You obviously don't pay much attention to China, and obviously didn't watch the Beijing Olympics. China refers to it as Taipei. Therefore you stand corrected.
Aging is a side-effect of being built out of linear DNA. Telomeres become longer every time a cell divides, and as such can carry less and less information. This is more commonly known as "aging."
Interestingly, spherical DNA molecules do not have this side effect.
Since when did anyone in the past care enough about these issues to the point of, you know, doing something to prevent them? We are inherit the aftermath of the previous generation's actions. As such, I certainly do not give two shits about the air, the ocean, the ozone layer, the ice caps, etc, etc, etc, simply because no one before me cared.
Maybe one day when I: a) can't breath, b) can't grow/hunt food, c) get sun burned at night; I might care. Somehow, with the assholes that run my government, and the governments abroad; I highly doubt that I will live to see that "maybe."
Sorry I don't use wikis to fact check. Though I do remember being taught in elementary school that George Washington Carver invented peanut-butter. And actually, doing some more credible research at the library I've found that Carver almost certainly invented peanut butter along with 299 other peanut products. However, since you bring patents into question, it is apparently widely known that Carver did not patent food products because he "thought they were a gift from God."
Nice try with the quick wiki search though. Maybe next time try doing your "re"search at the public library.
An African invented peanut-butter. Since most nerds can't cook, peanut-butter sandwiches have sustained the lives of countless engineers and scientists.
I wouldn't call that contribution little!
What's wrong with, you know, good old-fashioned genuine trees?
I would rather see this money spent on man made forests and jungles. I've seen work on Florida mangroves that used aerial deployment of seedling "bombs." It seemed to work well. It would give me warm fuzzies to hear of a squadron of old planes dive bombing the jungle/forest with seedlings just begging to be fed tons of delicious carbon dioxide.
Sweet! So you're the kind of asshole that will pick a fight over words! Awesome! I look forward to our chance encounter when I get to defend my life with lethal force!
All bad spelling aside, you are perhaps the largest douche I've heard from on Slashdot as of yet. I mean, either that or you're an amateur troll, because no one has threatened to kick my ass for giving him them the finger or grabbing my balls. Cool though. I give you "mad props."
Oh I get it. I see now. I'm the minority because you say so.
I'm over 30yo, as if it matters in the slightest. Apparently now I'm the asshole because I do not have tolerances for everything, including invasion of privacy.
To anyone that wants to argue about things viewable in public nullifying any rights to privacy, I point you toward the Google Street View fiasco in Japan. You see, Japanese people are trained from a young age not to look at (gawk, stare, rubberneck, etc..) other people in society. This is especially true for homes, where more often than not, one neighbors window looks directly out and into the next neighbors.
I don't know why some of my slack-jawed compatriots have the need to look at everyone, look in every window, but just because I oppose those that do does not mean I am some uneducated juvenile who has no validity to his argument.
First, I think it failed because the overall consensus in the sales statistic magazines seems to be that Sony PS3 is being outsold by the Microsoft Xbox360 and the much inferior Nintendo Wii. It went from first place to last place in sales; enough to put the next-gen PS3 behind it's older last-gen brother the PS2. Since the race is pretty much over now for this generation of consoles, this means Sony PS3 has failed.
Lastly, I dunno what color the sky is in your world, but in mine when you don't win/succeed you lose/fail.
I live in the USA, and I make it a point to make lude and inappropriate gestures at gawkers. If people are looking at me "wrong" I will go out of my way to let them know it. That's what any "good" American would do.
Now, this whole "everyone is a government spy so don't you dare even FART" movement that has spread from Europe to here I find despicable. We do not love the nanny state. In fact, I have no problem saying that the US Federal Gov't would most likely face a force it hasn't seen since the American Civil War if something like this spreads too far.
People who state their insane socialist ideals while smirkishly grinning at the non-socialists will eventually rue the day.
To the Minnesotan below that posted about our asinine seat belt and red light laws, or to anyone else who is sick of the Staties/Feds trying to control their lives:
Would it be illegal to setup an actual non-profit organization and install wireless cameras pointed at the Staties and Feds? You know, I can't compete with the Air Force or NASA in terms of technological sophistication... but a trip to even Best Buy with a small budget would get me a long way to setting up an audio/video monitoring system to watch Big Brother.
Somehow I don't think Big Brother would like see me looking back at him in his spyglass.
There is also a cart-and-horse problem in that software runs on hardware. If hardware companies make bad decisions or bad hardware, it either a) puts undue burden on software companies, or b) fails out of the market (ie, PS3).
Maybe GNU distributions should consolidate and form a mega-corporation if they actually want to compete. It seems like GNU is fractured beyond repair and the zealots are becoming whinier and whinier by the minute. If *you* want GNU to be the next Microsoft, quit arguing amongst yourselves about which GUI is better, which editor is better, which distribution is better, which package system is better, etc, etc, etc...
If I ran a software mega-corporation you had better believe that I would put as much influence as possible in the hardware companies' direction to ensure my product has the proper tools it needs to run better than my competition's.
No, but it certainly begs the question, why do we let people like this into our country in the first place?
My state (Minnesota, USA) has a terrible reputation for taking in Somali "refugees." In the last 2 years apparently these "refugees" children have begun an exodus to return to Somalia to fight in the war...
These people come to our country and tell us how to act. They come to our country and refuse to assimilate into our society. Then shit like this happens.
I'm not calling for closing of the borders, but much stricter rules and guidelines are clearly required to prevent people like this from ever even visiting here. Now, If you are reading this and you are one of these assholes that came here and insist on forcing your culture on us, I honestly, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, wish you would leave this country before we kill you and start a war with your homeland that you can never win.
He was a giving a talk on a seminar on why gold is better than cash. The $4,300 was part of his props.
And he had to use real money, $4300 worth, for the prop? He couldn't have used Monopoly money to make the same point ("would you rather have gold or worthless paper")? Does he not understand that props don't have to be real?
I hope he doesn't teach CPR. "Now, can I have a volunteer..."
Wait, you mean all these papers in my pocket that say "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE" along the top edge aren't just fiat currency aka Monopoly Money?
I would call you someone who doesn't have any empathy. You apparently can't conceive that someone might want to "play" in way that is different from the way you like to play. Some people like to play full out and backcountry ski down mountains, risking their lives every second. Others want to relax with a bit of solitaire or bejeweled. The level of challenge that you want in your "play" is by definition something personal. I've "played" by running marathons, so I know something about challenging myself, but I don't consider you to be apathetic if you haven't run a marathon.
I respectfully disagree. I have empathy, but not for apathetic people. Pretending you are part of a very specific group of people, but then alienating yourself out of that group with your apathy says it all, IMHO. I agree a person's sense of fun is subjective. However, "casual gamers" are not "apathetic gamers," which the GP claiming to be the "poster child of casual gamers" made himself out to be. Please refer to my previous post for my reasoning on playing games.
Cell phone network operators have a federal mandate or something to provide 911 and emergency GPS even for non-paying "customers."
I've tried Vonage and Comcast Digital Voice and would not rely on VoIP if my life or a loved one's was at stake. However, if that were all I had access to at the time I would fall back on the old adage "something is better than nothing."
Give me a Qwest POTS for stability and reliability. Give me VoIP and cellular for mobility.
I would call you an apathetic gamer rather than a casual gamer.
Playing games is either about solving problems, competition, or both. Being unwilling to do either is not what I would call a gamer at all. Not in any sense of the word I've been accustomed to using since I first played Pong when it was *gasp* new.
Since when doesn't Google spy on you? Since when isn't Apple a religious cult?
I've stopped talking to quite a few of my friends because they were more annoying with their Apple fanboyism than the Scientologists were when trying to get me in for a free reading!
Google drives down my street with cameras pointed at my house. Google does not live on my street, Google is not visiting me or anyone that lives in my neighborhood. Google is not providing me with a service, and they are doing a public "good." Google has no business driving down my street taking pictures of my property for profit, without my consent, and worse yet while NOT sharing those profits with me. My property exists in a community. My community is not open to the public, and you can bet your sweet virgin (you ARE reading slashdot after all...) ass that if we perceived an abundance of inappropriate traffic that we would react quite defensively.
sorry to reply to myself but i didn't catch that the forum altered some of my formatting. that last word should be "anti-insert-least-favorite-widget rhetoric."
Citation needed. It's easy to call someone a liar and rant on and on about how much of a liar they are without rebutting any of the supposed lies. You've done the easy part and written a page long rant, now do the hard part and back up your hearsay with a point by point rebuttal. Otherwise feel free to keep wasting peoples time with anti- rhetoric.
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Republic of China is Taipei, not mainland China.
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
Again.
You obviously don't pay much attention to China, and obviously didn't watch the Beijing Olympics. China refers to it as Taipei. Therefore you stand corrected.
Aging is a side-effect of being built out of linear DNA. Telomeres become longer every time a cell divides, and as such can carry less and less information. This is more commonly known as "aging."
Interestingly, spherical DNA molecules do not have this side effect.
Since when did anyone in the past care enough about these issues to the point of, you know, doing something to prevent them? We are inherit the aftermath of the previous generation's actions. As such, I certainly do not give two shits about the air, the ocean, the ozone layer, the ice caps, etc, etc, etc, simply because no one before me cared.
Maybe one day when I: a) can't breath, b) can't grow/hunt food, c) get sun burned at night; I might care. Somehow, with the assholes that run my government, and the governments abroad; I highly doubt that I will live to see that "maybe."
It's extremely disheartening to read about governments pacifying their entire population. Whether it's here in the USA or abroad. :(
Sorry I don't use wikis to fact check. Though I do remember being taught in elementary school that George Washington Carver invented peanut-butter. And actually, doing some more credible research at the library I've found that Carver almost certainly invented peanut butter along with 299 other peanut products. However, since you bring patents into question, it is apparently widely known that Carver did not patent food products because he "thought they were a gift from God."
Nice try with the quick wiki search though. Maybe next time try doing your "re"search at the public library.
"You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!"
Sorry... Every time I hear of spaced based power beaming technology I think of the Death Star.
Republic of China is Taipei, not mainland China.
There, fixed that for you.
An African invented peanut-butter. Since most nerds can't cook, peanut-butter sandwiches have sustained the lives of countless engineers and scientists. I wouldn't call that contribution little!
What's wrong with, you know, good old-fashioned genuine trees? I would rather see this money spent on man made forests and jungles. I've seen work on Florida mangroves that used aerial deployment of seedling "bombs." It seemed to work well. It would give me warm fuzzies to hear of a squadron of old planes dive bombing the jungle/forest with seedlings just begging to be fed tons of delicious carbon dioxide.
Sweet! So you're the kind of asshole that will pick a fight over words! Awesome! I look forward to our chance encounter when I get to defend my life with lethal force! All bad spelling aside, you are perhaps the largest douche I've heard from on Slashdot as of yet. I mean, either that or you're an amateur troll, because no one has threatened to kick my ass for giving him them the finger or grabbing my balls. Cool though. I give you "mad props."
Oh I get it. I see now. I'm the minority because you say so. I'm over 30yo, as if it matters in the slightest. Apparently now I'm the asshole because I do not have tolerances for everything, including invasion of privacy. To anyone that wants to argue about things viewable in public nullifying any rights to privacy, I point you toward the Google Street View fiasco in Japan. You see, Japanese people are trained from a young age not to look at (gawk, stare, rubberneck, etc..) other people in society. This is especially true for homes, where more often than not, one neighbors window looks directly out and into the next neighbors. I don't know why some of my slack-jawed compatriots have the need to look at everyone, look in every window, but just because I oppose those that do does not mean I am some uneducated juvenile who has no validity to his argument.
First, I think it failed because the overall consensus in the sales statistic magazines seems to be that Sony PS3 is being outsold by the Microsoft Xbox360 and the much inferior Nintendo Wii. It went from first place to last place in sales; enough to put the next-gen PS3 behind it's older last-gen brother the PS2. Since the race is pretty much over now for this generation of consoles, this means Sony PS3 has failed.
Lastly, I dunno what color the sky is in your world, but in mine when you don't win/succeed you lose/fail.
I live in the USA, and I make it a point to make lude and inappropriate gestures at gawkers. If people are looking at me "wrong" I will go out of my way to let them know it. That's what any "good" American would do.
Now, this whole "everyone is a government spy so don't you dare even FART" movement that has spread from Europe to here I find despicable. We do not love the nanny state. In fact, I have no problem saying that the US Federal Gov't would most likely face a force it hasn't seen since the American Civil War if something like this spreads too far.
People who state their insane socialist ideals while smirkishly grinning at the non-socialists will eventually rue the day.
To the Minnesotan below that posted about our asinine seat belt and red light laws, or to anyone else who is sick of the Staties/Feds trying to control their lives:
Would it be illegal to setup an actual non-profit organization and install wireless cameras pointed at the Staties and Feds? You know, I can't compete with the Air Force or NASA in terms of technological sophistication... but a trip to even Best Buy with a small budget would get me a long way to setting up an audio/video monitoring system to watch Big Brother.
Somehow I don't think Big Brother would like see me looking back at him in his spyglass.
Doesn't Blu-Ray also offer lossless audio compression?
I am not a number, I am a free man!
There is also a cart-and-horse problem in that software runs on hardware. If hardware companies make bad decisions or bad hardware, it either a) puts undue burden on software companies, or b) fails out of the market (ie, PS3).
Maybe GNU distributions should consolidate and form a mega-corporation if they actually want to compete. It seems like GNU is fractured beyond repair and the zealots are becoming whinier and whinier by the minute. If *you* want GNU to be the next Microsoft, quit arguing amongst yourselves about which GUI is better, which editor is better, which distribution is better, which package system is better, etc, etc, etc...
If I ran a software mega-corporation you had better believe that I would put as much influence as possible in the hardware companies' direction to ensure my product has the proper tools it needs to run better than my competition's.
No, but it certainly begs the question, why do we let people like this into our country in the first place?
My state (Minnesota, USA) has a terrible reputation for taking in Somali "refugees." In the last 2 years apparently these "refugees" children have begun an exodus to return to Somalia to fight in the war...
These people come to our country and tell us how to act. They come to our country and refuse to assimilate into our society. Then shit like this happens.
I'm not calling for closing of the borders, but much stricter rules and guidelines are clearly required to prevent people like this from ever even visiting here. Now, If you are reading this and you are one of these assholes that came here and insist on forcing your culture on us, I honestly, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, wish you would leave this country before we kill you and start a war with your homeland that you can never win.
He was a giving a talk on a seminar on why gold is better than cash. The $4,300 was part of his props.
And he had to use real money, $4300 worth, for the prop? He couldn't have used Monopoly money to make the same point ("would you rather have gold or worthless paper")? Does he not understand that props don't have to be real?
I hope he doesn't teach CPR. "Now, can I have a volunteer ..."
Wait, you mean all these papers in my pocket that say "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE" along the top edge aren't just fiat currency aka Monopoly Money?
I would call you someone who doesn't have any empathy. You apparently can't conceive that someone might want to "play" in way that is different from the way you like to play. Some people like to play full out and backcountry ski down mountains, risking their lives every second. Others want to relax with a bit of solitaire or bejeweled. The level of challenge that you want in your "play" is by definition something personal. I've "played" by running marathons, so I know something about challenging myself, but I don't consider you to be apathetic if you haven't run a marathon.
I respectfully disagree. I have empathy, but not for apathetic people. Pretending you are part of a very specific group of people, but then alienating yourself out of that group with your apathy says it all, IMHO. I agree a person's sense of fun is subjective. However, "casual gamers" are not "apathetic gamers," which the GP claiming to be the "poster child of casual gamers" made himself out to be. Please refer to my previous post for my reasoning on playing games.
Cell phone network operators have a federal mandate or something to provide 911 and emergency GPS even for non-paying "customers."
I've tried Vonage and Comcast Digital Voice and would not rely on VoIP if my life or a loved one's was at stake. However, if that were all I had access to at the time I would fall back on the old adage "something is better than nothing."
Give me a Qwest POTS for stability and reliability. Give me VoIP and cellular for mobility.
I would call you an apathetic gamer rather than a casual gamer. Playing games is either about solving problems, competition, or both. Being unwilling to do either is not what I would call a gamer at all. Not in any sense of the word I've been accustomed to using since I first played Pong when it was *gasp* new.
Since when doesn't Google spy on you? Since when isn't Apple a religious cult?
I've stopped talking to quite a few of my friends because they were more annoying with their Apple fanboyism than the Scientologists were when trying to get me in for a free reading!
Google drives down my street with cameras pointed at my house. Google does not live on my street, Google is not visiting me or anyone that lives in my neighborhood. Google is not providing me with a service, and they are doing a public "good." Google has no business driving down my street taking pictures of my property for profit, without my consent, and worse yet while NOT sharing those profits with me. My property exists in a community. My community is not open to the public, and you can bet your sweet virgin (you ARE reading slashdot after all...) ass that if we perceived an abundance of inappropriate traffic that we would react quite defensively.
sorry to reply to myself but i didn't catch that the forum altered some of my formatting. that last word should be "anti-insert-least-favorite-widget rhetoric."
Citation needed. It's easy to call someone a liar and rant on and on about how much of a liar they are without rebutting any of the supposed lies. You've done the easy part and written a page long rant, now do the hard part and back up your hearsay with a point by point rebuttal. Otherwise feel free to keep wasting peoples time with anti- rhetoric.
Mine varies by alcohol consumption.