The "natural" way of transmiting the human genome (at least for half the human beings) is high speed but also high latency - it takes a while to start it up (how much depends on the individual) but when it starts it's a burst of genomic information.
Strangely enough it's all contained on packets with a size of 1/2 human genome...
Canibalism is actually not a positive selection tecnique: - It's much more easy to catch diseases by eating human flesh than by eating any other animal flesh.
Thus desease spreads faster in canibalistic societies.
Then again this is all a theory of mine, and i don't know exactly how cooking fits in the picture.
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In some companies, there seems to be a point view that if you had technical training you're unlikelly to become a good manager while if you had management training you're likelly to become a good manager (managers seem especially guilty of thinking this way).
Guess what? It's all bulls*it.
Management in IT is not the same as managing an assembly line. In IT to accomplish something you need the cooperation of the developers/system admnistrators/designers/testers. Managing by decree will get you non/bad-working programs, long delays, high turnovers, no documentation and all this in an environment were there is no standard measure for productivity.
To manage IT development you need to manage the developers. If the developers: - Are tired - Are demoralized - Don't trust you no ammount of project planning, coercion or shouting will make projects finish according to requirements and inside the deadline.
Managing in IT mostly boils down to personality and people skills, and that can be found both in people with a technical background and people with a management background.
Whould that be: - Real life age? - Internet age (equal to 10 times the numbers of years you've used the Internet) - Slashdot age (slashdot_user_id - max_slashdot_user_id)?
Mice have been around for longer than that - i heard they even spread the plague in the middle ages.
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And i would be really pissed off if the leeching of my CPU cycles would interfere with my recording of season 20 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer using my PVR With Real-Time MPEG-4 Compression software.
Ooops - forgot it's an area not a straight line. Maybe that's what's called linear tought.
Anyways, to be on the serious side, beyond health problems, there's also the fact that any X-Ray laser under current technology would be a monster (unless somebody came up with an X-Ray Laser Diode) plus finding a material that could support reading and writing with X-Rays would be difficult (maybe lead, the question is, would the plastic used in CD's take it?).
Why didn't they just jumped over a couple of generations to the X-Ray Disk?
Possible advantages are: - Unbelievable data storage capacity (X-Rays wavelength is around 1/10000 of the one for blue light - this means 10000 times more data or 200TB per side). - X-Ray Disk is a cooler sounding name. - X-Ray Disk players would be almost impossible to steal (they would weight a ton, most of it being the lead anti-radiation protection)
As usual the "import control restrictions" once again are in full force. From the release notes:
Due to import control restrictions, the JCE jurisdiction policy files shipped with the Java 2 SDK, v 1.4 allow "strong" but limited cryptography to be used. An "unlimited" version of these files indicating no restrictions on cryptographic strengths is available.
The JSSE implementation provided in this release includes strong cipher suites. However, due to U.S. export control restrictions, this release does not allow alternate "pluggable" SSL/TLS implementations to be used
What seems even stranger now is that you cannot used "pluggable" implementations (in JSSE). Maybe the "nasty" europeans/asians/africans/martians would provide some unlimited strong cryptography pluggin otherwise???
That's right boys and girls - the biggest use of mobile is to comunicate with other people.
Now comes 3G - brand new, lotsa bandwidth.
What's the first thing the so-called industry experts think about?
- Let's use mobile phones as a way to deliver content to people - basically a glorified pay-per-use portable televison and radio in one.
Immediatly followed by:
- Let's protect the content from being redistributed by the users - no sending of copyrighted music to your friends buddy.
Wake up!!!
If instead of all this bulls*it mobile phone companies would create an open architecture that allows costumers to send anything to other costumers ( the mother of all P2P services ) there could be loads of money to be made ( just charge by the KByte ).
Grab two steaks of about the same weight, one from cattle raised with hormones and the other one from cattle raised without the hormones.
Put both of them in a frying pan.
In a couple of minutes, your hormone raised beef will have half the size of the other one and look like old shoe sole.
You see, raising cattle with hormones makes it retain more water in its muscles.
From the point of view of a consumer, this means that buying hormone raised beef is buying a lot of water at the price of beef - bad value for your money.
Personally i'm one for freedom of choice - as long as hormone-"enhanced" beef is visibly labelled as so, then let the consumers choose.
Slashdot Mirror
Lesson number 1:
Question: How to start a flame war?
Answer: One word - Emacs
For those interested in the subject of simulating artifical societies in silico i strongly recommend:
(Sorry, i'm against linking to online book stores)
Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom Up
Joshua M. Epstein & Robert Axtell
ISBN 0-262-55025-3
The "natural" way of transmiting the human genome (at least for half the human beings) is high speed but also high latency - it takes a while to start it up (how much depends on the individual) but when it starts it's a burst of genomic information.
Strangely enough it's all contained on packets with a size of 1/2 human genome...
Canibalism is actually not a positive selection tecnique:
- It's much more easy to catch diseases by eating human flesh than by eating any other animal flesh.
Thus desease spreads faster in canibalistic societies.
Then again this is all a theory of mine, and i don't know exactly how cooking fits in the picture.
Correct me if I'm wrong (always a given on Slashdot, people will even correct you if you're right)
I would like to correct your assumption about people in Slashdot - what you say is just not true!!!
You forgot
lead poisoning
Doesn't (er, didn't) he ever read Slashdot?
...
Judging from the mess he did, i'm sure he read Sleshdot
Beter yet ....
Slackware installed from floppy disks - Now THAT's a treat form masochists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H hard core Linux users.
That would be a good excuse to use Bablefish for source code.
Having said that, I guess this material is probably going to be useful in some other industrial applications. It's interesting nonetheless
Once again, we end up talking about the p0rn industry.
Can't you guys just shut up with this kind of joke???
There's always some crazy geek or other inventing an new computer case.
... wait
What will they come next with, an Ethernet switch on a teddy bear???
Oh
In some companies, there seems to be a point view that if you had technical training you're unlikelly to become a good manager while if you had management training you're likelly to become a good manager (managers seem especially guilty of thinking this way).
Guess what? It's all bulls*it.
Management in IT is not the same as managing an assembly line. In IT to accomplish something you need the cooperation of the developers/system admnistrators/designers/testers. Managing by decree will get you non/bad-working programs, long delays, high turnovers, no documentation and all this in an environment were there is no standard measure for productivity.
To manage IT development you need to manage the developers.
If the developers:
- Are tired
- Are demoralized
- Don't trust you
no ammount of project planning, coercion or shouting will make projects finish according to requirements and inside the deadline.
Managing in IT mostly boils down to personality and people skills, and that can be found both in people with a technical background and people with a management background.
Whould that be:
- Real life age?
- Internet age (equal to 10 times the numbers of years you've used the Internet)
- Slashdot age (slashdot_user_id - max_slashdot_user_id)?
Mice have been around for longer than that - i heard they even spread the plague in the middle ages.
Brought to you by: Yet another animal joke
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Something like the Million Monkeys with Typewriters (WordProcessors) creating the Complete works of Shakespeare?
Yep.
And i would be really pissed off if the leeching of my CPU cycles would interfere with my recording of season 20 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer using my PVR With Real-Time MPEG-4 Compression software.
They're probably both for the wife:
- One for the time he forgot her birthday
- One for the time he forgot the wedding aniversary
Ooops - forgot it's an area not a straight line. Maybe that's what's called linear tought.
Anyways, to be on the serious side, beyond health problems, there's also the fact that any X-Ray laser under current technology would be a monster (unless somebody came up with an X-Ray Laser Diode) plus finding a material that could support reading and writing with X-Rays would be difficult (maybe lead, the question is, would the plastic used in CD's take it?).
Why didn't they just jumped over a couple of generations to the X-Ray Disk?
Possible advantages are:
- Unbelievable data storage capacity (X-Rays wavelength is around 1/10000 of the one for blue light - this means 10000 times more data or 200TB per side).
- X-Ray Disk is a cooler sounding name.
- X-Ray Disk players would be almost impossible to steal (they would weight a ton, most of it being the lead anti-radiation protection)
Now some stuff I'd like to see linked to a shorter life:
[...]
4)anyone that comes into the helpdesk i work at
You mean anyone that comes into the helpdesk you work on will have a shorter life?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
As a side note, getting nervous often, does (in average) reduce lifespan - i believe it makes it twice more likelly to have a hart problems.
That would match point 5:
5)anything that pisses me off
Due to import control restrictions, the JCE jurisdiction policy files shipped with the Java 2 SDK, v 1.4 allow "strong" but limited cryptography to be used. An "unlimited" version of these files indicating no restrictions on cryptographic strengths is available.
The JSSE implementation provided in this release includes strong cipher suites. However, due to U.S. export control restrictions, this release does not allow alternate "pluggable" SSL/TLS implementations to be used
What seems even stranger now is that you cannot used "pluggable" implementations (in JSSE). Maybe the "nasty" europeans/asians/africans/martians would provide some unlimited strong cryptography pluggin otherwise???
... that all Slashdot moderators are Sadistics - they do it to inflict pain.
....
....
Now if we could implement a module that gives an electric shock to the poster every time he's modded down
Where are my moderator points when i need them
... it's very is to trip and fall down with your nose on the ground.
Maybe we could also develop airbag-noses to go with big brains???
A mobile phone is a device for social iteraction.
....
That's right boys and girls - the biggest use of mobile is to comunicate with other people.
Now comes 3G - brand new, lotsa bandwidth.
What's the first thing the so-called industry experts think about?
- Let's use mobile phones as a way to deliver content to people - basically a glorified pay-per-use portable televison and radio in one.
Immediatly followed by:
- Let's protect the content from being redistributed by the users - no sending of copyrighted music to your friends buddy.
Wake up!!!
If instead of all this bulls*it mobile phone companies would create an open architecture that allows costumers to send anything to other costumers ( the mother of all P2P services ) there could be loads of money to be made ( just charge by the KByte ).
Cheeesh
Grab two steaks of about the same weight, one from cattle raised with hormones and the other one from cattle raised without the hormones.
Put both of them in a frying pan.
In a couple of minutes, your hormone raised beef will have half the size of the other one and look like old shoe sole.
You see, raising cattle with hormones makes it retain more water in its muscles.
From the point of view of a consumer, this means that buying hormone raised beef is buying a lot of water at the price of beef - bad value for your money.
Personally i'm one for freedom of choice - as long as hormone-"enhanced" beef is visibly labelled as so, then let the consumers choose.