The point of the roundup-ready gene is not that they just grow bigger, it is just that it allows the farmer to more indescriminately spray roundup on his crops for weed control. Fewer weeds means more crop. The farmer who doesn't use (wittingly) the monsanto seed, doesn't go about spraying roudnup indiscriminately, but rather by the "old methods" that are needed for non-Monsanto crop. So the plants (normal seed and the blown-in Monsanto seed) still all grow the same. The farmer just had to spend more time and money and energy on weed control.
The problem, as TFA points out, is that Monsanto is buying up the other seed companies as well, so there are few alternatives left but to buy from Monsanto.
I thought Mosaic was 32 bit. I remember having to install the Win32 extensions on my Win 3.1 box to get it to work. Yes, that was with winsock trumpet.
I know this is/. and you aren't supposed to RTFA, but I did anyway. It's not just the hardware. They redid the commnication protocols from scratch also that greatly increases the speed over these distances. Your Linksys routers will still be doing regular wi-fi.
You are wrong. I set up and have maintained a phpBB-based website, heavily modded, for the past three years. All upgrades area available as diffs. They apply with a single patch command. Patching goes smoothly; only a few hunks fail that need to be done manually (and remember, mine is heavily modded) which is quite simple. I've never had to recereate anything.
Net neutrality is that an ISP handles all packets the same, no matter where they came from. They don't check the packet and decide to deliver it faster or slower than another packet because of its source.
This whole process was essentially perfected in the 1980's. I worked in that lab at the time. When oil prices fell through the floor in 1986, nobody cared about it any more. Now that oil is $100/barrel, people do.
However, you still have the problem of finding enough biomass to produce enough liquid fuel. Even if you are growing cellulose instead of corn starch, it's still a lot of biomass. And there still is the energy needed to run the process.
Most likely, Comcrap and their friends Roadrunning, Timewardoff and the like will ultimately say that if you are using a VPN, you must purchase a business account at most likely $200 per month or more not including cable TV.
I am pretty sure that is already the case for most home broadband contracts, but it just isn't enforced.
It's got nothing to do with throttling, but instead with sending ACK packets. I was complaining about the same thing happening on my Verizon DSL, but not with P2P, just uploading stuff to webservers I manage. Someone kindly explained it to me: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=371811&cid=21547017
'If "business as usual" means trying to foist a rushed, technically inferior and product-specific piece of work like OOXML on the IT industry, we're proud to stand with the tens of countries and thousands of individuals who are willing to fight against such bad behavior.'
You also need to consider that any health care bill that gets enacted (if any at all) will probably look nothing at all like the one whichever president originally proposes. The bill would be passed by Congress (535 people) and just signed (or vetoed) by the president. Congress will bend and distort whatever proposal is originally made (if not start from scratch) to get a bill that can pass both houses. So it is somewhat meaningless to discuss specific differences among plans presented now. What matters is the degree to which the Presidnet can provide leadership during the debate in Congress.
I had ISDN for a few years. Verizon *did* charge by the minute for data calls, but you could do something called "data over voice" or something like that where the calls to the ISP went through as voice calls (which was included as part of the unmetered monthly voice charge). But since it was all digital anyway, you got the ISP service. It was kinda stupid to have to do it that way, and I was glad when DSL came available so you didn't have to deal with such rigamarole.
Yeah, but then again, you have to remember that Sweden, _successfully_ , switched from driving on the left side of the street to driving on the right side of the street on one day in 1967. I think the swedes are just a little more organized and tuned in.
I predict a lot "WTF!" from a lot of people in the US come Feb. 2009
I saw this ironic example just this week: Traffic absolutely just crawling leaving the city at 5:30 PM. Then a mile later, jam just disappears and traffic moves. What was at that point where things started up again? It was one of those new electronic signs they placed over the road. It was on and indicating that there was a jam about 5 miles down the road. Sure enough, at least one person must have slowed down to read the sign and backed the traffic up behind him for miles. Stupid sign actually caused more jams than it was intended to diminish!
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Carbon dating doesn't work for measuring millions of years. It only works for measuring 10's of thousands of years. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating
For measuing millions of years, you need to look at other isotopes.
I do this for MS Word (which is where I spend most of my time at work). It's impossible to do with Word 2007, another reason why I'd never "upgrade".
Writing reports is so much better when you can see more than a paragraph at a time of what you've typed.
You don't have to be a coder to dis the all-widescreen all-the-time laptop trend.
I don't recall seeing too many 24" or 29" laptops for sale recently (this discussion *is* about laptops, remember).
You can still get 4:3 or 5:4 separate monitors easily enough.
The point of the roundup-ready gene is not that they just grow bigger, it is just that it allows the farmer to more indescriminately spray roundup on his crops for weed control. Fewer weeds means more crop. The farmer who doesn't use (wittingly) the monsanto seed, doesn't go about spraying roudnup indiscriminately, but rather by the "old methods" that are needed for non-Monsanto crop. So the plants (normal seed and the blown-in Monsanto seed) still all grow the same. The farmer just had to spend more time and money and energy on weed control.
The problem, as TFA points out, is that Monsanto is buying up the other seed companies as well, so there are few alternatives left but to buy from Monsanto.
Well, here's an example why:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses_Hydro-Electric_Dam
I thought Mosaic was 32 bit. I remember having to install the Win32 extensions on my Win 3.1 box to get it to work. Yes, that was with winsock trumpet.
I know this is /. and you aren't supposed to RTFA, but I did anyway. It's not just the hardware. They redid the commnication protocols from scratch also that greatly increases the speed over these distances. Your Linksys routers will still be doing regular wi-fi.
You are wrong. I set up and have maintained a phpBB-based website, heavily modded, for the past three years. All upgrades area available as diffs. They apply with a single patch command. Patching goes smoothly; only a few hunks fail that need to be done manually (and remember, mine is heavily modded) which is quite simple. I've never had to recereate anything.
Net neutrality is that an ISP handles all packets the same, no matter where they came from. They don't check the packet and decide to deliver it faster or slower than another packet because of its source.
This whole process was essentially perfected in the 1980's. I worked in that lab at the time. When oil prices fell through the floor in 1986, nobody cared about it any more. Now that oil is $100/barrel, people do.
However, you still have the problem of finding enough biomass to produce enough liquid fuel. Even if you are growing cellulose instead of corn starch, it's still a lot of biomass. And there still is the energy needed to run the process.
I'm still amazed at how many times I hear, *on the radio* that HD-radio stands for "High Def" radio. Ibiquity has a great scam going there.
Yeah, you should run Debian or Ubuntu like me. There's never any updates to download.
Oops, forgot sarcasm doesn't work on the internet.
I am pretty sure that is already the case for most home broadband contracts, but it just isn't enforced.
It's got nothing to do with throttling, but instead with sending ACK packets. I was complaining about the same thing happening on my Verizon DSL, but not with P2P, just uploading stuff to webservers I manage. Someone kindly explained it to me: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=371811&cid=21547017
No, tell us how you really feel.
Well, that's what Massachusetts has now.
You also need to consider that any health care bill that gets enacted (if any at all) will probably look nothing at all like the one whichever president originally proposes. The bill would be passed by Congress (535 people) and just signed (or vetoed) by the president. Congress will bend and distort whatever proposal is originally made (if not start from scratch) to get a bill that can pass both houses. So it is somewhat meaningless to discuss specific differences among plans presented now. What matters is the degree to which the Presidnet can provide leadership during the debate in Congress.
And which is exactly why net neutrality is so vitally important.
I had ISDN for a few years. Verizon *did* charge by the minute for data calls, but you could do something called "data over voice" or something like that where the calls to the ISP went through as voice calls (which was included as part of the unmetered monthly voice charge). But since it was all digital anyway, you got the ISP service. It was kinda stupid to have to do it that way, and I was glad when DSL came available so you didn't have to deal with such rigamarole.
You'd have a ton more disposable income if you got rid of your cable.
Actually, it starts with "I" and rhymes with "brawn"
I predict a lot "WTF!" from a lot of people in the US come Feb. 2009
(signed, American of Swedish descent)
I saw this ironic example just this week: Traffic absolutely just crawling leaving the city at 5:30 PM. Then a mile later, jam just disappears and traffic moves. What was at that point where things started up again? It was one of those new electronic signs they placed over the road. It was on and indicating that there was a jam about 5 miles down the road. Sure enough, at least one person must have slowed down to read the sign and backed the traffic up behind him for miles. Stupid sign actually caused more jams than it was intended to diminish!
I'm one of the other three. Are the last two also /. subscribers?