amounts of data around. The external HDs I have solve all my data archiving and transfer problems.
Unions aren't a good idea any more. When they first started up, employee's had very few rights. Now the rights unions fought for are enshrined in law.
A union won't save your job, and to be frank, if you're job is at a high risk of being outsourced, or management is being retarded then you need to get a new job, because just as you have the 'right' to walk out in protest, an employee has the right to save their business by dropping you as an employee for any reason and going elsewhere.
Unfair dismissal doesn't work if you put their business at risk by striking, even if you have a union telling you to do it, not any more.
There is also the fact that employers need not employ anyone who is in a union. Join/form one if you like, but after the first time you 'punish' a company, I'd bet actual English pounds that none of your members will work in the IT industry again.
I was a member of a union when I was a teenager. The damn thing nearly fucked me by saying we had to go on strike. I didn't want to, I had rent and a bike to pay for, and the last thing I needed was no pay for a week, or even a few days.
Luckily the strike was averted because the management pretty much said 'sure, go ahead and leave, but you won't get the pay rise anyway, and you put your jobs at risk if the factory closes for long'. Seemed fair to me.
Realism isn't always the best way to convey the most emotion and impact, look at the finest paintings from the likes of Rembrandt, and its that impact that games companies should concentrate on rather than on yet another way to make a dull game look pretty.
The desire to turn an easy profit will win over the desire to make a better game for some companies after the first few companies start exploring a new area in visualisation methods.
Seen TF2? Awesome cartooning, quality abounds, its a whole new look for games of that type, and it works really well. Seen the new Battlefield? a cheap imitation, graphics wise which looks unpolished (Well, awful in comparison to TF2), but close enough to make people think it's breaking new ground too..
I agree. I really wanted to play Bioshock, but the DRM prevented me from making the purchase. I was gutted when I learned of the DRM they'd employed, because I enjoyed system shock, and I was really keen to play its successor.
If they relent and release a patch that kills the DRM, or someone releases a crack that kills it, then I'll buy the game in a hot second. If not then forget it, I don't want that secureRom crap on my computer as a 'reward' for paying for the game.
If the US wants another country to cut their pollution, then it has to deal with its own.
It has refused to sign up to a commitment to reduce its own pollution, yet would like others to do so.
Ok, the US may not be the worst offender, but still 'do as I say not as I do' is hardly a philosophy fit for the world stage.
In the early 60's we got birth control pills, which (some say) facilitated women being promiscuous. Now, we have 'husband control pills'
What happens if we miss a day? Do we take two then next and use alternate husband control methods.
Well to be safe you'd need to avoid monogamy for at least a month after missing a pill...
They also found that geeks tended to possess just half of this gene, which researchers postulate may explain their lack of ability to get a girlfriend.