This paragraph show a wierd sort of rationalization that these guys do:
Potter's team at the Laboratory for Neuroengineering, shared by Emory University and Georgia Tech, might be best able to deliver on that wild vision. He's already created the Hybrot, a machine controlled by rat neurons sealed in a patented dish spiked with micro-electrodes. You can actually see those cells growing more complex and hairy with dendrites as they learn and interact with the outside world. The work could spawn an entirely new class of adaptable robot combatants. But there's a hitch: Potter won't take a penny from the military. Sure, the Department of Defense might crib from his published research, but Potter wants to grasp new knowledge without bloody hands.
He won't take money from the military, because it's "blood money", but has no problem ripping apart living breathing rats to get at neural tissue. Sure it may be cultured now, but even that culture had to come from some once living rat. This isn't even medical research here, he's using the neurons to control robots. Why not take a neurel net chip and use that, if your so concerned with the morals of your research? I personally don't care, I eat meat, I wouldn't have any problem taking money from the DoD for research, and don't give a rat's ass (ahem) for dead rats, but I'd like to point out some inconsistancy in his moral outrage.
There are also down sides to http/ftp should we change them as well? The answer is no.
Actually, the answer IS yes. Or, maybe you would like to go back to using gopher?
If we change to a different email protocol we can still use the old protocol alongside of the new, and when the new protocol is widely accepted and in use, just shut down the old mail service.
Along those same lines, imagine linux using the DSP to automagically connect wirelessly to other linux dsp's and creating a (slow) wireless beowulf cluster, just from people wondering around with these devices on them.
oh wait...i just had 3 WAY better ideas on how to use these things...
so, STOP IMAGINING a beowulcluster of ANYTHING....
Alcohol consumption was illegal too, but everybody kept doing it anyway. They arrested a lot of people, then everybody ot fed up with that stupid law and had it repealed.
So...I say, everybody, keep on trading files, eventually everyone is going to get sick of being treated like a criminal and they'll change the law to make file sharing legal.
environment-friendly ways to generate power; solar in the sunny areas, hydro-electric in areas with lots of waterfalls, etc, windmills in the plains...
Yeah, Hydro-electric means damns and damns kill fish
And windmills kill birds, plus they're ugly, so, of course, no-one wants them near thier house
Hydrogen cars will destroy the ozone layer.
Bio-diesel/gas-a-hol take more energy to make than you get from burning them (so you end up using more fossil fuels anyway)
The planets do line themselves up in a roughly straight line from time to time. The last time this happened was the year that the first tomb raider came out, 2001 or it could have been 2000, whatever. The cool thing about that allinment was, all the planets and the moon were lined up in a rough line pointing at earth. Every body and their kook relative thought this was significant somehow, the gravitational disturbances bringing death and destruction by massive earthquakes, the poles were going to flip around, Hale-Bop was going to be pulled to smack into the the earth, a rift in the astral plane would loose demons unto our world, all kinds of crazy shit. Any way the planets will line themselves up again at some calcuable point in the future.
I will crush you peetiful geeks with my fearsome lawsuit. How DAAAREE you steal my name for your pathetic excuse of a game. I will take back what is mine and spread your crushed and dessicated remains before me.
They aren't trying to make a drop in replacement of Exchange. They are trying to make a functional replacement of Exchange. Also I think the German's needed something for their spiffy linux desktops to do besides look pretty.
Slashdot Mirror
My bank is my matress and if it starts talking, then I have other issues to deal with.
FreeBSD won't die if people keep porting software to it. So, cut it out people
This paragraph show a wierd sort of rationalization that these guys do:
He won't take money from the military, because it's "blood money", but has no problem ripping apart living breathing rats to get at neural tissue. Sure it may be cultured now, but even that culture had to come from some once living rat. This isn't even medical research here, he's using the neurons to control robots. Why not take a neurel net chip and use that, if your so concerned with the morals of your research? I personally don't care, I eat meat, I wouldn't have any problem taking money from the DoD for research, and don't give a rat's ass (ahem) for dead rats, but I'd like to point out some inconsistancy in his moral outrage.
I don't think Carmack is going to win the X-prize.
There are also down sides to http/ftp should we change them as well? The answer is no.
Actually, the answer IS yes. Or, maybe you would like to go back to using gopher?
If we change to a different email protocol we can still use the old protocol alongside of the new, and when the new protocol is widely accepted and in use, just shut down the old mail service.
I can see red hat as Guinness..
I mean Guiness is dark and mysterious and the bubbles go the wrong way...
no wait your right, that sounds more like slackware...
CE is bud light...i'd put Lindows as Schlitz Malt Liqour or something...
Computer chips don't use electrons to carry data; they use photons.
Yes they do use electrons you dork.
Someone already made the Beowulf joke...
Along those same lines, imagine linux using the DSP to automagically connect wirelessly to other linux dsp's and creating a (slow) wireless beowulf cluster, just from people wondering around with these devices on them.
oh wait...i just had 3 WAY better ideas on how to use these things...
so, STOP IMAGINING a beowulcluster of ANYTHING....
Not reporting bug you didn't find won't get that unreported bug reported or found unless it is fixed then it will have been found and reported.
I found a link with more information...Here
It's to a site call "slashdot" I wonder if anybody else has heard of it?
It's kind of old, the date on the page says it was written August 7th 2003.
Miriap you, you p'taQ!
it's 'courriel' for email (nt)
Haven't those three long since crashed into the Earth?
Alcohol consumption was illegal too, but everybody kept doing it anyway. They arrested a lot of people, then everybody ot fed up with that stupid law and had it repealed.
So...I say, everybody, keep on trading files, eventually everyone is going to get sick of being treated like a criminal and they'll change the law to make file sharing legal.
Ok, you need a link1 3/142217&mode=thread&tid=134
Start here
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/
environment-friendly ways to generate power; solar in the sunny areas, hydro-electric in areas with lots of waterfalls, etc, windmills in the plains...
Yeah, Hydro-electric means damns and damns kill fish
And windmills kill birds, plus they're ugly, so, of course, no-one wants them near thier house
Hydrogen cars will destroy the ozone layer.
Bio-diesel/gas-a-hol take more energy to make than you get from burning them (so you end up using more fossil fuels anyway)
There is no perfect energy source.
The planets do line themselves up in a roughly straight line from time to time. The last time this happened was the year that the first tomb raider came out, 2001 or it could have been 2000, whatever. The cool thing about that allinment was, all the planets and the moon were lined up in a rough line pointing at earth. Every body and their kook relative thought this was significant somehow, the gravitational disturbances bringing death and destruction by massive earthquakes, the poles were going to flip around, Hale-Bop was going to be pulled to smack into the the earth, a rift in the astral plane would loose demons unto our world, all kinds of crazy shit. Any way the planets will line themselves up again at some calcuable point in the future.
OK, that was not what i was expecting.
I was sort of expecting auto-generated scripts for star trek...it's time to go to bed.
How is the glass going to know how drunk the person is, and if they should be seerved any more alcohol?
Well, you see, it tells the waiter that the glass is empty. Remember, if your still able to avoid the floor, your sober enough for another beer.
Wy would you use depletede uranium to make your reactor rods? Most other nuclear rods use enriched uranium.
I think this make it official. Working in the telecom industry is now a shameful thing. Kinda like saying you're a used car salesman or something.
I will crush you peetiful geeks with my fearsome lawsuit. How DAAAREE you steal my name for your pathetic excuse of a game. I will take back what is mine and spread your crushed and dessicated remains before me.
OOOOHHH YEE-AHH!
(wrong wrestler, but it's what came to mind...)
Mars Odyssey has detected warm spots in the Hellas basin.
*ahem*
Wow, it's Hellas hot around here.
Thank you for your patience in this matter
They aren't trying to make a drop in replacement of Exchange. They are trying to make a functional replacement of Exchange. Also I think the German's needed something for their spiffy linux desktops to do besides look pretty.