The DNA of a human and a mouse differs only by 15 percent. This mammoth they intend to breed differs from an actual mammoth by 12 percent. So, this "mammoth" they intend to breed it as genetically mammoth as Stewart Little is human.
It's funny how people have been saying this since 1996. (toy story 1 came out in 1995.) i admit that the power of the gpu has increased a lot since that time, but I don't think we'll see real time cg for quite a while.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned this yet. You can't have a device like this in the states, because ftc regulations state that the airwaves are public, and devices that jam airwaves are illegal. Jamming equipment has been prevalent in europe and japan for years, but no one uses them in the u.s. because they would be slapped with massive fines.
He is referring to Utilitarianism. Classic Utilitarianism,
the theory defended by Bentham and Mill, can be summarized in three propositions.
First, actions are to be judged right or wrong solely by virtue
of their consequences. Nothing else matters. Right actions are, simply, those
that have the best consequences.
Second, in assesing consequences, the only thing that matters
is the amount of happiness or unhappiness that is caused. Everything else is
irrelevant. Thus right actions are those than produce the greatest balance of
happiness over unhappiness.
Third, in calculating the happiness or unhappiness that will
be caused, no one's happiness is to be counted as more important than anyone
else's. Each person's welfare is equally important.
Thus, right actions are those that produce the greatest possible balance of
happiness over unhappiness, with each person's happiness counted as equally
important.
Please note that is one of several moral theories, and it does have it's flaws.
No single theory is perfect. Finding a perfect moral theory would be equivalent
to finding a Unified Theory of Physics; it's even possible that neither exists.
You can read all about it in James Rachel's, The
Elements of Moral Philosophy.
I wasn't disputing the fact that T.V. is controlled by Americans and the Japanese. What I don't understand is why that would be a reason for us to stop watching.
if you want good entertainment you can always rent a movie. Tv is full of ads, many of which are from the large, rich, dmca loving companies that we all dispise. Why would anyone want to PAY to watch disney, or NBC, or warner?
I'm surprised this wasn't modded flamebait. T.V. is bad because it's controlled by Americans and the Japanese? You also said that we shouldn't watch tv because disney and warner are dmca huggers. Instead, you proposed that we go rent movies. Are you aware that Disney and Warner are among the largest movie makers in the world?
The benchmarks were not done by Ace's Hardware. Ace Hardware merely provides a summary and link to the actual article at tecchannel.de. These were the ones who got their hands on the chip and did the benchmarking.
Does anyone else find it amusing that mozilla.org has the following disclaimer on their download page?..."We do not guarantee that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org domain is Year 2000 compliant. "
The next service patch for Windows XP doesn't let you remove Internet Explorer, it merely lets OEMs hide the explorer icon. All the code for Internet Explorer will be left intact on all Windows XP systems.
P4's consume too much power and generate too much heat. This is the reason why P3's are still used in most rackmount servers. This is why Intel is charging so much for the Tualatin 512KB P3 and so little for the P4 Xeon.
As stated in the article, the target cost of each UCAV plane is between $10 million and $15 million, not $20 million. This is very cheap. (about one-third the cost of the next-generation fighter planes.) Cruise missiles cost more than $1 million apiece. Laser-guided bombs cost around $100,000; the highly advanced AGM-130s, fired from F15E aircraft, cost $800,000.
These are highly sophisticated weapons that were designed to prevent unintended damage and deaths. I have no doubt that your "100kg of c4 strapped to a propellor" would be able to kill a lot of enemy soldiers, but many of your bombs would probably stray and hit and kill civilian targets. And the United States is not in the business of killing civilians. If we wanted to do that, we wouldn't even bother with the conventional bombs you are takking about, we could just as easily nuke the country and kill every last person.
Our soldiers deserve the best weapons and protection we can offer them. Though the weapons deployed by our armed forces aren't as "cheap" as they used to be, american soldiers suffer far fewer casualities today than they did in past conflicts.
Sophisticated weapons save lives on both sides. They protect our soldiers and they minimize civilian casualities.
An alternative approach might be to punch through in one explosive event. Steer an appropriately sized cometary nucleus into Europa, wait for things to settle down a little and then dive into the relatively thin and slushy crater floor.
I'm pretty sure the Europians will take something like that as an act of war.
I see this becoming an issue when someone will be typing " web browser" in the adress bar and Microsoft redirecting them to IE (or pick your own example where microsoft decides where you will end up)
You know what's funny? Typing "web browser" in the address bar DOES bring you to a Internet Explorer download page.
I have a friend who was in on the final testing of the XBox. He was able to look at its guts and basically told me that the box is "un-crackable."
Surprise, the xbox has already been cracked. For weeks, there has been footage circulating online showing games booting up from dvd-r's. In fact, you can order your xbox modchip here.
Interesting portion of the article to quote. Odd that you didn't mention that the Maxtor Atlas 10k III (a U160 SCSI drive) beats the WD1200JB...
I don't know how you got modded to +3. If you had bothered to read my post before flaming me, you would have seen that I actually put in BOLD the part that says the atlas 10k III beats the 1200jb.
In fact, there's no performance test where the IDE drive in question beat the SCSI drive in question at all. Next time you make an argument, you should really cite a source that supports your argument, on the off chance that somebody reads it.
Again, nothing I quoted implied that the IDE drive in question would beat the SCSI drive in question. As reflected in the quotes I selected, I have no doubt that the atlas 10k III performs better than the 1200jb.
Please don't flame me without first actually reading my post. It's hard to believe that someone can find fault in a post that includes only a link and quotes from an article.
Even if this bill passes, which I doubt it will, a simple act of Congress cannot possibly restore NASA to its former glory. Space exploration is no longer a top priority for the American people, now that the cold war is over. Once thought of as essential for national security, NASA is now suffering due to budget cuts.
The public might still think that space exploration is "cool," but few would be willing to sacrifice other government programs or accept a tax hike in order to free up money for NASA. If the public doesn't care, why would politicians care? NASA won't win you votes at the ballot box.
Our society has become so dominated by the evolutionary theories that whenever something changes over time, it doesn't change, but evolves, as if it were a change in the make-up of a cat's genetic code.
That's exactly how it's supposed to happen. All evolution by natural selection as described by neo-darwinism involves a change in a specie's genetic pool.
If you are trying to debunk evolutionary as only a "theory", something George W. Bush said recently, please note that the scientific definition of "theory" is very different from the layman's definition. An idea has to be able to withstand unrelenting scrutiny in order to earn the title "theory." Evolution through natural selection is an easily observed occurance and can be proven through statistical and mathematical analysis. Neo-Darwinist principles should be renamed "The Law of Evolution through Natural Selection" just as we currently have "The Law of Gravity."
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The DNA of a human and a mouse
differs only by 15 percent. This mammoth they intend to breed differs from
an actual mammoth by 12 percent. So, this "mammoth" they intend to breed it as
genetically mammoth as Stewart Little is human.
Even more interesting is the fact that Apple doesn't seem to be relying as heavily on trade shows (ala macworld) to promote new products anymore.
It's funny how people have been saying this since 1996. (toy story 1 came out in 1995.) i admit that the power of the gpu has increased a lot since that time, but I don't think we'll see real time cg for quite a while.
How about a laptop.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned this yet. You can't have a device like this in the states, because ftc regulations state that the airwaves are public, and devices that jam airwaves are illegal. Jamming equipment has been prevalent in europe and japan for years, but no one uses them in the u.s. because they would be slapped with massive fines.
First, actions are to be judged right or wrong solely by virtue of their consequences. Nothing else matters. Right actions are, simply, those that have the best consequences.
Second, in assesing consequences, the only thing that matters is the amount of happiness or unhappiness that is caused. Everything else is irrelevant. Thus right actions are those than produce the greatest balance of happiness over unhappiness.
Third, in calculating the happiness or unhappiness that will be caused, no one's happiness is to be counted as more important than anyone else's. Each person's welfare is equally important.
Thus, right actions are those that produce the greatest possible balance of happiness over unhappiness, with each person's happiness counted as equally important.
Please note that is one of several moral theories, and it does have it's flaws. No single theory is perfect. Finding a perfect moral theory would be equivalent to finding a Unified Theory of Physics; it's even possible that neither exists. You can read all about it in James Rachel's, The Elements of Moral Philosophy.
I wasn't disputing the fact that T.V. is controlled by Americans and the Japanese. What I don't understand is why that would be a reason for us to stop watching.
if you want good entertainment you can always rent a movie. Tv is full of ads, many of which are from the large, rich, dmca loving companies that we all dispise. Why would anyone want to PAY to watch disney, or NBC, or warner?
I'm surprised this wasn't modded flamebait. T.V. is bad because it's controlled by Americans and the Japanese? You also said that we shouldn't watch tv because disney and warner are dmca huggers. Instead, you proposed that we go rent movies. Are you aware that Disney and Warner are among the largest movie makers in the world?
I can't be the only Slashdotter living with a significant other.
Wait, you mean with an actual other person?
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but what you are referring to is an "Agnostic's God."
Agnostic - One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
Atheist - One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
The benchmarks were not done by Ace's Hardware. Ace Hardware merely provides a summary and link to the actual article at tecchannel.de. These were the ones who got their hands on the chip and did the benchmarking.
Does anyone else find it amusing that mozilla.org has the following disclaimer on their download page?..."We do not guarantee that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org domain is Year 2000 compliant. "
The next service patch for Windows XP doesn't let you remove Internet Explorer, it merely lets OEMs hide the explorer icon. All the code for Internet Explorer will be left intact on all Windows XP systems.
hmmm...the eMac only comes in two standard configurations. One comes with a swivelling stand for the computer, and the other one doesn't.
mmm...leather. seriously though, i prefer lace.
Peter Parker: Spider silk, AWAY!
P4's consume too much power and generate too much heat. This is the reason why P3's are still used in most rackmount servers. This is why Intel is charging so much for the Tualatin 512KB P3 and so little for the P4 Xeon.
some "fuzzy math" is going on here...
As stated in the article, the target cost of each UCAV plane is between $10 million and $15 million, not $20 million. This is very cheap. (about one-third the cost of the next-generation fighter planes.) Cruise missiles cost more than $1 million apiece. Laser-guided bombs cost around $100,000; the highly advanced AGM-130s, fired from F15E aircraft, cost $800,000.
These are highly sophisticated weapons that were designed to prevent unintended damage and deaths. I have no doubt that your "100kg of c4 strapped to a propellor" would be able to kill a lot of enemy soldiers, but many of your bombs would probably stray and hit and kill civilian targets. And the United States is not in the business of killing civilians. If we wanted to do that, we wouldn't even bother with the conventional bombs you are takking about, we could just as easily nuke the country and kill every last person.
Our soldiers deserve the best weapons and protection we can offer them. Though the weapons deployed by our armed forces aren't as "cheap" as they used to be, american soldiers suffer far fewer casualities today than they did in past conflicts.
Sophisticated weapons save lives on both sides. They protect our soldiers and they minimize civilian casualities.
An alternative approach might be to punch through in one explosive event. Steer an appropriately sized cometary nucleus into Europa, wait for things to settle down a little and then dive into the relatively thin and slushy crater floor.
I'm pretty sure the Europians will take something like that as an act of war.
I see this becoming an issue when someone will be typing " web browser" in the adress bar and Microsoft redirecting them to IE (or pick your own example where microsoft decides where you will end up)
You know what's funny? Typing "web browser" in the address bar DOES bring you to a Internet Explorer download page.
I have a friend who was in on the final testing of the XBox. He was able to look at its guts and basically told me that the box is "un-crackable."
Surprise, the xbox has already been cracked. For weeks, there has been footage circulating online showing games booting up from dvd-r's. In fact, you can order your xbox modchip here.
You can check out the xbox linux project here.
Space aliens use Macs,And they tried to wipe out the human race.
Nope, Will Smith uploaded the virus to the alien mothership using a mac. That doesn't mean the aliens were using macs.
Interesting portion of the article to quote. Odd that you didn't mention that the Maxtor Atlas 10k III (a U160 SCSI drive) beats the WD1200JB...
I don't know how you got modded to +3. If you had bothered to read my post before flaming me, you would have seen that I actually put in BOLD the part that says the atlas 10k III beats the 1200jb.
In fact, there's no performance test where the IDE drive in question beat the SCSI drive in question at all. Next time you make an argument, you should really cite a source that supports your argument, on the off chance that somebody reads it.
Again, nothing I quoted implied that the IDE drive in question would beat the SCSI drive in question. As reflected in the quotes I selected, I have no doubt that the atlas 10k III performs better than the 1200jb.
Please don't flame me without first actually reading my post. It's hard to believe that someone can find fault in a post that includes only a link and quotes from an article.
Even if this bill passes, which I doubt it will, a simple act of Congress cannot possibly restore NASA to its former glory. Space exploration is no longer a top priority for the American people, now that the cold war is over. Once thought of as essential for national security, NASA is now suffering due to budget cuts.
The public might still think that space exploration is "cool," but few would be willing to sacrifice other government programs or accept a tax hike in order to free up money for NASA. If the public doesn't care, why would politicians care? NASA won't win you votes at the ballot box.
Our society has become so dominated by the evolutionary theories that whenever something changes over time, it doesn't change, but evolves, as if it were a change in the make-up of a cat's genetic code.
That's exactly how it's supposed to happen. All evolution by natural selection as described by neo-darwinism involves a change in a specie's genetic pool.
If you are trying to debunk evolutionary as only a "theory", something George W. Bush said recently, please note that the scientific definition of "theory" is very different from the layman's definition. An idea has to be able to withstand unrelenting scrutiny in order to earn the title "theory." Evolution through natural selection is an easily observed occurance and can be proven through statistical and mathematical analysis. Neo-Darwinist principles should be renamed "The Law of Evolution through Natural Selection" just as we currently have "The Law of Gravity."