If rulers are too dangerous for these guys, just stop for a moment and think about how dangerous a keyboard or a mouse could be. It could never happen.
Incidentally, we have light-activated ion channels that can do both. Channelrhodopsin causes a signal to be sent (depolarisation). Halorhodopsin, which was isolated from an archaean, causes hyperpolarisation and can prevent signalling. The great thing is that their activation wavelengths are different enough that you can use them in the same cell with different lights to control them.
As someone who has worked with both channelrhodopsin and halorhodopsin in optogenetics, I assure you that you're quite mistaken. The decision to direct blood flow towards the male genitalia is ultimately processed by muscles that restrict blood flow to the penis when they are contracted. Adding halorhodopsin to these muscle cells, which causes hyperpolarisation and blocks action potentials from having an effect, would indeed permit a light-inducible erection.
This may or may not delight you—no where in TFA does it say what kind of CPU is used; the only product mentioned directly is VMS. Combined with the whole "space race" thing, submitter is full of shit.
Most supercomputer applications are written in either Fortran, C, or C++. The reason Fortran sticks around so much is that it's firmly entrenched in the scientific computing community. Moreover, it has also been studied extensively as a model language in Computer Science, and so its behaviours are well-understood, which is particularly important when being parallelised across huge numbers of CPUs.
Wow. Is there someone out there who devotes their life to modding down the first post on a given thread, no matter its content? Man, now I don't feel so bad about being slow to catch new stories.
The idea behind this is that pharmaceutical studies are difficult and expensive to perform, so they rarely get challenged for some time, and when they do, the challengers are more often in more obscure journals: so when people go to cite statistics and findings, they don't notice the fact that what they're quoting has been invalidated. Climate change has been studied over and over again and subjected to extensive analysis by many minds for many years, particularly because so many people have questioned it. To suggest what you are saying now is a little behind the times.
That's a little silly. These allocations were made in the 70s and 80s, before the Internet really existed outside of the US. At the time, the recipients of the addresses were those who were most likely to use them. No hoarding is going on.
It always shows up in these articles, once every few blue moons, marching in and trying to sound perfectly standard and common. With very few exceptions, a general Google search suggests that it only shows up in news articles and dictionaries. Does everything really have to be a buzzword, guys?
I believe this came up once when someone asked a Blizz person in an interview why they didn't have stat points in WoW. The answer was that the average player apparently has an outrageous tendency to nerf his/her character when allowed such fine control. Perhaps you shall find some quantum of solace in the notion that your suffering might be an extension thereof.
So does that make the victims of such scammers cybernetically carrion? As in "brain-dead"? Because that makes way more sense in the face of such a silly buzzword.
This is probably actually a move to advance that agenda--Apple's paranoia about its software running on generic hardware actually extends to any representation of its interface running on generic hardware. There have been about a dozen Windows dock applications under various names, many of which have gotten cease-and-desist orders. Aqua-Soft has been something of a hub for this kind of stuff in the past, and their various policies and histories are very prominent indirect evidence of exactly what the landscape looks like. (They used to host things more directly, if I recall.)
I wonder if StarDock will come under fire for ObjectDock.
But alas, many publications, especially more pedestrian ones, often simply cite a person as a Nobel Laureate. As a result, the reality you describe is not necessarily evident to the general public, who will sometimes ask "wait, why do physicists like Einstein so much if he started being wrong when he got older?" in incomprehension, and under the assumption that everything has to be absolute.
1. Wants to sell DRM to other companies (to make piracy "harder")
2. If BitTorrent is outlawed, only outlaws will have BitTorrent. Distributing distros just became a whole lot harder.
3. Think they'll have a market share in the online music biz against iTunes if no one can pirate. (It's not antitrusty to weld it to your web browser if Apple has a larger market share!)
In fact, the only people who lose by this are... the ones with souls!
I imagine that this is akin to video game reviewers getting DSes and PSPs with the video game to review: it's just swag. And bribery. And you don't have to wipe a good machine to try it out.
I have trouble believing that Microsoft would deliberately submit themselves to a joke so transparent that half of the Slashdot comments are about it. They worry about that sort of thing. Why, I bet Ballmer is reading this thread and throwing chairs around right now!
Isn't that sort of like saying "Does anyone actually stick their face in a blender? I prefer to jump in front of a propeller plane just before it takes off."?
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If rulers are too dangerous for these guys, just stop for a moment and think about how dangerous a keyboard or a mouse could be. It could never happen.
Incidentally, we have light-activated ion channels that can do both. Channelrhodopsin causes a signal to be sent (depolarisation). Halorhodopsin, which was isolated from an archaean, causes hyperpolarisation and can prevent signalling. The great thing is that their activation wavelengths are different enough that you can use them in the same cell with different lights to control them.
As someone who has worked with both channelrhodopsin and halorhodopsin in optogenetics, I assure you that you're quite mistaken. The decision to direct blood flow towards the male genitalia is ultimately processed by muscles that restrict blood flow to the penis when they are contracted. Adding halorhodopsin to these muscle cells, which causes hyperpolarisation and blocks action potentials from having an effect, would indeed permit a light-inducible erection.
Only on Slashdot do you find such answers.
IPv6 still has NAT, dude. This just means we get to use it when we want it, instead of being forced into using it due to address shortages.
This may or may not delight you—no where in TFA does it say what kind of CPU is used; the only product mentioned directly is VMS. Combined with the whole "space race" thing, submitter is full of shit.
Most supercomputer applications are written in either Fortran, C, or C++. The reason Fortran sticks around so much is that it's firmly entrenched in the scientific computing community. Moreover, it has also been studied extensively as a model language in Computer Science, and so its behaviours are well-understood, which is particularly important when being parallelised across huge numbers of CPUs.
They'd stop it, but the source of these articles is actually an old script written in TECO, and no one is sure how to read it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galaxies
You may be more behind than you think!
And look what happened? Netcraft is already half way to confirming the demise of alt.binaries!
Wow. Is there someone out there who devotes their life to modding down the first post on a given thread, no matter its content? Man, now I don't feel so bad about being slow to catch new stories.
The idea behind this is that pharmaceutical studies are difficult and expensive to perform, so they rarely get challenged for some time, and when they do, the challengers are more often in more obscure journals: so when people go to cite statistics and findings, they don't notice the fact that what they're quoting has been invalidated. Climate change has been studied over and over again and subjected to extensive analysis by many minds for many years, particularly because so many people have questioned it. To suggest what you are saying now is a little behind the times.
RTFA, friend. RTFA. Indeed, that's the whole topic of the article.
That's a little silly. These allocations were made in the 70s and 80s, before the Internet really existed outside of the US. At the time, the recipients of the addresses were those who were most likely to use them. No hoarding is going on.
Somewhere, there is a conspiracy of marketers and reporters who spend their time digging painfully obscure slang terms out of dictionaries.
I mean, look at it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aslashdot.org+brouhaha
It always shows up in these articles, once every few blue moons, marching in and trying to sound perfectly standard and common. With very few exceptions, a general Google search suggests that it only shows up in news articles and dictionaries. Does everything really have to be a buzzword, guys?
I believe this came up once when someone asked a Blizz person in an interview why they didn't have stat points in WoW. The answer was that the average player apparently has an outrageous tendency to nerf his/her character when allowed such fine control. Perhaps you shall find some quantum of solace in the notion that your suffering might be an extension thereof.
So does that make the victims of such scammers cybernetically carrion? As in "brain-dead"? Because that makes way more sense in the face of such a silly buzzword.
This is probably actually a move to advance that agenda--Apple's paranoia about its software running on generic hardware actually extends to any representation of its interface running on generic hardware. There have been about a dozen Windows dock applications under various names, many of which have gotten cease-and-desist orders. Aqua-Soft has been something of a hub for this kind of stuff in the past, and their various policies and histories are very prominent indirect evidence of exactly what the landscape looks like. (They used to host things more directly, if I recall.)
I wonder if StarDock will come under fire for ObjectDock.
But alas, many publications, especially more pedestrian ones, often simply cite a person as a Nobel Laureate. As a result, the reality you describe is not necessarily evident to the general public, who will sometimes ask "wait, why do physicists like Einstein so much if he started being wrong when he got older?" in incomprehension, and under the assumption that everything has to be absolute.
Maybe that produces a disappointingly small market, no? Keep in mind that WoW doesn't exactly have a small consumer base.
Critical reception of the Reg? It's about time. Good work, submitter.
Just maybe? Had anyone other than the submitter and TFAuthor not heard of this?
The benefits to Microsoft are manifold:
1. Wants to sell DRM to other companies (to make piracy "harder")
2. If BitTorrent is outlawed, only outlaws will have BitTorrent. Distributing distros just became a whole lot harder.
3. Think they'll have a market share in the online music biz against iTunes if no one can pirate. (It's not antitrusty to weld it to your web browser if Apple has a larger market share!)
In fact, the only people who lose by this are... the ones with souls!
I imagine that this is akin to video game reviewers getting DSes and PSPs with the video game to review: it's just swag. And bribery. And you don't have to wipe a good machine to try it out.
I have trouble believing that Microsoft would deliberately submit themselves to a joke so transparent that half of the Slashdot comments are about it. They worry about that sort of thing. Why, I bet Ballmer is reading this thread and throwing chairs around right now!
Isn't that sort of like saying "Does anyone actually stick their face in a blender? I prefer to jump in front of a propeller plane just before it takes off."?
That's maybe a little bit nuts. I would say that the blame lies with NetBIOS and timeouts inappropriately high in SMB.