I've heard about the mutant ninja teenage turtle thing (japanese comic strip thing, right ?) I can't say I've ever watched/read it, and I don't really get the reference to MichaelAngelo. Still, you're right about the mixup in names. I tend to do that - I knew who I meant, if not what I said:-(
It has to be said that Mac's haven't been famous for their speed, always pushing the "it does more", or "there are 2 procs" arguments, but this gives them some serious ammunition. Perhaps they'll even get their advert on the air in the UK now:-)
His crypto work during the war was massively significant in winning the battle of the Atlantic, his ideas on programming, AI, neural networks, and the more-public "turing test" were breathtaking and groundbreaking. Less well known is his theory of non-linear biology, and some exceptional papers in physics. A modern version of the renaissance scientist, the michaelangelo of his day.
The hounding of him (because he was gay), arrest, loss of clearance, and subsequent suicide by cyanide in '54 was a shameful treatment of one of the most brilliant men in science this century.
I remember going to Java One years ago (4 years maybe) where every attendee got a Java Ring - it's a Java processor that's embedded into a ( signature-type ring)
Basically, everyone's coffee preferences were stored on a central database, and to get the coffee you liked, you just touched the ring to the receptor. These days you'd use bluetooth I guess.
The ring idea was quite cute though - it was powered by the receptor, with the binary communications channel being rectified internally to produce power as well as transmit information. Ok, so you couldn't do that with bluetooth, it'd have to be always on, but there's probably still something you could do...
If it comes bundled, you don't need a standard installer do you ? You need a "recovery CD". You can ship the installer of whichever distribution you use for 'advanced users'...
Standard packages - see above. You're in control. You're dictating the packages they install. Chances are you'll use apt_get or yum or whatever to prevent rpm problems anyway, though.
Can't say I've had any printer problems in years. I tend to use HP printers though, and they just plug in and go for me ?
USB mouse & keyboard are the same, graphics cards the same, even monitors are detected fine for me. It even got the dual-display option on my video card. Windows doesn't...
If you ship a Linux distribution as a major supplier, you ship it ready to run the applications people want to run. That means you qualify the distribution. Big companies are pretty good about QA...
Personally I don't give a crap about Notes, Openoffice is fine for me. Your mileage may vary, as it does with Windows.
... from a Linux desktop is bundling by a major distributor. People use apps. Apps are available for Linux. Worst case (possibly apart from games) you can use crossover or wine...
Simon. (Who's been using Linux on the desktop for the last 3 years...)
The adage "one (wo)man, one vote" is one of the founding principle of any democracy. Similarly "No person, be (s)he so great or so small shall count any more or less than any other."
With such powerful statements as the above, how can the reliability of the voting system be allowed to be suspect. I can't think of anything more demoralising to a voter than the thought that the "system" might just lose that person's vote. Or make it up. Or get it wrong. Or...
You need to have a faith that "the system" works, in order to work within the system. Take a look around the world where it's failed...
With that in mind, then how can anyone who draws attention to a flaw in "the system" be villified ? Only by those with a vested interest (be that they are then open to charges of incompetence, that the system favours them, whatever) in the status quo.
I say "For shame". And I direct it not at those exposing flaws. I don't care, by the way, whether it's an electronic system or a manual one - it's the principle here that counts.
So, you can get a 300 MB drive, put it on a 17cm (7.5":-) board and get something about half the volume of the "cube" for almost certainly less cost. And it still runs Linux, and it has all those 386 RPM's that you can install.
If you really must have a cube form-factor, there are cuboid cases around the same size at www.mini-itx.com
I'm getting loads more hits than usual just because of the abuse in the URL:-)) Ok, so I've had to spend time and effort tidying it up so I'm "not an idiot" but hell, don't knock it, it worked!
Would you by any chance drop me a line ? I'd be interested to know what it is that's causing the problem, and I could give you a url to click on that'll give me all the debugging info I should need.
I suspect you're behind a proxy or firewall, and the script can't parse the IP address information:(
I didn't say there were no benefits. I said "I don't think the benefits outweigh the potential problems".
I have no problem with sick people getting better, none at all.
I didn't discount the research ("fantastic academic acheivement"), and I have just as much right to my *opinion* as anyone else does to theirs, that's what the post was about.
My cousin died of cancer last year, we were very close. She was diagnosed and dead from a brain tumour in 4 days. I know something of the grief that cancer can bring. I can fully understand that cancer patients would love a cure, but we were talking about ethics, not individuals.
Nothing in what you said (apart from wrongfully accusing me of seeing no benefit) addresses what I wrote. I don't think the risk is worth the reward. Hey, I've been wrong before, and I will be again, I'd love to be wrong this time too.
That said, since we're talking about bio-engineering something designed to attack human cells (of a particular type, and I take on-board what another poster said about different gene expressions on the cell membrane), and that the mutation rate of virii in the wild is pretty high, and that we'll be making them by the billion then injecting them into an uncontrolled and uncontrollable environment (someone's body), I think there's room for a shed-load of caution. And that may not be sufficient.
There's just so much that can go wrong. Catastrophically (used technically) wrong.
There is a very very small difference between a cancerous cell and a normal cell. They're identical except the cancerous one keeps on dividing. Just how much did you want that cancer-eating virus ? Given how often virii mutate ?
I still don't really think the benefits (gene expression research, gene therapy in general) are good enough, considering the potential problems.
I'd like to know who's funding them. Is it civilian or military?
As if there weren't enough virii on the planet already, we have to go making more. Fantastic academic achievement, but wish they hadn't done it. A bit like a nuclear bomb, in its own way...
to see that there are occasions where companies don't automatically run the rule over individuals. Granted, this is Linus, and the companies involved have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, but it's still refreshing to see:-)
And, of course, it's less leg for SCO to stand on (I'm guessing they'd have to have been a millipede at this rate:-). BAD sco, BAD sco...
... Which is why I said 'have the ability to' as well as 'have the incentive to'...
The ISP's don't own enough of the problem to make a difference to it - they have to rely on others. They are not in control and cannot solve the problem....
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I've heard about the mutant ninja teenage turtle thing (japanese comic strip thing, right ?) I can't say I've ever watched/read it, and I don't really get the reference to MichaelAngelo. Still, you're right about the mixup in names. I tend to do that - I knew who I meant, if not what I said :-(
Simon.
Hard drives ? Backup your machine by dumping an external box somewhere close to your machine. Auto sync. Auto-run-backup...
Simon
It has to be said that Mac's haven't been famous for their speed, always pushing the "it does more", or "there are 2 procs" arguments, but this gives them some serious ammunition. Perhaps they'll even get their advert on the air in the UK now :-)
Simon
Got me :-)
Ok - revised: "in the last 100 years"...
ATB,
Simon
Alan Turing was a genius, pure and simple.
His crypto work during the war was massively significant in winning the battle of the Atlantic, his ideas on programming, AI, neural networks, and the more-public "turing test" were breathtaking and groundbreaking. Less well known is his theory of non-linear biology, and some exceptional papers in physics. A modern version of the renaissance scientist, the michaelangelo of his day.
The hounding of him (because he was gay), arrest, loss of clearance, and subsequent suicide by cyanide in '54 was a shameful treatment of one of the most brilliant men in science this century.
Simon.
I remember going to Java One years ago (4 years maybe) where every attendee got a Java Ring - it's a Java processor that's embedded into a ( signature-type ring)
Basically, everyone's coffee preferences were stored on a central database, and to get the coffee you liked, you just touched the ring to the receptor. These days you'd use bluetooth I guess.
The ring idea was quite cute though - it was powered by the receptor, with the binary communications channel being rectified internally to produce power as well as transmit information. Ok, so you couldn't do that with bluetooth, it'd have to be always on, but there's probably still something you could do...
Simon
A scooter that looks and rides like a real motorbike :-)
:-)
:-)))
DNA's are fantastic
Simon.
Escaping the tyranny of London Underground
Cheers :-)
Simon
If it comes bundled, you don't need a standard installer do you ? You need a "recovery CD". You can ship the installer of whichever distribution you use for 'advanced users'...
Standard packages - see above. You're in control. You're dictating the packages they install. Chances are you'll use apt_get or yum or whatever to prevent rpm problems anyway, though.
Can't say I've had any printer problems in years. I tend to use HP printers though, and they just plug in and go for me ?
USB mouse & keyboard are the same, graphics cards the same, even monitors are detected fine for me. It even got the dual-display option on my video card. Windows doesn't...
Simon.
Domino ... use the web interface and you're done.
Or: (ignoring the 'show me the solution but don't use X' - Sheesh! Software works or not!)
Lotus notes, Excel, Visio
If you ship a Linux distribution as a major supplier, you ship it ready to run the applications people want to run. That means you qualify the distribution. Big companies are pretty good about QA...
Personally I don't give a crap about Notes, Openoffice is fine for me. Your mileage may vary, as it does with Windows.
Simon.
... from a Linux desktop is bundling by a major distributor. People use apps. Apps are available for Linux. Worst case (possibly apart from games) you can use crossover or wine...
Simon.
(Who's been using Linux on the desktop for the last 3 years...)
The adage "one (wo)man, one vote" is one of the founding principle of any democracy. Similarly "No person, be (s)he so great or so small shall count any more or less than any other."
...
With such powerful statements as the above, how can the reliability of the voting system be allowed to be suspect. I can't think of anything more demoralising to a voter than the thought that the "system" might just lose that person's vote. Or make it up. Or get it wrong. Or
You need to have a faith that "the system" works, in order to work within the system. Take a look around the world where it's failed...
With that in mind, then how can anyone who draws attention to a flaw in "the system" be villified ? Only by those with a vested interest (be that they are then open to charges of incompetence, that the system favours them, whatever) in the status quo.
I say "For shame". And I direct it not at those exposing flaws. I don't care, by the way, whether it's an electronic system or a manual one - it's the principle here that counts.
Simon.
So, you can get a 300 MB drive, put it on a 17cm (7.5" :-) board and get something about half the volume of the "cube" for almost certainly less cost. And it still runs Linux, and it has all those 386 RPM's that you can install.
If you really must have a cube form-factor, there are cuboid cases around the same size at www.mini-itx.com
Simon
How is it that adults can never seem to remember just how elusive they were themselves, as children
Here's a hint to the parents - they'll leave it at home if it gets them into trouble
Simon
Fantastic!
:-)) Ok, so I've had to spend time and effort tidying it up so I'm "not an idiot" but hell, don't knock it, it worked!
I'm getting loads more hits than usual just because of the abuse in the URL
[Huge grin]
Simon.
Would you by any chance drop me a line ? I'd be interested to know what it is that's causing the problem, and I could give you a url to click on that'll give me all the debugging info I should need.
:(
I suspect you're behind a proxy or firewall, and the script can't parse the IP address information
Simon
is more about geolocation than mapping, but I guess I deserve at least a passing mention :-)
Simon.
I didn't say there were no benefits. I said "I don't think the benefits outweigh the potential problems".
I have no problem with sick people getting better, none at all.
I didn't discount the research ("fantastic academic acheivement"), and I have just as much right to my *opinion* as anyone else does to theirs, that's what the post was about.
My cousin died of cancer last year, we were very close. She was diagnosed and dead from a brain tumour in 4 days. I know something of the grief that cancer can bring. I can fully understand that cancer patients would love a cure, but we were talking about ethics, not individuals.
Nothing in what you said (apart from wrongfully accusing me of seeing no benefit) addresses what I wrote. I don't think the risk is worth the reward. Hey, I've been wrong before, and I will be again, I'd love to be wrong this time too.
That said, since we're talking about bio-engineering something designed to attack human cells (of a particular type, and I take on-board what another poster said about different gene expressions on the cell membrane), and that the mutation rate of virii in the wild is pretty high, and that we'll be making them by the billion then injecting them into an uncontrolled and uncontrollable environment (someone's body), I think there's room for a shed-load of caution. And that may not be sufficient.
There's just so much that can go wrong. Catastrophically (used technically) wrong.
Simon.
There is a very very small difference between a cancerous cell and a normal cell. They're identical except the cancerous one keeps on dividing. Just how much did you want that cancer-eating virus ? Given how often virii mutate ?
Simon.
Yeah I know. Luddite reaction. Yadda yadda yadda.
I still don't really think the benefits (gene expression research, gene therapy in general) are good enough, considering the potential problems.
I'd like to know who's funding them. Is it civilian or military?
As if there weren't enough virii on the planet already, we have to go making more. Fantastic academic achievement, but wish they hadn't done it. A bit like a nuclear bomb, in its own way...
Simon.
to see that there are occasions where companies don't automatically run the rule over individuals. Granted, this is Linus, and the companies involved have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, but it's still refreshing to see :-)
:-). BAD sco, BAD sco...
And, of course, it's less leg for SCO to stand on (I'm guessing they'd have to have been a millipede at this rate
Simon.
No, I'm saying that the requirement for the advice is tellingly stupid.
Simon.
This is the same level of advice as "how to use a toothpick", "How to eat a burger", etc.
Don't open up a clean-room piece of precision hardware. It's stupid.
Sheesh.
Simon
... Which is why I said 'have the ability to' as well as 'have the incentive to'...
The ISP's don't own enough of the problem to make a difference to it - they have to rely on others. They are not in control and cannot solve the problem....
Simon.
Which is why I said 'have the ability to' as well as 'have the incentive to'...
Simon.